Guilt for Success: What Happens When We Leave the Pack

When you have good things happen to you in life, do you feel guilty? Or when you get a promotion at work... do you get a strange feeling when you see your former workmates?

We can feel guilty for so many things, even the good stuff that happens (as if we need one more thing to feel guilty about!). In this blog post, Dr. Jamie Long - Ft. Lauderdale Psychologist tackles success guilt.

Guilt is our mind’s moral thermostat. It’s meant to click on when we’ve veered too far from our values and what’s important to us.

However, many of us have a glitch in this thermostat meaning that we might feel guilty when it’s unnecessary and unhelpful. An example of this is feeling guilt for our success.
This blog post shows us how to shed unhealthy guilt. Click the link below to read more and share with those who might benefit from reading.
You might be surprised to learn that this guilt has an evolutionary origin, meaning that we’re instinctively influenced to stay within the confines of our pack. The pack can be our family, our group of friends or our colleagues.

This blog post shows us how to shed unhealthy guilt.

lt. Click the link below to read more and share with those who might benefit from reading.

👉 https://thepsychologygroup.com/guilt-...