"The Anatomy of Trust"

A lot of times if you find yourself in struggle with trust, the thing to examine first is your own marble jar, how you treat yourself. Because we can't ask people to give to us something that we do not believe we're worthy of receiving. And you will know you're worthy of receiving it when you trust yourself above everyone else.

“Be wary of the naked man offering you a shirt.” Maya Angelou 

“I don't trust people who don't love themselves, but say I love you.” Maya Angelou

So, this BRAVING acronym works with self-trust too. So, when something happens … I just recently went through a really tough failure, and I had to ask myself, “Did I honor my own boundaries? Was I reliable? Can I count on myself? Did I hold myself accountable? Was I really protective of my stories? Did I stay in my integrity? Was I judgmental towar... See more

• B, boundaries. There is no trust without boundaries.


• R, reliability. I can only trust you if you do what you say you're going to do. And not once.


• A … Huge. Accountability. I can only trust you if, when you make a mistake, you are willing to own it, apologize for it, and make amends. I can only trust you if when I make a mistake, I am allowed to own

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I think I do know what trust is.  I put together an acronym, BRAVING, B-R-A-V-I-N-G.

Feldman says that distrust is what I have shared with you that is important to me is not safe with you. 

Trust is choosing to make something important to you vulnerable to the actions of someone else.”

“There is the opportunity to build trust and there is the opportunity to betray.” Because as small as the moments of trust can be, those are the moments of betrayal as well. To choose to not connect when the opportunity is there is a betrayal.