A temporary response until somebody posts who knows what they are talking about
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Edit: that doesn't refer to xchic: he/she got in before me.
Yes, you
always need the reflexive pronoun, otherwise the verb could be transitive, so you and your family lift something else up in the morning, not yourselves. (Just to confuse things, the Spanish talk of pronominal verbs more than reflexive ones)
levantar al abuelo de la silla:
to get grandpa out of his chair 