The story of a mother’s love and a child’s grit and determination. Written as real-talk, conversational and easy to understand...
Title: Braveing the Way
Author: Laurel C. Fox
Publication Date: June 20, 2024
Pages: 186
Genre: Memoir
When Laurel’s fourteen-year-old daughter experiences a life-altering event, her entire world is upended overnight. Faced with her child’s precarious fight to survive and the daunting road of rehabilitation ahead, Laurel discovers fountains of courage and devotion she didn’t know she possessed.
Despite the hardships and her own private grief, Laurel tackles each grueling day with positivity, resilience, and humor. She becomes a tireless advocate for her daughter by pushing past exhaustion and uncertainty, focusing on savoring small triumphs, finding meaning amidst tragedy, and opening the door to the healing force of community.
Sharing her deeply personal experience, she delivers an emotionally charged story that reveals the extraordinary power of a mother’s love, underscoring the lengths a parent will go to for their children. Laurel’s own self-discovery will both encourage and inspire you.
Laurel says to her readers “My book is about a trauma that happened to my daughter, Taylor, when she was fourteen years old. My story ‘braveing the way’ takes you deep into my own journey while being beside my daughter in her separate journey of survival.”
Braveing the Way is available at Amazon.
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Laurel C. Fox was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and raised in Aspen, Colorado from the age of nine, through high school. She went back to Milwaukee for her first year of college at the University of Wisconsin at Madison/WI. After one year at Madison, she moved on to finish college in California, earning a BA in Liberal Arts at Excelsior College, with her course studies done at UCLA in Los Angeles. You can visit the author’s web page at www.braveingtheway.com and Instagram at https://instagram.com/laurelcarini.
Interview:
Where are you from?
I moved to Snowmass Village, Colorado when I was nine years old (which is right outside Aspen, Colorado)
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When and why did you begin writing?
My writing started with journals from day one and those went on until day two hundred and eleven. It was when I stopped posting the journals on-line that inspired me to turn this into something bigger than a journal. I began mentoring another parent through her child’s traumatic brain injury recovery; and at the same time people from all over were writing and calling --to tell me that they missed my journals. They missed reading what I had to say. That made me think that this story of mine, could actually be a book.
When did you first consider yourself a writer?
I think I finally considered myself a “good writer” a year after I had started my on-line journal. I realized people were reading my writings and thoroughly enjoying them.
What inspired you to write your first book?
In 2014 I got a phone call that no parent ever wants to receive. My daughter Taylor was in a horrible accident, and was being transported to the biggest trauma center in Los Angeles. When I began writing and digging into an on-line journal everyday, not only to escape the madness, but to also communicate with everyone-- I learned that it was my comfort. Then my comfort and my cathartic writing process slowly became bigger than that and eventually turned into a book.
Do you have a specific writing style?
My writing style in braveing the way is definitely real-talk (and more conversational) which makes it an easy to read page-turner in my opinion.
How did you come up with the title?
I had five titles in my computer being saved and in the middle of the night last year braveing the way just came to me. I got up and wrote it down, so I wouldn’t let go of it.
Is there a message in your novel that you want readers to grasp?
My message of resilience, tenacity and shear grit is what I hope to give to my readers. That old cliche of needing to breakdown before you can break through is what happens to me during this journey. It’s a story about moving through a trauma with my two daughters, taking you through my own self-reflection while doing that, and being ‘mama bear’ every step of the way. It is not only a beautiful story about maternal sacrifice, it is also about building tenacity, strength and courage through intense struggle. I hope to encourage and bring bravery to people who don’t think they have it.
What books have most influenced your life most?
Mostly autobiographical books and non-fiction “real” stories have influenced me for writing braveing the way in the last eight years.
Are there any new authors that have grasped your interest?
I have always been a fan of Emily Giffin. I consider her an excellent story teller.
What are your current projects?
I am SAG voice-over actor and I promote my book I hope to work on a show this fall coming soon.
Name one entity that you feel supported you outside of family members?
My community while I was going through this writing process —but also my writing “team” of helpers.
What would you like my readers to know?
I would tell your readers (who haven’t read the book) that it is not only a beautiful story about maternal sacrifice, it is also about building tenacity, strength and courage through intense struggle. I hope to encourage and bring bravery to people who don’t think they have it. Life happens --and I hope my story reminds my readers to be thoughtful, hopeful and thankful everyday.
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