When her father died of cancer, a few days before her 18th birthday, Laurel Braitman started running. Running towards the academic and professional accomplishments her father pushed her to achieve and running away from the intense shame and guilt she carried about their last conversation. It wasn’t until her 30’s that Laurel stopped running long enough to face her greatest fear: feeling her feelings.
Laurel’s newest book, What Looks Like Bravery: An epic journey through loss to love, chronicles her quest to connect with grief and how it led to the biggest adventure of all - opening up to love.
In our conversation we delve into:
Growing up with her father’s illness and the threat of him dying
Running from guilt & shame in grief
Overachieving as a coping mechanism
Wanting to be a “geriatric kid” at Josie’s Place, a peer grief support program for children & families
What Laurel learned about grief from being a volunteer facilitator in that program
Learning a new way of being in the world & staying open to love
Having a “cosmic do-over" in helping her mom at the end of her life
Ep. 114: What Does Better Mean? Neil Davis
Ep. 113: Young Children & Grief: Mary Plouffe, Ph.D.
Ep. 112: A Cinematic Love Story - John & Melissa
Ep. 111: When The Love Of Your Life Dies Of An Overdose - Marie & Jonathan
Ep. 110: Mindful Photography & Grief - Dr. Jessica Thomas, PhD, LMFT
Ep. 109: Motherless Daughters, 25 Years Later - Hope Edelman & Brennan Wood
Ep: 108: What Does Forgiveness Feel Like? Judith Finneren
Ep. 107: Remembrance Wardrobe - Nicole Leslie
Ep. 106: Grief & Anxiety - Claire Bidwell Smith. LCPC
Ep. 105: Appetizers, Grief, Dessert - The Dinner Party
Ep. 104: Grief & Work - Alica Forneret
Ep. 103: Staying Connected In Grief - Allison Gilbert
Ep. 102: The Power Of Storytelling
Ep. 101: Grief, Seven Decades Later
Ep. 100: It's A Grief Party!
Ep. 99: It's So Much More Than What We Can See - Doreen Wiggins, MD
Ep. 98: Under Pressure - Holidays & Grief
Ep. 97: An Unexpected Devastation
Ep. 96: Dear Me, A Mini-Episode
Ep. 95: Witnessing A Stranger's Death
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