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

dark emotional sad medium-paced

4.0

This is a beautiful memoir about the author’s healing journey after an abusive childhood and her diagnosis of C-PTSD. The first part is hard to read, as it details the extensive physical and emotional child abuse that Foo endured, but most of the book focuses on the years directly before and after receiving her diagnosis of C-PTSD, and how various experiences and therapies and relationships contributed to her recovery. The author reads the memoir herself and I was engrossed the whole time, finishing in just a couple of days, though I particularly enjoyed the last quarter of the book. the chapter on Joey’s family and marriage proposal made me cry on the shuttle bus and I really loved the recorded sessions with her final therapist. It’s a difficult read but a good one, with a lot of great advice and perspective not only for survivors of C-PTSD, but for all of us. 
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