19 must-read audiobook books like What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma by Stephanie Foo

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Similar categories in Pete Walker's Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving book and Stephanie Foo's What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

Similar categories in Lindsay C. Gibson's Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents book and Stephanie Foo's What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

• self help
• health
• psychology
• mental health
• nonfiction
• audiobook

"Hate is a normal and involuntary reaction when somebody tries to control you for no good reason. It signals that the person is extinguishing your emotional life force by getting his or her needs met …"

-Lindsay C. Gibson, Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents

"If parents don’t label their own behavior as abusive, their child won’t label it that way either. Even as adults, many people have no idea that what happened to them in childhood was abusive. As a re…"

-Lindsay C. Gibson, Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents

"How many people get to be awake and aware for the emergence of the person they were always meant to be? How many people get to have two lifetimes in one? So tell me, is it worth the pain to get to li…"

-Lindsay C. Gibson, Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents

"No child can be good enough to evoke love from a highly self-involved parent. Nevertheless, these children come to believe that the price of making a connection is to put other people first and treat…"

-Lindsay C. Gibson, Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents

Similar categories in None's The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma book and Stephanie Foo's What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

Similar categories in Catherine Gildiner's Good Morning, Monster: A Therapist Shares Five Heroic Stories of Emotional Recovery book and Stephanie Foo's What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

• self help
• biography
• memoir
• health
• psychology
• mental health
• nonfiction
• audiobook

"Anger is a defense, not a feeling, ....analyze what feeling the anger was covering."

-Catherine Gildiner, Good Morning, Monster: A Therapist Shares Five Heroic Stories of Emotional Recovery

Similar categories in Meg Kissinger's While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence book and Stephanie Foo's What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

• biography
• memoir
• health
• psychology
• mental health
• biography memoir
• nonfiction
• audiobook

Similar categories in Sloane Crosley's Grief Is for People book and Stephanie Foo's What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

• self help
• biography
• memoir
• psychology
• mental health
• biography memoir
• nonfiction
• audiobook

"Grief is for people, not things."

-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

"Suicide is a tax on human consciousness."

-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

"How will he know you loved him," she asks, "unless you try to destroy yourself?"

-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

"Pictures should be of what you see, not of what the world sees when it sees you."

-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

Similar categories in Bruce D. Perry's What Happened To You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing book and Stephanie Foo's What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

• audiobook
• self help
• health
• psychology
• mental health
• nonfiction
• science

Similar categories in Britney Spears's The Woman in Me book and Stephanie Foo's What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

• biography
• memoir
• mental health
• biography memoir
• nonfiction
• audiobook

"I realized how powerful it can be when women defy expectations. I can make my own way in life. I can make my dreams come true."

-Britney Spears, The Woman in Me

"But then, when it came time to end the conservatorship, I realized one thing: You can’t fuck with a woman who knows how to pray. Really pray. All I did was pray."

-Britney Spears, The Woman in Me

"Later, I walked all the way home so I could take in the city, breaking one of my heels along the way. When I got to my apartment, I went to my terrace and just looked up at the stars for hours. At th…"

-Britney Spears, The Woman in Me

"Giving a person no grace in a hard time is just not nice. Especially when you can't take as good as you give. When I started to speak and throw it back at them a little, God knows they were far from …"

-Britney Spears, The Woman in Me

Similar categories in R.F. Kuang's Yellowface book and Stephanie Foo's What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

• audiobook

"The truth is fluid, there is always another way to spin the story."

-R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

"They tell authors never to look at Goodreads, but nobody follows that advice—none of us can resist the urge to know how our work is being received."

-R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

"Writing is the closest thing we have to real magic. Writing is creating something out of nothing, is opening doors to other lands. Writing gives you power to shape your own world when the real one hu…"

-R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

Similar categories in Richard C. Schwartz's No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model book and Stephanie Foo's What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

• self help
• health
• psychology
• mental health
• nonfiction
• audiobook

"The big insight was that giving a troubled person a psychiatric diagnosis and seeing that as the sole or main cause of their symptoms was unnecessarily limiting, pathologizing, and could become self-…"

-Richard C. Schwartz, No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model

"IFS can be seen as attachment theory taken inside, in the sense that the client’s Self becomes the good attachment figure to their insecure or avoidant parts. I was initially amazed to discover that …"

-Richard C. Schwartz, No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model

Similar categories in Matthew Desmond's Poverty, by America book and Stephanie Foo's What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

• nonfiction
• audiobook

"To live and strive in modern America is to participate in a series of morally fraught systems. If a family’s entire financial livelihood depends on the value of its home, it’s not hard to understand …"

-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

"The rest of us, on the ·other hand-we members of the protected classes-have grown increasingly· dependent on our welfare programs. In 2020 the federal government spent more than $193 billion on homeo…"

-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

"In her book The Government-Citizen Disconnect, the political scientist Suzanne Mettler reports that 96 percent of American adults have relied on a major government program at some point in their live…"

