Reviews tagging 'Abandonment'

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

125 reviews

colleenmdavis's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness, Abandonment, and Grief

martieliz's review

challenging emotional hopeful sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Child abuse, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Mental illness, Abandonment, Racism, and Chronic illness

Minor: War and Suicidal thoughts

katiehearn08's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative sad tense fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Abandonment, Mental illness, Child abuse, and Physical abuse

lizclark81's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

Brilliant memoir! Foo's tone shifts from self-depricating to reflective and hopeful as she describes her experience with C-PTSD. A worthwhile read for literally everyone, even the hard parts.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Suicidal thoughts, Physical abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Emotional abuse, Child abuse, and Abandonment

kaynova's review against another edition

hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Toxic relationship, Child abuse, and Racism

Moderate: Medical content, Gaslighting, Suicidal thoughts, and Chronic illness

danaleann23's review

challenging emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Child abuse, and Adult/minor relationship

abitofapoet's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring sad

5.0

wow. I’m so grateful i have had the opportunity to read this. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Physical abuse, Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Child abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Panic attacks/disorders, and Mental illness

Moderate: Pandemic/Epidemic

yaelm's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad tense

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Abandonment, Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Violence, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Child abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, and Mental illness

huldasif's review

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

I learned a lot from this book, even with my degree in psychology and my own past trauma and recovery. It was very well written and researched, but also heavy and emotionally draining. It's divided up into five parts and I found that I needed to take good breaks between those parts, and sometimes more often too, for my own well-being, so it took me a long time to finish. I cried with the author and I laughed with the author and I got really angry too. All of the emotions! However, I really appreciated this work and it's not just an extraordinarily well written memoir, it's also something you can use for reference, because she doesn't just say something and demand that you believe her, she cites research and gives all of these sources so you can then look it up yourself. I really appreciated the effort and good, hard work that went into this book. So well done!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Physical abuse, Gaslighting, Domestic abuse, Violence, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Suicide attempt, and Grief

codyemma's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Gaslighting, Violence, Abandonment, Suicidal thoughts, Physical abuse, Mental illness, and Emotional abuse