Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

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

5 reviews

jburkespraker's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

Not sure what to add as a trigger warning because there a so many. I loved the short chapters and the way she pulls the audio recordings in at the end. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Genocide, Violence, Suicide, Abandonment, Car accident, Physical abuse, Self harm, Grief, Racism, Child abuse, Death, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, Domestic abuse, and Death of parent

decie's review against another edition

challenging reflective sad

3.0

so.......mixed feelings. there were brief snippets of saneism throughout the book, which I didn't love. for example - the outdated (incorrect and stigmatizing) way the author explained DID was not great. and then later in the book she literally said cptsd is the only diagnosis that is caused by other people/isn't your fault, unlike [list of highly stigmatized conditions that are literally also caused by trauma]. 

I did like a lot of things she did in this book. rly struggling to rate it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Child abuse, Ableism, Mental illness, Physical abuse, and Drug use

Moderate: Racism, Death of parent, and Suicidal thoughts

hinatakaname's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Violence, Child abuse, Addiction, and Eating disorder

Moderate: Death of parent

maxthefish's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

I cannot word my love for this book in a proper way. It made me cry and it was intense but I couldn’t stop reading. Even working 10 hour shifts and being in school at the same time I finished it in four days. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Death, Suicide, Death of parent, Suicide attempt, Mental illness, Child death, and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Sexual assault, Racism, Sexual violence, and Sexual harassment

megano_oregano's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Child abuse, Death of parent, Suicide, and Suicide attempt