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Week 36: Why Wanting Is the Way to Truly Living [Loveable 037]
"You have things you’ve always wanted to do with your life. Ways you’ve wanted to spend your days. Passions you’ve...
The Ordinary Webs We Weave
It's an early summer night and we’re doing early summer sorts of things, like boating and tubing on a river...
Week 35: The Kindness Challenge [Loveable 036]
"Let’s admit it: we’re obsessed with winning. Just look around. Everything has become a competition. Our will-to-win is everywhere, and it’s...
Week 34: Let’s Hold Each Other Like We’re Dying [Loveable 035]
"Sometimes, we fight so we don’t have to feel. Sometimes, we trade jeers so we don’t have to trade tears...and that’s...
Can You See Yourself in All of Them?
She stands there, small as any eight year-old, hidden in the towering aisles of the toy store. She picks up...
Week 33: The Healing Is in the Emptying [Loveable 034]
"True intimacy is not the absence of privacy or the absence of boundaries or the absence of a separate self—in...
Why We Need to Wobble
I was accidentally sabotaging my daughter’s dream. For two summers, Caitlin began the season dreaming of riding a bike. And...
Week 32: Becoming Students of the People We Belong To [Loveable 033]
"Relationships can grow stale and stuck. Perhaps that’s just the way life goes and the way love ages. But maybe,...
What is this lump in my throat?
A few weeks ago, a friend laid an unfinished poem called "Holding the Baby" at my feet and asked me...
Week 31: Turning Pro at the Art of Loving [Loveable 032]
"You have a relationship gift. Something you are naturally good at. A way of loving that no one else can do...
Week 30: Letting Grace Show Us How to Love [Loveable 031]
"Relationships do not thrive on big things; they thrive upon small things done every day. They don’t thrive necessarily on...
Week 29: Embracing Your Limitations and Being Embraced by Your People [Loveable 030]
"To live from our soul—the great, powerful, divine thing at the center of us—is, paradoxically, to become aware of our...
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Dr. Kelly Flanagan is a psychologist, author, consultant, and speaker who enjoys walking with people through the three essentials of a truly satisfying life: worthiness, belonging, and purpose. His blog writings have been featured in Reader’s Digest, The Huffington Post, The 5 Love Languages, and the TODAY Show. Kelly is the author of Loveable and True Companions.