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Do you find that ego gets in the way of enjoying more satisfying and loving relationships?
Do you and your partner’s expectations, disappointments, and moods create distance?
Do you find yourself living in reaction to the desires and behaviors of others rather than in accord with your own deepest needs, values, and wishes?
Are you interested in learning to develop a healthy ego that is “just right” so you can stand up for yourself while remaining connected and loving?
If you answered yes to any of the above questions, then this course is for you.
Do you find that ego gets in the way of enjoying more satisfying and loving relationships?
Do you and your partner’s expectations, disappointments, and moods create distance?
Do you find yourself living in reaction to the desires and behaviors of others rather than in accord with your own deepest needs, values, and wishes?
Are you interested in learning to develop a healthy ego that is “just right” so you can stand up for yourself while remaining connected and loving?
If you answered yes to any of the above questions, then this course is for you.
Try as we might, we very often find our own or others’ ego getting in the way of finding satisfying and loving relationships. Sometimes ego is too big, keeping others at a distance and alienating them with its sense of entitlement and need to control. Sometimes ego is too weak, living in reaction to others’ attitudes and behaviors rather than in accord with one’s own deepest needs, values, and wishes. We can find ourselves searching for “just right”—the healthy ego that allows for and offers generous love to others and the world.
In this online course, best-selling author David Richo guides you on the path of generous love and shows how to build a healthy ego that is “just right,” supporting you in being fully yourself, interacting with others in loving and effective ways, and contributing to the world around you. Giving and receiving generous love is the heart of our true nature, always within reach and always inviting us to move toward it.
Try as we might, we very often find our own or others’ ego getting in the way of finding satisfying and loving relationships. Sometimes ego is too big, keeping others at a distance and alienating them with its sense of entitlement and need to control. Sometimes ego is too weak, living in reaction to others’ attitudes and behaviors rather than in accord with one’s own deepest needs, values, and wishes. We can find ourselves searching for “just right”—the healthy ego that allows for and offers generous love to others and the world.
In this online course, best-selling author David Richo guides you on the path of generous love and shows how to build a healthy ego that is “just right,” supporting you in being fully yourself, interacting with others in loving and effective ways, and contributing to the world around you. Giving and receiving generous love is the heart of our true nature, always within reach and always inviting us to move toward it.
Understand Your Patterns
Understand the effect that your childhood can have on adult choices and patterns in relationships.
Gain Perspective
Distinguish healthy conflict from stressful drama and shift from resentment to forgiveness.
Navigate Conflict
Apply practices for successfully navigating conflict and showing love in a relationship.
Process Fear
Describe fears of abandonment and engulfment and identify practices for dealing with them.
Assert Yourself
Derive strength from inner & outer resources in healthy ways.
Understand Your Patterns
Understand the effect that your childhood can have on adult choices and patterns in relationships.
Gain Perspective
Distinguish healthy conflict from stressful drama and shift from resentment to forgiveness.
Navigate Conflict
Apply practices for successfully navigating conflict and showing love in a relationship.
Process Fear
Describe fears of abandonment and engulfment and identify practices for dealing with them.
Assert Yourself
Derive strength from inner & outer resources in healthy ways.
Lesson 1:
Ego and Relationships
Ego is the culprit in just about every disruption or destruction of intimacy in relationships. Letting go of ego-centeredness is the solution—the path to successful relating. In fact, letting go of ego is the first step toward finding out how to love. Nothing less is required, if love is to happen, than the utter undoing of egotism. In this lesson, we’ll begin our exploration of ego and egotism with cultivating a better understanding of the ego itself.
Lesson 1:
Ego and Relationships
Ego is the culprit in just about every disruption or destruction of intimacy in relationships. Letting go of ego-centeredness is the solution—the path to successful relating. In fact, letting go of ego is the first step toward finding out how to love. Nothing less is required, if love is to happen, than the utter undoing of egotism. In this lesson, we’ll begin our exploration of ego and egotism with cultivating a better understanding of the ego itself.
Lesson 2:
Too-Big Ego
Almost everyone has met someone who displays a too-big ego. And most of us have had at least moments of displaying such an ego ourselves. But fewer people understand where this kind of inflated ego comes from. In this lesson, we’ll examine the characteristics of a too-big ego and explore the role that fear plays in supporting an inflated ego.
Lesson 2:
Too-Big Ego
Almost everyone has met someone who displays a too-big ego. And most of us have had at least moments of displaying such an ego ourselves. But fewer people understand where this kind of inflated ego comes from. In this lesson, we’ll examine the characteristics of a too-big ego and explore the role that fear plays in supporting an inflated ego.
