Maria Arpa
This week
Guilt
Plus…
Maria’s Midweek Mindfulness
and
The Wednesday Whisper
The difference between toxic and healthy
Toxic guilt is huge burden. It can control our lives. Healthy Guilt is a wonderful teacher.
So, what’s the difference?
We feel healthy guilt when we have acted outside of our values and become motivated to act differently in the future. Healthy guilt guides you to work within a set of boundaries that work for yourself and those around you.
Toxic guilt comes in many shapes and sizes:
- Taking responsibility for how other’s feel
- Allowing your self to be manipulated by guilt trips
- Repeatedly punishing yourself for the past
- Believing you have no right to self-care
What all versions have in common is the repeated self punishment which means we have less and less to give to others as we become consumed. This reduces our ability to connect and isolates us further. It’s important to rid ourselves of toxic guilt.
Maria’s Mindfulness Moment
If guilt consumes you, it will make all your decisions for you. Freeing ourselves from guilt requires us to take it out of the shadows, facing it and then sending it on its way.
The Wednesday Whisper
Are you riddled with guilt? Do you lay guilt on others? Do you want to heal?