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<p style="margin:0px 0px 25px;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Roboto, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">By age thirty, Stephanie Foo was successful on paper: She had her dream job as an award-winning radio producer at <em>This American Life </em>and a loving boyfriend. But behind her office door, she was having panic attacks and sobbing at her desk every morning. After years of questioning what was wrong with herself, she was diagnosed with complex PTSD--a condition that occurs when trauma happens continuously, over the course of years. Both of Foo's parents abandoned her when she was a teenager, after years of physical and verbal abuse and neglect. She thought she'd moved on, but her new diagnosis illuminated the way her past continued to threaten her health, relationships, and career. She found limited resources to help her, so Foo set out to heal herself, and to map her experiences onto the scarce literature about C-PTSD. In this deeply personal and thoroughly researched account, Foo interviews scientists and psychologists and tries a variety of innovative therapies. She returns to her hometown of San Jose, California, to investigate the effects of immigrant trauma on the community, and she uncovers family secrets in the country of her birth, Malaysia, to learn how trauma can be inherited through generations. Ultimately, she discovers that you don't move on from trauma--but you can learn to move with it. Powerful, enlightening, and hopeful, <em><strong>What My Bones Know</strong> </em>is a brave narrative that reckons with the hold of the past over the present, the mind over the body--and examines one woman's ability to reclaim agency from her trauma.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 25px;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Roboto, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><strong>Stephanie Foo</strong> is a writer and radio producer, most recently for <em>This American Life</em>. Her work has aired on <em>Snap Judgment</em>, <em>Reply All</em>, <em>99% Invisible</em>, and <em>Radiolab</em>. 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 with her husband.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 25px;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Roboto, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">Foo will be in conversation with <strong>Kat Chow</strong>. Chow is a writer and a journalist. She was a reporter at NPR, where she was a founding member of the Code Switch team. Her work has appeared in <em>The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic,</em> and on RadioLab, among others. She’s one of Pop Culture Happy Hour’s fourth chairs. She’s received a residency fellowship from the Millay Colony and was an inaugural recipient of the Yi Dae Up fellowship at the Jack Jones Literary Arts Retreat.</p>

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