When anyone tells me they have trust issues, I always respond with, “I will trust anyone until they give me a reason not to.” But I realized today that is just not true. There is a correlation between trust and truth, trust and willingness, trust and accepting help, trust and honesty, trust and empathy, and trust and our deep-rooted fears.

I can trust someone with my life, yet still be unwilling to take their advice. I can trust and yet defend myself against unpleasant truths. The reason why my recovery program works is because the steps required me to build trust where I didn't know it was missing.

There's a whole new level of trust that I've been introduced to as a disabled stroke survivor. This experience has required me to question my long-standing belief that I know what's best for me and trust in my caregiver. Over the past year I have worked very hard at being defiant toward the truth that resulted from my stroke. This defiance makes it more difficult for my caregiver to protect me against myself.

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