Healing From Complex PTSD with Stephanie Foo

We Can Do Hard Things

Treat Media and Glennon Doyle

Relationships, Education, Self-improvement, Society & Culture

4.8 • 42.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2024

⏱️ 67 minutes

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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

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0:00.0	Welcome Stephanie Fu!
0:10.1	Fue!
0:10.1	Hi, thank you so much. Welcome Stephanie Fu!
0:15.8	Hi, thank you so much for having me. Oh my gosh, we've really been looking forward to this
0:20.7	conversation. I have learned so much from you and your work and I'm just really
0:27.1	looking forward to the Pod Squad learning from you. So let's start off by saying that
0:31.8	Stephanie Fu is a writer and the author of the New York Times bestseller
0:36.3	What my bones know
0:38.9	Which I have read more than once and isn an absolutely beautiful and extremely helpful book and it's a memoir
0:46.9	of healing from complex trauma. She is also a radio producer most recently for this American life.
0:52.4	Her work has aired on Snap Judgment,
0:54.8	Reply All, 99% invisible in Radio Lab. A noted speaker and instructor she has taught
1:00.8	at Columbia University and has spoken at venues from Sundance Film Festival to the Missouri Department of Mental Health.
1:07.5	She lives in New York City.
1:09.5	Welcome.
1:10.5	Thank you so much.
1:12.0	And it's always the highest compliment when somebody tells me that they read my book more than once. I never read books more than once. That's quite the investment.
1:21.0	Well what I do is at first I read it as I'm just experiencing the book,
1:26.1	like it's your story. But then I have to read it to like save my own life.
1:30.0	I'm like, all right, now the tips. Now what do I do? So it's a book that needs to be read twice.
1:38.2	It's like a textbook the second time. Exactly. It's like literature the first time.
1:41.8	Yeah. Thank you. Yes. Here's how I the first time. Yeah.
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