Rebuilding Trust

The whole premise of this presentation is that rebuilding trust is the same process as building trust in the first place. Therefore, it is necessary to understand how to build trust in a healthy way. This may be a new concept for some people. Because of their childhoods, etc., many will have a difficult time trusting in the first place, or will, in other cases, be too trusting and then be repeatedly hurt. (Again, healthy trust is a balance.)

Trust and intimacy are particularly difficult for some people. It may be important to say that trust and intimacy can be especially difficult for adult children of alcoholics, or adult children of divorce/abandonment (including death of a parent, which is experienced as abandonment by a child, children of abuse/incest, and other dysfunctional families, such as parents with serious mental problems). Participants with these kinds of backgrounds should acknowledge that this is going to be difficult for them, and in fact, probably has a lot to do with their current marriage problems.

This workshop helps participants understand how we build and rebuild trust so that they can begin to do it in a measured way: not trusting too easily and not trusting too little.