{"product_id":"every-family-has-a-story-isbn-9780385684392","title":"Every Family Has a Story","description":"\u003cb\u003eWhy do some families thrive in adversity while others fragment? How can families weather difficult transitions together? Why do our families so often exasperate us? And how can even small changes greatly improve our relationships?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eEvery Family Has a Story\u003c\/i\u003e, bestselling psychotherapist Julia Samuel turns from her acclaimed work with individuals to draw on her sessions with a wide variety of families, across multiple generations. Through eight beautifully told and insightful case studies, she analyzes 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, including the often under-appreciated impact of grandparents and siblings, and incorporating the latest academic research, she offers 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. This is a moving and reassuring meditation that, amid trauma and hardship, tells unforgettable stories of forgiveness, hope and love.\u003cb\u003eAN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"What makes Samuel outstandingly sympathetic as a therapist and as a writer is her unusual willingness to admit to faultiness and not to be remote or over-authoritative. She is a virtuoso listener, but wears her heart on her sleeve and will occasionally admit to feeling unequal to what she is witnessing. Her lovely—and in no way insensitive—character leavens the narratives assembled here. . . . The Samuel magic continues to obtain.\" \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In   the eight case studies we are gently guided . . . towards a deeper   understanding of the importance of honesty, self-examination and   communication within all relationships. . . . [An] engrossing book [with]   extraordinary personal honesty.\" \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eDaily Mail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[Samuel] excels at distilling shrewd insights from her subjects. . . . [Her] candor offers an unusually intimate look at how therapists work. . . . Covering a broad array of family structures and dilemmas, this quietly dazzling consideration of what it means to be a family is sure to resonate.\" \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Publishers Weekly\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An   essential, clever and kind book that reminds us that we can never hope to   understand ourselves without deeply understanding our families. A testament   to the ongoing relevance of psychotherapy and to Julia Samuel's preeminent   skill as an author and therapist.\" \u003cb\u003e—Alain de Boton\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Julia Samuel is so wise and compassionate. I love every   word she writes and long for every reader—every person—to experience her   unique and generous way of being in the world.\" \u003cb\u003e—Cathy Rentzenbrink \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Julia Samuel brings her characteristic warmth, compassion   and wisdom to the vital matter of how families function. She writes with   unfailing grace, tenderness and consummate story-telling. Everyone who reads   this will learn something profound—about themselves, their origins and the   people they love most dearly.\" \u003cb\u003e—Dr. Rachel Clarke\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Julia Samuel offers us vivid insights into the way family   structure, stories and experience exert their influence across generations.   Here is a book for all families, where we can appreciate our own family's   strengths and take courage to explore our hurts. The issues are so vibrantly   explored that I was utterly drawn in. This is a book about love: a superpower   when we use it wisely and well.\" \u003cb\u003e—Kathryn Mannix\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Fascinating. . . . Julia Samuel's compassionate work never   fails to inform, comfort and make me think.\" \u003cb\u003e—Pandora Sykes\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This book is wonderful, wise and empathetic, so useful but   also so beautifully written. . . . What I found really interesting is the   sense of reciprocity, how Julia is engaged in the process of working with   clients, changed by them and their stories, as we are by reading about them.   Every family should have one, to consult in times of trouble.\"   \u003cb\u003e—Gavanndra Hodge\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The families Julia Samuel works with in her moving and   fiercely honest book are just like all of us: flawed, paradoxical, difficult   and somehow loveable. Her writing is honest, heartfelt and wise. . . . Over   and over she extracts the extraordinary from people who didn't know they had   it in them. I am grateful to have found her writing.\" \u003cb\u003e—Raffaella Barker\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eJULIA SAMUEL, MBE, is a leading British psychotherapist and the author of the \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestsellers \u003ci\u003eGrief Works \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThis Too Shall Pass\u003c\/i\u003e. During the last thirty years, she has worked in both public health service and private practice, and she is founder patron of Child Bereavement UK and a vice president of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. She is frequently cited across the national media, and has presented the podcasts \u003ci\u003eGrief Works\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eA Living Loss\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Doubleday Canada","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304238502117,"sku":"NP9780385684392","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780385684392.jpg?v=1767726433","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/every-family-has-a-story-isbn-9780385684392","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}