We’re Much Happier, Intimate and Connected When We Give From a Place of Trust

If we think of trust as an exchange of faith and giving as an act of generosity that we do based on trust, we quickly see where our sense of reciprocity kicks in. It’s not necessarily that we give to get per se, but we give with the faith that we won’t get...
Podcast Ep. 171: Waiting For The Other Shoe To Drop

Podcast Ep. 171: Waiting For The Other Shoe To Drop

Each time we meet someone new, it’s packaged with a question and subsequent search for the answer: Are you trustworthy? When we’re feeling good about something, a part of us might wonder, When are things going to wrong? In this week’s episode...
Querying Actions Not Matching Words Isn’t About Trust Issues

Querying Actions Not Matching Words Isn’t About Trust Issues

There are times in life when we have trust issues and behave accordingly. Whatever our brand of distrust, when we’re, for example, caught going through their phone or we’re off base with an accusation, or we want to monitor their every move, it becomes...

“Why did you get me to trust you?” Why walls can make us ripe for the charmers…

Have you ever sought to be invited to something that deep down, you know that you don’t really want to go, you just want to be invited? Have you ever felt really into somebody, not because you truly are but because the moment you realised that they weren’t...

There’s no point in following the ‘trend’ if you don’t end up liking or knowing you

When I was a teenager growing up in Dublin and battling with that very typical desire to ‘fit in’, my mother would trot out her standard line,”Would you jump off a bridge if someone told you to?” As one of only a few black kids around at that...