5/23/2023 0 Comments What my bones know book review![]() ![]() Stephanie Foo’s life is changed forever when she learns her diagnosis of C-PTSD (complex post traumatic stress disorder), which can be described as: a learned set of responses and a disruption of important developmental tasks due to repeated trauma. What My Bones Know was easy to read, despite its sometimes harrowing first person account of physical and emotional child abuse. ![]() One thing that stood out right off the bat is that it's written from a client’s perspective, rather than the often pedantic nature of books written by therapists and researchers. What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma by Stephanie Foo, an acclaimed Malaysian-American radio journalist, had me staying up too late, squeezing in one more chapter. “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.”įor the first time in a long time, I recently finished a book that I couldn’t put down. ![]()
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