Well, hello there and welcome to this episode of the Terry Cole show that I'm going to start with a couple questions.

Have you ever experienced a major relational trauma and then no longer trust anyone because you're afraid you'll make the same sort of bad decisions

or the same thing will happen or maybe you were taught that you had no rights or

privacy growing up and you might have experienced violations or trust issues in that way of people

maybe reading your diary or reading your journal or barging into your room or

taking your stuff without asking. Or maybe you have close friends who let you down

or betrayed you. So there's a part of you that

just as like it's easier to be alone or I feel happier when I'm alone I'm less paranoid.

Maybe you've experienced major breaches of trust in romantic relationships,

someone cheating on you, monitoring you, stealing money, continuously lying to you,

all of these things build trust issues, which basically, I hear from so many of you online,

just feeling like you're afraid to try to trust again.

Afraid of the same outcome, afraid of future relationships becoming what past relationships were in a bad way.

And listen, it makes sense.

If your trust was broken, it can change the way that you view

yourself and how you interact with the world it often leads us though to

distrust ourselves right how could I have been so blind? How did I not see this coming? So in

today's episode I'm sharing six steps that you can take to tackle some trust

issues and start to heal so that you can begin to trust yourself in future relationships and sort of identify

these emotionally untrustworthy people before they get into, they burrow their way into your life because you know how they do that.

So before we get into it, I just want to say thank you for being with me.

I love you, I appreciate you. You could be doing anything else, but the fact that

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