How to Trust Yourself Again: 7 Ways to Rebuild Self-Trust | Mid Week Tease

How to Trust Yourself Again: 7 Ways to Rebuild Self-Trust | Mid Week Tease

Author: Legally Clueless August 12, 2026 Duration: 24:27
What happens when you stop trusting your own decisions, feelings and instincts?

This week on The Mid Week Tease, Adelle unpacks how self-trust can slowly erode, through being constantly second-guessed, people-pleasing, gaslighting, overriding your own needs, breaking promises to yourself, or making a decision that went badly and deciding it means you can't trust yourself anymore.

But self-trust isn't about always getting it right.It's about knowing that even when you get something wrong, you trust yourself to listen, learn, adjust and meet yourself on the other side.

In this episode, Adelle shares 7 practical ways to rebuild self-trust, including:
  • Keeping small promises to yourself
  • Making decisions without always seeking external validation
  • Learning the difference between seeking advice and seeking permission
  • Paying attention to your internal “no”
  • Giving yourself permission to change your mind
  • Treating mistakes as information instead of evidence against yourself
  • Creating a record of the times trusting yourself served you well
And at the end of the episode, there's a 7-Day Self-Trust Experiment designed to help you actually practise what you've heard.Because self-trust isn't something you think yourself into.
It's something you practise yourself into.

Catch new episodes of The Mid Week Tease every Wednesday on the Legally Clueless Africa channels.

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Each week on Legally Clueless, Adelle Onyango turns the microphone toward the beautifully messy reality of growth. As a well-known Kenyan media personality and social activist, she doesn't offer polished advice from a stage, but instead documents her own unvarnished experiences, framing her life as an evolving and unapologetically African woman. This creates a rare and welcoming atmosphere where uncertainty isn't a flaw but a shared starting point. The heart of this podcast lives in the stories-Adelle opens the space for a chorus of African voices to share personal narratives that might teach you something one moment and have you laughing or crying the next. These aren't theoretical discussions; they're authentic accounts from everyday lives, full of the specific textures and truths that often go unheard. Tuning in feels less like attending a lecture and more like sitting in on a powerful, ongoing conversation where the only requirement is to be human. You'll find a sense of connection in hearing others navigate the same complexities you do, all within the candid and compassionate world this podcast builds every episode.
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