Name: What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma - Stephanie Foo
Brand: Stephanie Foo
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nA 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 nAchingly exquisite . . . providing real hope for those who long to heal.--Lori Gottlieb, New York Times bestselling author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone n nONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Cosmopolitan, NPR, Mashable, She Reads, Publishers Weekly n nBy 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. n nBoth 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. n nIn 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 i