A review by itsheatherfox
I Choose Elena by Lucia Osborne-Crowley

5.0

This book was a challenging but super informative read. I felt deeply sickened by everything Lucia went (and still goes through) that at points I struggled to keep reading. But that is part of the point of this book - the truth is not pretty but it is necessary. I finished it and simply wanted her to feel some peace. I found it interesting - and enraging - to read about how woman’s pain is more likely to be dismissed in comparison to men’s. I found it confronting to realise just how intensely trauma can manifest in the physical body. And the story about the psychiatrist who healed his trauma minutes after it happened because he knew what the affects could be if he didn’t feel his pain immediately was fascinating! A book that will likely stay with me for a long time, one that is both devastating and hopeful.