Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

What Happened To You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing by Bruce D. Perry, Oprah Winfrey

63 reviews

luke_33's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Sexual assault, Mental illness, Eating disorder, Abandonment, Addiction, Child abuse, Death, Medical content, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Grief, Drug abuse, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Bullying, Self harm, Pregnancy, Medical trauma, Alcoholism, and Alcohol

nahimgood's review

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Incest, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Abandonment, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Bullying, and Colonisation

Minor: Death of parent, Deportation, Forced institutionalization, Miscarriage, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Pregnancy

hoguelikewoah's review

dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.5

This takes the reader through clinical vignettes across Dr. Perry's timeline, in addition to personal trials experienced by Oprah - who muses about experiencing her own adversity and trauma in childhood.  Compared to books like "The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog" or "The Body Keeps The Score", this read is much lighter in tone and quickly arrives to points that help add both insight into where trauma originates, how to look for it in others, and subtle notes on how to create a trauma-informed network around us all (to benefit from).  I read this one not too many weeks after completing Stephani Foo's, "What my Bones Know" and found it a welcome companion.  The audiobook is narrated by the authors, and I enjoyed this one enough that I was able to finish it in two days.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, Alcohol, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Suicide, Child abuse, and Drug abuse

cryfest's review

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Self harm, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Toxic relationship, and Violence

jaz777's review

hopeful informative reflective fast-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Child abuse, and Physical abuse

Minor: Self harm, Mass/school shootings, Grief, Suicide, Sexual violence, and War

skysbooknook's review

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, and Mental illness

Minor: Alcoholism and Self harm

alekya's review

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual violence and Child abuse

sugarwookiee's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Racism, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, and Self harm

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Abandonment, War, Colonisation, and Violence

Minor: Alcoholism and Addiction

dianaschmidty's review

challenging dark emotional informative sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Domestic abuse, Grief, Drug abuse, Medical content, Sexual assault, Alcoholism, Addiction, Blood, Child abuse, Classism, Death, Medical trauma, Violence, Emotional abuse, and Mental illness

olivemason's review

emotional informative inspiring fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual violence, Self harm, Death, Suicide, Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, Gaslighting, War, Toxic relationship, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, Sexual assault, Child abuse, and Drug abuse