Stephanie Foo

In 2021, the Body Keep score, which actually came out about eight or nine years earlier, had hit number one on the Times paperback list.

And Stephanie Fu, author of What My Bones Know, she pushed back on Pandell and said that we need to actually keep a broader definition of trauma because it helps.

It helped her and it helped others take their own abuse seriously.

And so...

And this is maybe more in your wheelhouse.

But there's another faculty member in communication who does some work, Christina Sharp, and she's cited in this book, What My Bones Know by Stephanie Foo, and she does do some of that estrangement work, and what does that mean to actually intentionally sever a relationship when the potential could still be there? And so with parents, that becomes really challenging.

And so there are these other instances of, you know, when your parent was abusive to you.

Again, this is an interesting layer, because he was maybe sometimes...

Um, but anyway, a lot of this story happens in the comments section of Facebook, so, you know, commento mori.

Anyway, Stephanie Foo explains.

After someone you love dies, suddenly even their most annoying traits in retrospect seem endearing.

Blake Burkhart's friend was this guy Dave Mar.

Well, well, well.

Well, our program was produced today by Mickey Meek.

People who put this episode of our show together includes Elna Baker, Ben Calhoun, Dana Chivvis, Sean Cole, Whitney Dangerfield, Hilary Elkins, Stephanie Foo, David Kestenbaum, Alvin Melis, Stone Nelson, Nadia Raymond, Robin Semian, Alyssa Shipp, Lily Sullivan, Chris Dorst-Otero, Matt Tierney, Julie Whitaker, and Diane Wu.

Senior producer for today's show is Brian Reed.