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When the Past Is Present

Healing the Emotional Wounds That Sabotage our Relationships

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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
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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

I full and insightful book

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Loved it. Richo's work is brilliant. Beautifully narrated. I'm going to listen again, can't wait.

Super!

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One of the best books around that explains the unconscious processes that affect our relationships.

An excellent book

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Arguably one of the most important books you will ever read especially if you are not familiar with the notion of transference. You might need a second reading of the first chapters though.

Mind blowing.

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This book has left me wanting to read his other books.

From the book
" Inconsolability means we cannot forget but always cherish those we loved. Unkowability means we grow in our sense of wonder and imagination."

very insightful and deep!!

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