Dealing w/ Addiction Loss & Reaching for Beautiful ft Sally Mcquillen, psychotherapist & author

Thank you so much to Sally for giving me the opportunity to interview you! Sally is a psychotherapist specializing in addiction recovery, grief, and trauma healing. She is also the author of the memoir, Reaching for Beautiful: A Memoir of Loving and Losing a Wild Child, which just recently came out. Sally's website: https://www.sallymcquillen.com/ Reaching for Beautiful: https://www.sallymcquillen.com/reaching-for-beautiful-memoir Please do not hesitate to call 988 if you are struggling. Listen to Empathy Gaps on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@empathygaps/videos

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