A Guilt Trip
Many of us drag the heavy shadow of guilt through much of our human experience. Wearing the restrictive and suffocating noose of blame like a life sentence.
But why?
Surely it’s natural, we fallible, ever-learning beings make mistakes isn’t it? For how else do we learn?
And when we made, said ‘mistake’ – chances are it wasn’t a premeditated choice to cause ourselves or the other pain.
Most likely we were doing our misguided best with the tools we had available to us in the moment. Working through all of the negative programming and dysfunctional family patterns and reacting to colourful, challenging and confronting life - in REAL time.
Did we make mistakes? Of course.
Could we have done things better, kinder, calmer? Absolutely.
However, hindsight is a bittersweet gift after the fact.
I look back at all the mistakes I’ve made – and boy did I make ’em.
Yet, through my diligent exploration – one thing remains.
I never set out to harm anyone. I was simply manifesting what was playing out on the inside.
Hurt people, hurt people.
And now – having walked the lonely road to know my inner demons – I have remembered to love myself wholly.
I have sat in razor-sharp focus and felt the alchemy on many layers. What I have witnessed is a metamorphosis nothing short of a miracle.
The guilt has fallen away. For it was ever only self-sabotage dressed up in martyrdom.
It has moved aside to allow profundity to be seen. And in that wisdom I see each and every situation has played out exactly as it has supposed to.
I have learned, I have unlearned.
To give myself a break, to stop being so hard on myself.
I have remembered this life is full of trials n tribulations – and to be gentle with myself along the way.
To preserve my innocence and nurture every single part equally.
For self-love unconditionally – is the potion that dissolves guilt and lessens the heavy-load.
The journey to become the embodiment of love starts with self-love.
Give love to yourself and that is what you will receive.
Miraculous. Magnificent. Magnetism.
It is what we are.
It is time to remember.
I am.
Are you?
The Sunday Sermon
In this Sunday Sermon, Danny gets into one of the heaviest burdens we carry around - guilt. Exploring why so many of us are still punishing ourselves for mistakes made from a place of pain, why that self-inflicted weight serves no one, and how learning to forgive yourself could be the most vital act of self-love there is.
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