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A review by fretfulforrest
What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma by Stephanie Foo
challenging
emotional
informative
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
3.5
I was really looking forward to this book because I want to learn more about how C-PTSD works and how to cope with it. I only rated this book 3 stars because I skipped and skimmed through at least the first half. Many pages detailed stories of the author's childhood abuse and I did not have the capacity to read through that without taking on the feelings of pain and despair.
In the later chapters Foo shows us what it was like to finally find someone who listens. To search the world for knowledge and information and land in a stranger's office that would soon become a conduit for healing and change in her life, mind, and body.
The presented research and findings in this book were informative, but that information was not new to me. What was most valuable to me were the details of recorded therapy sessions and learning to reconnect. With other people and with ourselves. Instead of avoiding through dissociation or exclusive self-regulation. This book offers examples of how our own feelings of shame and desperate cravings for love can be transformed into healing through curiosity and exploration.
In the later chapters Foo shows us what it was like to finally find someone who listens. To search the world for knowledge and information and land in a stranger's office that would soon become a conduit for healing and change in her life, mind, and body.
The presented research and findings in this book were informative, but that information was not new to me. What was most valuable to me were the details of recorded therapy sessions and learning to reconnect. With other people and with ourselves. Instead of avoiding through dissociation or exclusive self-regulation. This book offers examples of how our own feelings of shame and desperate cravings for love can be transformed into healing through curiosity and exploration.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Child abuse, Chronic illness, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, and Medical trauma