Join us on March 21 at 8:00 p.m. ET for a conversation with Laura McKowen, author of Push Off from Here, and Laura Cathcart Robbins, author of Stash: My Life in Hiding, to discuss their books and experiences with addiction and sobriety. Both Push Off and Stash will be released on March 7, 2023, and this is an exclusive conversation hosted and moderated by The Luckiest Club.
This event is a free, private event for members of The Luckiest Club community.
The Luckiest Club is a dogma-free, compassionate place to recover from alcohol addiction and thrive in life. Through daily online sobriety support meetings, a private App, and workshops and courses, TLC provides an accessible place for people to get support in their recovery at any stage. To learn more, visit the TLC website.
About Laura Cathcart Robbins
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Laura Cathcart Robbins is an author, freelance writer, speaker, and host of the popular podcast The Only One in the Room. She has been active for many years as a speaker and school trustee and is credited for creating The Buckley School’s nationally recognized committee on Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice. Her recent articles in HuffPost and The Temper on the subjects of race, recovery, and divorce have garnered her worldwide acclaim. She is a 2022 TEDx Speaker, and an LA Moth StorySlam winner. Currently, she sits on the advisory boards of the San Diego Writer’s Festival and the Outliers HQ Podcast Festival. She lives in California. Follow her on Instagram @LauraCathcartRobbins and find out more at TheOnlyOnePod.com.
About Stash: My Life in Hiding
After years of hiding her addiction from everyone—from stockpiling pills in her Louboutins to elaborately scheduling withdrawals between PTA meetings, baby showers, and tennis matches—Laura Cathcart Robbins settles into a complicated purgatory.
She learns the hard way that privilege doesn’t protect you from pain. Facing divorce, the possibility of a grueling custody battle, and internalized racism, Robbins wonders just how much more she can take.
Now, with courage and candid openness, she reveals how she managed to begin the long journey towards sobriety and unexpectedly finding new love. Robbins harrowingly illustrates taking down the wall she built around herself brick by brick and what it means to be Black in a startingly white world. With its raw, finely crafted, and engaging prose, Stash is the story of just how badly the facade she created had to shatter before Laura could reconnect to her true self.
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About Laura McKowen
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Laura is the bestselling author of "We Are The Luckiest: The Surprising Magic of a Sober Life" and the forthcoming "Push Off from Here: Nine Essential Truths to Get You Through Sobriety (and Everything Else)," Penguin Random House, Spring 2023.
She is a leading voice in the modern recovery movement and the Founder and CEO of The Luckiest Club, a global sobriety support organization. Laura has been published in The New York Times, and her work has been featured in The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, the TODAY show, and more. She lives outside Boston with her daughter. Follow her on Instagram @LauraCathcartRobbins
About Push Off from Here
From the bestselling author of We Are the Luckiest and founder of the international recovery community The Luckiest Club comes a modern exploration of addiction that offers nine foundational building blocks that anyone at any stage of sobriety can use.
No matter how far astray you’ve gone or how many times you’ve tried and failed before, as long as you’re still sitting here, breathing, and reading these words, freedom and joy are still possible.
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