So it’s time today for our fourth installment of Emotion Education, and today we’re going to focus on guilt.
Guilt is also something that you hear a lot of people say, I feel guilty that. But what does guilt really mean? Guilt is when you’ve done something to harm somebody else or yourself. It can also be expressed as blame or shame or embarrassment. Guilt takes on a lot of different words, but the meaning is always the same. That is, I think I’ve done something to hurt somebody else or myself.
And we’ll see this in the workplace show up as deflecting blame to somebody else or attention to somebody else as so as not to. We see this in relationships as well, arguments that start out and get turned around, that it’s not my fault, it’s your fault.
But the bottom line is we’ve got to think about what we’ve done and why you’ve done it and then atone for it to decide how am I going to fix this? How am I going to say I’m sorry? How am I going to rectify the situation? And then you don’t have to carry that guilt for the rest of your life.
I’m Roberta Fernandez, Your Ability Activator.
