David Richo at Books Inc. on the Castro February 10, 2009

Local author David Richo will be stopping by to read from his new psychological book “When the Past is Present: Healing the Emotional Wounds That Sabotage Our Relationships.”

In this book, 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 heal it.

Drawing on decades of experience as a psychotherapist, Richo helps readers 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 our own unfinished business. Use mindfulness to stay in the present moment and cultivate authentic intimacy

About the author:

David Richo is a psychotherapist who leads workshops at the Esalen Institute. He is the author of "Creativity of Your Dark Side," "How to Be an Adult," and "Shadow Dance," He lives in Santa Barbara and San Francisco, California.

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Books Inc. is a locally owned and operated independent bookseller with 10 locations in California. Books Inc.’s origin dates back to the Gold Rush Days of 1851 when Anton Roman struck it rich in Shasta City, California and set himself up in business selling books. That small bookstore was moved, bought, sold, burned, rebuilt, renamed and became Books Inc., as we know it today, in 1946.

Today, with 10 Stores and 200 employees, Books Inc. serves as a shining example that independent bookselling can survive and prosper, even if we must dance among the elephants.

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