BySusan Ni Rahilly
Guilt is a totally wasted emotion. This is an excerpt from my book Daddy’s Girl’s Guilty as Hell: For me guilt and all its residue and baggage serves very little positive purpose, save to show me when I need compassion for myself and when to move on. Guilt gets in the way of grieving. Guilt…
ByRobyn Harris
According to some, having been raised an Irish Catholic, I should practically have a PhD in guilt! Seriously though, seeing the effect that it has on people’s lives, I do ponder this feeling, and its consequences, from time to time. Recently I’ve been thinking about how strongly it relates to shame. For most of us,…
ByGuest Posts
Virtually everyone is plagued by guilt at times in their life, including the kind that can seem crippling if we let it. In talks I have given to parents of special needs children, invariably there would be someone in the audience who brings up the word “guilt” or “guilty” as a way of signaling how…
ByGuest Posts
Some time ago we received the worst kind of phone call anyone can get. My niece’s 13 month old son had died suddenly and inexplicably. Autopsy results were inconclusive so the ensuing “cause of death” was labeled SIDS. The problem was that no one in the family could believe there was not a valid reason…