452: How To Live With The Worst Things That Ever Happened To You | Stephanie Foo

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Dan Harris, Health & Fitness, Mindfulness, Dharma, Mental Health, Meditation

4.6 • 12.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

We’ve all had difficult, and sometimes horrible things happen to us.

While some people may be luckier than others, it’s rare that anyone goes unscathed. This episode is part of our Mental Health Reboot series to mark Mental Health Awareness Month.

In this episode, Stephanie Foo shares her story of being diagnosed with complex PTSD and how she learned to process her trauma and live with her past. The result of her journey is a new book called What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma.

Stephanie Foo is a journalist and radio producer. Her previous work includes This American Life, The Cut, Reply All, and 99% Invisible. Her writing has been featured in The New York Times and Vox.

In this conversation we talk about:

The various therapies, meditation styles, and wellness modalities Stephanie explored to help process her trauma
What actually worked for her, and how it might be relevant to other survivors
Shame, gratitude, and self-love
Her transformative work with Dr. Jacob Ham, who will be featured in another episode this week.

Content Warnings: Discussions of trauma and abuse, references to addiction and mental health challenges. Explicit language.

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0:00.0	This is the 10% Happier Podcast.
0:06.3	I'm Dan Harris.
0:08.3	Hey, hey, we've all had hard, even horrible things happen to us.
0:16.5	Some of us are luckier than others, but nobody goes unscathed here.
0:21.0	We talk a lot on this show about how to handle the vexations and vicissitudes of life, but
0:25.6	today you're going to hear from somebody who has had way more than her fair share and
0:30.4	has endeavored to use the kind of techniques that we often discuss here, including meditation
0:35.0	under some extreme circumstances.
0:37.1	She's really battle-testing a lot of the techniques that many of us use.
0:40.7	Stephanie Foo's life, by her own description, looked good on paper.
0:45.3	She was a successful journalist.
0:47.4	She's worked on such shows as this American life in 99% invisible, and she was also
0:52.2	in a happy relationship.
0:53.6	But she was having daily panic attacks in her office for months.
0:57.0	He was at this point that she was diagnosed with complex PTSD, which I will let her describe
1:02.3	in detail, but in short, it is as she describes it and under researched under diagnosed condition.
1:08.2	In her case, it appears to have been the result of intense and protracted child abuse.
1:13.7	After receiving the diagnosis, she said about trying to figure out how to live with her
1:18.1	past, and the lessons she learned are applicable to all of us, I believe, no matter what
1:23.4	our background might be.
1:25.0	The result is a new book called What My Bones Know, a memoir of healing from complex trauma,
1:31.0	and in this conversation we talk about her remarkably thorough exploration of a whole slew
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