What My Bones Know

What My Bones Know

2022 • 335 pages

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This is the best book I've read to-date on trauma - particularly complex/relational/developmental trauma.

Foo generously and eloquently interweaves her own lived experience with a fairly comprehensive summary of contemporary trauma discourse and industry consensus. This deft memoir literary nonfiction hybrid is greatly enhanced by Foo's journalistic efforts to interview professionals and researchers as well as documenting her own varied experiences with trauma therapies from EMDR, psilocybin, Internal Family Systems, and attachment-based talk therapies.

The book considers what trauma looks like in school systems, intergenerational trauma and epigenetics, microaggressions and minority stress, ACEs, trauma-related inflammatory diseases, and healing through relationship.
It really is something special and I would say essential (but highly enjoyable and accessible!) reading for anyone in the profession or with an interest in trauma (most of us?!).

July 14, 2023