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What No One Ever Told You About How to Live a Loveable Life
Several weeks ago, at Artisan Clinical Associates, the sliding door that separates the waiting room from the therapy rooms fell...
Dear Little One, Release Your Shame (A Letter from a Father to a Child)
Dear Little One, You have not been perfect. Far from it. Do you remember the time you crept downstairs while...
Why Dreaming Small Is Way Better Than Dreaming Big (A Child's Wisdom)
I made my daughter’s dreams come true. On an ordinary Thursday afternoon, Caitlin and I went to the drug store...
The One Thing We All Need (But Hate to Ask For)
I was drowning. For a couple of months last autumn, on Wednesday afternoons, my three kids had a meeting for...
The Simple Trick to Finding True Belonging This Year
On New Year’s Eve, my Facebook feed was transformed. For an hour or two, politics went away and people focused...
This Is the Truth About a Post-Truth World (Maybe)
The Oxford English Dictionary’s 2016 Word of the Year was post-truth, an adjective describing “circumstances in which objective facts are...
What Is Christmas? (It's When We Defiantly Choose the Light)
Last weekend, I hosted my first Christmas party as an employer. Okay, the truth is, I didn’t host it. My...
The Grace of Failure (Or, How to Avoid a Midlife Crisis)
Forty years ago today—on December 14, 1976—I was born. Since then, nothing has worked out as planned. And that, is...
A Guide to Getting the Love You Never Knew You Wanted
It's a Sunday night at the end of a busy weekend and shoehorning the kids back into a school week...
How to Choose Your Friends in the Aftermath of the Election
The day after the election, I had a scheduled phone call with a long-distance friend of mine. We live in...
How to Have a Mountaintop Experience (Right Where You Are)
It's the eve of our fifteenth wedding anniversary and tomorrow morning, in the dark hours before the dawn, my wife...
How to Talk with Family About Politics This Holiday Season
A number of years ago—when marijuana was still illegal everywhere—I stumbled into a particularly heated marijuana debate between two acquaintances....
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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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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.
