Daring to Trust : Opening Ourselves to Real Love and Intimacy - David Richo

Instant online reading.
Don't wait for delivery!
Go digital and save!

Daring to Trust

Opening Ourselves to Real Love and Intimacy

By: David Richo

Write A Review

Paperback | 5 August 2011 | Edition Number 1

At a Glance

Paperback
224 Pages

Dimensions(cm)
26.1 x 16.5 x 4.3

Paperback

RRP $32.99

$31.75

or 4 interest-free payments of $7.94 with

Ships in 5 to 10 business days

The best-selling author of How to Be an Adult in Relationships explains how to build trust—the essential ingredient in successful relationships—in spite of fear or past betrayals

Most relationship problems are essentially trust issues, explains psychotherapist David Richo. Whether it’s fear of commitment, insecurity, jealousy, or a tendency to be controlling, the real obstacle is a fundamental lack of trust—both in ourselves and in our partner.

Daring to Trust explores the importance of trust throughout our emotional lives: how it develops in childhood and how it becomes an essential ingredient in healthy adult relationships. It offers key insights and practical exercises for exploring and addressing our trust issues in relationships. Topics include:

• How we learn early in life to trust others (or not to trust them)
• Why we fear trusting
• Developing greater trust in ourselves as the basis for trusting others
• How to know if someone is trustworthy
• Naïve trust vs. healthy, adult trust
• What to do when trust is broken

Ultimately, Richo explains, we must develop trust in four directions: toward ourselves, toward others, toward life as it is, and toward a higher power or spiritual path. These four types of trust are not only the basis of healthy relationships, they are also the foundation of emotional well-being and freedom from fear.

Industry Reviews

"Combining profound insights and practical techniques, this important new book walks us step-by-step through our trust issues and, in so doing, opens the gate held shut by our deepest fears so that we can finally, fearlessly, love and be loved."--Susan Piver, author of The Wisdom of a Broken Heart

"Beautifully wise, straightforward, and helpful."--Jack Kornfield, author of The Wise Heart

Shipping

	Standard Shipping	Express Shipping
Metro postcodes:	$9.99	$14.95
Regional postcodes:	$9.99	$14.95
Rural postcodes:	$9.99	$14.95

Orders over $0.00 qualify for free shipping.

How to return your order

At Booktopia, we offer hassle-free returns in accordance with our returns policy. If you wish to return an item, please get in touch with Booktopia Customer Care.

Additional postage charges may be applicable.

Defective items

If there is a problem with any of the items received for your order then the Booktopia Customer Care team is ready to assist you.

For more info please visit our Help Centre.

You Can Find This Book In

Non-Fiction Family & Health Relationships & Families: Advice & Issues Dating, Relationships, Living Together & Marriage Psychology Social Psychology Self-Help, Personal Development & Practical Advice Popular Psychology Assertiveness, Motivation & Self-Esteem & Positive Mental Attitude Fiction Romance

