The Loveable Podcast
By Dr. Kelly Flanagan
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Description
The two deepest desires of every human heart are to love simply and to live fully. So why do our relationships remain so complicated, and why do our lives sometimes ring so hollow? Because neither love nor life can be truly embraced until you, and only you, have embraced your truest, worthiest self. In his book, LOVEABLE, clinical psychologist and popular blogger, Kelly Flanagan explored how trusting our worthiness forms the foundation upon which we find true belonging and discover our purpose in life. LOVEABLE has been described as “a handbook for how to be human.” Now, in this podcast, Kelly delivers the tools for living fully into who you are and why you are here. Each weekly episode includes an inspirational reading, a presentation of practices for the week, and a conversation with Kelly’s readers about both. Inspirational. Practical. Conversational. It’s like a year’s worth of free therapy. Except it’s much more. It’s how to become whole. You can visit Kelly's blog at https://drkellyflanagan.com. And for more information about LOVEABLE, go to http://loveablethebook.com.
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CleanThe Conclusion to the Loveable Podcast [Loveable 054] | “We’ve been taught to believe life is only meaningful if we’re getting from here to there—doing a lot, becoming more important, accruing more stuff, feeling safer, and increasing our comfort. Even the good work of redeeming the world can become | 12/24/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWeek 52: Reflecting Upon the Unfolding of Your Truest Self [Loveable 053] | “Your true self folded in upon itself never ceases to be your truest you. Your soul is bigger and more beautiful and more mysterious than you can possible imagine. It has been folded in upon itself by people and by experience and by life. | 12/17/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWeek 51: How All This Passion, Pain, and Courage Add Up to Joy [Loveable 052] | “Fear about the future becomes bravery in the present becomes joy in hindsight. Joy is knowing you can be scared and still ride through life. Joy is being terrified and trusting you’ll survive it. Joy is believing in yourself enough to believe you | 12/3/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWeek 50: The Courage to Fail [Loveable 051] | “Courage is ignoring the jeers and feeling the fears. Courage is returning to the edge of our comfort zone and choosing the place where our fear dwells, because we are worthy of another chance at life. Regardless of what the critics say. | 11/19/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWeek 49: What to Do When Our Feelings Are Lying to Us [Loveable 050] | “Life is a gift in terrifying disguise, and we are here to open it, until we find the still-quiet place in the center of it, where fear no longer decides.” In Episode 50 of The Loveable Podcast, we talk about fear. It is an important emotion. | 11/12/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWeek 48: The Good Life vs. the Redemptive Life [Loveable 049] | The so-called good life is a hollow promise. It’s empty of the things we desire most, like passion, purpose, and peace. It bores us. Makes us restless. We crave something else. We ultimately crave a redemptive life. | 11/5/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWeek 47: What a Life of Vulnerability Really Looks Like [Loveable 048] | “We are healed when we reveal our mess to another and put our real self on the line. When we connect in our brokenness—not in spite of it—we discover what makes us messy is also what makes us beautiful. And we give everyone around us permissi | 10/22/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWeek 46: You Aren’t Here to Be More Happy (You Are Here to Be More You) [Loveable 047] | “Life doesn’t have an easy setting. Remembering who you are isn’t an all-or-nothing endeavor. It’s not a pass-fail assignment. The truth is much closer to this: life is like a sieve and everything we do runs through it. If we watch closely, | 10/15/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWeek 45: Why the Most Mundane Life Is Sometimes the Most Passionate Life [Loveable 046] | “Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.” –Gustave Flaubert In Episode 46 of The Loveable Podcast, we are focused on taking the space in your life created by last week’s exercise and doing so | 10/8/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWeek 44: The Beauty of Becoming a Quitter [Loveable 045] | “Sometimes, life gets too cramped to move in any new direction. Sometimes, the direction we need to go is backward. Sometimes, the best thing we can do is to undo the best things we’ve done.” In Episode 45 of The Loveable Podcast, | 10/1/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWeek 43: Don’t Do Something More Meaningful (Do Something More You) [Loveable 044] | “If you were given permission to simply be more you, what would you do? Start speaking up? Standing up? Standing out? Walking out? Reaching out? Pouring out? Sitting in? Giving in? Giving up? Opening up? To what? Dance lessons? Photography school? | 9/24/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWeek 42: Don’t Try to Be More Extraordinary (Try to Be More Human) [Loveable 043] | “Yes, the extraordinary is a gift some of us receive at rare, fleeting moments. But our humanity is the ordinary gift we are, all of us, always receiving all the time.” In Episode 43 of The Loveable Podcast, | 9/17/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWeek 41: How Five Senseless Days Could Make Sense of the Rest of Your Days [Loveable042] | In the words of Frederick Buechner, “Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery it is. In the boredom and pain of it, no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it, | 9/10/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWeek 40: How Hopelessness Can Become Our Best Hope [Loveable041] | “Hope can be a beautiful thing, because it gives us direction and imbues our lives with a sense of purpose and meaning. But hope can also be the worst of things, because sometimes we settle for having a direction, | 