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Stephanie Foo Quote: “There was no outside world. Our home was our entire universe. I was all my mother had. My mother was everything I knew.”

51. “There was no outside world. Our home was our entire universe. I was all my mother had. My mother was everything I knew.”

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Stephanie Foo Quote: “I came to these books in search of hope. But they provided so little. There were days when the only hope I could see was that I needn’t worry about the pain lasting too long. At least I was going to die soon.”

52. “I came to these books in search of hope. But they provided so little. There were days when the only hope I could see was that I needn’t worry about the pain lasting too long. At least I was going to die soon.”

— Stephanie Foo

Stephanie Foo Quote: “He didn’t answer. He’d stopped calling months ago, now that I’d helped resolve his relationships with his family. I waited and I waited. My phone stayed silent.”

53. “He didn’t answer. He’d stopped calling months ago, now that I’d helped resolve his relationships with his family. I waited and I waited. My phone stayed silent.”

— Stephanie Foo

Stephanie Foo Quote: “If my child has any sense, I don’t have to yell at them. If he has no sense, even if I yell a million words, it won’t change anything. You can never spoil a good child. And you can’t teach a bad child any sense.”

54. “If my child has any sense, I don’t have to yell at them. If he has no sense, even if I yell a million words, it won’t change anything. You can never spoil a good child. And you can’t teach a bad child any sense.”

— Stephanie Foo

Stephanie Foo Quote: “The pain is a fanged beast that I’ve battled a hundred times throughout the years, and every time I think I’ve cut it down for good, it reanimates and launches itself at my throat again.”

55. “The pain is a fanged beast that I’ve battled a hundred times throughout the years, and every time I think I’ve cut it down for good, it reanimates and launches itself at my throat again.”

— Stephanie Foo

Stephanie Foo Quote: “The essence of what trauma does to a person is it makes them feel like they don’t deserve love,” the voice in my headphones said.”

56. “The essence of what trauma does to a person is it makes them feel like they don’t deserve love,” the voice in my headphones said.”

— Stephanie Foo

Stephanie Foo Quote: “So instead of trying to convince everyone I was normal, I leaned into my freakishness, doubled down on my fury. In his adult circles, my father wasn’t faring much better.”

57. “So instead of trying to convince everyone I was normal, I leaned into my freakishness, doubled down on my fury. In his adult circles, my father wasn’t faring much better.”

— Stephanie Foo

Stephanie Foo Quote: “Sadness and fury bit into each other like two warring serpents in my stomach.”

58. “Sadness and fury bit into each other like two warring serpents in my stomach.”

— Stephanie Foo

Stephanie Foo Quote: “So it felt significant – generous – for Auntie to sit here and tell me that the way my mother raised me was unfair. It was a permission of sorts to recognize – even among this generation that was so inured to pain – that the way I was brought up was not right. Not how it was supposed to be.”

59. “So it felt significant – generous – for Auntie to sit here and tell me that the way my mother raised me was unfair. It was a permission of sorts to recognize – even among this generation that was so inured to pain – that the way I was brought up was not right. Not how it was supposed to be.”

— Stephanie Foo

Stephanie Foo Quote: “But in time, I came to terms with the fact that it wasn’t him and me against the world, anymore. It was me, alone.”

60. “But in time, I came to terms with the fact that it wasn’t him and me against the world, anymore. It was me, alone.”

— Stephanie Foo

Stephanie Foo Quote: “When it came time for Siegle to name this phenomenon – the dissociated state that means you don’t always have emotions that are totally appropriate for a situation – he called it Blunted and Discordant Affect Sensitivity Syndrome. The acronym for this? BADASS.”

61. “When it came time for Siegle to name this phenomenon – the dissociated state that means you don’t always have emotions that are totally appropriate for a situation – he called it Blunted and Discordant Affect Sensitivity Syndrome. The acronym for this? BADASS.”

— Stephanie Foo

Stephanie Foo Quote: “I was always trying to be good, but the black dread would still ruin everything. It told me that I was on the precipice of ruining everything, and that one day, very soon, it would strike and take everything away from me.”

62. “I was always trying to be good, but the black dread would still ruin everything. It told me that I was on the precipice of ruining everything, and that one day, very soon, it would strike and take everything away from me.”

— Stephanie Foo

Stephanie Foo Quote: “I’d spent my life telling myself I didn’t need a mommy or a daddy. But now I was beginning to realize that this hunger isn’t childish – it is a universal, primal need. We all want to be taken care of, and that’s okay.”

63. “I’d spent my life telling myself I didn’t need a mommy or a daddy. But now I was beginning to realize that this hunger isn’t childish – it is a universal, primal need. We all want to be taken care of, and that’s okay.”

— Stephanie Foo

Stephanie Foo Quote: “Another consequence of C-PTSD not being in the DSM: This psychologist hasn’t been trained in treating it.”

64. “Another consequence of C-PTSD not being in the DSM: This psychologist hasn’t been trained in treating it.”

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Stephanie Foo Quote: “The point of this journal was to improve my writing skills, but it was also to preserve my well-curated childhood. She hoped that as an adult, I would flip through this notebook fondly, letting it fill me with sentimental memories. But as I read through it now, it appears her mission miscarried. I have no recollection of the Santa Cruz trip, or this lion dance, or that trip to the beach in Mendocino. The only thing I remember vividly is that clear plastic ruler on my palm.”

65. “The point of this journal was to improve my writing skills, but it was also to preserve my well-curated childhood. She hoped that as an adult, I would flip through this notebook fondly, letting it fill me with sentimental memories. But as I read through it now, it appears her mission miscarried. I have no recollection of the Santa Cruz trip, or this lion dance, or that trip to the beach in Mendocino. The only thing I remember vividly is that clear plastic ruler on my palm.”

— Stephanie Foo

Stephanie Foo Quote: “The books taught me that when we live through traumatic experiences, our brains take in the things around us that are causing the greatest threat, and they encode these things deep into our subconscious as sources of danger.”

66. “The books taught me that when we live through traumatic experiences, our brains take in the things around us that are causing the greatest threat, and they encode these things deep into our subconscious as sources of danger.”

— Stephanie Foo

Stephanie Foo Quote: “I am blood and sin. I am the sum total of my parents’ regrets. I am their greatest shame.”

67. “I am blood and sin. I am the sum total of my parents’ regrets. I am their greatest shame.”

— Stephanie Foo

Stephanie Foo Quote: “We went to an animal shelter, and became a happy little family: me, him, a mischievous cat. And, of course, the dread. Yes, it stayed, darkening my whole chest every day. Still, I thought, we could coexist, me and the dread.”

68. “We went to an animal shelter, and became a happy little family: me, him, a mischievous cat. And, of course, the dread. Yes, it stayed, darkening my whole chest every day. Still, I thought, we could coexist, me and the dread.”

— Stephanie Foo

Stephanie Foo Quote: “As Melody Beattie said, “Gratitude turns what we have into enough.”

69. “As Melody Beattie said, “Gratitude turns what we have into enough.”

— Stephanie Foo

Stephanie Foo Quote: “I could not believe it had taken me this long to realize that punishment is not love. In fact, it is the opposite of love. Forgiveness is love. Spaciousness is love.”

70. “I could not believe it had taken me this long to realize that punishment is not love. In fact, it is the opposite of love. Forgiveness is love. Spaciousness is love.”

— Stephanie Foo

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