Introduction	p. 1
How This Book Came to Be	p. 2
Our Need, Our Fear, Our Risk	p. 6
Practice: Exploring Our History of Trust	p. 8
What Is Trust?	p. 11
Intelligent Distrust	p. 15
Our Capacity for Trusting	p. 18
Needs and How They Play Out	p. 21
Reading Ourselves	p. 26
Practice: Following Our Needs	p. 28
There Are Healthy Connections	p. 30
Bonds of Attaching and Relating	p. 33
Practices
Breathe, Pause, Start Over	p. 37
Exploring Our Childlike and Adult Trust	p. 38
Our Early Sense of Trust	p. 42
Our First Steps	p. 46
Gone but Here	p. 52
Practices
Receiving Comfort and Facing Challenge	p. 53
Trusting and Loving	p. 54
How Trust Happens in Relationships	p. 58
Reciprocal Trust	p. 60
Surrender in a Committed Relationship	p. 65
To Whom Shall We Go?	p. 69
Exploring Our Style of Trusting	p. 71
When the Five A's Meet the Ego	p. 72
Practices for Auditing Our Relationship
How to Know If Someone Can Be Trusted	p. 75
How Communication Becomes Trustworthy	p. 79
How We Miss Trust	p. 83
Trusting Can Wake Old Ghosts	p. 85
Practice: Freeing Ourselves from the Fear of Trusting Our Own Power	p. 91
When Our Story Gets in the Way	p. 94
Practice: Erasing the Storyboard	p. 96
Trust Lost, Trust Regained	p. 101
The Silent Treatment	p. 103
Lies We Tell, Hear, or Won't Hear	p. 107
A Double Life	p. 113
Practice: Letting Go of Obsession	p. 116
When We Cheat	p. 118
When We Are Betrayed	p. 122
Why We Put Up with Pain	p. 125
Practices for Rebuilding Broken Trust
Noticing How Our Past Is Present	p. 130
The Work of the Partner Who Broke Trust	p. 133
The Personal Work of the Partner Who Was Betrayed	p. 135
When Both Partners Want to Work on the Relationship	p. 137
Trusting Ourselves	p. 144
Trusting Our Feelings	p. 148
Practice: Working with Our Emotions	p. 152
Trusting Our Bodies	p. 154
Trusting Our Sexuality	p. 156
Can I Trust Myself in a Crisis ?	p. 158
Practices
Befriending the Three Witches	p. 161
No Longer Victims	p. 163
A Positive Approach to Ourselves	p. 165
Our Core Trust in Reality	p. 166
The Supreme Attunement	p. 172
Practice: Fidelity to Ourselves	p. 176
Four Reliable Directions	p. 178
Practice: Using Our Compass of Trust	p. 182
Trust in Powers beyond Us	p. 187
Our Longing for Meaning	p. 192
Buddhist Paths to Adult Trust	p. 195
Trust in the Higher Self	p. 200
Practice: Awakening at Many Levels	p. 205
Epilogue: Trust in Grace-full Coincidence	p. 208
About the Author	p. 212
Table of Contents provided by Ingram. All Rights Reserved.

Daring to Trust

Opening Ourselves to Real Love and Intimacy

At a Glance

Paperback

Industry Reviews

Shipping

How to return your order

Defective items

You Can Find This Book In

More in Romance

Empire of the Dawn

Empire Of The Vampire

The Suite Secret

London Hearts Series: Book Two

The Violin Maker's Secret

Felicia's Favourites

Half City

Harker Academy Book 1: The Instant Number One Bestseller!!

Just Friends

The must-read emotional and enthralling second chance romance from TikTok star Haley Pham

This Story Might Save Your Life

A stunning, suspenseful thriller with the heart of a love story. A Radio 2 Book Club Pick Spring 2026

Metal Slinger

The instant Sunday Times bestseller and must-read romantasy that broke BookTok!

The Wrath of the Fallen

The spicy and epic dark romantasy TikTok must-read and instant New York Times bestseller!

The Wings that Bind

The new and hottest, MUST-READ dark academia, enemies-to-lovers fantasy romance, with dragons and vampires! (Bloodwing Academy, Book 3)

Vow of Eternal Night

*The gorgeous first edition features stunning printed edges.

Silver & Smoke

The Ashes of Thezmarr Book 3

To Snap a Silver Stem

Crystal Bloom

The Red Winter

Power is a hungry beast

The Wicked and the Damned

Dark Inheritance Trilogy Book 2

What the Bones Know

The new 2026 debut contemporary gothic psychological horror, perfect for fans of Riley Sager and Jo Dixon

Veil Volume 2

Calming Noir

Black Velvet and Vengeance

The third gripping new historical fiction novel in the Tatty Crowe series, sequel to BLACK SILK AND BURIED SECRETS, for fans of Jackie French, Tea Cooper and Kirsty Manning

A Stage Set for Villains

The Poisoner

The Poisoner

Seasons of Glass and Iron: Stories

Short Stories from the Bestselling Author of THIS IS HOW YOU LOSE THE TIME WAR

The Last Starborn Seer

the INSTANT Sunday Times bestselling romantic fantasy debut for 2026, perfect for fans of love triangles, epic quests and intricate world-building

Behind Closed Doors

A totally addictive, unputdownable billionaire dark romance

The Life Experiment

This product is categorised by