In 2018, Stephanie Foo was diagnosed with Complex PTSD, an under-researched and under-diagnosed condition. After her diagnosis, Stephanie decided to write a book on C-PTSD; that book – her critically-acclaimed memoir, What My Bones Know – was published in 2022. Publisher’s Weekly’s starred review called it, “A work of immense beauty.”

Stephanie is a storyteller at heart. As a child, Stephanie created comics, got her start in print journalism, then became fascinated with audio narratives. She’s worked as a radio producer for This American Life, Snap Judgment and freelanced for podcasts like Invisibilia, The Cut, Nancy, Reply All and 99% Invisible. At This American Life, she reported, edited, and mixed radio stories and often produced entire shows. Stephanie produced This American Life’s video project, “Videos 4 U: I Love You,” which garnered three Daytime Emmy nominations and won the 2015 Webby Award for Online Film & Video in Drama: Individual Short or Episode category. She also co-produced a video series for TAL that won an Emmy, and altogether, she has worked in audio for over a decade.

Her work has been featured in places like The New York Times and Vox, and from 2019-2020, Stephanie was a Rosalynn Carter Mental Health Fellow.

Stephanie lives in Brooklyn. You can often find her in Forest Park, saving trees and harvesting acorns as one of the park’s six “Super Stewards.”

Dr. Jill Stoddard is passionate about sharing science-backed ideas from psychology to help people thrive. She is a licensed psychologist, author, professional and TEDx speaker, award-winning teacher, health coach, and co-host of the popular Psychologists Off the Clock podcast. Dr. Stoddard is the founder and CEO of Flexible Communications, LLC, in Massachusetts, and the Founder and Director of The Center for Stress and Anxiety Management in California. She is the author of three books which have been translated into nine languages: The Big Book of ACT Metaphors: A Practitioner’s Guide to Experiential Exercises and Metaphors in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy; Be Mighty: A Woman’s Guide to Liberation from Anxiety, Worry, and Stress Using Mindfulness and Acceptance; and Imposter No More: Overcome Self-doubt and Imposterism to Cultivate a Successful Career. Her writing has also appeared in the Washington Post, Psychology Today, Scary Mommy, Thrive Global, The Good Men Project, and Mindful Return. She regularly appears on podcasts and as an expert source for various media outlets. She lives in Newburyport, MA with her husband, two kids, and disobedient French Bulldog.