Reviews tagging 'Toxic relationship'

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

50 reviews

dreamer626's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Mental illness, Abandonment, Toxic relationship, and Suicide attempt

lizzieinmt's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Mental illness, and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Body shaming, Toxic relationship, Cursing, and Suicidal thoughts

dianewhitley's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Child abuse, Suicide attempt, Sexism, Racism, and Toxic relationship

sizzlesteaks's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Mental illness, Pandemic/Epidemic, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Racism, Abandonment, Violence, and Grief

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts

probablytoolate's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Child abuse, Cursing, Drug use, Violence, Physical abuse, and Mental illness

wildsalmons_reading's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective

4.25

💣💣💣 Lots of swearing but such a great memoir. I really enjoyed it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Abandonment, Child abuse, Racism, and Toxic relationship

emilykabbott's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Abandonment, Toxic relationship, and Self harm

marta_gaspar's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Child abuse, Violence, Mental illness, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Gaslighting and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Suicidal thoughts and War

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.

kenrya's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring sad medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Violence, Eating disorder, Pandemic/Epidemic, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Gaslighting, Grief, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Abandonment, Bullying, Child abuse, and Cursing