welcome back to another episode of therapy and Theology of course we’ve been in this series all about trust trust issues and a lot of information from my book I want to trust you but I don’t today I want to open by reading something from my book that I think is not only written from the place where my heart had been so broken by betrayal but also with the hope of knowing that we’ve got more help than there are issues trust is the oxygen of all human relationships a relationship without trust is a relationship without
vulnerability and depth a relationship without trust is void of the kind of love we were meant to give and receive a relationship without trust is one with very little vibrancy and eventually no life at all I’m not just talking about romantic love I’m talking about all relationships where we want deep connection that is both safe and Lasting when I feel that kind of warmth with a close friend or a loved one that’s home to me when that same trust is violated that’s hell to me it feels like my safe space just became a house of
horrors the shock of broken trust makes life feel painfully slow and uncomfortably fast all at the same time the disbelief that this is your reality makes everything grind to a halt but the reality of jobs and bills and kids that need a ride to school all feels unrealistically normal and normal feels too fast for a brain that cannot process what’s happening that’s why I wrote this book because I now fear the risk all relationships require and I wonder who else is eventually going to betray me that’s what I wanted to discuss today
what do I do with my busted up trust and of course we want to not only establish the issue and how deep the feelings are of broken trust and betrayal but we also want to know is it possible to repair broken trust and if it is possible if it’s a scenario where we do feel like the other person is receptive and they are humble enough to want to walk through the process what is the process of repairing broken trust Jim I know you’ve told me many times and and especially the first time you said this I was in such a challenging place where
