17 – Trust Me

Allamanda, White Bat Plant & Red Impatiens (Allamanda cathartica, Tacca integrifolia, Impatiens)

Keyword – Trust

How do you learn to trust yourself when you have doubted, betrayed or abandoned yourself before?

We are often encouraged to simply “trust yourself,” yet genuine self-trust can be difficult when fear, emotional injuries, false beliefs or the need for approval have influenced our choices. We may have ignored our feelings, overridden genuine desires, doubted ourselves, acted inconsistently or repeatedly abandoned what we knew mattered to us.

Trust Me invites something deeper than blind self-belief. It encourages you to discover what is actually true within you.

Carrying the Allamanda forward from Star Inside, this essence reminds you that there is an authentic self worth discovering. The White Bat Plant invites revelation — patiently following the tangled threads of reactions, fears and beliefs to distinguish injury from truth. Red Impatiens reminds us that trust cannot be rushed. It develops gradually through experience, learning and increasing congruence between what we feel, believe, say and do.

As we become more emotionally honest, loving and truthful, we can gradually become someone we are able to rely upon — not because we will never make another mistake, but because we become increasingly willing to recognise, feel, learn and correct ourselves when we do.

And perhaps Trust Me carries two invitations: learning to trust the authentic self God created while also developing trust in God as we seek help to distinguish truth from fear and injury.

Invitation: This essence invites you to explore where self-doubt, inconsistency or self-abandonment have weakened your trust in yourself — and to patiently develop self-trust through emotional honesty, discernment, congruence and a willingness to seek greater truth.

Loving qualities: Self-trust • Discernment • Congruence • Patience • Reliability • Emotional honesty • Faith • Self-belief

Patterns revealed: Self-doubt • Self-betrayal • Inconsistency • Incongruence • Suspicion • Impatience • Abandoning yourself • Blind self-belief • Fear of making mistakes • Distrust of God