I have been thinking and talking a lot about trust this year and as 2022 draws to a close I wanted to share Brene Brown’s beautiful trust metaphor. Something I have found so incredibely helpful both personally and professionally. I often work with parents and partners who are battling with trust. For parents they often desperately want to allow their teenagers more freedom but feel unable to move away from the “I will allow them when I can trust them” And similarly for partners, they will often feel sad about the lack of trust in their relationship but feel powerless to move towards change until there is more trust. We all identify trust over and over again as something that is fundamentally important to us. And yet our understanding of trust is unsure. Brene Brown often quotes Charles Feltman who defines trust as “choosing to make something important to you vulnerable to the actions of someone else”. You let someone on your team know that you really struggle with a p