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

emotional hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced

5.0

Trauma is mourning the fact that, as an adult, you have to parent yourself. You have to stand in your kitchen, starving, near tears, next to a burnt chicken, and you can’t call your mom to tell her about it, to listen to her tell you that it’s okay, to ask if you can come over for some of her cooking. Instead, you have to pull up your bootstraps and solve the painful puzzle of your life by yourself. What other choice do you have? Nobody else is going to solve it for you.

This book left me in TEARS. Multiple times.