Not Your Typical Relationship Guide
PUBLISHED NOVEMBER 2026
A guide that will apply to all of us, but particularly for people with a complicated and beautiful brain.
Be a partner. Be a safe place.
Build a life that works for both of you.
This book began with a young person’s wish and request: to find the words to help her partner understand her everyday realities. She wanted him to be her rock without becoming her parent—to offer understanding when problem-solving felt impossible under pressure, and to see her as a whole person, never just a diagnosis.
In Not Your Typical Relationship Guide, social worker and psychotherapist Angela Geddes explores how differences in remembering, communicating, planning, staying focused, making sense of information and managing emotions can shape life together. With compassionate explanations and practical strategies, she helps readers take misunderstandings less personally, respond with curiosity, and offer support that preserves dignity and autonomy.
Both partners’ needs matter. Through shared understanding, clear boundaries and acceptance, we can create more room for safety, connection, laughter and love.
Relationships are complicated—and beautiful. This guide is for all of us, especially those who have, or love someone with, a complicated and beautiful brain.
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A guide that will apply to all of us, but particularly for people with a complicated and beautiful brain.
Price: $40.00 CDN
Available for purchase through Amazon.
230 Pages | Published November 2026
What People Are Saying
“Angela's new book is a great guide to help develop healthy interactions and practice more mutually respectful communication for relationships with people with ‘complicated and beautiful brains’. As well, the book helps to deepen the understanding of underlying symptoms and their implication for the individual with FASD (and people with other CNDs) and their partner.”
— Tanya Northcott, Certified FASD Educator
"Each person’s brain is different which results in an individual pattern of strengths and weaknesses. All brains are beautifully complicated but all CND’s lead to significantly increased variability in behaviour which is so often misinterpreted by others. Ms. Geddes has once again produced an excellent uncomplicated review of the most common brain based challenges and again provided clear, practical strategies to empower not only understanding but also guidance to build stronger relationships with people of all ages. I recommend this book (as well as her other books in this series) to all those living, interacting and working with people of all ages who have or are suspected to have beautiful and complicated brains!"