264: How Do You Trust Again When People Keep Letting You Down?

264: How Do You Trust Again When People Keep Letting You Down?

From Project Loving Myself by Sanaiyah Gurnamal and The Pod Network Entertainment

April 15, 2026 · 16 min · Season 1 · Episode 264

About this episode

This episode explores the challenges of rebuilding trust after being hurt and offers insights on how to let love in again.

Ever feel like you want to relax and let go… but a part of you just won’t let you? One minute you’re open, hopeful, and trying… and the next you’re overthinking, pulling back, or expecting things to go wrong before they even do. In this episode, we unpack what really happens when your trust gets broken. Not because you’re too guarded or too much, but because your mind and body learned how to protect you. And how that protection, while it once kept you safe, may now be the very thing keeping you stuck, disconnected, and unable to fully let people in. This isn’t about forcing yourself to trust people again. It’s about learning where to put your trust, so you can stop protecting yourself from love and start letting it in again. Episode Resources ✨Take the Heartbreak Quiz — uncover the hidden pattern that’s keeping you guarded, overthinking, or stuck after being hurt, so you can let it go and start to believe in love again. In this episode, we explore: ✨ Why broken trust changes how you think, feel, and respond ✨ How protecting yourself can quietly turn into isolation ✨ The real cost of not trusting anyone anymore ✨ Why trusting others isn’t the goal… and what is ✨ Simple self-trust…

People in this episode

Host: Sanaiyah Gurnamal

Topics covered

  • trust issues
  • self-protection
  • relationships
  • emotional healing
  • overthinking

Keywords

  • trust
  • relationships
  • self-improvement
  • emotional health
  • healing

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