Guilt is deeply rooted in our psyches and can put the brakes on letting life in when there is no foundation in our formative or current experiences to support the energies of life, thus threatening collapse into obsessions, compulsions, or other unconscious defenses. To hold love, delight, grief, loss….life itself…. we need metaphorical midwives to help us open to the energies and experience the fullness of grace. 
