{"id":12818,"date":"2023-03-08T16:58:46","date_gmt":"2023-03-09T00:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.childabusesurvivor.net\/reviews\/?p=12818"},"modified":"2023-03-08T16:44:38","modified_gmt":"2023-03-09T00:44:38","slug":"reviews-elsewhere-what-my-bones-know-a-memoir-of-healing-from-complex-trauma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.childabusesurvivor.net\/reviews\/2023\/03\/08\/reviews-elsewhere-what-my-bones-know-a-memoir-of-healing-from-complex-trauma\/","title":{"rendered":"Reviews Elsewhere &#8211; What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:344,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/trauma.blog.yorku.ca\\\/2023\\\/03\\\/what-my-bones-know&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250421213823\\\/https:\\\/\\\/trauma.blog.yorku.ca\\\/2023\\\/03\\\/what-my-bones-know\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-01 06:43:09&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-15 00:18:13&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-28 03:00:24&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-03 20:33:37&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-10 02:40:46&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-21 06:59:30&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-27 10:13:24&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-17 16:28:27&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-04 15:16:47&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-08 23:39:24&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-28 05:08:46&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-31 23:19:57&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-31 23:19:57&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;m sharing <a href=\"https:\/\/trauma.blog.yorku.ca\/2023\/03\/what-my-bones-know\/\">this quick review<\/a> of the book by journalist Stephanie Foo for four reasons:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>She shares her story of child abuse and Complex PTSD, which I know is something many of my readers have also dealt with.<\/li>\n<li>She talks about the things that worked and didn&#8217;t work.<\/li>\n<li>She shares the limited resources that are available.<\/li>\n<li>So that I could grab this quote from the book that Robert shared in his review:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<blockquote><p>Eventually she came to the realization that one does not move on from trauma, but they can learn to move forward with it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<i>Here\u2019s a theory: Maybe I had not really been broken this whole time. Maybe I had been a human\u2014flawed and still growing but full of light nonetheless<\/i>\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I want all of us to ponder that line for a little bit and think about it. Consider the possibility that you, as a survivor, are not broken. Maybe you are just human. Maybe everything you see as broken is just a natural reaction to abuse in the same way every human carries things forward into their lives from their past. That&#8217;s not to say the harm isn&#8217;t real. Indeed it is very much real. It might not, however, have changed the possibility of our light still being inside us.<\/p>\n<p>You are still human and you still have value in this world.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><span class=\"syn-text\">Also on:<\/span><ul class=\"relsyn\"><li><a aria-label=\"tumblr\" class=\"u-syndication syn-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tumblr.com\/blog\/view\/t:c4gTZash4jhfc6YyjwLx0A\/711273858599190528\"> <span class=\"syndication-link-icon svg-tumblr\" style=\"display: inline-block; max-width: 1rem; margin: 2px;\" aria-hidden=\"true\" aria-label=\"Tumblr\" title=\"Tumblr\" ><svg role=\"img\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><title>Tumblr<\/title><path d=\"M14.563 24c-5.093 0-7.031-3.756-7.031-6.411V9.747H5.116V6.648c3.63-1.313 4.512-4.596 4.71-6.469C9.84.051 9.941 0 9.999 0h3.517v6.114h4.801v3.633h-4.82v7.47c.016 1.001.375 2.371 2.207 2.371h.09c.631-.02 1.486-.205 1.936-.419l1.156 3.425c-.436.636-2.4 1.374-4.156 1.404h-.178l.011.002z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/a><\/li><li><a aria-label=\"flipboard\" class=\"u-syndication syn-link\" href=\"https:\/\/flipboard.com\/@mikemac29\/child-abuse-survivors-8o2743fsz\"> <span class=\"syndication-link-icon svg-flipboard\" style=\"display: inline-block; max-width: 1rem; margin: 2px;\" aria-hidden=\"true\" aria-label=\"Flipboard\" title=\"Flipboard\" ><svg role=\"img\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><title>Flipboard<\/title><path d=\"M0 0v24h24V0H0zm19.2 9.6h-4.8v4.8H9.6v4.8H4.8V4.8h14.4v4.8z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/a><\/li><li><a aria-label=\"facebook\" class=\"u-syndication syn-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/219569363651\/posts\/634269935189641\"> <span class=\"syndication-link-icon svg-facebook\" style=\"display: inline-block; max-width: 1rem; margin: 2px;\" aria-hidden=\"true\" aria-label=\"Facebook\" title=\"Facebook\" ><svg role=\"img\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><title>Facebook<\/title><path d=\"M9.101 23.691v-7.98H6.627v-3.667h2.474v-1.58c0-4.085 1.848-5.978 5.858-5.978.401 0 .955.042 1.468.103a8.68 8.68 0 0 1 1.141.195v3.325a8.623 8.623 0 0 0-.653-.036 26.805 26.805 0 0 0-.733-.009c-.707 0-1.259.096-1.675.309a1.686 1.686 0 0 0-.679.622c-.258.42-.374.995-.374 1.752v1.297h3.919l-.386 2.103-.287 1.564h-3.246v8.245C19.396 23.238 24 18.179 24 12.044c0-6.627-5.373-12-12-12s-12 5.373-12 12c0 5.628 3.874 10.35 9.101 11.647Z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/a><\/li><li><a aria-label=\"x\" class=\"u-syndication syn-link\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CA_Survivor\/status\/1765902145076056557\"> <span class=\"syndication-link-icon svg-x\" style=\"display: inline-block; max-width: 1rem; margin: 2px;\" aria-hidden=\"true\" aria-label=\"X\" title=\"X\" ><svg role=\"img\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><title>X<\/title><path d=\"M18.901 1.153h3.68l-8.04 9.19L24 22.846h-7.406l-5.8-7.584-6.638 7.584H.474l8.6-9.83L0 1.154h7.594l5.243 6.932ZM17.61 20.644h2.039L6.486 3.24H4.298Z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div><span class=\"kt-load-after-post\"><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHere\u2019s a theory: Maybe I had not really been broken this whole time. Maybe I had been a human\u2014flawed and still growing but full of light nonetheless\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I want all of us to ponder that line for a little bit and think about it. Consider the possibility that you, as a survivor, are not broken. Maybe you are just human. Maybe everything you see as broken is just a natural reaction to abuse in the same way every human carries things forward into their lives from their past. That&#8217;s not to say the harm isn&#8217;t real. Indeed it is very much real. It might not, however, have changed the possibility of our light still being inside us.<\/p>\n<p>You are still human and you still have value in this world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3653,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[37,15,47,50,96,43,58],"class_list":["post-12818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book","tag-abuse","tag-books","tag-healing","tag-ptsd","tag-resources","tag-reviews","tag-trauma"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Reviews Elsewhere - What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.childabusesurvivor.net\/reviews\/2023\/03\/08\/reviews-elsewhere-what-my-bones-know-a-memoir-of-healing-from-complex-trauma\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Reviews Elsewhere - What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u201cHere\u2019s a theory: Maybe I had not really been broken this whole time. 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