What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

by Stephanie Foo

It’s okay to have some things you never get over.

In Gretchen Schmelzer’s excellent, gentle book, Journey Through Trauma, she insists on the fifth page: “Some of you may choose a therapist: a psychiatrist, psychologist, social worker, counselor, or member of the clergy. Some of you may choose some form of group therapy. But I am telling you up front, at the beginning: in order to heal, you will need to get help. I know you will try to look for the loophole in this argument—try to find a way that you can do this on your own—but you need to trust me on this. If there were a way to do it on your own I would have found it. No one looked harder for that loophole than I did.”[1]

We are more vulnerable to developing PTSD or depression if we experience trauma during a certain point in our cycles.

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Anaïs Nin, “We don’t see things as they are. We see them as we are.”