Forget rigid discipline or waiting for guarantees—learn how to rebuild self trust from the inside out, IFS-style.

I once spent 45 minutes pacing around my apartment trying to decide whether to text him back. Forty-five minutes. And it wasn’t even a good text. Just a boring, “Hey, how was your day?”—the kind of text my boxer dog, Morty, could’ve written with his paw. 🐾

But it wasn’t about the text. It was about trust. Somewhere along the way, I had stopped trusting myself. Or maybe the hard...