Foo broadens the scope of her book to include research and interviews with Asian American peers who experienced similar intergenerational trauma and abuse. In this memoir, she discusses being diagnosed in 2018 with complex post-traumatic stress disorder (C-PTSD), which tends to affect people who have experienced repeated trauma over a period of years. Forced to make her way to adulthood on her own, Foo tried various kinds of therapy, including EMDR, before meeting a doctor who helped her learn new ways to communicate and process emotions. Her parents divorced in her early teens and subsequently abandoned her. Foo writes that her mother was physically, verbally, and emotionally abusive Foo was once beaten to the point where neighbors knocked on the front door of the family home, concerned at hearing her cries. She is the daughter of Malaysian immigrants, both of whom endured harrowing experiences before arriving on U.S. book review: what my bones know, by stephanie foo Rader Ward Foundation When you spend hours and hours over a period of years listening to someones voice on a podcast, especially if its a podcast where people tell true stories about their experiences, you begin to feel very familiar with them. Foo, a journalist and radio producer who grew up in San Jose, CA, writes her first book, a memoir about trauma, abuse, and therapy.
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