Skip to content
Description
Author: Stephanie Foo | Age: Adult | English
'A striking memoir...A must-read for anyone healing from complex trauma' Jeanette McCurdy, bestselling author of I'm Glad My Mom Died
Every cell in my body is filled with the code of generations of trauma, of death, of birth, of migration, of history that I cannot understand. . . . I want to have words for what my bones know.
By the age of 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 in 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.
Every cell in my body is filled with the code of generations of trauma, of death, of birth, of migration, of history that I cannot understand. . . . I want to have words for what my bones know.
By the age of 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 in 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.
熱銷中 Top Trending
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow : A novel (Gabrielle Zevin)
Sale priceFrom HK$79.00
Regular priceHK$120.00
In stock
Pokémon - Super Extra Deluxe Essential Handbook (Pokemon)(Nintendo)
Sale priceHK$109.00
Regular priceHK$153.00
In stock
Minecraft Bite Size Builds (3 Books) (Mojang AB)
Sale priceHK$219.00
Regular priceHK$390.00
In stock
Very Hungry Caterpillar, The (Board book) (Eric Carle)
Sale priceHK$72.00
Regular priceHK$99.00
In stock
The Chronicles of Narnia + Trivia Book Box Set (8 Books) (Paperback)
Sale priceHK$339.00
Regular priceHK$504.00
In stock
Sherlock Holmes The Complete Novels and Stories #02 (Conan Doyle)
Sale priceHK$99.00
Regular priceHK$135.00
In stock
Unstoppable Us, Volume 1: How Humans Took Over the World
Sale priceFrom HK$98.00
Regular priceHK$150.00
In stock
Colour Monster, The - A Story about Emotions (Color Monster)
Sale priceHK$65.00
Regular priceHK$104.00
In stock
Heroes of Olympus (正版) Collection (5 Books) (10th Anniversary Edition) (Rick Riordan)
Sale priceHK$329.00
Regular priceHK$450.00
In stock
National Geographic Kids Almanac 2025 (International Edition)
Sale priceHK$105.00
Regular priceHK$160.00
In stock
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Do-It-Yourself Book (Jeff Kinney)
Sale priceHK$53.00
Regular priceHK$85.00
In stock
Percy Jackson and the Olympians #1 The Lightning Thief (Graphic Novel) (Rick Riordan)
Sale priceFrom HK$95.00
Regular priceHK$104.00
In stock
