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How do you feel when abused?
feeling like you don’t want to live or you can’t go on with your life. repeated experiences of sexual or physical violence. feelings of self-hate and low self-esteem. fearing people and relationships.
How do you deal with past childhood trauma?
7 Ways to Heal Your Childhood Trauma
- Acknowledge and recognize the trauma for what it is.
- Reclaim control.
- Seek support and don’t isolate yourself.
- Take care of your health.
- Learn the true meaning of acceptance and letting go.
- Replace bad habits with good ones.
- Be patient with yourself.
Did you ever find that your trust had been misplaced?
Have you ever placed your trust in someone or something, only to discover – painfully – that your trust had been misplaced? Yes, almost certainly, you’ve had experiences like that. And they are unsettling – to say the least. The bottom drops out of something. You feel betrayed. Having been fooled, you feel foolish.
Why is it important to set up the dynamics of Broken Trust?
Setting up the dynamics of broken trust this way is important, because it allows us to see two ways that trust fails. One is that the trustee abuses the vulnerability of the trustor. The other is that the trustor stops taking risks. What do we call those who abuse our trust?
What happens when a trustee takes advantage of a vulnerable trustee?
If the trustee chooses to take advantage of the trustor’s vulnerability by seizing on the risk and turning it to his advantage, then trust is broken, or stalled.
How do you build a trust relationship?
If the trustee not only does not take advantage, but also then responds in a similarly vulnerable way (i.e. adopting the role of trustor), then the trust relationship is established, or advanced. Trust relationships are built by continuous iterations of this risk-taken, risk-respected reciprocal behavior.