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  • Published: 17 March 2022
  • ISBN: 9780241480649
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 320

Every Family Has A Story

How we inherit love and loss




The bestselling psychotherapist explores what we inherit and how we can create the families we wish for

In her bestselling follow-up to Grief Works and This Too Shall Pass, much-loved psychotherapist Julia Samuel invites us into her sessions as she explores the relationships that have the power to touch us and hurt us most: those with our family.

Through eight beautifully told case studies, covering a variety of families across multiple generations, she analyses common issues from losing a parent to children leaving home, and from separation to step-relationships. In doing so she shows how much is, in fact, inherited -- and how much can be healed when it is faced together.

Every Family Has A Story provides the tools that will help with this work of improving our relationships. Its twelve touchstones for family well-being show how to communicate effectively, set boundaries, fight productively and allow change.

This is a wise and insightful exploration of modern life that will help us create the families we wish for.

  • Published: 17 March 2022
  • ISBN: 9780241480649
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 320

About the author

Julia Samuel

Julia Samuel, MBE, is a leading British psychotherapist. 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. Her previous books are This Too Shall Pass and Grief Works, both of which were Sunday Times bestsellers. She lives in London with her husband, and has four children and six grandchildren.

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Praise for Every Family Has A Story

I am a huge admirer of Julia's work

Elizabeth Day

Engaging, informative and very well written

Philippa Perry

A profoundly important and compassionate book for understanding family relationships much better. Highly recommended

Liz Earle

Engrossing, generous . . . excellent advice worth a whole shelf of textbooks

Bel Mooney, Daily Mail

Full of nuggets of wisdom

Jackie Annesley, Sunday Times