It takes an intellectual and physical effort to shove aside… - Stephanie Foo

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It takes an intellectual and physical effort to shove aside the comfortably worn neural pathways and go in a different direction.

Stephanie Foo

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Stephanie Foo (born 1987) is a radio journalist, producer and author who was born in Malaysia and now lives in the USA. She has worked for Snap Judgment and This American Life. In 2022, she published What My Bones Know, a memoir about healing from complex PTSD.

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PTSD is an adaptation, a mechanism our genius bodies evolved to help us survive. (Chapter 43)

Dr. Ham would tell me that PTSD is only a mental illness in times of peace. The whole point of PTSD is to prepare you for being on the verge of death at any moment. My parents prepared me to face a vicious world with danger around every corner. (Chapter 43)

You can’t heal without acknowledgment. We have to normalize therapy – not just, like, talk therapy or psychotherapy. We have to normalize different generations of Americans working through trauma.

It takes an intellectual and physical effort to shove aside the comfortably worn neural pathways and go in a different direction. - Stephanie Foo

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