{"product_id":"what-my-bones-know-a-memoir-of-healing-from-complex-trauma-9781911630944","title":"What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma","description":"\u003cp\u003eEvery 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 Foos parents abandoned her when she was a teenager  after years of physical and verbal abuse and neglect. She thought shed 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 dont 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 womans ability to reclaim agency from her trauma.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45655808770101,"sku":"ByrdShop_1911630946","price":246.79,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781911630944.jpg?v=1781941001","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/what-my-bones-know-a-memoir-of-healing-from-complex-trauma-9781911630944","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}