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

15 reviews

pookiee's review

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

really enlightening and pretty relatable.

started this months ago and put it down cuz it was too upsetting at that time, but i’m so glad i finished it. it’s hopeful, and the work the author put in to get better is admirable.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse

Moderate: Racism and Grief

Minor: Body shaming

wetdirtreads's review

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Child abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Racism, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, and Abandonment

Moderate: Addiction, Body shaming, Hate crime, and War

gabyisafreeelf's review

emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, and Alcohol

Minor: Body shaming and Eating disorder

careinthelibrary's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

4.0

This was really good. It struck me how candid Stephanie was being about her childhood traumas, how those experiences affected her and as a result rippled down to all of Foo's relationships and aspirations.
The descriptions of the childhood abuse was palpable, sickening, and incredibly sad. Major content warnings for these scenes, please take care while reading.

The relationships with her parents in her adulthood was also fascinating. How she manages to maintain some contact with her father despite how much he hurt her. We do what we must to find mental and physical safety but how much we can crave love from our parents even if we fear them. It's a constant balancing act and so emotionally exhausting.

I don't know very much about psychiatry and psychology so this aspect of the memoir was a bit over my head but I still followed along. She made it pretty easy for non-experts to understand the different kinds of treatment she sought. This memoir is so sad, reading about Foo encountering so many hurdles and struggling to find the light at the end of the tunnel. Knowing that she was well enough to write this memoir, reflecting on her life does little to lessen the second-hand blow of her life story to the reader. It's heavy heavy heavy.

I wish her the best in continuing to heal and understand herself before and after the trauma.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gun violence, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Medical trauma, Gaslighting, and Abandonment

Moderate: Ableism, Alcoholism, Cursing, Hate crime, Self harm, Grief, Suicide attempt, and Alcohol

Minor: Body shaming, Incest, Infertility, and War

negative self-talk, bad therapy experiences, victim blaming.

romancereader's review

challenging emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Gaslighting, and Abandonment