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Reflection on the book, What My Bones Know by Stephanie Foo (20 points total) (CACREP 2.F.3.d, g, m; 5.C.2.g, f, I; 5.C.3.c)

Students will critically engage with Stephanie Foo's memoir, What My Bones Know, to deepen their understanding of complex trauma, cultural identity, and the healing process. This assignment encourages personal reflection, critical analysis, and connection to broader themes of resilience and mental health. Ensure you have read What My Bones Know in its entirety, taking notes on key moments, quotes, and themes that resonate with you. After you have read the book, in a 3 page paper answer the thirteen questions in the back of the book. Each question answered should be no more than 5 sentences each.

1. What my bones open with the author in a session with her longtime therapist? What is your relationship with therapy? Have you ever been? If so, did you find it useful or helpful? Why or why not?

2. When Foo received her diagnosis of C-PTSD, she was both relieved and devastated. Why was naming her mental illness so important to her, and what did it change? What is the power of a diagnosis, in your opinion?

3. At the end of the prologue, Foo writes, "Every villain's redemption arc begins with their origin story." What do you think? She viewed herself as a villain in need of redemption.

4. Foo says that she gravitated toward journalism because it gave her a chance to "take feelings and injustices and even tragedies and figure out a way to shape them all into something purposeful." Do you have a passion that gives you a similar sense of purpose?

5. Foo writes that, in American culture, resilience, or "emotional toughness," is synonymous with success. Case studies of resilient individuals often focus on those who overcame adversity and "became doctors, teachers, therapists, and motivational speakers-sparkly members of society." "Is success the only way to measure resilience? In what ways did Foo's professional ambition help her, and in what way did it hurt her? What does emotional toughness mean to you, and do you know people in your life who you consider resilient?

6. In chapter 8, Foo talks about something called the dread. Have you ever experienced something similar to her dread? How have you dealt with difficult feelings in your own life?

7. After being diagnosed with C-PTSD, Foo tries a lot of different therapies-EMDR, mushrooms, restorative yoga, mindful meditation, and more. Where these treatments effective? Have you ever tried any or these things? What was your experiences

8. Foo writes that after reading about C-PTSD and how it affects the brain, she began "losing faith" in her own mind. She says, "Every time I tried to touch a memory, doubts and questions multiplied around it, preventing me from being able to see my own past." In order to combat this, she takes a trip to her hometown of San Jose to "fact-check (her) abuse." What did she learn on this trip? How do you think trauma impacts memory? How does she differentiate between personal and communal trauma?

9. In chapter 27, Foo quotes the author C. Pam Zhang, who wrote, "Obfuscation is my inheritance." What do you think Zhang meant by this, and how does this quote relate to Foo's own story? What is generational trauma, and how does it inform the author's understanding of herself?

10. When Stephanie and Jocy get married, they plan a "community-based wedding." What did this look like, and why was it important to her?

11. What did you make of Foo's sessions with DR. Han? What did she learn from working with him? What was distinctive about Dr. Han's method, and why was it so effective for her?

12. When the Covid-19 pandemic hits, Foo finds that she is calm and productive while everyone around her is panicking. How does she account for this? Why is she able to see her C-PTSD as an asset during this moment of global crisis?

13. At the end of the book, Foo writes, "Healing is never final." It is never perfection. "But along with the losses are the triumphs." Do you agree? Has her story changed your understanding of what healing means and what it looks like?

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