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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
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
Breathe, Pause, Start Over
Exploring Our Childlike and Adult Trust
2. Our Early Sense of Trust
Our First Steps
Gone but Here
Practices
Receiving Comfort and Facing Challenge
Trusting and Loving
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
How to Know If Someone Can Be Trusted
How Communication Becomes Trustworthy
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 of Obsession
When We Cheat
When We Are Betrayed
Why We Put Up with Pain
Practices for Rebuilding Broken Trust
Noticing How Our Past Is Present
The Work of the Partner Who Broke Trust
The Personal Work of the Partner Who Was Betrayed
When Both Partners Want to Work on the Relationship
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
Befriending the Three Witches
No Longer Victims
A Positive Approach to Ourselves
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
About the Author
Also by David Richo
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