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What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma by Stephanie Foo
37 reviews
alexismc01's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Mental illness, Child abuse, and Suicidal thoughts
Moderate: Suicide
bi_n_large's review
5.0
Graphic: Abandonment, Mental illness, Child abuse, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Physical abuse, Domestic abuse, Suicide, Emotional abuse, and Panic attacks/disorders
Moderate: Racism, Eating disorder, Toxic friendship, and War
Minor: Rape and Death
katsmedialibrary's review against another edition
3.75
Graphic: Child abuse, Suicide, and Mental illness
Minor: Self harm
faduma's review
5.0
Graphic: Child abuse, Violence, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Self harm, Gaslighting, Alcoholism, Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, and Abandonment
tiffsbookjourney's review
5.0
But above all, there were so many insightful messages about what trauma is, what healing looks like, how it can affect a person and what it can do for a human. This memoir is also unique, due to its recent release, early this year, it also touches on her experiences during the pandemic!!
I definitely recommend this book to anyone who may be curious! I loved it.
Graphic: Gaslighting, Grief, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Abandonment, Suicide, Violence, Suicide attempt, Panic attacks/disorders, Child abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, and Toxic relationship
koyalites's review against another edition
Know My Bones is such a raw and detailed insight on the author’s experience and journey with complex PTSD and the abuse she experienced growing up. i highly recommend the audiobook as it had some recordings from her therapy sessions that were fascinating to listen to, especially due to how the two of them try to close read their conversations and analyse her immediate reactions and thoughts. so many revelations and self reflection came with this reading/listening experience. it helped that her writing is just beautiful, it captured so much of her pain and grief and joy and fear, it validated all of it, it made me feel those things with her.
stephanie foo, being a woman of color also brings about a new set of challenges when trying to navigate not just the world in its fucked state but also her trauma. there were sections that delve into how regular interactions with racism can literally change the shape of your brain cause you’re in a constant state of danger, it talks about inter generational trauma not just on a personal level but scientifically, how it can have a impact on the formation of your children’s brains, etc.
there’s also an interesting deeper dive on asian families and mental health, clearly a lot of research was put into this book to provide a nuanced take on this.
overall, this book was not only educational, it was also incredibly hopeful and relatable. so many of her struggles & fears when approaching relationships & life in general mirrored some of mine as well, and just listening to her journey (and she doesn’t shy away from anything), it just idk it made me sob a lot. highly, highly recommend, i really needed this one.
”love begets love.”
tw: child abuse, suicide/suicide attempt, racism
Graphic: Child abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Xenophobia, and Suicidal thoughts
Moderate: Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Sexism, Racial slurs, Gaslighting, Racism, and Suicide attempt
cechang0507's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Physical abuse, Abandonment, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Mental illness, Suicide, and Violence