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Welcome to Humaning!

Humaning is the lifelong art of opening our hearts to the whole human experience. If adulting is the process of becoming a thriving adult, then humaning is the process of becoming a flourishing human. And it is also my online publication by the same name—a little corner of the internet where we can all be inspired through storytelling and conversation to love the journey.

You can join for free more than 15,000 human beings on the journey toward becoming more wholly human, or a loveable community of hundreds of paying members who are helping me craft my next non-fiction book, engaging with each other in exclusive chat threads, and gathering on Zoom for monthly community calls. If Loveable was "a handbook for how to be human,” then Humaning is the classroom. I hope you’ll join us!

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The Unhiding Of Elijah Campbell

In his debut novel, Kelly weaves a page-turning, plot-twisting tale that explores the spiritual depths of identity and relationships amidst themes of healing, grace, faith, forgiveness, and freedom.

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True Companions

Find out how the three ordinary experiences that plague most relationships—loneliness, defensiveness, and distractedness—can be transformed into the fertile ground for enduring, lifelong companionship.

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Loveable

You are here for a reason, yet you cannot truly awaken to it until you have first embraced your truest, worthiest, most loveable self and then allowed yourself to be truly embraced by your people.

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KELLY FLANAGAN

Embrace your worthiness, build your belonging, and clarify your purpose.

Hi, I’m Kelly. Some people call me Dr. Flanagan or Dr. Kelly, but Kelly will do just fine. I’m a clinical psychologist by day, a writer by night, a consultant and speaker in my free time, and an ordinary human, husband, father, and friend in the midst of it all.

If you find yourself on the brink of an awakening or right in the middle of one, you’re in the right place. A second, better life awaits you right here, right now. It has three essential rewards, and when you walk through those essentials in the right order, things begin, gradually, to fall into place. And I couldn’t be more grateful for this chance to walk with you for a little while.

THE THREE ACTS OF LIFE

Which one are you in right now?

Embracing your worthiness

You are worthy of love and belonging. Like all of us, somewhere along the way, you forgot this. It’s time to remember.

Building your belonging

Find your belonging by showing up as the person you are. Building your belonging by growing into the companion you can be.

Clarifying your purpose

Vocation, calling, purpose, meaning. It goes by many names, but whatever you call it, being clear about your reason for being here is at the heart of a satisfying life.

My Story

About Kelly Flanagan

I grew up in a small town in rural Illinois, and I got out of it as fast as I could because I figured the satisfaction we’re all looking for couldn’t be found in a cornfield. I went to the University of Illinois and majored in psychology before going to Penn State for graduate school. There, I met my lovely wife (who also happens to be named Kelly, as if life isn’t already complicated enough), we had our first child, and I earned a Ph.D. in clinical psychology. Then, I went on to become a successful therapist. I’d checked every box I could think of in search of a satisfying life, and yet true satisfaction still seemed somehow out of reach. That’s when I got depressed—really depressed—for the first time in my life. By 2011, I was asking the same question most of my clients were asking: there’s got to be more to life than this, right?