May 9, 2023
Lauren Sisler was a freshman at Rutgers University when
learned she had lost her father just hours after she had lost her
mother. Having come home to grieve one parent, she was blindsided
by the news that the other had died, too. And she had no idea how
any of it had happened
This week, we speak with Sisler about that 2003 tragedy, when
she was not only hit with the unfathomable news of the deaths of
her mom and dad, but the shame she couldn’t shake after she learned
how they died: from prescription-drug overdoses.
It would take her years to break free from what she calls the
shackles of that shame, keeping the truth to herself even as she
launched a successful career as a sideline reporter for college
football and gymnastics on ESPN and the SEC Network. But as she
began to share the true story of her parents’ deaths, she
discovered she could transfer the hope and healing she experienced
in facing those hard truths to the audiences that heard her
speaking them.
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