Its amazing how women take on guilt from the moment a child is born. Guilt that we haven't paid enough attention and let a baby cry because we desperately need sleep; guilt that we weren't able to breast feed or didn't want to, guilt that we had to go to work, guilt that we didn't provide well enough, that we were tough, that we were too leanient, that we showed weakness or didn't. We take it on willingly and perpetuate the need to feel guilty to our next generation.

What if we had a no-guilt day or even a no-guilt week. We could be ourselves knowing that there are no mistakes. Our toughness teaches resilience, our weakness teaches support, out lack teaches gratitude, our absence teaches independence. In the week of no-guilt we would only love the gifts and the rewards of the challenges. Isn't it better to learn from those who love us then have to learn the tough lessons from those who don't.

Perhaps for past centuries, guilt was a tool to keep us in check. But know as we evolve it may be that guilt doesn't serve us anymore. Maybe now we are ready to trust ourselves and that our spirit has evolved so we can disguard guilt as an antiquated tool and practice a new tool of trust and love in our own Self.