The deepest damage from a broken promise isn't losing trust in them — it's losing trust in yourself. Robin on broken promises, the moment self-trust really breaks, and how to rebuild it one kept promise at a time.
There's a specific kind of heartbreak that doesn't happen the moment a promise is broken — it happens later, when you realize they were never who they said they were. And it doesn't just take your future; it rewrites your past.
In this episode, Robin sits with the two kinds of broken promises — the ones others make to us, and the ones we quietly break to ourselves — and the one thing they both erode: self-trust.
You'll hear:
• Why the deepest wound isn't when they lied — it's the moment you knew and didn't listen
• How to read the pattern: believe patterns, not promises
• Why we override our own knowing (and what it costs us)
• How to rebuild self-trust — starting with the smallest promises to yourselfThe takeaway: self-trust isn't the absence of people who let you down. It's the presence of a self you refuse to abandon.
This week's invitation: make one small promise to yourself — and keep it.
📖 Go deeper: Stop Stealing From Yourself — Robin's book on the quiet self-betrayals that drain us. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H427G18R
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