Many of us are in the habit of telling ourselves we’re “not good enough.”  Whether it’s in our careers, our intimate relationships, our appearances, or some other area of our lives, we’re always convinced we don’t measure up to some standard of how we’re supposed to be.  Because it seems we can always find something [...]

A little while back, I wrote an article on the function guilt performs in our lives and the limiting ways we tend to perceive it.  Today, I want to expand on a particular point I made in that piece, which is that the amount of guilt we feel seems to depend on the time of [...]

Human beings have a seemingly endless capacity to feel guilty.  We can condemn and attack ourselves for the stupid, wrong or inappropriate things we’ve done, again and again.  We can even continue feeling guilty about events that happened many years ago.  From the sensations we feel in our bodies when we think about those events, [...]