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4.69 AVERAGE
while it isn’t exactly my story, it rhymes enough to be something i’m so grateful to have read, and grateful for it being written at all <3
I stumbled across Dr. Clayton’s Instagram content and now I don’t think it was an accident. I bought her book not long after realizing I was really connecting with her content-something about it resonated deeply with me.
Her knowledge, warmth and sense of humor expressed in this book made looking at and reflecting on some very difficult topics a little less painful and a lot less confusing. While this book is a memoir, it is most definitely a map or window for many of us as she gives language and shape to a journey I suspect so many are on.
I want to gift this text to therapists, coaches and doctors everywhere who may be well intended but misunderstanding and erroneously diagnosing people with a variety of disorders when the issue beneath it all is C-PTSD and trauma. Her story telling paints a picture that allowed me to connect sooooo many dots that I didn’t understand to be related. When I finished it, I felt such a sense of relief that I wasn’t imaging things nor was I sentenced to a life without relief from these challenges.
Priceless.
Her knowledge, warmth and sense of humor expressed in this book made looking at and reflecting on some very difficult topics a little less painful and a lot less confusing. While this book is a memoir, it is most definitely a map or window for many of us as she gives language and shape to a journey I suspect so many are on.
I want to gift this text to therapists, coaches and doctors everywhere who may be well intended but misunderstanding and erroneously diagnosing people with a variety of disorders when the issue beneath it all is C-PTSD and trauma. Her story telling paints a picture that allowed me to connect sooooo many dots that I didn’t understand to be related. When I finished it, I felt such a sense of relief that I wasn’t imaging things nor was I sentenced to a life without relief from these challenges.
Priceless.
Ingrid Clayton has constructed a masterpiece. In revealing her own humanity, she takes a risk to look at the deep pain of her life. This book reads as someone who felt she was breaking down, but really she was breaking open. This is a must read for anyone who wants to understand themselves and why they do what they do. As a mental health therapist, this book has not only resonated with me, but also with clients. I recommend it frequently to anyone I think would benefit. It can be applicable to you no matter your story or background.
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I also left this review on Amazon.
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I also left this review on Amazon.
Despite this being highly reviewed and recommended to me by my most recent therapist, I found the book wasn't helpful or enlightening for me, a fellow CPTSD & abuse survivor. I kept waiting for the revelatory content and it wasn't there.
I'm sure this book is helpful and great for many people, but it was not enlightening for me.
I'm sure this book is helpful and great for many people, but it was not enlightening for me.
My experiences weren’t the same as Ingrid’s, but she puts words to so much of my struggles as a CPTSD survivor. She tells our truth in the language it needs to be told in.
I absolutely loved the audiobook. I plan to revisit the memoir in the future with the physical book and a journal to write out associations I made with parts of my journey that I’ve tucked away.
I’m so grateful for voices and perspectives like Ingrid Clayton’s. We deserve to take up space, we deserve to be heard, and we deserve to validate ourselves.
I absolutely loved the audiobook. I plan to revisit the memoir in the future with the physical book and a journal to write out associations I made with parts of my journey that I’ve tucked away.
I’m so grateful for voices and perspectives like Ingrid Clayton’s. We deserve to take up space, we deserve to be heard, and we deserve to validate ourselves.
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
Loved this read, it really resonated as a fellow child of a narc parent and as someone with CPTSD. I love Ingrid’s YouTube channel too.
I thought the way the book was formatted was very trauma-informed. The first section is the story of her childhood traumatic events and it’s nice how when you move onto the sections about her moving away and healing you know you’ve finished reading the most potentially triggering material.
Something unique was the way she talked about telling her family about the book. That’s something I always wonder about memoirs.
I also think a memoir is a very gentle way to read and learn about these issues. As a reader who can relate Ingrid shares her journey without telling you what to do with your life.
I thought the way the book was formatted was very trauma-informed. The first section is the story of her childhood traumatic events and it’s nice how when you move onto the sections about her moving away and healing you know you’ve finished reading the most potentially triggering material.
Something unique was the way she talked about telling her family about the book. That’s something I always wonder about memoirs.
I also think a memoir is a very gentle way to read and learn about these issues. As a reader who can relate Ingrid shares her journey without telling you what to do with your life.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Incest, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Alcohol
Moderate: Addiction, Mental illness, Car accident
Minor: Car accident, Death of parent