In her seminal work Loving What Is, Byron Katie offers a transcription of her dialog with Diane, a woman who was working through severe trauma from childhood sexual abuse. Diane had been raped by her step father for years as a child, and the horror of it had followed her well into adulthood — which … of course it would. Everything described in the dialog is deplorable, the stuff of real nightmares. And yet, Diane found a route to recovery in identifying her agency.

In this chapter we’re going to explore the experience and concept of guilt, and how we can benefit by considering it to be meaningfully different from responsibility. We’ll take a close look at the idea of victim blaming. And we’ll anchor it all in actionable methods for recovery and empowerment.

The rest of this chapter will become available following the success of this Kickstarter campaign.

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