From MPR, this is Invisibiliya, I'm Yohaisha.

So when I first heard about today's story, I was like, wow, so many communities are facing

this problem.

And it's a problem we hear a lot about these days.

I'm not trauma, racial, cultural trauma, generational trauma, intergenerational trauma, trying to get your head around it.

This is not something that a person chooses.

I am in the aftermath of a big catastrophe.

Abandonment.

It's kind of like an invisible elephant in the room.

But it's one thing to acknowledge that trauma is real.

And another to figure out, okay, so what do we do about it?

That's something Stephanie Foo has done a lot about.

She's a journalist who wrote a book called What My Bones Know, a memoir of healing from complex trauma.

She writes about having complex PTSD, the science behind the diagnosis, and the various therapies and treatments used to heal from it.

And while researching her book and how to heal herself, she found a story about what it looks like to heal a community.

Quick heads up, Stephanie will be talking about genocide, war, domestic violence, suicidal ideation, and child abuse.

All right, here's Stephanie.

I grew up in a place called the Valley of Hearts Delight, specifically San Jose, California.

It got that name because it's beautiful.

75 in sunny most of the time, streets lined with cherry and citrus trees, air that smells of eucalyptus.

Maybe why so many of our parents flocked there.

My community was full of immigrants.

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