When the Past Is Present

Healing the Emotional Wounds That Sabotage our Relationships

Preview

Failed to add items

Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.

Add to basket failed.

Please try again later

Add to wishlist failed.

Please try again later

Remove from wishlist failed.

Please try again later

Adding to library failed

Please try again

Follow podcast failed

Unfollow podcast failed

£0.00 for first 30 days

LIMITED TIME OFFER

Get 3 months for £0.99/mo

Get this deal

Try Premium Plus free

Offer ends 29 January 2026 at 11:59PM GMT.

Prime members: New to Audible? Get 2 free audiobooks during trial.

Just £0.99/mo for your first 3 months of Audible.

1 bestseller or new release per month—yours to keep.

Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, podcasts, and Originals.

Auto-renews at £8.99/mo after 3 months. Cancel monthly.

Thousands of incredible audiobooks and podcasts to take wherever you go.

Immerse yourself in a world of storytelling with the Plus Catalogue - unlimited listening to thousands of select audiobooks, podcasts and Audible Originals.

£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

When the Past Is Present

By: David Richo PhD

Narrated by: Tom Pile

Get this deal

Try Premium Plus free

£8.99/mo after 3 months. Cancel monthly. Offer ends 29 January 2026 at 11:59PM GMT.

£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically.

Buy Now for £14.99

LIMITED TIME OFFER | £0.99/mo for the first 3 months

Premium Plus auto-renews at £8.99/mo after 3 months. Terms apply.

About this listen

In this audiobook, psychotherapist David Richo explores how we replay the past in our present-day relationships - and how we can free ourselves from this destructive pattern. We all have a tendency to transfer potent feelings, needs, expectations, and beliefs from childhood or from former relationships onto the people in our daily lives, whether they are our intimate partners, friends, or acquaintances. When the Past Is Present helps us to become more aware of the ways we slip into the past so that we can identify our emotional baggage and take steps to unpack it and put it where it belongs. Drawing on decades of experience as a psychotherapist, Richo helps listeners to:

Understand how the wounds of childhood become exposed in adult relationships - and why this is a gift
Identify and heal the emotional wounds we carry over from the past so that they won't sabotage present-day relationships
Recognize how strong attractions and aversions to people in the present can be signals of own own unfinished business
Use mindfulness to stay in the present moment and cultivate authentic intimacy

Love, Dating & Attraction

Personal Development

Personal Success

Psychology

Psychology & Mental Health

Relationships

Meditation

Inspiring

Feel Better

Emotions

Mindfulness

Self Development

Listeners also enjoyed...

How to Be an Adult in Relationships cover art

Working at Relational Depth in Counselling and Psychotherapy cover art

I Thought It Was Just Me (but it isn’t) cover art

Adult Survivors of Toxic Family Members cover art

Your Soul's Gift: The Healing Power of the Life You Planned Before You Were Born cover art

The Five Keys to Mindful Communication cover art

Emotional Sensitivity and Intensity cover art

Most relevant

I loved the book, it answered so many questions about why we behave how we do.
I’d recommend it to anyone who is repeating patterns of behaviour and has an inkling it may come from childhood and growing up. It will definitely help anyone on a soul search and spiritual pathway to understanding themself