What Happened to you? Episode 3

The Book Interrupted women share their personal journals while reading “What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing” by Oprah Winfrey and Bruce D. Perry. Lots of trigger warnings - this was a hard one to read for some of the members. Were you impacted emotionally, intellectually or both? And where is the hope in this book?

Discussion Points:

• This is a hard book to read. Trigger warning.
• Link between biological and psychological health 
• Déjà vu - what is it?
• The importance of social relationships with depth 
• Coping mechanisms 
• Implicit bias from when we are children
• The impact on children in their first few months of their life
• Where is the hope? Was the book told without empathy?
• Learning about others who had past trauma
• Did this book impact you emotionally or intellectually or both?
• Trauma on a spectrum
• Missing the protective factors and talk of risk factors

Mentioned on this episode of Book Interrupted:

Book Interrupted Website 

Book Interrupted YouTube Channel

Book Interrupted Facebook Book Club Group

What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing by Oprah Winfrey and Bruce D. Perry
From the Ashes: My Story of Being Métis, Homeless, and Finding My Way by Jesse Thistle