Building Your Trust Fund - How to Trust Yourself After Divorce and Empty Nest

When your marriage ends, it's normal to question everything: "I chose wrong." "I stayed too long." "How did I miss the signs?" Your brain uses the divorce as evidence that you can't trust your own judgment, creating a spiral: "If I was wrong about THAT, what else am I wrong about?"

The result? Paralysis. You can't make decisions about dating, career, friendships, or even what car to buy. You either seek constant external validation or retreat completely. Either way, you're stuck, reactive, and powerless.

Julie introduces the Trust Fund - not money, but a collection of evidence that you CAN trust yourself. This is about concrete proof: you make good decisions, you know yourself, and you can rely on you.

What Happens When You Build Your Trust Fund:

• You rewire your brain to look for ways you can be trusted
• You stop needing external validation
• You make decisions faster and with less agony
• You're more confident
• You diminish fear of "wrong" decisions
• You give yourself permission to make mistakes (one mistake doesn't wipe out the fund)
• You reclaim your power
• You assume the identity of a woman who trusts herself

The Community Difference: Building your Trust Fund in community makes it grow faster - higher interest rate, bigger balance. Other women reflect evidence back to you that you can't see. Coaches point out proof. Community provides accountability - someone to share deposits with, celebrate with, and help make withdrawals when you're stuck.

Key Insight: Self-trust isn't something you either have or don't have - it's something you build, deposit by deposit. Over time, your Trust Fund grows until one day you realize: "I actually DO trust myself. Here's the evidence to prove it. But more importantly, I don't think I need the evidence anymore. I've got this."

Call to Action: Join the FIERCE Sisterhood where we build Trust Funds together in community. Email the word "sisterhood" to [email protected]

Question to Consider: What's one piece of evidence you can deposit in your Trust Fund today?

Hi, I'm Julie!

I'm a divorced empty nester and the creator of the Life 2.0 Coaching Program.

As a certified Life Coach and National Board Certified Heath and Wellness Coach, I help other divorced empty nesters create the new life of their dreams; and I can help you do this, too.

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