12 Things You Can Do to Learn to Trust Again

a post by Rossana Snee for the Lifehack blog

NOTE: This post is primarily about a one-to-one relationship with a partner but there are, among the 12 suggestions, ideas that you can apply to other relationships.

T R U S T – a simple five-letter word. Yet one that carries so much weight. Trust is the soul of any relationship. It is the super glue that binds it together. If you have it, it is the reason you can go to sleep at night next to your partner and feel at peace; the reason that the ding of a text, or the ring of a phone doesn’t shoot off alarm bells; the reason that your partner working late doesn’t cause an anxiety attack.

Lack of trust, however, creates just the opposite effect. It causes untold psychological distress. It turns you into a spy as you search for clues that will validate your suspicions. It pits you against your worst insecurities. It makes you sick and hypervigilant; it keeps you up at nights wondering, Am I not good enough? Is it my fault? Is everything we have a sham? What will people think?

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Equality, human rights and religion or belief: time to get out of the courtroom?

via Current Awareness by sally

"The interaction between the law and religion or belief is rarely out of the headlines. Debate rages about whether Article 9, the human right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion, receives sufficient – or too much – protection in the courts. There has been a considerable amount of litigation, much of it contentious."

Full story UK Human Rights Blog

An extremely interesting read.

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