NAME IT FIRST

Workbook

The Trust Workbook

How to Rebuild the Thing That Broke

Trust is a decision made with information. Gather it here.

This is for:

For the person whose trust has been broken — by a person, an institution, or a repeated pattern — and who wants to understand what broke it and what the path back looks like.

You'll produce:your Your Trust Agreement

The Name It First Experience

Trust does not break all at once. It breaks by accumulation — small disappointments, one large rupture, or the recognition that what you believed was not true. This workbook examines what your trust is made of, what broke it, and what rebuilding requires. You will name the event or pattern. You will account for what you believed before and know now. The output is not advice. It is Your Trust Agreement.

You can opt into 30-, 60-, and 90-day check-ins from your account. We recommend you do — the point is to see what changed.

Sample questions

  1. What broke the trust — and what was the moment you knew it was gone?
  2. What do you believe about people now that you didn't believe before?
  3. What would it actually take — not in theory, but specifically — to trust again?

Research basis

Gottman trust research on trust as a pattern built by small actions over time / Bowlby attachment theory on trust as a developmental achievement / Tedeschi and Calhoun post-traumatic growth on meaning-making after interpersonal betrayal.

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We read every question and every scenario aloud. For the commute, the walk, the dishes.

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Answer on screen. Your responses save as you go and assemble into your finished document.

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Listen to each question and speak your answer. We capture it. You never touch a keyboard.

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The Essential path takes you to your finished document by the questions that matter most. The Full-depth path walks every question, every scenario, every angle. Both produce the same signed document — one just goes deeper on the way there.

Essential path

Shorter sessions. The questions that go directly to the document.

Full depth

Every question. Every scenario, every angle.

Paper doesn’t change its mind.

Thoughts change. Documents don’t. The answers you write are there when you return — unchanged by memory or mood.

You won’t just feel clearer — you’ll have written proof of what you decided.

Writing is the mechanism by which internal clarity becomes external evidence. Evidence you can return to, share, and hold someone — including yourself — accountable to.

Every question is answerable by everyone.

Every question in every title is answerable by the person for whom the assumed experience is true and by the person for whom it is not. No reader is excluded by how a question is built.

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