What My Bones Know
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What My Bones Know
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Stephanie Foo
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Stephanie Foo
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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.
Every cell in my body is filled with the code of generations of trauma, of death, of birth, of migration, of history that I cannot understand.... I want to have words for what my bones know.
By age 30, 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 in 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.
©2022 Stephanie Foo (P)2022 W F HowesCritic Reviews
“Achingly exquisite…providing real hope for those who long to heal.” (Lori Gottlieb, author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone)
"A sharp, insightful and stirring memoir." (Kirkus Reviews)
"Foo's writing is shrewdly insightful. Highly recommended." (Library Journal, starred review)
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- Sophie Shields
- 24-07-2023
Thank you
Thanks for sharing your story Stephanie. I’ve been researching trauma, ptsd and cptsd for some time. Listening to your experience and learnings, about living with cptsd, has personalised it and helped me learn even more.
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- Esther
- 01-09-2023
Absolutely powerful
I’ve read so many books about trauma and CPTSD and I’ve never related, laughed and cried and felt so understood.
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- Anonymous User
- 28-11-2022
A profoundly edifying listen
A profoundly edifying listen. Insightfully ironic in a way that makes its sincerity more credible and nuanced, this personal narrative leads through a fight for self love, offering relevant understandings of CPTSD as well as intergenerational trauma, as Foo arrived at them herself, also with a profound appreciation for what magnificence and grace is formed in those who have been abandoned and annihilated and been blessed enough to have recovered love inside themselves. An honest story of hope.
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- Anonymous User
- 20-09-2022
Life-changing
Stephanie Foo writes beautifully and captures the agony and frustration of trauma recovery whilst demonstrating remarkable hope that inspires without coming across as trite.
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- Amazon Customer
- 14-02-2023
I feel seen!
This is what the world needs <3
Love it so much, as I definitely feel seen by this book. It talks about how therapy is not the answer for (but it can help as a tool), and Stephanie gives lots of personal experiences that I can relate to.
Hearing the actual recording of the later chapters definitely adds to reading the book. If you're wondering whether to get the audiobook as well, go for it!
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- Marcia Abboud
- 15-11-2023
Unforgettable Read
A heart-breaking, mind-blowing memoir that will bruise your heart and make your soul a little wiser. Peeling back the layers of Foo's childhood trauma was like reliving it with her. Besides being thoroughly researched on all matters of Complex PTSD, her story is raw and deeply personal, taping into the mind of her suffering was eye opening, riveting. I felt her journey as if it was my own. I learned a lot and resonated deeply, even though we are worlds apart culturally, intellectually and generationally. I'm carrying it now and I'm wiser for it. An unforgettable read.
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- mathew
- 16-11-2023
incredibly moving
Gripping story full of feeling and hope for all those diagnosed with CPTSD, thankyou.
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- Anonymous User
- 30-05-2024
Mind blowing
I loved the whole story. It was something I could relate to and I cried and laughed with Stephanie. It gave me a lot of information about treatments and also sign posts for my next steps I. My healing journey. I enjoy how easy it was to listen to and how down to earth and straight up the Author is.
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- Anonymous User
- 25-08-2024
Thank you for writing this book
I’m so grateful that that you have written this book. Your journalistic skills, and your perserverence have together make such a Gift of understanding for the CPTSD community.
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- Anonymous User
- 30-09-2024
Well told autobiography
Great story of pain and growth. Narrated exceptionally well by the writer, with snippets of science and fact that are helpful to understanding trauma and PTSD.
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