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Healing Through Words: Sally McQuillen's Memoir Journey
In this episode, I sit down with Sally McQuillen, a psychotherapist and author of the upcoming memoir "Reaching for Beautiful: A Memoir of Loving and Losing a Wild Child." Sally shares her powerful journey of processing grief through writing after losing her son Christopher, and how journaling on her phone eventually evolved into a full memoir.
Key Topics & Timestamps:
[05:01] Sally discusses her connection to "wild" personalities and her son Christopher
[15:57] The therapeutic benefits of journaling through grief
[21:52] How Sally's writing group helped shape her memoir
[26:54] Working with…
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