katie0528's review

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challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.75

A conversation between Oprah and pyschiatrist Bruce Perry explores childhood trauma and how it follows though life. It encourages reflection and introspection of trauma you or others have faced and ways regulation and community can help. 

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theverycraftyvegan's review against another edition

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informative medium-paced

5.0

I wish I could have read this book 11 years ago when I was a first time mom struggling with PPD and PTSD after a traumatic birth. 

This book was chock full of information about how our brains work and how crucial the first few months of our lives are. If this book had been around in 2012 it would have helped me better understand what my baby needed from me and how I needed help to give it to them. 

Even if you don’t think you’ve experienced anything traumatic in your life, you should still read this book. 

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fkshg8465's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

This is a book that I’ll be holding onto and rereading many times throughout my life. It explains so much about me to me. Hopefully, I can use this trauma wisdom, as it’s called in the book, to be more helpful to those in my world and to be more connected and to create more connectedness. Oprah is Oprah for good reason!

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luke_33's review against another edition

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dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad slow-paced

4.0


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hoguelikewoah's review

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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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dianaschmidty's review

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challenging dark emotional informative sad fast-paced

5.0


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olivemason's review

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emotional informative inspiring fast-paced

5.0


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litliz's review

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challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

4.5


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peachani's review against another edition

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informative reflective slow-paced

4.0


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kennedybullen's review against another edition

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challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0


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