Trust: This is a podcast conversation about an essay called Trust from the book Ghosts of Parenting. The episode explores trust not as confidence or certainty, but as a lived condition that unfolds across years, shaped by fear, care, vigilance, and love. It looks at how parenting asks for repeated acts of letting go while staying close, how trust often feels heavy rather than reassuring, and why carrying uncertainty is part of caring for another life. Rather than offering advice or strategies, the conversation names trust as a quiet form of exposure, a relational posture that holds both protection and release, and a way of remaining present with children as they grow into lives that cannot be secured or predicted.