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

dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

This is a HEAVY book about complex PTSD. Stephanie Foo worked at This American Life for a time and shared several of these stories on the air, so those were familiar to me. Her trauma growing up was severe, beatings, verbal abuse, and abandonment as a teen.

She spends time talking about her trauma responses, therapy modalities, and the work she did to heal her wounded heart. The ending is beautiful as she ultimately discovers that love begets love. She learns to give love lavishly and interpret her own emotional responses.

I liked it, but it took time to get through since the subject matter was dark and at times heady.