Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma by Stephanie Foo

293 reviews

madlyreading's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, and Abandonment

endlessmurmur's review against another edition

emotional funny informative medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Moderate: Mental illness

Minor: Self harm

rhubarbpi3's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

This book was so well written. I feel like it’s hard to find people who are curious about themselves and the world in the same way as Foo, and I really appreciated her authorial voice and the content which she wrote about. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Suicide attempt, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

winterdelight's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

5.0

heartwrenching, poignant and insightful. it's a awe-inspiring to see Stephanie's journey unfold.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Suicidal thoughts, and Abandonment

samcsmith's review against another edition

hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Suicide attempt, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

adelle's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, and Abandonment

jburkespraker's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

Not sure what to add as a trigger warning because there a so many. I loved the short chapters and the way she pulls the audio recordings in at the end. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racism, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, and Abandonment

frenchpants's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Gaslighting, and Abandonment

jayasilog's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

i cried and i cried and i cried, so grateful to the author for being able to share her story and perspective especially as a seasian woman under capitalism!!!! so good!!!! i read the body keeps the score but this was a book that i actually felt like i learned and loved bc i felt seen!!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, and Physical abuse

roctothorpe's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

I've been a fan of Stephanie Foo for years through her work on This American Life and this audiobook is probably one of the best I have listened to, especially the recorded sessions between her and her therapist.

This book changed me. I was moved to tears, not by the harrowing account of abuse that Stephanie suffered, but by her persistence to heal herself. She writes about her trauma and Asian American mental health with nuance and rawness. I cried tears of relief and joy alongside her seeing the love that she found in the later parts of the book. Through reading this, I realized so much about myself, like how I chase on-paper success to fill the void, how some of my own behaviors are dissociation, and it motivates me to examine myself more closely and with more grace. I'm amazed and inspired at how despite facing challenges, Stephanie has this determination that things can get better. Her story gave me so much hope - that it's okay to have some things you never get over, and that we are worthy of forgiveness, love, and healing.

“Here’s a theory: Maybe I had not really been broken this whole time. Maybe I had been a human—flawed and still growing but full of light nonetheless. All this time, I had received plenty of love, but I'd given it, too. Unbeknownst to me, I had been scattering goodness all around like fun-size chocolates accidentally falling out of my purse as I moved through the world. Perhaps the only real thing that was broken was the image I had of myself—punishing and unfair, narrow and hypocritical. Perhaps what was really happening was that, along with all of my flaws, I was a fucking wonder.”

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, and Physical abuse