For a long time, I asked myself the wrong question.
Do I trust them again, or don’t I? As if it were a switch. As if one day I’d wake up and just… trust, the way I used to — and every other day meant I was failing at recovery somehow.
It took me a long time to realise trust isn’t one thing you either have or don’t. It moves through stages — and the stage you’re in right now determines what you actually need.
Which Stage Are You In?
Maybe trust has been shaken, not gone — and you’re not sure what’s left underneath. You swing between hope and dread in the same hour, and you’re the one holding everyone together while you do it. That’s Core Trust — the beginning, where you learn the five dimensions of trust and the four phases it moves through.
Maybe the ground disappeared beneath you a second time. A relapse doesn’t erase the trust you’d already rebuilt — but it does mean the road ahead has to be walked differently. That’s Post-Relapse & Trust Rebuilding — finding your footing again, not starting from zero.
Or maybe things have been good for a long time, and a strange thing has started happening: the quiet, and the fear that comes with it. Have I gone soft? Should I still be watching? That’s Long-Term Trust Maintenance — mature trust, and the gentle rhythms that keep it from quietly eroding.
You Don’t Have to Know Exactly Where You Are to Start
That’s the whole idea behind bundling all three. Wherever you land in that description — right at the beginning, picking up the pieces after a setback, or years in and still quietly on guard — this meets you there.
What’s Included
- 13 audio lessons across all three courses
- 3 full written transcripts
- 3 companion workbooks (49 pages total)
- One purchase, one price — no need to know your stage before you start
Every course stands alone if you only need one stage right now — Core Trust, Post-Relapse & Trust Rebuilding, and Long-Term Trust Maintenance are each available individually for $17. But if trust is something you expect to keep tending — through the early rebuild, through a possible setback, and into the long haul — the bundle is the same peer-support companion for all of it, at a saving.
Peer support from lived experience, informed by the principles of CRAFT — not a substitute for professional help.
I’m the founder of Family Recovery Mum, creating practical, compassionate resources for parents and grandparents whose loved one is struggling with addiction. You don’t have to carry it alone — and you matter too.
Faye, Recovery Mum
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