How to Make Regret Work for You & Not Against You

Dr. Caroline Leaf
6 min readOct 11, 2021

In a recent podcast (episode #322), I talked about how to deal with regret. This is an important topic because unmanaged regret can be emotionally crippling, making it hard for us to move on or heal.

I would say that regret is like a dark hovering cloud. It can cover so many areas of our lives at once, sometimes without us even realizing, until it is too late and we are caught in a thunderstorm of emotion. But, like many clouds, regret also has a silver lining: our tendency to dwell on the past can also help us prepare for the future, depending

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Dr. Caroline Leaf

Mental health expert. I have spent the last 30+ years researching ways to help people manage mental health issues in school, work, and life: drleaf.com