Daring to Trust: Opening Ourselves to Real Love and Intimacy
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According to psychotherapist David Richo, relationship problems are often a result of a fundamental lack of trust between partners. "Daring to Trust" offers insights and practical exercises to address relationship trust issues.
Topics include:
- Our fear of trusting
- Finding out if someone is trustworthy
- Naïve trust vs. healthy, adult trust
- What to do when the trust has been broken
- How we learn early in life to trust or not to trust others
- Learning to trust others by developing greater trust in ourselves
Richo explains that we must develop four types of trust:
- Toward ourselves
- Toward others
- Toward life as it is
- Toward a higher power or spiritual path
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If you have a question or problem, ask us:Table of Contents/ List of Topics Covered:
Introduction
- How This Book Came to Be
- Our Need, Our Fear, Our Risk
- Practice: Exploring Our History of Trust
1. What is Trust?
- Intelligent Distrust
- Our Capacity for Trusting
- Needs and How They Play Out
- Reading Ourselves
- Practice: Following Our Needs
- There Are Healthy Connections
- Bonds of Attaching and Relating
- Practices
2. Our Early Sense of Trust
- Our First Steps
- Gone but Here
- Practices
3. How Trust Happens in Relationships
- Reciprocal Trust
- Surrender in a Committed Relationship
- To Whom Shall We Go
- Exploring Our Style of Trusting
- When the Five A's Meet the Ego
- Practices for Auditing Our Relationship
4. How We Miss Trust
- Trusting Can Wake Old Ghosts
- Practice: Freeing Ourselves from the Fear of Trusting Our Own Power
- When Our Story Gets in the Way
- Practice: Erasing the Storyboard
5. Trust Lost, Trust Regained
- The Silent Treatment
- Lies We Tell, Hear, or Won't Hear
- A Double Life
- Practice: Letting Go go Obsession
- When We Cheat
- When We Are Betrayed
- Why We Put Up with Pain
- Practices for Rebuilding Broken Trust
6. Trusting Ourselves
- Trusting Our Feelings
- Practice: Working with Our Emotions
- Trusting Our Bodies
- Trusting Our Sexuality
- Can I Trust Myself in a Crisis?
- Practices
7. Our Core Trust in Reality
- The Supreme Attunement
- Practice: Fidelity to Ourselves
- Four Reliable Directions
- Practice: Using Our Compass of Trust
8. Trust in Powers Beyond Us
- Our Longing for Meaning
- Buddhist Paths to Adult Trust
- Trust in the Higher Self
- Practice: Awakening at Many Levels
Epilogue: Trust in Grace-full Coincidence
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- Hardcover $8.94
- Kindle $13.01
- Paperback $13.26
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