The ASA hosted Stephanie Foo, a Malaysian-born American radio journalist, producer and the author of “What my Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing From Complex Trauma,” via Zoom on Thursday afternoon. In collaboration with other affinity groups and the Sexuality, Women and Gender Center (SWAG), the ASA aims to shed light on the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) experience on Bowdoin’s campus. This version of the article has been corrected to reflect that Jacey Song ’23 is co-president.Īs the weather warms and the days grow longer, the Asian Students Alliance (ASA) is celebrating Asian and Pacific Islander History Month.

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People who might be triggered by fairly blunt descriptions of the abuse she sustained should read this with caution. Foo’s personality, her problems, her strengths, and is well worth reading. This was a marvelous book with much insight into Ms. She tells her story with humor, despite its horrors. Fortunately, she has the wisdom to seek treatment from multiple mental health professionals-to quit those who didn’t help her. Foo freely admits to the anger and shame present in her life as well as her yearnings for love and the ability to love and trust in return. Foo endured), I felt sympathy and horror and relived much of my own maltreatment. As a survivor of childhood abuse (though not as horrific as that which Ms.

She simultaneously places her entire life in review, revealing her most intimate feats and desires and journey to “normalcy” through self-help books and professional help. Foo begins years of research into the treatment and her ability to recover from the abuse. Stephanie Foo uses her journalism background to research and beautifully write her memoir of surviving long-term childhood abuse, What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex.

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