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What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing by Oprah Winfrey

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alexismc01's review against another edition

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challenging hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.5

lstegman723's review against another edition

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challenging inspiring medium-paced

4.0

aliciasokol's review against another edition

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5.0

The audiobook was engrossing and deeply engaging, more like an ongoing conversation between the two authors (both narrated). There are also select clips from interviews from Oprah’s shows. This book made me think and feel in all the ways. It’s less clinical and more conversational than The Body Keeps the Score. It should be required for any one who deals with humans or is a human (yes, absolutely everyone). Why? We all need other people. The relationships in our lives define the quality of our lives. How we relate to other people is impacted by what happened to them and what happened to us. Something has happened to all of us at some point. We have all experienced varying degrees of trauma at points in our lives. It’s part of being human. Some happens early in life, some later. Some very severe and damaging. The toughest cases were hard to hear about. But it’s not just about PTSD or child abuse or neglect. It’s also about feeling safe and finding belonging. It can be as a result of feeling marginalized. And it’s never too late to find healing through (even small) therapeutic moments, community and being brave enough to answer - and examine - the question “what happened to you?”

vickie0326's review against another edition

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hopeful informative sad slow-paced

4.25

A good beginner’s guide to trauma, its impact on individuals and those around them, and how it affects various aspects of their lives. Audiobook was narrated by Oprah and Dr. Perry and was conversational, full of stories and anecdotes from Oprah’s life and Dr. Perry’s clinical work, and definitely geared for the lay audience.

anna_scheetz's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional inspiring medium-paced

5.0

pictusfish's review against another edition

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5.0

I'm surprised by how enjoyable this book was. I always lumped talk show hosts in with used car salesmen, but this book taught me a lot in a very digestible way. The conversational style wasn't too bad, either.