Unlocking the Door to a Guilt-Free Life ...

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Are you struggling with guilt?

This year I turned 60, and I can truly say that I have never felt more happy or contented.

I love being my age and I love how good it feels inside my body!

Looking at my beautiful daughters (in-law too), all busy mothering and juggling a million hats, I see how stressed they are.

The same with my wonderful young female clients.

Life is simply too busy with too many demands, too noisy, too much peer pressure, not enough sleep or TLC …

I wish I could wave a magic wand and make all that stress and overwhelm disappear.

Now, with the luxury of hindsight, I can see that I wasted so much precious time and energy feeling guilty.

I was constantly guilty about something.

Guilty about not giving the kids the personal attention they needed.

That I didn’t have an income to help pay the bills.

And, once I started earning money I got a new layer of guilt, that I wasn’t able to give as much time to the kids.

*Guilty when the house was dirty.
*Guilty for being a cleaning freak.
*Guilty for not looking after my parents enough.
*For wanting sleep instead of sex.
*For reading a book or watching a movie.
*Guilty for not being strict enough on the kids, or being too harsh.
*And, if I went shopping for myself, I used to feel so mortified that I hid the shoes or clothes in the cupboard for a while … etc, etc, etc, you get the picture.

I guarantee that pretty much everyone reading this has something they felt guilty about at some point in their life.

So, what I want you to do now is grab a piece of paper and join me for this exercise I wish I’d known about when I suffered from chronic self-imposed guilt trips.

Make a list of things that bring up guilt for you.

*You know; you have bought yourself a pair of shoes that you will probably never wear …
*You took yourself out for lunch instead of paying the hydro bill …
*You bought a gym membership and never used it …

Now, we need to look at the guilt so we can unpack it …

Guilt is actually NOT an emotion.

That’s a surprise isn’t it, because it feels like a negative emotion.

But it is actually a mood.

And, it zaps your brightness and vitality.

What is a mood?

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