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A review by luckyonesoph
What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma by Stephanie Foo
emotional
hopeful
informative
reflective
slow-paced
3.5
oh! well. ok then.
edit: ok i took some deep breaths and thought about it some more, and lowered my rating a little bit. i do think parts of this make for a fantastic memoir, but there are several damaging and outdated statements in here (primarily about certain modalities, professionals, and medications) that absolutely should have been edited out, or at least cautioned against, that I just can't move past. i understand that its a memoir, and that the author herself may not be able to assess her own experiences and her own work objectively, but with a topic as important and as potentially life-saving/ruining as this, an editor should have. and while my opinion is also subjective of course, i feel pretty good about it because im seeing several other reviewers with personal experiences of C-PTSD (like me) also noticing these issues. there's more to say, but i think some of the other reviewers do it better than i could rn.
sending big hugs to other c-ptsd survivors who picked up this book hoping to feel validated. take care of yourselves <3
edit: ok i took some deep breaths and thought about it some more, and lowered my rating a little bit. i do think parts of this make for a fantastic memoir, but there are several damaging and outdated statements in here (primarily about certain modalities, professionals, and medications) that absolutely should have been edited out, or at least cautioned against, that I just can't move past. i understand that its a memoir, and that the author herself may not be able to assess her own experiences and her own work objectively, but with a topic as important and as potentially life-saving/ruining as this, an editor should have. and while my opinion is also subjective of course, i feel pretty good about it because im seeing several other reviewers with personal experiences of C-PTSD (like me) also noticing these issues. there's more to say, but i think some of the other reviewers do it better than i could rn.
sending big hugs to other c-ptsd survivors who picked up this book hoping to feel validated. take care of yourselves <3