{"title":"Mel Cassidy","description":"\u003cp\u003eMel Cassidy’s work offers insightful guidance on nurturing authentic and compassionate relationships within families. Her writing explores the challenges and joys of parenting with a fresh perspective, encouraging deeper emotional connections and personal growth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect thoughtful reflections on communication, boundaries, and empathy, making her books a valuable resource for those seeking to transform their family dynamics with honesty and kindness.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"radical-relating-by-mel-cassidy-9798889842453","title":"Radical Relating","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eRadical Relating\u003c\/em\u003e by Mel Cassidy is a provocative, trauma-informed guide to post-monogamy—how to build liberated relationships rooted in empowerment, equity, and authenticity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith practical somatic exercises, reflection prompts, and a relational toolkit, this book also includes a glossary of polyamory, non-monogamy, and alternative relationship terms.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis book is for polyamorists who wish to practice their non-monogamy with more feminism, more queerness, and more community building. It's for monogamists who don't want to do relationships on autopilot. It's for everyone who dearly believes a better way to love and live exists. It's for change-makers who aspire to re-wild the ways we love.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAn empowering guide to imagining (and living) better relationships, \u003cem\u003eRadical Relating\u003c\/em\u003e pushes back on the monogamy mandate. Author, somatic educator, and relationship coach Mel Cassidy explodes the often-unquestioned mainstream myths about the nuclear family structure: those that tell us your soulmate must be your sole mate. That sex is the only yardstick of relational success. That self-sacrifice and self-denial are necessary trade-offs for security and partnership. That we need to ride the relationship escalator all the way up, or we'll die alone.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn four sections, Cassidy explains the why, what, how, and where of the Radical Relating model. They:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLay out clear-eyed analysis about why monogamy isn’t working and explain the harms of unquestioned internalized mono-normativity.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOffer Reflective Journaling prompts, Somatic Pauses, and practical wisdom for assembling your Relational Toolkit.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eExplain the trauma-informed pillars of Radical Relating: Orientation, Resilience, Resolution, and Engagement.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHelp you reorient to a new map for relating that's queer, anarchist, and somatically integrated.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHelp you build skills to understand and navigate your relationship landscape.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eExplore the intersections of monogamy, colonialism, patriarchy, and capitalism and illuminate how monogamous relationship structures emerged with one goal in mind: to consolidate capital.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMost books on non-monogamy focus on top-level logistics and play into beliefs that can inadvertently replicate oppressive structures. \u003cem\u003eRadical Relating\u003c\/em\u003e is different: it speaks to readers who want not only to open up their relationships or expand their sexual experiences but claim new and liberating ways to relate to each other, fulfil our authentic needs, and build true communities of care beyond monogamy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48147721978092,"sku":"9798889842453","price":49.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9798889842453-radical-relating.jpg?v=1786451055"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/mel-cassidy.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}