A review by misosoupcup
What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma by Stephanie Foo

challenging dark emotional funny informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

This fucking ate. I so heavily related to some of the passages on how hard it is to let people love you and how mortifying and scary it feels to attempt to let people see the good and the bad. I have never felt that I can be my one hundred true authentic self with anyone or tell them the entirety of my history with mental illness as I fear I will end up alone. This is one of the bravest memoirs I have read equally and powerfully informed by Foo's own experiences, research into C-PTSD, and plenty of interviews and transcripts of her therapy sessions. This was deeply cathartic to read as an Asian American as well.