Shame and guilt
A few weeks ago, Meredith Gould mentioned something on Twitter that made me pause. She was in a discussion with someone else, and I was eavesdropping on the conversation, because that’s what we do on Twitter. She mentioned that there was a difference between guilt and shame.
Dr. Gould is an avid tweeter, so I won’t even attempt to dig up the original 140 characters. But I started nosing around a bit into Brene Brown’s Daring Greatly, where she goes into great detail about the difference.
Basically, guilt is feeling badly for something we do wrong. (I feel awful that I missed that lunch.)
