Reviews tagging 'Abandonment'

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

216 reviews

hanlhs's review

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

best book i’ve read in a while. would recommend to anyone, whether they have c-ptsd or not! 

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Content Warnings

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

thoughtsfromtheafro's review

dark emotional reflective tense medium-paced

3.75

This was a fascinating read as it relates to CPTSD; there aren’t always many books about it out there. The narrative of the author’s experience(s) with her parents needs countless content warnings. The latter part of the book where she details her therapy modalities and audio clips are included is quite helpful for one’s own reflection and consideration in types of healing. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Physical abuse, Abandonment, Domestic abuse, Suicide attempt, and Emotional abuse

kerileilareads's review

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Child abuse and Abandonment

emlev1995's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad tense

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Emotional abuse, Abandonment, Suicidal thoughts, Panic attacks/disorders, Domestic abuse, and Child abuse

geneius's review

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

WOW. wow wow WOW. this was fucking amazing. i listened to this as an audiobook (you’ll notice a trend for me, i’ve found i tend to enjoy nonfiction more as an audio format) and i’ve honestly never read anything like it. cathartic, sad, relatable, wonderful, i am so happy the author wrote this and my best friend recommended it to me (thank you hal <3). listening to stephanie discover herself in real time, i saw so much of myself in this book it was hard to listen to at points, and i cried a lot, but stephanie’s humor and voice made it a lot easier to get through. her writing style was amazing, too, with anecdotes intermingled with facts and research, and the audio clips of her actual therapy sessions. navigating cptsd is so fucking hard, and i’m so thankful more research and more books like this are coming out to make it easier. i have nothing bad to say about this book, and i would recommend this (in audio format for SURE) to everyone, regardless of your mental health status

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Content Warnings

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

rileybq's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Racism

Minor: Homophobia

fspikener's review against another edition

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

rocio07's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Panic attacks/disorders, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Grief, Mental illness, and Child abuse

cassireads's review

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

This book is incredible and a must read for future or current mental health workers. Or honestly anyone navigating trauma and the grief that comes along with it. Stephanie contributes so much to a largely overlooked topic and I am taking lots away from this book. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse and Violence

Minor: Abandonment and Racism

cgreenstein's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced

4.75

This was incredibly powerful and hopeful and honest. I listened to it as an audiobook, which meant I got to hear excerpts from the actual therapy session recordings in the final third of the book, and I thought that was something that really enhanced the book-- you could hear her old self and contrast that with the current self who is now writing about the old self. At any rate, this book is evidence that the author is incredibly strong and incredibly compassionate, and I can see why the buzz around this book was so fervent. It's deserved.

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Pandemic/Epidemic