Reviews tagging 'Infertility'

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

4 reviews

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

andreyuhh's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

Really great memoir about abuse and how it greatly affects your life. I cried a lot but enjoyed it immensely. It felt like a little part of me was healed.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infertility, Mental illness, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Dysphoria, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Suicidal thoughts, Abandonment, Pandemic/Epidemic, Gaslighting, and Panic attacks/disorders

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

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

Minor: Body shaming, War, Incest, and Infertility

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

stonams's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Mental illness, Child abuse, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Drug use, Racism, Abandonment, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Alcoholism, Infertility, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, and War