Learning to Build Healthy Trust (Part 1 of 2)

Focus on the Family with Jim Daly

Focus on the Family

Kids & Family, Relationships, Society & Culture, Parenting

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🗓️ 15 April 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Dr. Henry Cloud unpacks the 5 essentials of trust: understanding, motive, ability, character, and track record. He will also look at the different fears that keep people from trusting. When trust has been broken, rebuilding it takes time, and Cloud shares several signs that a person can look for to help reassure them of another’s trustworthiness.

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0:00.0	And we begin to trust when we begin to feel like an experience the other person has got my interests in their mind and heart as well as their own.
0:15.6	That's Dr. Henry Cloud sharing about the importance of trust in all of our relationships, trust between spouses,
0:23.1	business partners, teammates, and we're going to be talking about trust today on Focus on the Family
0:28.3	with Jim Daly. I'm John Fuller and thanks for joining us. John, trust is an unusual thing. It's like
0:33.7	you give it until you can't. You know, when it's violated, you kind of take it back.
0:38.5	I'm sure everybody has a different approach.
0:41.1	It's not something you wake up to every morning and go, okay, who can I trust today?
0:45.5	Maybe unless you're in a business situation or maybe your marriage is in trouble or something like that, then trust becomes a neon sign and you're worried about it. But it's so critical
0:56.1	to think through the importance of trust. I think everyone's been the victim of trusting somebody
1:01.9	that broke that trust. It might have been a friend or, again, a spouse or something like that.
1:07.5	We want to talk about that. And if you do a word search in scripture, trust comes
1:11.9	up a lot. You know, certainly love does. But think of Proverbs 3-5, trust in the Lord with all
1:18.1	your heart and do not lean on your own understanding. That's one of my favorite, actually.
1:22.6	But right there, it's telling us to trust the Lord. Sometimes we struggle with that given our circumstances,
1:29.4	but the Lord is saying, no, no, keep trusting me. I'm trustworthy, right? And it will be a great
1:35.4	discussion today with one of our best and favorite guests. Yeah, Dr. Henry Cloud has been here
1:41.2	a number of times. He's a clinical psychologist, and a lot of his
1:44.5	time has spent with businesses helping improve culture and performance. He's a public speaker
1:50.8	about a variety of topics. He's authored a number of books, approaching 50, I think.
1:56.7	Wow.
1:57.0	And he and his wife, Tori, live in Nashville, and they have two adult daughters.
2:01.6	Everybody's moving to Nashville.
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