14/02/2026
I’m working with several clients around confidence. The work I do often carries on outside sessions, as my thinking is challenged and develops.
My thoughts were triggered on my jog this morning with our rescue dog. For almost two weeks, she wouldn’t leave the house. So we didn’t force it. We stayed. Sat. Opened and closed the door. Took one step out/in. Consistent. Things shifted. Now we jog together. (Plod might be more accurate ;-)). With her, trust was built, earned. There’s a happy tail for her, and a smile for me.
And our jog made me think about trust. The transactional trust…the relational trust…
My reading around trust, considering how it feeds confidence, in each other and ourselves.
I thought about where it shows up. How it is often implied…
When we board a plane.
When the driver gets in his car.
So what’s different from the trust between colleagues? Between leaders and teams? Between partners and friends?
I see, and have experienced, that when trust wobbles, everything wobbles. But when trust grows, so does confidence in self and others.
I hope the people I work with feel trust in my intentions, my work, my support.
I hope the work they do with me helps them experience and develop trust in themselves, in others.
Trust is how I work and how I live.
And perhaps the real question isn’t whether trust matters, as we know it does, but where am I strengthening it? Where am I weakening it?
As always I would love any thoughts and reflections around this topic!
amy@elementsofwellness.co.uk
