NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • 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“Achingly exquisite . . . providing real hope for those who long to heal.”—Lori Gottlieb, New York Times bestselling author of Maybe You Should Talk to SomeoneONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, Cosmopolitan, NPR, Mashable, She Reads, Publishers WeeklyBy 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 with it.Powerful, enlightening, and hopeful, What My Bones Know is a brave narrative that reckons with the hold of the past over the present, the mind over the body—and examines one woman’s ability to reclaim agency from her trauma.
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What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma
von Stephanie Foo
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • 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“Achingly exquisite . . . providing real hope for those who long to heal.”—Lori Gottlieb, New York Times bestselling author of Maybe You Should Talk to SomeoneONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, Cosmopolitan, NPR, Mashable, She Reads, Publishers WeeklyBy 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 with it.Powerful, enlightening, and hopeful, What My Bones Know is a brave narrative that reckons with the hold of the past over the present, the mind over the body—and examines one woman’s ability to reclaim agency from her trauma.
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Rezension von MerlinI cannot stay away from gut-wrenching memoirs for very long, it seems. This book was different from other memoirs I have read recently in that it’s focus wasn’t mainly on the depiction of the many ways the author experienced trauma but ultimately on her journey of healing from those traumatic experiences. Since the author has worked as a podcast and radio show presenter, the narration of the audio book was exceptionally well done. I especially appreciated the audio clips she included of real sessions with her therapist that were recorded to further analyze their interactions. A hard-hitting, well researched and honest book about complex (and generational) trauma. 5 ⭐️
Rezension von GabrieleC-PTSD: sure. But I would have expected to read about the really heavy relationship problems. Of the problems in everyday life. Of the problems to find work, to get medical treatment at all, of the immense medical gaslighting....There the author has obviously not experienced anything, sorry, that's peanuts, that's nothing, whining on a high level. Also, the author looks at the disorder too physically for my taste. By that I don't mean that she considers the disorder as a complex psycho-physical disease, but that the triggering trauma for her over time becomes a trauma which is mainly or fully inherited. I find this approach of inherited trauma extremely interesting and support it, but do not see it with this fatalistic victim mentality. I think a trauma is not grown into the bones, a trauma is also not endometriosis or a physical malformation. If C-PTSD would be only inherited in the physical body, then there is no chance to do anything. Then I would be the trauma myself because my body is built traumatic. To me, this approach is tantamount to "getting off the hook": I wouldn't have to work on myself, the world would have to take me as I am because my bones not only know about my trauma, but consist of it, and I can't change my bones. That’s not the way, in my opinion. Yes, the author has therapy. Though its a extreme unhealthy relationship with her therapist, and I shudder at how this extremely naive, disturbed woman completely unthinkingly describes this relationship as if this man is a person who means well. Disturbing.