Reviews tagging 'Physical abuse'

What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma by Stephanie Foo

318 reviews

andalucia's review

emotional hopeful informative fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Grief, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts

iloponis's review against another edition

5.0

i need to buy a physical copy of this book so that i can keep it with me at all times and write in the margins and highlight the passages and just love on it. this book saw me and ripped me open 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, and Physical abuse

cgreenstein's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced

4.75

This was incredibly powerful and hopeful and honest. I listened to it as an audiobook, which meant I got to hear excerpts from the actual therapy session recordings in the final third of the book, and I thought that was something that really enhanced the book-- you could hear her old self and contrast that with the current self who is now writing about the old self. At any rate, this book is evidence that the author is incredibly strong and incredibly compassionate, and I can see why the buzz around this book was so fervent. It's deserved.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Suicide attempt, Gaslighting, and Abandonment

Moderate: Pandemic/Epidemic

dakotious's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse

cghegan's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective slow-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

pipercurda's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective tense slow-paced

4.25

one of those pieces of media where you’re eternally screaming “get out of there” to the narrator but she just. won’t. and thus her story begins. an incredibly raw and honest look at complex trauma and the things that cause/exacerbate/help/heal it. i found it more difficult to get through than most this length, but i think that mostly had to do with the subject matter and finding it hard to sit down and read about abuse for more than thirty minutes straight. highly recommend to anyone in a space where they are able to digest this type of content. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Abandonment

bourbon_bookworm's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Mental illness and Panic attacks/disorders

notbrhymes's review against another edition

emotional hopeful sad

5.0

I didn’t love the therapy portions of this book but I found this book so valuable and it made me cry multiple times so I guess I’m giving it 5 stars anyways. I’m just so happy that the author has made it to this point, while also being deeply sad that she had to deal with all she did in her life. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, and Abandonment

nat_e_13's review

dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

Life changing

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Chronic illness, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racism, Self harm, Violence, Car accident, Gaslighting, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

hades_hotline's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad medium-paced

this book broke me apart and pieced me back together. it is so raw and so full of anguish and yet at the same time it’s hopeful in the most beautiful way.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Violence, and Abandonment

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Self harm and War