After two suicide attempts, losing her baby son to a terminal illness, a marriage that ended in scandal, and then — 4+ years sober — getting the call that her ex-husband overdosed on fentanyl… Ashley Jo somehow kept going.

Today she’s a sober mom, bonus mom, author, and speaker who’s been alcohol-free since August 14, 2020. On the exact release day of her gut-wrenching new memoir Tides of Grief, Waves of Grace, Ashley gets REAL about:

- Hiding 40+ beers a day while everyone thought she “had it together”

- The garage suicide attempt that miraculously failed

- What sober grief actually feels like when the worst keeps happening

- Writing two eulogies in treatment that changed everything

- Why God never left even when faith almost did

- And the letter to her ex she never got to say out loud 💔

This is one of the heaviest, most hopeful conversations we’ve ever had on the show.

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