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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 --- 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.