Let’s talk about trust
FOURWAYS – This month's session, moms discussed how to open up to trust someone new.
Every relationship requires trust: we trust our hairdresser not to cut off all our hair and we trust our dentist not to pull out the wrong tooth. However, the emotional trust that we give to those closest to us is a whole different story.
During a recent mothers’ support session at Witkoppen Clinic, the moms discussed how to open up to trust someone new, and if trust can really be restored once it’s broken. Everyone has had their trust broken in some way, but the more emotionally intimate you are with a person, the more it hurts when that trust is betrayed – which is why trust needs to be built gradually.
Dagmar Kahn, the Business Development Manager at Witkoppen Clinic, says that even though we only experience relationships from our side, we need to remember that there needs to be a balance of give and take from both sides.
“It’s not that you need to become an emotional beancounter but rather that both parties are satisfied with the level of effort that is put in,” said Kahn. Murray Booth, the Marketing Executive at Cuddlers, wants moms to remember that our relationships with others is a mirror of our relationships with ourselves.
“By learning to love ourselves, we show others how to love us. And this is all the more important when we have our little ones looking up to us, and learning from us,” said Booth.
The sessions run bi-monthly on Thursdays.
When: 24 October at 10.30am
Where: Witkoppen Health and Welfare Centre, 105 William Nicol Drive.
Details: WhatsApp Fhumulani Makhera on 065 936 0559.
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