David Richo, PhD ~ Ready: How to Know When to Go and When to Stay

Many people feel an underlying sense of dissatisfaction and disappointment in their lives. In this short, thought-provoking book, therapist David Richo distills thirty years of experience to show how our problems are actually rooted in a much deeper issue: our relentless insistence on denying the simple facts of life.

In this book, seasoned therapist David Richo (he also wrote How to be an Adult in Relationships and The Five Things We Cannot Change) explores how we replay the past in our present-day relationships—and how we can free ourselves from this destructive pattern.

This book is a completely revised and updated edition of Everyday Commitments by therapist and author David Richo, among whose popular books are The Five Things We Cannot Change and How to Be an Adult in Relationships.

A healthy ego is necessary to achieving our goals, to building healthy relationships, and to leading a satisfying and meaningful life. But an ego that gets too big—that becomes egotism—can actually inhibit all those wonderful possibilities.

You miss your plane by five minutes, but on the next flight you find a book in the seat pocket that ends up changing your life. You order a red dress, but a black one arrives. Just as you’re about to send it back, the phone rings and you learn that your aunt has died.

Using the metaphor of the heroic journey—departure, struggle and return—the author shows readers the way to psychological and spiritual health. Richo uses the metaphor of the heroic journey to describe the process toward psychological and spiritual maturity.

The author of the best-selling How to Be an Adult explains in his popular style how fear cripples our ability to release our full potential. He then presents a concrete program of change for overcoming this fear.