Sentences with phrase «avoid feelings of guilt»

We might want to avoid feelings of guilt.

This can help you avoid any feelings of guilt or regret and leave you at peace with the decision you have made on your pet's behalf.

Ask them how they do it or what helps them avoid feelings of guilt.

But your own conscience in this case is merely a thing that helps you avoid feelings of guilt.

As to the «obscene hubris» of professors who imagine that they can avoid feelings of guilt, I am not sure who Dr. Breen is referring to.

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The awful moral choice forced on Senator Kerrey is a commonplace aspect of war, not understood at all by professors and editorial writers who imagine, with obscene hubris, that they could avoid the guilt feelings associated with combat.

The growth counselor's function is to help such persons as they work through their resistance to bury a dead relationship; uncouple without infighting so as to avoid further hurt to each other and to their children; agree on a plan for the children that will be best for the children's mental health; work through the ambivalent feelings that usually accompany divorce — guilt, rage, release, resentment, failure, joy, loss — so that each person's infected grief wound can heal; discover what each contributed to the disintegration of their relationship; learn the relationship - building and love - nurturing skills which each will need either to enjoy creative singlehood or to establish a better marriage.

I am the worst of sinners, I know guilt and I want to help other people avoid that feeling for it is the worst feeling in the world.

After a year of campus protests, none of us in the seminar — except perhaps the international students — could avoid guilt when someone quoted François's statement that «it may well be impossible for people who have lived and prospered under a given social system to imagine the point of view of those who feel it offers them nothing and who can contemplate its destruction without any particular dismay.»

Letting go of feelings of guilt is the best thing you can do to avoid fuelling the situation even more, and risking repetition of it all happening again due to shame.

Avoiding sex, feeling like it's a minor or inconsequential part of an intimate relationship, experiencing guilt and anxiety:

Those of us who eat to avoid a difficult situation or negative emotion feel better temporarily, but then feel worse because not only has the original distress not gone away, but additional distress has been added, usually in the form of guilt.

Avoid guilt and feelings of deprivation.

Furthermore, any interested parties who do not meet your requirements can be avoided in a polite and sympathetic manner with no associated feelings of guilt or awkwardness.

Every observant dog owner can see for himself that his dog gets greater satisfaction from the praise rewarding a well - executed command or good behavior than he does from the momentary excitement of disobeying, which is usually followed by the evident guilt feelings, (ears back and avoiding eye contact), even when he has not been punished.

The Blog of the Legal Times reports that in one recent case in the District of Columbia Superior Court, the court granted the prosecutors» request for a jury instruction that, if the jury found that the defendant had tried to change his appearance with eyeglasses to avoid being identified, the jury could consider it as evidence of his feelings of guilt.

At the prosecutor's request and over Harris» objection, the trial judge instructed the jury that if they decided that Harris had tried to change his appearance to avoid being identified, they could consider it as evidence of his feelings of guilt.

For example, Chinese caregivers displayed a tendency for collective decision - making regarding important decisions, adopted a fatalistic explanation for the care recipients» illness, experienced a sense of guilt and shame, 16, 17 and had reservations in expressing their feelings to avoid placing unnecessary burden on other family members.16, 18 Familial obligation to care for the family member with cancer was also emphasised.19 Distress was often experienced in terms of physical symptoms, and emotional coping involved the strategy of endurance.17 Since these culturally derived attitudes and perceptions frame the caregiving experience, interventions that are culturally sensitive, patient - centred and theoretically motivated have been advocated.20

Some times, partners will resign themselves to being in a sexless marriage because they would rather avoid hurting their partners feelings or dealing with their own sense of shame or guilt.

However, they avoid contact, «they are rude, ungrateful, spiteful and cold, and appear impervious to feelings of guilt about the harsh treatment» to which they subject me.