Reviews tagging 'Medical trauma'

The Beauty in Breaking: A Memoir by Michele Harper

21 reviews

readbycarina's review

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Grief, Medical content, Rape, Chronic illness, Medical trauma, and Racism

Moderate: Drug abuse, Alcoholism, Injury/Injury detail, and Addiction

kld2128's review against another edition

informative reflective tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma

Moderate: Child abuse and Murder

blackcatkai's review

informative reflective slow-paced

3.0

CW: death (child & adult), child abuse, ableism, fatphobic & trans-exclusionary vibes (as is common when dealing with the medical/health field as a whole, apparently), sexual assault 

overall i enjoyed reading about Dr Harper & her beginning years in the medical field. mostly the last 1/3rd kind of got under my skin, but that may be a preference thing. a lot of good insight here, though the author is big into forgiveness to grow while I am a firm proponent of you don't owe anyone anything, not even forgiveness. 

you can absolutely grow & flourish without needing to forgive someone who hurt you. but that's just me and that's ok! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Medical trauma, Medical content, Child abuse, Child death, Mental illness, Chronic illness, and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Racism, Rape, Terminal illness, Violence, Sexism, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Ableism, Drug abuse, Addiction, Cancer, Chronic illness, Gun violence, Police brutality, Abortion, Fatphobia, Grief, and Drug use

becksss's review

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Racism, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Medical content, Cancer, Child death, Child abuse, Sexual assault, Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail, and Grief

poppyseedromance's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cursing, Suicide attempt, Abortion, Alcohol, Blood, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Classism, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexism, and Suicidal thoughts

emmapaigereads's review

emotional inspiring fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Rape, Drug abuse, Blood, Medical content, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Racism

drbrizzlybear's review

challenging emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, and Violence

Moderate: Addiction, Alcohol, Cancer, Gun violence, Murder, Physical abuse, Racism, and Sexual assault

ekmook's review

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Blood, Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Misogyny, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Sexual assault

Moderate: Gun violence and Murder

claudiamacpherson's review

challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

2.5

I read this for my university’s virtual book club because I am trying to branch out in the types of books that I read. I typically don’t read nonfiction or memoirs, but after loving Becoming earlier this year I thought I might like another autobiography… but this one did not do it for me. I enjoyed some of the stories, but the book overall felt very preachy and holier-than-thou. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content and Medical trauma

Moderate: Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Gun violence, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, and Violence

alexdicanio's review

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

This is a beautiful memoir filled with so much emotion, yet so much hope. The author discusses a lot of issues including; racism, sexism, misogyny, white supremacy, fragile/toxic masculinity, bigotry, sexual assault, domestic violence, and bureaucratic/administrative setbacks and inefficiencies. Not only does Harper have a gift for medicine and healing, but also writing. I felt the book had a nice flow and pace. 

I would truly love to read more from her in the future, and I hope she does continue writing. 

As this is a memoir, I am not giving it a star rating. I do highly recommend for people to read this.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Medical trauma, Death, and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Cancer, Child abuse, Terminal illness, Suicide, Sexism, Sexual assault, Racism, Physical abuse, Drug use, and Rape

Minor: Abortion and Alcoholism