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 answering

the question of why you struggle with self-trust, which I think most people,

who certainly who I work with, struggle with self-trust to varying degrees. And what I've come to

notice from speaking to literally thousands of people about self-trust in various expressions

is that a lot of people fundamentally misunderstand how we build self-trust in various expressions is that a lot of people fundamentally

misunderstand how we build self-trust, how we damage self-trust, what it means to be trustworthy,

and really the benefits of self-trust, which can't be overstated. I often say to people that

one of the greatest gifts we can give ourselves is developing

a deep self-trust that allows us to feel like no matter what happens, we'll have our own back

and we'll be able to hold ourselves through the inevitable ups and downs of life. And I think

that's really what self-trust affords us.

Is that sense of, I'm going to be okay. And I don't actually have to brace for impact all the time.

I don't have to try and preempt every single thing that could ever go wrong.

Because I actually trust myself to ride the waves with dignity and grace and integrity.

And the more that we can cultivate that energy, which to me is really the essence of true

resilience and self-trust, that is such a beautiful antidote to the anxiety that we might

otherwise struggle with.

So I'm going to be sharing some thoughts today

on why we struggle with self-trust and what we can do to flip that around and to start really

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