Know My Name

This book by Chanel Miller was genuinely recommended once in the episodes we index, on Tim Ferriss. The people who vouched for it on air: Debbie Millman. It comes up in conversations about consciousness, psychedelics, trauma & ptsd. Every quote below is verbatim, attributed, and linked to the exact second it was said. Sourced expert opinion, not medical advice.

She was known to the world as Emily Doe when she stunned millions with a letter. Brock Turner had been sentenced to just six months in county jail after he was found sexually assaulting her on Stanford’s campus. Her victim impact statement was posted on Buzzfeed, where it instantly went viral, viewed by eleven million people within four days, it was translated globally and read on the floor of Congress; it inspired changes in California law and the recall of the judge in the case. Thousands wrote to say that she had given them the courage to share their own experiences of assault for the first time.

• “reading other stories of people that have experienced trauma... chanel miller's book know my name eve ensler's written a bunch of books”

  Why it counts as a recommendation: “one thing that i find really helpful is reading other stories of people that have experienced trauma”
  Debbie Millman · The Tim Ferriss Show · Sep 202001:33:00

  Said during "Tim Ferriss, My Healing Journey After Childhood Abuse". The episode features Tim Ferriss: Tim Ferriss is the host of The Tim Ferriss Show and a bestselling author. In this deeply personal solo episode he is also the subject, joined by his friend Debbie Millman as interviewer and fellow survivor. Tim Ferriss publicly shares his childhood sexual abuse for the first time, discussing trauma, near-suicide, and the tools that aided his healing.