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What My Bones Know

Stephanie Foo · 2022

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Narrative Intelligence sources live outside the figurative image sequence ladder. Adaptive placement applies to image sequences, not this reading library.

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What this book knows

Complex PTSD is not a character flaw but a nervous system shaped by childhood violence — and it can, painstakingly, be rewired.

Sex: Absent
Work: Present
Learning: Present
Religion: Absent

trauma-and-survivalself-and-identitygrief

trauma-and-survival

She whipped me for not looking her in the eye, but if I looked with too much indignance, she whipped me again.
WBK-001
Having an ACE score of 6 or higher takes twenty years off your life expectancy. My score is 6. At thirty, I was halfway to the end.
WBK-014

self-and-identity

I watched myself with a strange bemusement. This is so weird. How funny! But what was I supposed to do with those feelings?
WBK-004
I wish I could feel again. Everything should have fallen apart, but it didn't. It was like watching it all through a glass.
WBK-008

grief

'Everybody also seen.' … 'How come you never say anything?' My whole history with this place — a story of huge, lavish love — was warping.
WBK-013
I am laying out my most vulnerable self in front of friends and some strangers. I have never felt more cherished. I have never felt safer.
WBK-015

Illuminates

15 published passages · book excerpt · lived experience

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