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"Loveable is a handbook for how to be human." -Katherine Willis Pershey, author of Very Married: Field Notes on Love and Fidelity In Loveable, Dr. Kelly Flanagan writes, "We rarely remember the precious months or years when we experienced our worthiness as a fact. A given. Something as present, real, and natural as breathing and playing and animal crackers."IT'S TIME TO REMEMBER.Dr. Flanagan is a clinical psychologist and father known to millions for the letters he writes to his children and shares on his blog. Loveable is written to the little one in each of us, who is all too ready to be reminded: you are enough, you are not alone, and you matter. In Loveable, Dr. Flanagan reveals the core insight gleaned from his years of clinical work: you are here for a reason, yet you cannot truly awaken to it until you have first embraced your truest, worthiest self and then allow yourself to be truly embraced by others. In other words, we are here to experience worthiness, belonging, and purpose, but they can only be truly experienced in that order. Weaving heart-warming storytelling, gentle insights, and the wisdom of Dr. Flanagan's Christian tradition--including his belief that we are all "the living, breathing bearers of the eternal, transcendent, and limitless Love that spun the planets and hung the stars"--these pages invite you to remember the name you were given before all other names: Loveable. "Written like a love letter to his readers, Kelly quiets the noise of shame, while gently inviting us all to listen for another sound--the peaceful, playful, and powerful voice of Grace." -Aubrey Sampson, author of Overcomer: Breaking Down the Walls of Shame and Rebuilding Your Soul
About the Author
Kelly graduated with his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Penn State University and is the founder of Artisan Clinical Associates in Naperville, IL. In 2012, he began his now popular blog at drkellyflanagan.com, where he writes regularly about all things redemptive. His writing has been featured in Reader's Digest and on The Huffington Post, and he has appeared on the TODAY Show. He is the author of a self-published e-short entitled, THE MARRIAGE MANIFESTO. His first full-length book, LOVEABLE, was published by Zondervan in March 2017 and debuted as the #1 New Release in Interpersonal Relations on Amazon. His next book, TRUE COMPANIONS: A BOOK FOR EVERYONE ABOUT THE RELATIONSHIPS THAT SEE US THROUGH, will be published by InterVarsity Press on February 9, 2021. Kelly is married to another clinical psychologist named Kelly, because they decided to make life even more complicated than it already is. The Kellies--as they are called by friends and family--have three children who are in eleventh, seventh, and fifth grade. They live in a small town outside of Chicago.
