This month weโre reading โฆ ๐๐๐๐ฉ ๐๐ฎ ๐ฝ๐ค๐ฃ๐๐จ ๐๐ฃ๐ค๐ฌ: ๐ผ ๐๐๐ข๐ค๐๐ง ๐ค๐ ๐๐๐๐ก๐๐ฃ๐ ๐๐ง๐ค๐ข ๐พ๐ค๐ข๐ฅ๐ก๐๐ญ ๐๐ง๐๐ช๐ข๐ โฆ by Stephanie Foo. If it doesnโt catch your interest, read what does and tell us about THAT book. All books and all people are welcome, for real.
(ใฃโโกโ)ใฃ โ ๐ ๐ ๐ข ๐จ ๐ง ๐ง ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ข ๐ข ๐ โ ๐ณ๐ฟ๐ผ๐บ ๐ฆ๐๐ผ๐ฟ๐๐๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ฝ๐ต :
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.
"๐๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐บ ๐ค๐ฆ๐ญ๐ญ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ฎ๐บ ๐ฃ๐ฐ๐ฅ๐บ ๐ช๐ด ๐ง๐ช๐ญ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฅ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐จ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ด ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ณ๐ข๐ถ๐ฎ๐ข, ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ข๐ต๐ฉ, ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ฃ๐ช๐ณ๐ต๐ฉ, ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ฎ๐ช๐จ๐ณ๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ, ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ฉ๐ช๐ด๐ต๐ฐ๐ณ๐บ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ ๐ค๐ข๐ฏ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ด๐ต๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ. . . . ๐ ๐ธ๐ข๐ฏ๐ต ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฅ๐ด ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ฎ๐บ ๐ฃ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ด ๐ฌ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ธ."
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 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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