Reviews tagging 'Alcohol'

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

21 reviews

vaerlynn's review

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Cursing, Drug use, Eating disorder, Blood, and Alcohol

lilivdw's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Abandonment

Minor: Suicide and Alcohol

smilagros's review

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring tense medium-paced

I don’t rate memoirs because it is someone’s life and it feels wrong to rate someone’s life. I listened to it on audio and I wish I had the physical copy to annotate at the same time. She was brutally honest about her childhood abuse and about her relationships. Listening to her therapy sessions was extremely insightful. Hearing the connection between physical health and mental health made me want to scream from the rooftops because I have been saying this for years. It’s really nice to hear/read that the shift is happening. I listened to this as a person looking for answers to help with her health. But as social worker, I felt that these are the kind of books I wish we would read in school. Actual testimonies of people’s lives. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child abuse, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Violence, Medical content, Grief, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, and Alcohol

faithaforman's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

Powerful and moving, the author's delving into her own trauma responses were eye-opening. Her exploration of self and path to self-love and self-acceptance gave me hope.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Violence, Grief, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, and Abandonment

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Bullying, Death, Drug use, Eating disorder, Suicidal thoughts, Alcohol, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Cancer, Cursing, Racism, Police brutality, and Classism

jenmaysiereads's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Gaslighting, Abandonment, and Alcohol

Minor: Pandemic/Epidemic

kscallahan's review against another edition

dark emotional funny informative medium-paced

5.0

Recommended to me by a first gen Asian American woman in my life who reminds me a lot of the author in her energy and passion and talent for stringing together a masterfully constructed piece of writing. Everything about this felt carefully considered and well executed. Foo is so funny and so brutally honest and so good at what she does. She balances her own personal narrative with sharing her careful and detailed research and leaves the reader with a feeling of hope. I listened to this at work and cried through the entier wedding at the end. Good thing I was alone that day. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Mental illness, Racism, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Alcohol

celine5's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, and Abandonment

Minor: Suicidal thoughts and Alcohol

mangomerle's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Bullying, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Classism

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, and Vomit

jshapiro12's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Car accident, Gaslighting, Abandonment, and Alcohol

samcsmith's review

hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Suicide attempt, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic