The structure of the book feels more like a connection of 60-90 minute essays that built on each other. So this is written from a lay person's perspective who is great with research and features expert opinions. The book is written in retrospective after having significant healing work done.Stephanie Foos was a reporter on podcasts like Snap Judmgent or This American Life. It is a memoir about Stephanie Foo getting a CPTSD diagnosis and the next years of her trying to heal. If I would have to choose just one book on trauma, this might be it: very open, honest, human, realistic and easy to listen to. It came out in February '22.įrom all the books on trauma I've read, this one was my favorite. (Mar.This is a review of Stephanie Foo's book " What my bones know". requiring new bursts of courage.” What takes this brilliant work from a personal story to a cultural touch point is the way Foo situates her experiences into a larger conversation about intergenerational trauma, immigration, and the mind-body connection (“I was casting abuse and bad parenting as a central theme across my community-was this perpetuating a negative, unhealthy stereotype?”). “C-PTSD is a wily shape-shifter,” she writes. Foo also writes of the therapeutic work she undertook in her adulthood to heal and the agency she’s gained from it. To find her “redemption arc” and reckon with her trauma, Foo felt she needed “to tease apart the careful life I have crafted for myself, the one that is threatening to unravel at any minute.” She exceeds her intention by delivering a heartrending portrayal of the physical abuse she suffered as a child at the hands of her parents, immigrants from Malaysia (“If you are beaten for hundreds of mistakes, then every mistake becomes dangerous. Foo, radio journalist and former producer of This American Life, recounts her astounding story of living with complex PTSD (C-PTSD), a diagnosis that describes the psychological pain experienced by those who’ve suffered recurring traumas.
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