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

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

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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.”

52. “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: “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.”

53. “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: “Because expressing the kindness to yourself that you deserve often reminds you of the kindness you didn’t get.”

54. “Because expressing the kindness to yourself that you deserve often reminds you of the kindness you didn’t get.”

— Stephanie Foo

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

55. “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: “But I thought I fixed this problem, I muttered to myself all day long. I thought I became a nice girl. I picked and picked at my memories, trying to figure out how, despite my best efforts, the horrible, rotten core at the center of myself managed to get past my defenses and worm its way out.”

56. “But I thought I fixed this problem, I muttered to myself all day long. I thought I became a nice girl. I picked and picked at my memories, trying to figure out how, despite my best efforts, the horrible, rotten core at the center of myself managed to get past my defenses and worm its way out.”

— Stephanie Foo

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

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

— 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.”

58. “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: “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.”

59. “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: “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.”

60. “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: “This essay is itself a defiant, courageous act: Its existence blows clear that meticulously crafted fog of obfuscation and bares the maggoty ribs of our past for the vultures to pick at.”

61. “This essay is itself a defiant, courageous act: Its existence blows clear that meticulously crafted fog of obfuscation and bares the maggoty ribs of our past for the vultures to pick at.”

— 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.”

62. “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: “Dr. Ham was acknowledging his own vulnerability within the session. But his vulnerability didn’t make him seem less competent or trustworthy. It did the opposite. I trusted him more.”

63. “Dr. Ham was acknowledging his own vulnerability within the session. But his vulnerability didn’t make him seem less competent or trustworthy. It did the opposite. I trusted him more.”

— 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.”

64. “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: “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.”

65. “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: “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.”

66. “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

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