Amber Hollingsworth explains why guilt doesn't always mean you did something wrong. She walks through how to question internalized guilt, recognize that feelings aren't facts, and separate causing harm from feeling guilty about someone else's reaction.
You don't have to feel guilty even if they're trying to make you feel guilty. You got to think, am I really being unfair to this person? Am I really doing something harmful to this person? And even if your own guilt starts to creep up, you can kind of question that. You can confront that inside your own self and realize that their situation may be getting more difficult because of something that you're doing, but it doesn't necessarily mean that you're being unfair, that you're being mean, that you're being harsh, that you're being critical, even if it feels that way to them because feelings don't always tell the truth. Just like you feeling guilty doesn't mean that you are guilty. Just like them feeling like you're being mean to them doesn't mean you are being mean to them. Feelings don't really tell us the truth. They do give us pieces of information, but it's necessarily truth. And too often we think if we feel a certain way, it means it is a certain way and we got to get out of that.
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