Jack Hopkins Now Newsletter # 150

Break Free: How to Reclaim Your Life and Stop Letting Others Use Guilt to Control You.

Guilt is an emotion that needlessly consumes tens of millions of Americans each day. Some of it is justified and useful, but most of it is not.

Let’s start by answering the question, “What is guilt?”

Guilt is nothing more than a value judgment placed upon us by some perceived authority outside of ourselves.

That’s it. Some perceived (by us) authority says, “Doing/Feeling/Thinking X is Bad/Wrong/Immoral, etc.”

Let’s go straight to a blunt example: