Show Notes
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 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
