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The Attempt to Reach for Beautiful: Grief, Love, and Letting Go

The Attempt to Reach for Beautiful: Grief, Love, and Letting Go

Update: 2025-07-11
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When Sally McQuillen lost her 21-year-old son in a tragic accident, her world changed forever. In this powerful episode, Sally, author of Reaching for Beautiful: A Memoir of Loving and Losing a Wild Child, joins host Fartumo Kusow for a deeply honest conversation about parenting through fear, the weight of grief, and the journey toward forgiveness and healing.


Together, they explore the complexities of loving someone who walks a risky path, the illusion of control that haunts so many grieving parents, and how writing her memoir became both a burden and a balm. As a psychotherapist, Sally brings unique insight into the emotional landscape of loss and how grief reshapes not only our memories but our identities.


This is a story of holding on, letting go, and reaching again and again for something beautiful on the other side of heartbreak.


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The Attempt to Reach for Beautiful: Grief, Love, and Letting Go

The Attempt to Reach for Beautiful: Grief, Love, and Letting Go

Fartumo Kusow