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What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

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

Unflinching journey through the landscape of C-PTSD.

"What My Bones Know" could resonate deeply with you if you've ever felt haunted by the intangible weight of past experiences. Stephanie Foo's transparent exploration offers not only a personal narrative on navigating complex PTSD, but also serves as a beacon of hope. It lays bare the science and the struggle, demonstrating how one can live alongside their history, rather than be overcome by it. It's an emotional odyssey that's both investigative and deeply human, illuminating the path of healing and understanding.

  • Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Memoir & Autobiography (2022)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

by Stephanie Foo
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ISBN: 9780593238127
Authors: Stephanie Foo
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Date of Publication: 2023-02-21
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Personal Development, Biographies & Memoirs
Related Topics: Personal Development, Mental Health, Psychology, Mental Health, Biography, Memoir, Biography Memoir
Goodreads rating: 4.5
(rated by 72638 readers)

Description

A searing memoir of reckoning and healing by acclaimed journalist Stephanie Foo, investigating the little-understood science behind complex PTSD and how it has shaped her life. By age thirty, Stephanie Foo was successful on paper: She had her dream job as an award-winning radio producer at This American Life and a loving boyfriend. But behind her office door, she was having panic attacks and sobbing at her desk every morning. After years of questioning what was wrong with herself, she was diagnosed with complex PTSD--a condition that occurs when trauma happens continuously, over the course of years. Both of Foo's parents abandoned her when she was a teenager, after years of physical and verbal abuse and neglect. She thought she'd moved on, but her new diagnosis illuminated the way her past continued to threaten her health, relationships, and career. She found limited resources to help her, so Foo set out to heal herself, and to map her experiences onto the scarce literature about C-PTSD. In this deeply personal and thoroughly researched account, Foo interviews scientists and psychologists and tries a variety of innovative therapies. She returns to her hometown of San Jose, California, to investigate the effects of immigrant trauma on the community, and she uncovers family secrets in the country of her birth, Malaysia, to learn how trauma can be inherited through generations. Ultimately, she discovers that you don't move on from trauma--but you can learn to move
 

Unflinching journey through the landscape of C-PTSD.

"What My Bones Know" could resonate deeply with you if you've ever felt haunted by the intangible weight of past experiences. Stephanie Foo's transparent exploration offers not only a personal narrative on navigating complex PTSD, but also serves as a beacon of hope. It lays bare the science and the struggle, demonstrating how one can live alongside their history, rather than be overcome by it. It's an emotional odyssey that's both investigative and deeply human, illuminating the path of healing and understanding.

  • Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Memoir & Autobiography (2022)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.