Sometimes our conference considers a topic that is critical but that you might not necessarily find in your own life. Our “Psychiatric Disorders” conference spoke to that kind of topic. This year we are back to a topic that is common to every person in every culture. Guilt and shame can be found everywhere—absolutely everywhere.
This week our host Andrew Ray sits down with Dr. David Powlison and Julie Lowe to discuss how they developed the image for our 2012 national conference on shame and guilt.
Feeling guilty is natural. Be human, feel guilty. You don’t need any particular ability to feel guilty. It’s called the conscience, and it comes standard. H. L. Mencken said it is “the mother-in-law whose visit never ends.”
The conscience is a fine thing, but has limitations
The turmoil women experience after having an abortion is sometimes called "post-abortion syndrome." But you don't need a technical term to describe what you are feeling. The guilt, regret, depression, and grief are the honest struggles of a woman who's had an abortion and takes to heart what happened.
Are you living under a cloud of guilt that you can?t seem to shake no matter what you do? Do you feel guilty about everything, all the time? We all have different ways of dealing with our guilty feelings, but none of them work for very long.
