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Laura Cathcart Robbins

Biography

Laura Cathcart Robbins

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.

Laura Cathcart Robbins

Books by Laura Cathcart Robbins

Stash: My Life in Hiding
by Laura Cathcart Robbins - Memoir, Nonfiction

After years of hiding her addiction from everyone --- stockpiling pills in her Louboutins and elaborately scheduling her withdrawals between PTA meetings, baby showers and tennis matches --- Laura Cathcart Robbins is running out of places to hide. She has learned the hard way that even her high-profile marriage and Hollywood lifestyle can’t protect her from the pain she’s keeping bottled up inside. Facing divorce, the possibility of a grueling custody battle, and the insistent voice of internalized racism that nags at her as a Black woman in a startlingly white world, Laura wonders just how much more she can take. Now, with courageous and candid openness, she reveals how she started the long journey towards sobriety, unexpectedly found new love, and dismantled the wall she had built around herself, brick by brick.