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, we're going to be

talking all about trust and the vulnerability of trust. And yet it's absolute

importance if we want to build secure relationships that feel peaceful and connected and not

riddled with fear. So today's episode is going to be a short and sweet one. And I apologize

that it's a couple of days later than it would usually be.

I'd actually recorded a whole different episode on breakups and discovered that when I went to

edit it, there had been a tech issue and half of it had been lost. So I was back to the drawing

board and decided to pivot and talk about something different. So I wanted to share some thoughts on this topic today

because it came up from a question from a client and I think it's a question that really will

resonate with so many people, people who struggle with anxious attachment, people who

struggle with trusting that someone could really be interested in them, trusting in the reliability of a

connection that something bad isn't always lurking around the corner. And when we notice

those fears coming up and all the behaviors, it can drive us too, really being able to

consciously reframe the way we think about trust and empowering ourselves to

choose trust rather than to wait to feel it. That's what I really want to share about today.

Before I dive into that, I just wanted to very quickly share and thank you all because we

just crossed over three million downloads on the podcast. At the

start of this year when I'd set some goals, I put down a goal of 2 million downloads for the

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