The Atlantic

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By April, 2019 was already a bad year for measles. Outbreaks were occurring all over the world, including in Ethiopia, Kazakhstan, Madagascar, Sudan, Thailand, and Ukraine. In the Philippines, more than 200 people, most of them children, had died fro

The Art of Healing

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This world of ours must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect. Dwight D. Eisenhower We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity

Australian Women’s Weekly NZ

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As the end of the year draws near, our minds inevitably turn to the best things in life: more time with family, parties (albeit small, socially distanced ones) and wonderful food shared with loved ones. But indulgence often comes with a sense of guil

The Christian Science Monitor

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Anti-racist book sales and book clubs are booming, with a focus not just on reading and talking but on action – in workplaces, churches, and schools.

You South Africa

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IT’S probably something you feel a few times before you’ve even had lunch. You slept in rather than getting up to exercise this morning – guilty. You let your child have a sweet cereal for breakfast instead of a more balanced meal – guilty. You haven

JOY Magazine

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In Sigmund Freud’s book, Totem and Taboo, he said that in his practice as a psychiatrist he had observed that most psychological disorders are caused by guilt. Guilt, Freud said, is caused by thoughts of God. Freud’s answer to this dilemma was simply

WellBeing

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Mummy guilt. You drop your child at school, only to realise he has a tear on his school shirt, and you forgot to bake cupcakes for the school fete. Being a parent and feeling guilty seem to go hand in hand. You feel guilty for working too much, then

The Australian Women's Weekly

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As the end of the year draws near, our minds inevitably turn to the best things in life: more time with family, parties (albeit small, socially distanced ones) and wonderful food shared with loved ones. But indulgence often comes with a sense of guil

PEARL

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Abd-ru-shin It is man’s duty on earth to set himself the highest attainable goal, and to strive for this goal with all the powers at his disposal. But as a human being! This excludes from the beginning that, like an animal, he should merely troubl

Essentials South Africa

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An incredible 96% of women have revealed they find something to feel guilty about at least once a day. ‘Guilt is a symptom of living a complicated life, not a symptom of being a bad person,’ explains psychologist Professor Windy Dryden. ‘Guilt itself

PEARL

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CHRISTIAN BAUR In 1915 Herman Hesse published a series of stories under the title ‘On the Road’, among which is a parable: ‘The Execution’. The very concise text reads as follows: The master came down with some of his disciples from the mountains to

PEARL

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JIDE ADEFOPE There is frequently more to be learn’d from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men. John Locke Conscience unfolds as an attribute of inner knowledge in the young person; with it develops a sense of self and rel

Psychologies

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Feeling guilty about something we think we should be doing differently is a pointless emotion. If we can’t change things, then we have to change our feelings of guilt and accept the situation. Guilt can lead to stress and a feeling of powerlessness a

WellBeing

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Guilt is a burdensome emotion. It can weigh you down with self-recrimination, damage your sense of self, erode your relationships, trigger anxiety or resentment and make you self-punish. It is, according to cognitive theorists, a result of thoughts a

True Love

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They say motherhood is a thankless job, but one that mothers excel at and don’t need a bonus for to enhance performance. Although an instinctive and beautiful experience, parenting is constantly filled with many challenges. In most cases, mothers fee

Futurity

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Feeling guilty can play an important role in children’s development, but children respond negatively when mothers use guilt as a parenting tool indiscriminately, new research suggests. The researchers asked 156 children ages 8 to 17 to evaluate hypot

Los Angeles Times

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The current flood of sexual harassment allegations have toppled - deservedly - high-powered businessmen, accomplished actors and seasoned politicians. One aspect of legitimately bringing sexual harassers to light, however, has been overlooked: the ab

JOY Magazine

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In this day that we’re living in—the very end of the last days—people’s minds are being inundated with false information and a celebration of various forms of immorality, including a deluge of false propaganda about human sexuality. This is a last-da

PEARL

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ÌSÍJÚ KÁ In this day and age there is often much talk about responsibility, usually without anything more behind the torrent of words than the use of noble and exemplary, even if often hackneyed, concepts, the meaning and content of which have long s

Singapore Women's Weekly

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We all carry a certain amount of guilt baggage. There’s the “I’m not spending enough time with my kids” suitcase, the “I should have put in more hours at work” hold-all and the “I shouldn’t have said no to that invite” handbag. And then, there’s all

Post South Africa

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AS A MOTHER, I’m vulnerable to the influence of our cultural messaging and I have fallen prey to the narrative: “We can never give enough, do enough or be enough.” As a psychologist, though, I know how risky this constant thread of guilt is for our w

Literary Hub

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This fall, I got the chance to converse via email with Mariana Enriquez, an Argentine writer whose newly translated story collection, Things We Lost in the Fire, was one of my favorite books of 2017. Comprising 12 tales that straddle the line between

The Guardian

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Everyone, rich and poor alike, should be able to buy the cheapest product with a clean conscience

The Millions

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Those who know Steve Almond as an incredible short story writer might be surprised by the deep rigor and political analysis of this recent nonfiction book, Bad Stories. But those of us who read his Week in Greed column won’t, particularly those of us

The Atlantic

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In a world that is growing more divided and atomized, it may be guilt—not empathy—that can bring people together.

The European Business Review

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The article introduces the concept of “soft leadership” and illustrates what differentiates soft leadership from hard leadership, and explores how to acquire six characteristics – character, conscience, courage, compassion, commitment, and contributi

Futurity

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Employees who are prone to feeling guilt about disappointing others tend to show up at the office regardless of their job satisfaction, new research suggests. Employees less prone to feeling that guilt, however, tend to show up at work when they feel

The Atlantic

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“We must stop pretending that the degradation of our politics and the conduct of some in our executive branch are normal.”

BBC History Magazine

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Time’s Monster: History, Conscience and Britain’s Empire by Priya Satia Allen Lane, 384 pages, £25 The absorbing depth with which Priya Satia addresses an ambitious range of modern society’s most pro-found problems and questions in this book is pheno

WellBeing

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COMPILED BY TERRY ROBSON “Sucking up to the boss”, “kissing up”, “crawling”, “bootlicking”, “toadying”, “ingratiating”… there’s any number of terms that describe the act of trying to please a boss in the workplace. New research shows that while sucki