Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

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

30 reviews

caitlino98's review against another edition

challenging dark informative inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, and Child abuse

cghegan's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective slow-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

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

eliya's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

heartbreakingly raw and hard to listen to at points. stephanie foo shares some truly horrifying memories.

fascinating approaches to CPTSD

• some approaches i’m familiar with, some i’ve only day-dreamed about haha. 
• would love to approach conversation in a Nathan Fielder’s “the rehearsal” way lol. gave me some sold things to bring to my therapist when i have one. made me reconsider the way i interact in conversations. 

very informative, kept coming back to the body and physiological responses to trauma, as the title suggests.

• lots of information regarding generational trauma and how it effects people of color. 
• i was particularly intrigued by the
  rat study about generational trauma

cringy / cheesy at some points, as is the nature with healing books. some eyeroll moments where the author acknowledges very briefly but very obviously obligatorily her class privileges to be able to access this type of care. ultimately helpful for me as a reader, though, to see what type of healing is possible (?) even though it definitely feels out of reach rn. 

truly moving and hopeful.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment and Child abuse

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Emotional abuse, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Suicide attempt, Xenophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, and Grief

Minor: Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, War, Body shaming, Sexism, Pandemic/Epidemic, Fatphobia, and Medical trauma

nat_e_13's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

Life changing

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Content Warnings

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

layley's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Eating disorder, Injury/Injury detail, Child abuse, Infertility, and Gaslighting

rubellaface's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

Quick caveat: I do not have C-PTSD. I am a second-generation Filipino American who grew up to have high-functioning anxiety & depression due to tiger parenting, growing up Asian American, and being forced to become an alpha daughter. 

Reading this book triggered me and had me questioning my reality and how I’ve often laughed-off or disassociated my personal trauma in order to succeed in life (and therefore be perceived as being okay). Her coping mechanisms were/are my coping mechanisms, and funnily enough, I didn’t even realize they were coping mechanisms. So as Stephanie went down the rabbit hole of finding out what her bones know and how to fix it, I was right beside her– transfixed and checking my own bones for fissures and trauma from similar situations in my family life. 

Cause Stephanie Foo does not pull her punches when recounting her childhood. Every abusive situation is described in a way that is almost clinical and ripe for analyzing. Her book is basically an emotional autopsy of her trauma, and the way she uses her journalism background to thoroughly vet every single c-ptsd-related therapy is both thrilling and heartbreaking. As a reader, you want Stephanie to find a therapy that works for her and that can “cure” her, and I just wanted to hug her each time a practice or therapist failed her. 

Needless to say, I was emotionally invested in Stephanie’s book. I cried towards the end as she found stable ground and the tools to fight for her peace of mind. And I cried again at the similarities in how we approached our weddings and wedding guests. Her healing journey echoed and reaffirmed my own, and I will recommend this book to all my AAPI friends who I know have gone through sh*t and are trying their best.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Drug use, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Addiction, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Physical abuse, Child abuse, Cursing, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, and Violence

Moderate: Ableism, Pandemic/Epidemic, Racism, Sexual assault, Colonisation, Misogyny, Sexism, and Classism

Very triggering. Sometimes in a good way.

monkymarzipan's review against another edition

I should've known better lol. The first bit was HEAVY and listening to the audiobook meant I couldn't fast forward through the dark parts. Maybe I'll try again when I'm not in A Bad Place.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

ruthmartinartist's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Injury/Injury detail, Genocide, Grief, Hate crime, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Addiction, Racial slurs, Violence, Pandemic/Epidemic, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Abandonment, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Chronic illness, Gaslighting, Sexual assault, Torture, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Vomit, and Body shaming

rhubarbpi3's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

This book was so well written. I feel like it’s hard to find people who are curious about themselves and the world in the same way as Foo, and I really appreciated her authorial voice and the content which she wrote about. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Abandonment, Child abuse, Sexism, Pandemic/Epidemic, Physical abuse, Mental illness, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

samcsmith's review against another edition

hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

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