A viewer asks: “I’m assuming insecurity and feelings of guilt, warranted or not, are still considered willful harm to the self; is that correct?”

This is very true. It is a truism that "Self-condemnation is a much more powerful and deadly source of negativity than being hated and condemned by outsiders." Self‑condemnation can produce many harmful consequences up to and including an eventual demise of the individual—in effect, a self-imposed death curse. So that takes some doing but is illustrative of the fact that self-condemnation and harboring negativity and self-judgment in blaming the self for its shortcomings will compound the injury and always make things worse. It is also a karmic liability because it is a willful disregard of a divine obligation to honor and safeguard one’s own soul. So self-injury in this way is an abrogation of a sacred duty and the Law of Karma will seek to exact a penalty as a way of correcting that poor choice. It is simply a sad and unfortunate consequence of the ignorance of humanity, that so little is understood about this, so that karmic lesson will be added to the many reasons to dislike the self and harbor resentment against a perceived shortcoming when that very act is compounding harmful consequences of prior negativity and will make things worse.