My whole life I have been directed, corrected, or over-managed as a child, young adult, and grown adult. Therefore, my nervous system learned that being told what to do means “being powerless or not capable.”

My ability to trust has nothing to do with whether another person is trustworthy or not because we are all human and we all fail time and time again. If trust was dependent on that then we would never be able to trust anyone ever! Trust is about my internal capacity, not the other person’s behavior.