Learning to Build Healthy Trust (Part 2 of 2)

Focus on the Family with Jim Daly

Focus on the Family

Kids & Family, Relationships, Society & Culture, Parenting

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🗓️ 16 April 2025

⏱️ 27 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	Forgiveness has to do with the past and it's free.
0:06.0	One person can forgive.
0:08.0	It takes two to reconcile, but one person can forgive.
0:12.0	But while forgiveness is free, trust is earned.
0:16.0	Well, that's Dr. Henry Cloud talking about the importance of trust in all of our relationships.
0:21.8	And he's back with us today on Focus on the Family with Jim Daly.
0:25.1	And I'm John Fuller.
0:26.2	John, trust is such a crucial part of the human experience because it leads to intimacy.
0:31.5	You think about broken intimacy, you're usually looking at broken trust of some sort.
0:36.7	And I think everyone's been a victim of trusting the wrong person.
0:40.0	We have kind of colloquialisms that we use in the culture for that, you know, when someone
0:44.8	breaks our trust, who can you trust?
0:46.9	Last time, as we talked with our guest, Dr. Henry Cloud, he mentioned a story about a man
0:51.4	on an airplane saying, I trust no one, to which he quickly pointed
0:54.6	out, you trusted the pilot, right? You're up at 40,000 feet. So a lot of the trust that we have
1:00.4	is unseen. We just trust because we get in the car, we get in the airplane, we do what we do,
1:05.7	we trust the food we eat, how about that? But to nurture and to cultivate trust is going to deepen our ability
1:13.0	to have intimacy in our workplace, in our marriages, as a parent. And so that's why we're coming
1:18.9	back for day two. Let's just think of Isaiah 12, too, which says, behold, God is my salvation.
1:24.7	I will trust and will not be afraid. For the Lord God is my strength and my song,
1:30.7	and he has become my salvation. Okay, there's one, trust in God. Yeah, we all need trust,
1:36.8	and I'm so glad Dr. Cloud is back. He's a very popular speaker. He's a clinical psychologist.
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