Berkeley Therapist

Success and Guilt

Do you feel guilty if you are too successful?  This can be quite common.  People can struggle with this if they:

Are more successful than their parents, siblings, spouse or partner,

Left younger siblings in a difficult family life and are doing well in the world,

Come from a family that might say to their success, “You think you are better that everyone else,”

Have lied, cheated, or hurt someone.  They might feel that they don’t deserve success.

Any of these sound familiar?  Can you find more reasons why you might feel guilty about success?  Do you procrastinate in order to not be as successful as you could be?

Contemplate this and see if you find yourself wanting to hide your success or minimize it to others.  Or maybe you feel you just don’t deserve it.  If so, are you keeping yourself from being as successful as you could be?  And what would it take to allow yourself to be more successful?

Until next time….

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