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

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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