Building Trust: Trust and Trusting

What is trust? A short description

Trust is: letting others know your feelings, emotions and reactions, and having the
confidence in them to respect you and to not take advantage of you.
Trust is: the glue or cement of relationships that allows you to need others to fulfill
yourself.
Trust is: opening yourself up (self-disclosure) to let others in on your background,
problems, concerns, and mistakes with the assurance that they will not ostracize you
because of these things.
Trust is: the act of placing yourself in the vulnerable position of relying on others to
treat you in a fair, open, and honest way.

Trust is one of the most difficult things to build and acquire. And while it may take some
time to break that trust
- if it is broken - it will take much, much longer to rebuild.

Truly, rebuilding trust a second time, after it has been broken is a monumental task - and
takes a long time. This is mainly because in offering trust, we make ourselves vulnerable -
and once the vulnerability has been violated, we "play it much safer" the second time around.

People don't trust, or have trouble developing trust, if they have:

Experienced a great deal of emotional and/or physical abuse and/or neglect.
Been emotionally hurt in the past and are not willing to risk getting hurt in the future.

All of the above are essential components to Trust, and Building Trust.

Dawn Cove Abbey
Deerfield, (Yarmouth County) Nova Scotia, Canada
2000-2009
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Also:Read "Trust Begins With You" article (rtf format - click HERE)
And "Trust Issues in Relationships" (rtf format - click HERE)
And "Rules For Being Human"

Also available: Coaching/Counselling (Distance Counselling Works!) see Contact-Us for details:
also a Trust-Building Wo rkshop

Building Trust: Trust and Trusting

I sincerely hope that you take the Less Travelled Road
and that it brings awakening and healing to you.

Follow-up and Support Counseling to Seminars & Workshops
Dawn Cove Abbey Empowerment Outreach is a registered not-for-profit business in the province of Nova Scotia, Canada

If you have questions, comments or suggestions, please email. I'll be happy to hear from you.

The Dawn Cove Abbey Tradition: Helping People Rediscover Themselves
Established in 1995, in commemoration of Abbey Dawn in Kingston, Ontario.

One of the first steps is to stop always looking for, and assuming there are, "hidden agendas
and motives" on everyone else's part - that simply isn't so.

That means to stop being suspicious all the time, of everyone - that simply isn't fair - and
makes it difficult, if not impossible for you to learn trust, and others to actually "see" you
as an authentic, fair-minded person.

Much more on Trust and Trust Building is available in more detail in our Trust workshop).

Starting point for rebuilding trust. Ask yourself:

Why do I lack trust in the persons, groups, or institutions listed above?
What beliefs do I hold that are behind my lack of trust in the persons, groups, or
institutions listed in above?
Why can't I refute my Irrational Belief and replace with a positive one?
Why can't I affirm new personal beliefs?
What does my experience tell me about changes I need to make to develop my ability to
trust?
What are the remaining blocks to developing my sense of trust?
What am I willing to do to continue developing my sense of trust?

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will find a way;
those who don't,
will find an excuse.

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