-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

Similar categories in Amanda Montell's The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality book and Stephanie Foo's What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

• self help
• memoir
• psychology
• mental health
• nonfiction
• audiobook

"While magical thinking is an age-old quirk, overthinking feels distinct to the modern era—a product of our innate superstitions clashing with information overload, mass loneliness, and a capitalistic…"

-Amanda Montell, The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

"Information transmission research suggests that folks with higher anxiety are quicker to engage with, and slower to disengage from, negative information; so "as a trait and state," anxiety itself per…"

-Amanda Montell, The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

Similar categories in Stephanie Foo's What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma book and Stephanie Foo's What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

• audiobook
• self help
• biography
• memoir
• health
• psychology
• mental health
• biography memoir
• nonfiction
• science

Similar categories in Gabor Maté's The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture book and Stephanie Foo's What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

• audiobook
• self help
• health
• psychology
• mental health
• nonfiction
• science

Similar categories in Elliot Page's Pageboy book and Stephanie Foo's What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

• biography
• memoir
• biography memoir
• nonfiction
• audiobook

"Her visibility meant the world to me. I think about this as I walk through the world now."

-Elliot Page, Pageboy

"How do people do it? How do they shut off the noise? And I don't mean "happy", they may not be happy, but they seem to be able to exist at least."

-Elliot Page, Pageboy

"In a world where queerness all too often alienates us from blood, I am grateful to Julia, and the family I have chosen. Without them, I wouldn't be here."

-Elliot Page, Pageboy

"I could block myself out, I was a person I didn't know, I'd gaze into what felt like the universe, my eye a planet of its own. I must be somewhere in there, I'd think."

-Elliot Page, Pageboy

Similar categories in Patric Gagne's Sociopath: A Memoir book and Stephanie Foo's What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

• biography
• memoir
• psychology
• mental health
• biography memoir
• nonfiction
• audiobook

"In a universe where everything seemed to be associated with everything else, jazz was in a world all its own. The untethered notes didn't propel me backward in time or force me into imaginations of t…"

-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir

"Regardless of whether they realized it, my parents, my friends, my teachers, my lovers—everyone, on some level—was uncomfortable with my limited emotion. Because it meant something sinister. Because,…"

-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir

"I loved people. I truly did. But the way I loved was different than most. And, if I was being honest, not all that compatible. I didn’t need to get love in order to give love. I never had. I preferre…"

-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir

"The more I paid attention, the more I noticed just how often 'apathy,' 'lack of feeling,' and the word 'sociopath' were associated with evil. Everywhere. From celebrated books like East of Eden and T…"

-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir

Similar categories in Viola Davis's Finding Me book and Stephanie Foo's What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

• biography
• memoir
• biography memoir
• nonfiction
• audiobook

Similar categories in Jennette McCurdy's I'm Glad My Mom Died book and Stephanie Foo's What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

• biography
• memoir
• mental health
• biography memoir
• nonfiction
• audiobook

"I feel like the world is divided into two types of people: people who know loss and people who don't."

-Jennette McCurdy, I'm Glad My Mom Died

"My grandma frequently refers to me as "bitch". She always throws a little extra salt on the word too, for effect."

-Jennette McCurdy, I'm Glad My Mom Died

"Even if that thing makes you very uncomfortable at times. Even if that thing puts a lot of pressure on you. Even if that thing is very stressful. Sometimes it’s just nice to feel good at something."

-Jennette McCurdy, I'm Glad My Mom Died

"She wanted this. And I wanted her to have it. I wanted her to be happy. But now that I have it, I realize that she’s happy and I’m not. Her happiness came at the cost of mine. I feel robbed and explo…"

-Jennette McCurdy, I'm Glad My Mom Died

Similar categories in Maggie Smith's You Could Make This Place Beautiful book and Stephanie Foo's What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

• biography
• memoir
• biography memoir
• nonfiction
• audiobook

"At our wedding, our college creative writing professor read a poem—John Ciardi’s “Most Like an Arch This Marriage."

-Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful

"How I picture it: We are all nesting dolls, carrying the earlier iterations of ourselves inside. We carry the past inside us. We take ourselves–all of our selves–wherever we go. Inside forty-somethin…"

-Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful

Similar categories in Lara Love Hardin's The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing book and Stephanie Foo's What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

• biography
• memoir
• biography memoir
• nonfiction
• audiobook

Similar categories in Chanel Miller's Know My Name book and Stephanie Foo's What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

• biography
• memoir
• biography memoir
• nonfiction
• audiobook

"No matter how awful and long your journey, I can promise you the turn. One day it will lift."

-Chanel Miller, Know My Name

"I am a victim, I have no qualms with this word, only with the idea that it is all that I am."

-Chanel Miller, Know My Name

"This book does not have a happy ending. The happy part is there is no ending, because I’ll always find a way to keep going."

-Chanel Miller, Know My Name

"We force her to think hard about what this will mean for his life, even though he never considered what his actions would do to her."

-Chanel Miller, Know My Name