"Learn. Improve. It was excess that caused your problems. excess of zeal, excessive eagerness to do something great, a great change and great good. So much excess, that you forgot you could be reaching for too much."

He rests a hand over hers. "You are doing the same thing right now. Feeling so guilty, you are trapped with inaction. So eager to be punished by your mistakes, you stopped thinking what comes next; punishment can not last forever. Such energy, is better employed elsewhere: improving the lives of people who suffer, or healing the harm previous actions caused."

He does not speak the next. He lets it echo in the Force, expecting Stephanie's mental barriers to be low enough so it will penetrate deep in her mind, and hopefully take root. A pearl of wisdom: Healer, heal thyself.