With practical somatic exercises, reflection prompts and a relational toolkitalso includes a glossary of polyamory, non-monogamy, and alternative relationship terms.

This book is for polyamorists who want to practice their non-monogamy with more feminism, more queerness, and more community building. Its for monogamists who dont want to do relationships on autopilot. Its for everyone who dearly believes a better way to love and live exists. Its for change makers who aspire to re-wild the ways we love.

An empowering guide to imagining (and living) better relationships,Radical Relatingpushes 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 usyour 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 well die alone.

In four sections, Cassidy explains thewhy,what,how, andwhereof theRadical Relatingmodel. They:

• Lay out clear-eyed analysis about why monogamy isnt workingand explain the harms of unquestioned internalized mono-normativity
• Offer Reflective Journaling prompts, Somatic Pauses, and practical wisdom for assembling your Relational Toolkit
• Explain the trauma-informed pillars of Radical Relating: Orientation, Resilience, Resolution, and Engagement
• Help you reorient to a new mapfor relating thats queer, anarchist, and somatically integrated
• Help you build skillstounderstand and navigate your relationship landscape
• Explore the intersections of monogamy, colonialism, patriarchy, and capitalismand illuminate how monogamous relationship structures emerged with one goal in mind: to consolidate capital

Most books on non-monogamy focus on top-level logistics and play into beliefs that can inadvertently replicate oppressive structures. Radical Relating is different: it speaks to readers who want not only to open up their relationships or expand their sexual experiences, but claim a new and liberating ways to relate to each other, fulfill our authentic needs, and build true communities of care beyond monogamy.

Mel Cassidy is a queer multi-disciplinary somatic practitioner and relationship coach who works with queer and questioning people (and those who love them) seeking liberating relationship experiences, with a focus on honest and consensual non-monogamy. In addition to their coaching work, Mel is a visual and performing artist, movement teacher, semi-retired facilitator of ecstatic dance events, and a life-long student of Kashmir Shaivism. A genderqueer, second generation, third culture kid of mixed Irish, Greek, and Khorokhane Romani heritage, born in the UK, and raised in Kuwait, Mel currently lives on the traditional territories of the Komoks Nation in British Columbia, Canada.

• Publisher: North Atlantic Books (Sep 16, 2025)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 288 pages
• ISBN-13: 9798889842453
• Item Weight: .8 lbs
• Dimensions: 5.25 x 0.8 x 8 inches
• BISAC Categories: Family & Parenting, LGBTQIA+ Nonfiction, Politics, Society & Current Affairs