Loveable: Embracing What Is Truest About You, So You Can Truly Embrace Your Life

Why buy Loveable?…ummm, because why wouldn't you want a book called "Loveable" in your life, your home, your bookshelf, your coffee table and to share as a gift to all who you dearly cherish and love…You are worthy; you belong; you are Loveable! And so is everyone else!And because it is an investment - in you; as well as, in creating a Loveable world that thrives in peace, grace, forgiveness. Oh, how the world would be so different if this living guide was available and required reading early in life...I was blessed enough to have an opportunity to receive a free digital copy of Loveable as a member of the launch team. It could not have come at a better moment in my life - to be able to hear these words of truth from the heart of Love. Kelly is an amazing, heartfelt, thoughtful writer and Loveable is an equally amazing, heartfelt, thoughtful work of art that belongs gracing your bookshelf of life. They are dazzling words of magical spells channeled from Divine Grace through his beautiful being and graceful way of expressing.Loveable is more than just a book with some black and white words scrawled upon the page, ordered in lines and paragraphs rearranged - it is a living life of a guide in full vibrant HD color as something we live over and over and over… it is living a life in love, as Love. It is a safe haven telling us we matter; a place where we all belong; a world in which we come together to break bread and honor our passion - for life - all gifts we have been given from God, from Divine, and just how can we gift back in return - through Love, with Love, in Love - where forgiveness settles in, and the peace and ease of redemption imbues our soul soaring with Love.You will want to inscribe and sign your own beautiful name to yourself within the cover:To My Beautiful Being,The little one inside meWho is loveableThis book is a living, breathing guideAn exquisite "heart mirror"Showing meWith graceLetting me knowWith loveMy own heart is proofReflecting my true selfThe one who is worthy,Who belongs,Who has passionsTo shareFor I have been chosenAs a gift from GodTo do soIn this formAnd for this,I shall love and be LoveIn return...{ signed, your name }As a writer myself, and as a human being, I have gained so much inspiration between these pages I have experienced thus far - loving words, oozing out from this worthy soul, pouring forth like a waterfall of light to illuminate all of life. Loveable will continue to teach as it is always within reach becoming embodied within your being from the pages of this book written upon your soul.From my heart to yours, thank you Kelly for the courage to open that bedside drawer, for the strength within your vulnerability, for your authenticity in gracing our lives with Loveable. My life, my love has been forever transformed and changed.

Loveable is not a typical self-help psychology book. In this book, which is equal parts psychology, spirituality and roadmap for change, Kelly Flanagan takes the reader on a journey in which the arc of one's inner life mirrors the literary arc of story.Reading Loveable is like peeling back the layers of an onion. As you peel each away, another layer lies beneath. Dr. Flanagan begins by outlining his premise - we spend our lives trying to feel worthy because we decide early in our lives that our truest selves are unworthy. We hide our true selves as we try to negotiate life in the world. We hide ourselves because we feel shame, because at some point in our lives, either because we had parents who fell short (often through no fault other than being human) or because we had inadequate caregivers, we decided we were not enough as we were and needed to be more in order to earn love, respect, admiration or whatever it is we seek in life. Searching for worthiness becomes the central struggle in our lives.Dr. Flanagan suggests there is a way to re-engineer our lives. It requires us to peel back our protective layers, like those onion layers, to get to know our vulnerable cores and start over by being the loving parent to ourselves. This is no easy feat. If it were, we would not need therapists to sit with our pain and us, as we uncover our unworthy selves.This is why I say Loveable is not an ordinary self-help book. It is a heart-wrenching, painful read, especially if you allow yourself to be vulnerable, make connections, and begin to understand yourself differently. It is also heart-warming and affirming, because along the way the reader discovers the path. Call it what you want - insight, enlightenment, guidance - Kelly Flanagan gently carries the reader on a personal, spiritual or psychological journey. He guides us to lift up our inner child gently, see the good within, and learn to walk through life giving our gifts to others.Loveable makes it clear - faith and psychology are not mutually exclusive. Dr. Flanagan intertwines Christian concepts with psychoanalytic concepts like false-self/true-self and ego. I found most of the book relatable and helpful in framing the difficult idea that we go through life pretending to be who we aren't to gain love, respect, and friends, to fit into our families and social groups. But we end up cheating everyone, including ourselves, out of the true gifts we can offer. In fact, we hardly recognize those gifts in ourselves until we dig through the layers of our false selves to discover our true selves.Don't wait to change your life. Do it now. Discover you are Loveable. There is much we end up regretting in life. You won't regret reading this book.(As a member of Loveable's street team, I was offered an advance digital copy of the book in exchange for writing an honest review. My paperback copy is on the way!)

Easy to read, realistic, inspiring. I wish it was available (and I knew about it!) when I was raising my boys. But, it's never too late to shift, heal, better understand, better love. I plan to share this with my children when they become parents. There are too many healing insights and perspectives to try to describe in a review. And maybe they aren't meant to be. This is not a checklist recipe self-help book. It is an integrate, feel and know type of reading. But, I will say, that the 4 pages (178-181) on finding your passion were especially enlightening for me and anyone who gets caught up and confused by this over-used and ab-used concept.Thank you Kelly for being an "unproven" writer who doesn't fit easily into any particular box". THAT is why you are so refreshing and so helpful to read and follow. YES! I want to come out and play :-)

This book really helped me along the process of learning to stand for what is important to me.I often pick the book up for inspiration and to remember that we all are, but most importantly I am Lovable.

I am here to buy my second copy, because I gave away my first one, then I suddenly realised something very important was missing from my house. Dr. Kelly Flanagan’s voice. His voice has been a constant affirmation to me over the past 5 years through his blog (untangled) and it felt awesome to have all his wisdom in the form of a book. His book is also the first book I write a review about in all those years I have been buying books from amazon. A surberb book, from someone with the heart of a gold.

A powerful book. So well written, and so insightful of the human condition and journey. A book I will revisit often as I circle the mountain, enjoying the view. Thank you!

I'm reading this book again and again. It feels like having your own personal therapist every time you read it. This book has affirmed so much I already knew was true in my heart and been a manual for me in a season of change, growth, loss, and uncertainty. Loveable sums up my healing journey so well and I am so grateful for Kelly putting this out there.