It's very difficult to manifest change and create new beginnings, if you're not forgiving yourself. If you don't have what you want in your life, ask yourself: Where are you not forgiving yourself? If you're feeling guilty about something and not forgiving yourself, you are probably holding onto "toxic guilt." 2 Types of Toxic Guilt There are 2 ways you can experience toxic guilt: 1) One way is feeling like a bad person, because of something specific you did--and you're carrying around feelings of guilt about this action with you every day. Maybe you don't believe you deserve to be happy or have all the things you want in life, because you feel this kind of guilt. 2) There's also another motivation for guilt that doesn't really have anything to do with being "bad." It's more about not being "good enough." If you're a perfectionist, you know what I'm talking about here. This kind of guilt is about wishing you had only tried harder or known better, so you could have suceeded rather than failed. Either way, all kinds of guilt are about beating ourselves up. So why do we do this?