Regret is a powerful emotion. PsychCentral notes that regret is a negative emotional response related to what you could have done differently. It is a common experience and can affect your mental health. Living with regret can feel unbearable, but there are ways you can cope with experiencing it.

A Woman's Journey national chair Kelly Ripken speaks with psychiatrist Karen Swartz and delves into this emotion, its effect on us and what we can do to deal with the negative impact it may have on our lives.

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For more information about Dr. Swartz, please visit: https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/profiles/details/karen-swartz

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0:00 Introduction & welcome
1:26 - Dr. Swartz on Regret
3:17 - Action vs Inaction Paths
9:00 - Dr Swartz Personal Work Example of a Regrettable Incident
12:38 - How we can move past regret and learn from it
15:35 - Strategies for managing regret
17:04 - Cognitive restructuring in CBT
18:15 - REACH model
20:31 - Regret and Depression, and Well-Being
24:30 - “What does one do when the person they want to apologize to is no longer alive?”
27:05 - “What do I do if can’t get out of the rabbit-hole of regret?”
33:59 - “How does this affect relationships/marriages?”
39:57 - “If you’re struggling to forgive yourself, do you really have to forgive yourself to move forward?”
43:06 - “What if you just keep reliving the event?”
45:50 - “Can you talk more about the physical manifestations of regret about life choices and how to address these physical manifestations?”
49:33 - What if you just keep falling back into a pattern of regret? You keep taking action, and regretting it over and over again. What should one do?”
50:41 - “What’s the relationship between regret and failure at weight loss?”
52:27 - “What do you do if you apologize to someone and that person refuses your apology, then you feel worse than ever, and the mistake you made was really unforgivable?”
55:39 - “What do you do if I friend has withdrawn from your life many years ago, and it is still very painful, how do you get over that?”
58:02 - “Can regret ever serve as a positive factor?”
59:29 - Wrap Up/Thank You