Episode description
In this episode I’m chatting with Laura Bratton who is the author of Harnessing Courage: Overcoming Adversity with Grit & Gratitude. In addition to being an author Laura is also a keynote speaker, was the first blind student to graduate from Princeton Theological Seminary with a master’s of divinity degree, she is the senior pastor at a local church, and she is the founder of Ubi Global LLC Laura first noticed there was something different with her vision at 8 years old. Where they ran traditional vision tests in school they detected the early onset of degeneration of her near sighted vision. Over the next decade Laura experienced the traumatic transition of adjusting to life without sight. In middle school, while her friends grew more independent she was learning braille – she felt like her life was cycling in the wrong direction. In this episode we highlight many of the topics she wrote about in her book. The anxiety about the what her future was going to be like. The depression from feeling like “This is too much, I can’t and I don’t want to” ultimately not knowing if she had the strength to endure the cards she’d been dealt. The […]
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