You're listening to On Attachment, a place to learn about how attachment shapes the way we experience relationships

and where you'll gain the guidance, knowledge and practical tools to overcome insecurity and build healthy, thriving relationships.

I'm your host, relationship coach Stephanie Rigg,

and I'm really glad you're here.

Hey, everybody.

Welcome back to another episode of On Attachment.

In today's episode, I'm going to be talking all about the pillars of trust and trustworthiness.

So this is something that I started reflecting on and formulating in preparation for my

masterclass on building trust, which I ran a couple of weeks ago.

And it's really stuck with me.

And I think it's such an important conversation to be had because

if you're like most people you probably think of trust as comprising honesty and openness

and while honesty is definitely a component of trust and a really important ingredient in

being able to trust someone it's not the be all and end all.

It's not the whole picture. And I think that understanding that trust is more layered than that,

that there's more depth to it and more breadth to what it takes to really trust someone and what it

takes for someone to demonstrate their trustworthiness,

that really allows us to have a fuller picture of where and why we might struggle to trust,

and by extension, what we might do to start building more trust in our relationship.

So I'm going to be sharing with you five pillars of trustworthiness, which is not an exhaustive

list, and it's not some sort

of doctrine that you're going to find in a textbook. This is just something that I came up with

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