805- How Little League Became A Grief Group with Author Teresa Strasser

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🗓️ 1 August 2023

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Author Teresa Strasser (Making It Home: Life Lessons From A Season of Little League, Exploiting My Baby, The List, Adam Carolla) shares a story about how Little League became a grief group. You have to listen, this book is fantastic!

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0:00.0	Hey, it's storyworthy. Today on the show, author Teresa Strasser talks about her new wonderful book called Making It Home.
0:08.8	There's no way out of this other than through this. And so I'm going to have to stand here.
0:13.7	And sometimes it's going to really hurt. And sometimes that ball's going to hit me on the rib.
0:18.3	And you're going to see like the stitches of the ball in my skin. And it's going to leave a mark. And then it's going to hit me on the rib and you're going to see like the stitches of the ball in my skin and it's
0:23.2	going to leave a mark and then it's going to be okay because there's no way out of this unless I stay
0:28.0	here and feel all these things and feel them with my dad. And I think that's why baseball was a grief
0:33.5	group because we could have all these big feelings together about baseball, but it was really
0:38.9	about everything, you know, we could hate losing, but it was just about baseball, but it was really
0:43.4	about everything. And we didn't have to like losing because we hated it. And it always sucked,
0:48.0	and we never liked it. And we never, ever accepted it. And, you know, we could survive it.
0:56.1	We learned we could tolerate it.
1:03.2	Today on Storyworthy, author Teresa Strasser talks about her new book, Making It Home. Stay close.
1:07.0	Hey, it's Teresa Strasser and you're listening to Storyworthy. My name is Christine Blackburn, and I'm coming to you from Los Angeles, California.
1:22.7	Whether you're a longtime fan of over 13 years or a brand new listener, welcome to Storyworthy. I hope you guys enjoyed
1:30.2	the show last week with comedian Deborah D. Giovanni. She talks about her most troublesome
1:36.8	apartment. Troublesome is one word. Another word is overrun with raccoons. So you could say that.
1:46.3	So that was a difficult apartment for Deborah, but a very funny story. So go back, you guys. Listen to Deborah Di Giovanni last
1:52.4	week, but not today. Stay with me now because today I'm here with a person I've known for a long
1:57.8	time, an extremely talented person.
2:02.4	Her name is Teresa Strasser.
2:08.5	You may know her best as Adam Carolla's sidekick for a long time, but she moved to Phoenix a while ago and was hosting a show down there, a television show called The List.
2:14.4	Was the List like a hard copy or something?
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