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Alongside What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma
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items A focused selection of memoirs and trauma-informed psychology titles that echo the themes of complex PTSD, embodiment, and long-term recovery explored in What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma. These books combine lived experienc...
Ideal for survivors of chronic childhood abuse, adult children of emotionally neglectful families, and those supporting them, this memoir blends investigative journalism with personal narrative to illuminate complex PTSD and its science. Foo traces h...
What My Bones Know: Memoir of Healing
Well-suited to readers of What My Bones Know who want a deeper clinical and neuroscientific primer on trauma. Psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk synthesizes decades of research to show how traumatic stress reshapes brain circuits, body systems, and rel...
The Body Keeps the Score: Healing Trauma
This is a practical, survivor-written guide aimed at adults recovering from abusive, neglectful, or otherwise traumatizing childhoods-exactly the terrain Foo maps in her memoir. Psychotherapist Pete Walker explains emotional flashbacks, toxic shame, ...
Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving
Ideal for readers drawn to inner parts work and self-compassion after reading What My Bones Know. Richard Schwartz introduces Internal Family Systems (IFS), proposing that we are made up of multiple "parts" (like an inner critic or protector) that ca...
No Bad Parts: Guide to Healing Trauma
For readers who appreciated Foo's blend of memoir and therapy process, Lori Gottlieb offers an intimate look at psychotherapy from both sides of the couch. She follows four patients and her own experience in therapy during a personal crisis, illustra...
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone
This is a strong fit for readers wanting the public-health and medical context behind long-term trauma that Foo touches on. Pediatrician Nadine Burke Harris explains how adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) change stress physiology and raise lifetime...
The Deepest Well: Healing Childhood Effects
Christie Tate's memoir will resonate with readers of What My Bones Know who are curious about intensive relational work as part of healing. Under the guidance of a confrontational but attuned group therapist, she traces how long-standing shame, disor...
Group: How One Therapist and Strangers Saved Me
Best for readers seeking a conceptual framework that situates personal trauma-like that in What My Bones Know-within broader social and political contexts. Psychiatrist Judith Herman distinguishes simple PTSD from complex trauma arising from prolonge...
Trauma and Recovery
Co-authored by Oprah Winfrey and trauma expert Bruce Perry, this book is geared toward general readers wanting a compassionate, accessible introduction to trauma science. Structured as conversations, it shifts the question from "What's wrong with you...
What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma
Jennette McCurdy's darkly humorous memoir offers another raw account of an adult reckoning with childhood abuse, parentification, and the long shadow of trauma, echoing many themes in What My Bones Know. She details emotional and physical control by ...
I'm Glad My Mom Died