Lesson 3:
Too-Weak Ego
The criteria for a spiritually and psychologically healthy relationship can be determined by asking this question: does it honor who I am, match my life goals, and lead me to more connection with others and with the earth? This is, after all, how we thrive as individuals and survive as a species. Each of us can ask ourselves: what in our life has helped us toward establishing our full self and staying connected to others too? What has weakened our connection to our truest self? In this lesson, we'll explore these questions, and more, as we learn how to resolve the unfinished emotional business of our past and strengthen
Lesson 3:
Too-Weak Ego
The criteria for a spiritually and psychologically healthy relationship can be determined by asking this question: does it honor who I am, match my life goals, and lead me to more connection with others and with the earth? This is, after all, how we thrive as individuals and survive as a species. Each of us can ask ourselves: what in our life has helped us toward establishing our full self and staying connected to others too? What has weakened our connection to our truest self? In this lesson, we'll explore these questions, and more, as we learn how to resolve the unfinished emotional business of our past and strengthen
Lesson 4:
Just-Right Ego
We can distinguish between a healthy ego and egotism: The healthy ego sees how people operate and responds in a way that speaks up for itself but then accepts how things play out. The unhealthy, grandiose ego becomes affronted and has to compete, prove its superiority, jockey for position, or retaliate to reset any imbalance it cannot tolerate. In this lesson, we'll look at the full spectrum of ego and how it manifests in intimate relationships. We'll also discover ways of calling on the support of our own healthy ego to make decisions.
Lesson 4:
Just-Right Ego
We can distinguish between a healthy ego and egotism: The healthy ego sees how people operate and responds in a way that speaks up for itself but then accepts how things play out. The unhealthy, grandiose ego becomes affronted and has to compete, prove its superiority, jockey for position, or retaliate to reset any imbalance it cannot tolerate. In this lesson, we'll look at the full spectrum of ego and how it manifests in intimate relationships. We'll also discover ways of calling on the support of our own healthy ego to make decisions.
Lesson 5:
Grace and Bodhicitta
Can we let go of our preoccupation with ourselves as central and sole? For this to happen in any of us, we have to sacrifice ego supremacy, abdicate the throne on high, and be who we wholly are: beings who are inherently worthy and capable of lovingkindness. In this lesson, we’ll explore how real freedom is in commitment to the bigness that beckons us beyond what ego can achieve or even imagine.
Lesson 5:
Grace and Bodhicitta
Can we let go of our preoccupation with ourselves as central and sole? For this to happen in any of us, we have to sacrifice ego supremacy, abdicate the throne on high, and be who we wholly are: beings who are inherently worthy and capable of lovingkindness. In this lesson, we’ll explore how real freedom is in commitment to the bigness that beckons us beyond what ego can achieve or even imagine.
Lesson 6:
Practices for Letting Go of Ego
How do we advance on the ego’s stronghold of self-centeredness, self-importance, and entitlement? To tame an animal is not to subdue or break his spirit. It is to work with his energy so that his power can be displayed in appropriate and cooperative ways. In this lesson, we’ll discuss how to defuse our ego-energy so it can be transformed into self-esteem and compassion—the true purpose of having an ego.
Lesson 6:
Practices for Letting Go of Ego
How do we advance on the ego’s stronghold of self-centeredness, self-importance, and entitlement? To tame an animal is not to subdue or break his spirit. It is to work with his energy so that his power can be displayed in appropriate and cooperative ways. In this lesson, we’ll discuss how to defuse our ego-energy so it can be transformed into self-esteem and compassion—the true purpose of having an ego.
Six video lessons, around twenty minutes each, by David Richo—including audio-only versions
Downloadable transcripts of all video sessions
Selected readings from You Are Not What You Think by David Richo
Practice assignments and contemplations for all video sessions
Self-assessment quizzes for all video sessions
Unlimited access on your computer, mobile device, or tablet—learn at your own pace wherever and whenever works best for you
How to Sustain Intimacy and Nurture Genuine Connection
An audiobook narrated by David Richo
Intimacy is one of the great powers and joys of life, yet all too often it gets clouded by miscommunication, a loss of affection, and a lack of mutual support. Here therapist David Richo shows us how to use mindfulness to better understand ourselves and our partners.
**An Additional $14.95 Value**
Six video lessons, around twenty minutes each, by David Richo—including audio-only versions
Downloadable transcripts of all video sessions
Selected readings from You Are Not What You Think by David Richo
Practice assignments and contemplations for all video sessions
Self-assessment quizzes for all video sessions
Unlimited access on your computer, mobile device, or tablet—learn at your own pace wherever and whenever works best for you
How to Sustain Intimacy and Nurture Genuine Connection
An audiobook narrated by David Richo
Intimacy is one of the great powers and joys of life, yet all too often it gets clouded by miscommunication, a loss of affection, and a lack of mutual support. Here therapist David Richo shows us how to use mindfulness to better understand ourselves and our partners.
**An Additional $14.95 Value**
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DAVID RICHO, PhD, is a psychotherapist, teacher, writer, and workshop leader whose work emphasizes the benefits of mindfulness and loving-kindness in personal growth and emotional well-being. He is the author of numerous books, including How to Be an Adult in Relationships and The Five Things We Cannot Change. He lives in Santa Barbara and San Francisco, California.
DAVID RICHO, PhD, is a psychotherapist, teacher, writer, and workshop leader whose work emphasizes the benefits of mindfulness and loving-kindness in personal growth and emotional well-being. He is the author of numerous books, including How to Be an Adult in Relationships and The Five Things We Cannot Change. He lives in Santa Barbara and San Francisco, California.
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