Dear Joel:
You refer to “Emotions I don’t like, regret…” as shortcomings, as negative aspects of yourself. But emotions themselves are neither negative nor positive. They are MESSANGERS. Each emotion has a message it wants to deliver. That is all. Those “negative” emotions (as distressing as they may be) have messages that if you attend to them you will find out that underneath an uncomfortable emotion or an emotion you are not …. proud of, there is a message such as that you want to love-and-be-loved.

Is that helpful?
anita