Emotional dry cleaning: A writer helps doctors share their stories — and their pain
In virtual writing workshops, Laurel Braitman has created a place where health care workers can feel safe wrestling with the continuous gut-punches of working the frontlines of a pandemic.
SANTA MONICA, Calif. — Where Laurel Braitman is sitting is rather apt.
Braitman, whose first book, “Animal Madness,” won her fans and TED Talk acclaim, is unmistakable in a fringed, cream-colored jacket and thick, square glasses, perched on a tall chair near the back of Zibby’s Bookshop. It’s a small, airy paperback oasis along a bougie stretch of cafés and day spas. But it used to be a dry cleaners.
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