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Healing From Complex PTSD with Stephanie Foo

Healing From Complex PTSD with Stephanie Foo

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 307. Healing From Complex PTSD with Stephanie Foo Abby, Amanda and Glennon are joined by author and radio producer, Stephanie Foo. They discuss Stephanie’s memoir, What My Bones Know, and her journey healing from Complex PTSD. Discover: -The difference between Trauma, PTSD and complex PTSD; -What “THE DREAD” is and how to know if you have it; -Why if the trauma is relational, the healing has to be relational, too, and what that means, in-action; and -Whether you can ever truly give what you never got as a parent. CW: Discussion of physical and verbal abuse and neglect. About Stephanie: Stephanie Foo is a writer and the author of the New York Times bestseller, WHAT MY BONES KNOW: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma. She is also a radio producer, most recently for This American Life. Her work has aired on Snap Judgment, Reply All, 99% Invisible, and Radiolab. A noted speaker and instructor, she has taught at Columbia University and has spoken at venues from Sundance Film Festival to the Missouri Department of Mental Health. She lives in New York City. IG: @foofoofoo To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Because I'm lucky, I have a work from home job. This has allowed me the time to read all I can on trauma. Gabor Mate has been my favorite. I'll include this author's work as well. I just want to say, if you don't believe in collect healing... YOU SHOULD!!! We truly are on the same page!!!

We are all going through the same thing at the same time!!! wowww!

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I really appreciated Stephanie putting her trauma in the context of generational and cultural trauma. in describing her home community of San Jose as Asian and Latino populations who escaped wars, dictators and other horrors, it was clear that there was a genesis of trauma based on fear and survival needs. Having grown up Jewish and a descendent of the Holocaust, I could totally relate. Thank you, Stephanie, for your work and willingness to share it with the PodSquad.

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Thank you so much for interviewing Stephanie Foo and digging into the topic of CPTSD in real life. I read her book when it first came out and as a clinician working with children and adults who have experienced and continue to experience trauma, I recommend her book when individuals normalize the abuse they experienced as children which occurs frequently. Stephanie's book is hopeful, enlightening and filled with all sorts of research. The only thing I might add to the conversation which you touched on when discussing treatment and it not being a one size fits all option. The same may be said for how each person experiences trauma and responds to traumatic events. While one child in a large family may appear to have survived fairly unscathed, as another lives their life in and out of prison, another dies of a drug overdose just as they appear to be getting their life together, the others end up with diagnosed anxiety, depressive, and substance abuse disorders and the brightest, never lives up to their potential. Is it because, even when you all have the same parents, none of us really grow up in the same home as our siblings? Nature? Nurture? What role does resiliency play in what you do as an adult? What role does early coping skills (learned behavior) play?
Again, thank you for having Stephanie Foo on your show. As always, another great show!

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