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What My Bones Know

A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

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By: Stephanie Foo
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A searing memoir of reckoning and healing by acclaimed journalist Stephanie Foo, investigating the little-understood science behind complex PTSD and how it has shaped her life

“Achingly exquisite . . . providing real hope for those who long to heal.”—Lori Gottlieb, New York Times bestselling author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, Cosmopolitan, NPR, Mashable, She Reads, Publishers Weekly

By age thirty, Stephanie Foo was successful on paper: She had her dream job as an award-winning radio producer at This American Life and a loving boyfriend. But behind her office door, she was having panic attacks and sobbing at her desk every morning. After years of questioning what was wrong with herself, she was diagnosed with complex PTSD—a condition that occurs when trauma happens continuously, over the course of years.

Both of Foo’s parents abandoned her when she was a teenager, after years of physical and verbal abuse and neglect. She thought she’d moved on, but her new diagnosis illuminated the way her past continued to threaten her health, relationships, and career. She found limited resources to help her, so Foo set out to heal herself, and to map her experiences onto the scarce literature about C-PTSD.

In this deeply personal and thoroughly researched account, Foo interviews scientists and psychologists and tries a variety of innovative therapies. She returns to her hometown of San Jose, California, to investigate the effects of immigrant trauma on the community, and she uncovers family secrets in the country of her birth, Malaysia, to learn how trauma can be inherited through generations. Ultimately, she discovers that you don’t move on from trauma—but you can learn to move with it.

Powerful, enlightening, and hopeful, What My Bones Know is a brave narrative that reckons with the hold of the past over the present, the mind over the body—and examines one woman’s ability to reclaim agency from her trauma. Mental Health Psychology Psychology & Mental Health
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super hard to listen to the horrible stuff the authoe went through as a child at the begining, but as she says herself : it really is worth it.
absolutely interesting all the way through. and full of hope, not in a "magical" self developpment way, just in a finely documented, sincère way.
thank you🌈

very very very good

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Warmed my heart and made me cry. This book feels like a blanket, a friend and a sister ready to give you tough love.

Painful and beautiful.

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Thank you, Stephanie, for your honesty and rawness. I devoured this audiobook, and as someone who rarely can concentrate on a book, that’s saying a lot!

Wonderful insight into CPTSD

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Highly recommend this if you’re trying to understand how to reckon with any kind of difficulties in your past or that of people around you… and also this is just a very well told story of resilience through research and understanding!

Excellent

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Loved it. Very insightful on Complex PTSD from childhood trauma and useful to understand how to recover.

Great healing story - beautiful audio performance from the author

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