Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

What Happened To You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing by Bruce D. Perry, Oprah Winfrey

45 reviews

caribbeangirlreading's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative slow-paced

4.0

I know many reviewers disliked the format of the book, but I really enjoyed the conversation between Dr. Perry and Oprah, especially in the audiobook. I'm not sure I had any "aha" moments, but more like validation and confirmation moments. Many complained, but the bottom line is that healing is not a one-time thing and no one book will have all the answers. I guess if I did learn one thing from this book is that healing moments don't have to come in one-hour increments in the office of a mental health professional. It comes in small steps, over a long period of time, maybe even a lifetime. But healing IS possible.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Child abuse, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Death of parent

booksthatmatter's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

The audiobook is wonderful, felt like I was in the room listening to the conversation between Oprah and Dr. Perry.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Abandonment, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, Mental illness, and Physical abuse

katie0528's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.0

A conversation between Oprah and pyschiatrist Bruce Perry explores childhood trauma and how it follows though life. It encourages reflection and introspection of trauma you or others have faced and ways regulation and community can help. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse and Mental illness

Moderate: Abandonment, Drug abuse, Toxic relationship, Alcoholism, Bullying, Emotional abuse, and Racism

Minor: Gun violence, Child death, Police brutality, Sexual assault, Colonisation, Death of parent, Forced institutionalization, and Mass/school shootings

theverycraftyvegan's review against another edition

informative medium-paced

5.0

I wish I could have read this book 11 years ago when I was a first time mom struggling with PPD and PTSD after a traumatic birth. 

This book was chock full of information about how our brains work and how crucial the first few months of our lives are. If this book had been around in 2012 it would have helped me better understand what my baby needed from me and how I needed help to give it to them. 

Even if you don’t think you’ve experienced anything traumatic in your life, you should still read this book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Chronic illness, Classism, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Racism, Domestic abuse, Self harm, Drug abuse, Abandonment, Colonisation, Death, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Violence, and Death of parent

Moderate: Gun violence, Pregnancy, Eating disorder, Murder, War, and Mass/school shootings

Minor: Slavery, Terminal illness, Dementia, Police brutality, Alcohol, and Addiction

zapavey's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective fast-paced

5.0

As a person who experienced some of what Oprah did as a child, always confused at what a person who loves you in words but not actions, it was very healing. Prepare yourself. ‘Building strength equated to power’ hit home. Home run. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Self harm, Physical abuse, and Child abuse

fkshg8465's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

This is a book that I’ll be holding onto and rereading many times throughout my life. It explains so much about me to me. Hopefully, I can use this trauma wisdom, as it’s called in the book, to be more helpful to those in my world and to be more connected and to create more connectedness. Oprah is Oprah for good reason!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Abandonment, Dementia, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Confinement, Gaslighting, Genocide, Grief, Police brutality, Bullying, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Chronic illness, Colonisation, Gun violence, Pregnancy, Kidnapping, Xenophobia, Murder, Rape, Self harm, and Terminal illness

nahimgood's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Incest, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Abandonment, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Bullying, and Colonisation

Minor: Death of parent, Deportation, Forced institutionalization, Miscarriage, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Pregnancy

hoguelikewoah's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.5

This takes the reader through clinical vignettes across Dr. Perry's timeline, in addition to personal trials experienced by Oprah - who muses about experiencing her own adversity and trauma in childhood.  Compared to books like "The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog" or "The Body Keeps The Score", this read is much lighter in tone and quickly arrives to points that help add both insight into where trauma originates, how to look for it in others, and subtle notes on how to create a trauma-informed network around us all (to benefit from).  I read this one not too many weeks after completing Stephani Foo's, "What my Bones Know" and found it a welcome companion.  The audiobook is narrated by the authors, and I enjoyed this one enough that I was able to finish it in two days.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, Alcohol, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Suicide, Child abuse, and Drug abuse

cryfest's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Self harm, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Toxic relationship, and Violence

jaz777's review against another edition

hopeful informative reflective fast-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Child abuse, and Physical abuse

Minor: Self harm, Mass/school shootings, Grief, Suicide, Sexual violence, and War