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A review by lucybbookstuff
What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma by Stephanie Foo
dark
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
fast-paced
5.0
A 5 star memoir if ever there was one!
I put this on last night, figuring it would be my going audiobook for the next while... but then I literally sat and listened it to for 4 hours straight. I was enthralled. I picked it right back up (so to speak) and finished it this morning.
As a radio journalist, she has cultivated a real talent for storytelling, and it's on full display in this book. The way she set everything up and laid it out was emotional, informative, and thoroughly gripping. Her narration was also excellent. Not to mention the strength it must have taken to explore it this deeply. I was never bored for a second and I was always emotionally invested. Several of her healing moments brought me to tears.
I have some close friends with cPTSD and I truly feel like I can understand them better after reading this. The fact that they have to struggle with this for their entire lives, especially through no fault of their own, is enraging and total bullshit. But their commitment to healing is one of the most impressive feats of strength I'll ever witness.
I put this on last night, figuring it would be my going audiobook for the next while... but then I literally sat and listened it to for 4 hours straight. I was enthralled. I picked it right back up (so to speak) and finished it this morning.
As a radio journalist, she has cultivated a real talent for storytelling, and it's on full display in this book. The way she set everything up and laid it out was emotional, informative, and thoroughly gripping. Her narration was also excellent. Not to mention the strength it must have taken to explore it this deeply. I was never bored for a second and I was always emotionally invested. Several of her healing moments brought me to tears.
I have some close friends with cPTSD and I truly feel like I can understand them better after reading this. The fact that they have to struggle with this for their entire lives, especially through no fault of their own, is enraging and total bullshit. But their commitment to healing is one of the most impressive feats of strength I'll ever witness.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse