SALLY
MCQUILLEN
PSYCHOTHERAPIST | WRITER
COMING APRIL 2025
A luminous story of how love triumphs over pain, love transcends fear, and love never dies.
Reaching for Beautiful
A Memoir of Loving and Losing a Wild Child
When Sally learns that her twenty-one-year-old son Christopher died tragically in a boat accident, her greatest fear is realized. Christopher was often drawn to risk and struggled with addiction, and in this riveting memoir, Sally captures the wild ride of his jam-packed life and her deep love for him while also reflecting on her own childhood and family legacy of alcoholism.
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About Sally McQuillen
Sally McQuillen, LCSW, CADC, is a psychotherapist in private practice specializing in addiction, grief, and trauma recovery.