Trust: Mastering the Four Essential Trusts: Trust in Self, Trust in God, Trust in Others, Trust in Life

by Iyanla Vanzant

"Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult lessons. That’s because trust is not a verb; it’s a noun. But what if the real problem is not that we can’t trust other people; it’s that we can’t trust ourselves?"

In this compelling volume, filled with illuminating and heartrendingly powerful stories of broken trust, betrayal, and triumph, Iyanla demonstrates why the four essential trusts—Trust in Self, Trust in God, Trust in Others, and Trust in Life—are like without them, none of us can survive. Mastering these four essential trusts requires both a process and a Life gives you the process through your experiences; people provide you the opportunity to practice.

Iyanla explores what trust really is and reveals why some of the most shocking trust violations offer us profound opportunities for personal growth and healing. Her pragmatic trust prescriptions—rooted in self-awareness, intuition, communication, and spiritual practice—will challenge you to face your deepest fears and free you to cultivate new levels of increased authenticity, greater resilience, renewed peace, and joy.

Genres: Self Help

312 pages, Paperback

Published June 13, 2017

About the author

In Peace From Broken Pieces New York Times best-selling author Iyanla Vanzant she recounts the last decade of her life and the spiritual lessons learnedfrom the price of success during her meteoric rise as a TV celebrity on Oprah, the Iyanla TV show (produced by Barbara Walters), to the dissolution of her marriage and her daughters 15 months of illness and death on Christmas day. Like a phoenix rising from the ashes, Iyanla shares why everything we need to learn is reflected in our relationships and the strength and wisdom she has gained by supporting others in their journeys to make sense out of the puzzle pieces of their lives.
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Reviews

[RainbowWriter · Rating 5 out of 5]

Profound, intellectual but practical and touching. Iyanla reflects the life experience of herself and her friends on trust and after that she sheds some intellectual perspective on the subject giving practical advice how to develop trust. The only section that didn't particularly impress me was Trusting God because if you already have a long history of spiritual journey you may find her advice in there somewhat cliche and heard many times before. Apart from that I find this one of the most essential books in my bookshelf and it became an instant favorite that I will return to many times - especially the sections Trusting Yourself and Trusting Others. The book gets better towards the end and I found her giving maybe the best advice in the last section Trusting Life which at the same time is a good summary on the points handled in the previous sections and chapters. For me the most important factor to rate this 5 stars was that I feel that I got some answers and found what I was looking for.

[Roger · Rating 5 out of 5]

Profoundly enriching, enlightening, empowering.
With great mastery and inspiration, his very personal writing, authentic and exquisite, Iyanla gives us wonderful content. All the reading is so deep and meaningful that it touches very intimate fibers of our humanity.
With her keen vision of life, her experience in the journey of her own existence and based on all her personal work, this book is worth from beginning to end!
The message is deeply transformative that invites empowerment. At the end of the book I was left with a delicious taste of clarity and beauty on the subject.
My gratitude to the Publisher and NetGalley for allowing me to review the book

[Christine · Rating 5 out of 5]

Absolutely what I needed to read at the time I needed to read it! I have been searching for the one nugget that I seemed to be missing in my Life Path. This amazing author brought it to me front line and center. Explaining at a level I could totally understand, Iyanla explained how in trusting ourselves and the Divine Energy around us - the quality of Life can be and is astounding. This book brought me to tears....first time in my life. EVER. I so appreciate this book coming at the right time and in the right place. I should have trusted it sooner.....

[Gena Culbreath · Rating 5 out of 5]

Not a game. There is a passage in the books that equates the spiritual work of trust to post-doctoral graduate work. She has never lied. This is a life changing read...so don't read it if you're not trying to change your life.

[Sherri · Rating 4 out of 5]

In Trust Iyanla Vanzant covers more ground than I thought possible from a single word. Throughout the book she argues that in order to be functioning, successful, loved, and respected (my words, not hers), you must first have trust in four things: yourself, God, others, and life (that is, trust the process). Through anecdotes she shares how negative emotions like anger, resentment, frustration, and suspicion arise from a lack of trust that your needs will be met.

From section one when she says you can’t have self love without self trust through section four when she says to trust the process of life, Vanzant covers a ton of ground. She spends a good part of the book on learning how to trust the still small voice inside you. If you don’t trust yourself, you can’t trust anything or anyone else, so this is a good place for her to begin the book. Toward the end of the book, she even discusses some of the inherent trust issues that have led to so many black people in this country being shot by police offers.

I learned a lot about myself and about human behavior in general while reading this book. I highlighted a number of passages throughout and have already revisited them since finishing the book. I think this will be a book that I come back to again to read in snippets here and there as my own journey of trust evolves. Vanzant gave me a lot to think about regarding how I interact with this world. Until reading this book, I didn’t realize how much of our pain can be traced back to lack of trust.

I recommend this book for most people (which is not something that can be said about many books), especially for those who feel that something is misaligned in their own lives. You can read it cover to cover or dip in and out as you are ready. Either way, start at the beginning, because the book builds off of trust of self. After that, you can skip around.