{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Laurel Braitman Learns To Feel Her Feelings - What Looks Like Bravery","description":" 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\u2019t until her 30\u2019s that Laurel stopped running long enough to face her greatest fear: feeling her feelings.   Laurel\u2019s 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\u2019s illness and the threat of him dying  Running from guilt & shame in grief  Overachieving as a coping mechanism  Wanting to be a \u201cgeriatric kid\u201d at Josie\u2019s 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 \u201ccosmic do-over" in helping her mom at the end of her life  The co-existence of love and sadness ","author_name":"Grief Out Loud","author_url":"https:\/\/www.dougy.org\/news-media\/podcasts","html":"