# Every Family Has a Story How We Inherit Love and Loss

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**'I am a huge admirer of Julia's work'** Elizabeth Day  
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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.  
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**'Julia Samuel writes with unfailing grace, tenderness and consummate storytelling. Everyone who reads this will learn something profound'** Rachel Clarke

**'Julia Samuel offers vivid insights in a book for all families... I was utterly drawn in'** Kathryn Mannix

**'Fascinating... Julia Samuel's compassionate work never fails to inform, comfort and make me think'** Pandora Sykes

**'A wise and important book, full of insight into the pain and beauty at the heart of family life... I loved it'** Clover Stroud

**'Julia Samuel is so wise and compassionate. I love every word she writes'** Cathy Rentzenbrink

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