Guilt Tripping..

[Lola]

Great article.!!

http://www.isnare.com/?aid=100465&ca=Womens+Interest

[pjay]

very good, lola. we spend way too much time 'feeling bad' for the sake of others.
when we don't, it does not mean that we do not care.

i like this statement: " if you do not respect yourself, you can't expect anyone else to either."

[Mariana]

Totally agree with what Pjay said about self-respect. Thanks for the link, Lola!

[Mariana]

Some quotes on Guilt...

Guilt

"When guilt rears its ugly head confront it, discuss it and let it go. The past is over. It is time to ask what can we do right, not what did we do wrong. Forgive yourself and move on."

--Bernie S. Siegel

"I have made it a rule of my life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy . . . you can’t build on it; it’s only good for wallowing in."

-- Katherine Mansfield

"If we don't forgive ourselves for our mistakes, and others for the wounds they have inflicted upon us, we end up crippled with guilt. And the soul cannot grow under a blanket of guilt, because guilt is isolating, while growth is a gradual process of reconnection to ourselves, to other people, and to a larger whole."

-- Joan Borysenko

"Light burdens borne far become heavy."

-- French proverb