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My Search for Christopher on the Other Side<\/em>, an unforgettable book of a father\u2019s relentless love for his lost son, began on a freezing January morning in 2016. Joe McQuillen\u2019s life was turned inside out when he received a call that his son, Christopher, along with three of his friends, was missing. They had been at a friend\u2019s lake house, celebrating the end of Christmas break from college. Sometime during the evening of revelry, the four young men jumped into a canoe, paddled out onto the icy lake, capsized, and drowned. Christopher\u2019s body was recovered first; the others over the next several dark days. Thus began Joe\u2019s journey through grief, awakening, discovery and acceptance as he\u2014through mediums, research and, eventually, direct communication\u2014navigated his personal bridge to \u201cthe other side.\u201d<\/p>\n Joe has been married for 27 years and is the father of three children, one on the \u201cother side.\u201d Joe was the youngest of 10 children from an Irish-Catholic family, and although he has had two successful careers, he is at heart a blue-collar kid from Buffalo, NY. Starting as a salesman, he spent 25 years in the automobile business, working his way up to executive manager and partner in a number of successful Chicagoland dealerships. After selling out in 2009, Joe began a second successful career as a mortgage broker and is currently with Chicago Financial Services.<\/p>\n Among his many charitable associations, Joe sits on the board of In Balance Ranch Academy, a boarding school dedicated to helping troubled teens with addiction. Following the loss of his son, he began running a charity golf outing to benefit both In Balance Ranch and Penguin Players, a theater troupe of disabled young adults.<\/p>\n To learn more about Joe and his work, please visit his website here: https:\/\/mysearchforchristopher.home.blog<\/a> Thursday, July 18th ~ Joe McQuillen: My Search For Christopher On the Other Side My Search for Christopher on the Other Side, an unforgettable book of a father\u2019s relentless love for his lost son, began on a freezing January morning in 2016. Joe McQuillen\u2019s life was turned inside out when he received a call that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribritt.com\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2341"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribritt.com\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribritt.com\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribritt.com\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribritt.com\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2341"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/terribritt.com\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2360,"href":"https:\/\/terribritt.com\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2341\/revisions\/2360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribritt.com\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribritt.com\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribritt.com\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/terribritt.com\/radio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Joe-McQuillen-My-Search-for-Christopher-on-the-Other-Side-cover.jpg?resize=274%2C422&ssl=1\")
Joe is himself 33 years sober and a member of AA, a fact that has, in his words, \u201chelped me to get close to God and to carry me through the dark times after my boy\u2019s crossing.\u201d His journey has led him both to speak to teens with addiction and to write this book. Joe has pondered the possibility that he may one day turn the tragedy of his son\u2019s death into a new, third, career, one which may well be the most fulfilling of his life.<\/p>\n
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