Why Do I Always Feel Guilty?: Breaking Free from What Weighs You Down

This book is a God send! It addresses so many issues we women deal with every day, especially those of us who try to "do it all" and try to please everyone and judge our own worth on how others look at us. This book has lots of scripture quoted throughout and really focuses you on God. The author does a great job addressing different types of guilt, how we compare ourselves to others, over commit ourselves, never want to say "no" to anyone, etc. The book is really easy to read, too. I think you'll enjoy this book if you have any of these "supermom/superwoman" issues.

I read this and then bought or recommended it to my three grown daughters, my best friend and a few other women in my life. Mary Whelchel uses scripture application to open your eyes to the lies we as women so easily believe about ourselves and our lives. These honest, simple truths can set you free from poor self esteem, guilt over past mistakes and issues, from checking yourelf when you leave a social setting to make sure you didn't do or say the wrong thing again, from straining always to do more, be more, from agonizing over what you should have, could have done differently. I read this book with tears in my eyes and always went away from it in soul searching prayer. The verdict is in at last...not guilty. I feel like I have been set free and I am enjoying my life in a whole new way every single day since I read this book. Yes, it's that good. At least it was for me and for everyone I have recommended it to. A must read if you worry about being all that God created you to be.

This book is so true to my nature (womens nature) I recommend this book to any woman who like me has a hard time saying no and has a constant guilt, The book helps you detect false guilt compared to true guilt. I soon as I got thru the first few chapters I had a huge insite into whats true and false in our lives and why we feel so guilty all the time.

Why Do I Always Feel Guilty by Mary Whelchel is a fantastic devotional read. She breaks guilt down into three categories: guilt for a known wrong, not feeling guilty for an unknown wrong (doing 40 mph in a 30 mph zone without realizing what the speed limit is, ignorance is not an excuse), and unnecessary guilt. I think that most of the guilt I suffer from is unnecessary guilt from past sins, other's expectations, my own expectations, etc, etc. Whelchel does a wonderful job of encouraging the reader to 'fess up to sins we know we've done, but she emphasizes that God really does forget our sins once we've confessed them. He moves them as far away from us as the east is from the west, and it's only Satan who throws them up in our faces to try to bring us down and pull us away from God. She includes powerful verses to strengthen us and chase those guilty thoughts away. Whelchel is a conversational writer; as I read, I could hear her talking, friend to friend. She's not afraid to expose her own flaws and weaknesses and use them as examples of how we can let go of guilt and move closer to God. I've been repeating Romans 8:1-2 (There is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set me free from the law of sin and death.)in my quest to shed my own guilt. Jesus doesn't condemn me for my sins, and I am certainly no better than He, so how can I condemn myself? This is a quick read, eleven chapters each easily read in one night, and can bring about a great change of heart. Read this and pass it on to a friend.