Every Family Has A Story: How we inherit love and loss

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The bestselling psychotherapist explores what we inherit and how we can create the families we wish for In this Sunday Times bestseller, acclaimed psychotherapist Julia Samuel draws on her sessions with a wide variety of families, across multiple generations, to tell unforgettable stories of forgiveness, hope and love. Through eight beautifully told and insightful case studies, she analyses a range of common issues, from loss to leaving home, and from separation to step-relationships, and shows how much is, in fact, inherited -- and how much can be healed when it is faced together. Exploring the relationships that both touch us most and hurt us most, Julia offers moving and reassuring wisdom that is applicable to us all. Her twelve touchstones for family well-being -- from fighting productively to making time for rituals -- provide us with the tools to improve our relationships, and to create the families we wish for.

Julia Samuel, MBE, is a leading British psychotherapist and has authored three Sunday Times bestsellers- Every Family Has A Story, This Too Shall Pass and Grief Works. During the last thirty years, she has worked first for the NHS and then in private practice. She is Founder Patron of Child Bereavement UK and a Vice President of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. She lives in Somerset with her husband, and has four children and nine grandchildren.

Engaging, informative and very well written -- Philippa Perry Full of nuggets of wisdom -- Jackie Annesley * Sunday Times * Engrossing, generous . . . excellent advice worth a whole shelf of textbooks -- Bel Mooney * Daily Mail * I am a huge admirer of Julia's work -- Elizabeth Day A profoundly important and compassionate book for understanding family relationships much better. Highly recommended -- Liz Earle