Feeling guilty over everyday decisions is a common experience for many of us, and much of the time, those feelings come from the values and lessons that we learned from our parents as children. When ...

Most of us are confusing guilt for something more damaging — but the fix can make all the difference. If you're a person who's even marginally empathetic, guilt is on some level a part of any human ...

Dan*, a college professor in his early thirties, told me that he was feeling guilty and bad. “I haven’t spent enough time with my wife and kids,” he said. “And I haven’t written everything I planned ...

We often refer to guilty feelings as being “laden” and to the feeling we get when we resolve them as, “a weight lifted off our shoulders.” New research now demonstrates that such metaphors are ...