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How to Truly Treasure Your Truest Companions
Before COVID, it was just a crabapple tree. It sits at the corner of our house, and two windows look...
How to Save Our Culture with One Simple Idea
"Family dinners." I’d spent the day at a dads retreat, talking about how to intentionally shape the culture within our...
The Four Kinds of Anger (and How to Handle Them Better)
It looks like anger is tearing our world apart. It’s not. Anger has no power to tear anything apart. Anger...
If You Don't Have Something Humble to Say, Don't Say Anything At All
We’re in trouble. I’m not referring to the global pandemic, nor the prospect of new lockdowns in our country as...
The Most Resilient Thought I've Ever Had
"Are you okay?" I've just flown over the handlebars of my bike to avoid being hit by a car, landing...
What a Little Girl Can Teach You about a Better Bucket List
Two months of quarantine. And counting. On a Thursday afternoon, I’m looking for new ways to feel alive, so I...
Release everything.
Cancel everything. When I read that headline in The Atlantic, it was my B.C./A.C. moment. Before Coronavirus. After Coronavirus. Most...
An Ancient Kind of Easter
It’s Saturday, the day between death and resurrection. Two thousand years ago, Holy Saturday was a day of stillness, uncertainty,...
This Season of Ashes (A Reflection on COVID-19)
This year, instead of doing Lent, Lent is doing me. In my faith tradition, Lent is the spiritual season observed...
Quit Listening to Your Feelings ASAP (Says the Shrink)
The plane is taxiing for takeoff and my ten year-old daughter Caitlin is terrified. She’s sitting next to me, folded...
Look Up at the Magic Show
I didn’t even look up. We were boarded and buckled in, our phones were on airplane mode, and the flight...
Take Back Your Attention, Your Year, and Your Life
As I write this, it’s mid-December 2019, and I turned 43 this week. The average American male lives to the...
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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.