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What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma
She had the dream job and still cried at her desk every morning. Then someone finally named it. 🦴
Who it's for
Foo writes from inside the experience many people with complex PTSD describe: outward success alongside panic, shame and a constant sense that something is wrong with you.
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What it is
Radio producer Stephanie Foo's memoir, published by Ballantine Books. By thirty she had a dream job at This American Life and a loving partner, yet she was having panic attacks and crying at her desk most mornings. After years of asking what was wrong with her, she was diagnosed with complex PTSD, rooted in years of physical and verbal abuse and neglect and in being abandoned by her parents as a teenager.
Where to find it
Hardcover, paperback, e-book and audiobook from major booksellers and libraries.
Before you start
Heads up: Memories of childhood physical abuse.
Age: Adult nonfiction
Slavery is terrible for men; but it is far more terrible for women.Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