8/27/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWeek 39: The Blessing of Being Unfinished [Loveable 040] | “We have a list of things we think must be accomplished inside of us before we can start taking risks outside of us. We think, Once I’m more confident, I’ll start dating. Once I’m more patient, I’ll have children. Once I’m wise enough, | 8/20/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWeek 38: What If a Resurrected Life Isn’t as Impossible as It May Seem? [Loveable 039] | “Sometimes the simplest, most elegant, most life-changing solutions are right in front of our noses. But we can’t see them, because we are locked in to old schemas. A schema is a mental framework that helps organize and interpret information in th | 8/13/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWeek 37: When You Think You Don’t Know How to Live [Loveable 038] | “Sometimes, joy is simply undone things finally lived. We need to keep the door of our hearts open, so we can listen to our urges and our wants. Many of them are trying to lead us into joy. Yet, when we’ve been shutting the door on them for so long | 8/6/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWeek 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 wanted to practice. Hobbies you’ve wanted to make a habit of. Love you’ve wanted to spread in the form of a vocation. | 7/30/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWeek 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 not going anywhere. But what if we gave it something better to do? | 7/23/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWeek 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 a problem. Because the solutions to our most pressing concerns don’t lie within the heated exchange of our ideas; they lie | 7/16/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWeek 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 fact, we need to have our own spaces and limits and identity. True intimacy is the absence of secrets. | 7/2/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWeek 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, just maybe, we can fall into love again by learning how to pay attention again—by giving up all of our judgment and assessment and c | 6/18/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWeek 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 in exactly the way you do it…You can stop being humble about it. You can stop suppressing it and burying it. | 6/11/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWeek 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 doing new things; they thrive upon doing old things we used to do and quit doing somewhere along the way. And, | 6/4/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWeek 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 dependence on other souls. When the bad stuff happens, it’s a chance to rely on the good stuff in other people. | 5/21/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWeek 28: Learning How to Take a Compliment [Loveable 029] | “Once upon a time, before our wounds and our world made us forget, we knew the good things about us were true. We believed them so thoroughly it didn’t hurt to hear them spoken to us.” In Episode 29 of The Loveable Podcast, | 5/14/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWeek 27: The Essential Building Block of Belonging [Loveable 028] | “When our egos lose, our hearts win.” In Episode 28 of The Loveable Podcast, we dive deep into the topic of empathy, including how essential it is for true belonging, and the five barriers to cultivating it and communicating it. | 5/7/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWeek 26: The Opposite of Loneliness [Loveable 027] | “The world we live in is aching with loneliness. Yet, we are rarely aware of it, because in a loud and crowded world, loneliness has a thousand busy disguises.” In Episode 27 of The Loveable Podcast, we discuss how our mass connection culture produ | 4/30/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWeek 25: The One Sentence That Can Change Your Love and Life [Loveable 026] | “I’m not going to worry very much about offending people anymore, which means I need you to tell me when I do, so I can think about it and decide if I need to apologize.” This is the one sentence that can change the way you love and live. | 4/23/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWeek 24: The Other Most Important Thing to Look for in a Best Friend [Loveable 025] | “Your time on this big rock is limited, so it is probably a waste of your time to spend it trying to convince people who cannot see the goodness of your heart that it is, indeed, good.” Finding true belonging is not just about finding people, | 4/16/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWeek 23: The Most Important Thing to Look for in a Best Friend [Loveable 024] | “Belonging is built on bravery.” Most of us, when we are looking for someone to belong to—whether in marriage or friendship or anywhere else—look for someone who seems either perfect, or a perfect fit. Neither exist. | 4/9/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWeek 22: Putting Stories Before Opinions [Loveable 023] | “Every opinion is a story in disguise…Every belief is a story fashioned into a worldview.” Episode 23 of The Loveable Podcast is all about opinions, opinionated people, and how to go deeper than our opinions in order to form true belonging. | 3/26/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWeek 21: Finding the Fear Underneath All the Fury [Loveable 022] | “Anger isn’t an inherently bad thing. Anger becomes a destructive thing when we allow it to become a reactive thing instead of harnessing it as a guiding thing.” In Episode 21 of The Loveable Podcast, we focus on what to do with the anger aro | 3/19/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWeek 20: What to Do with Your Walls [Loveable 021] | “Walls are everywhere in our world…We build them so big they are the only things we create that can be seen from space. It’s like we’re advertising to the universe, ‘Walls matter on this big, spinning rock!’ But perhaps the biggest walls, | 3/12/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWeek 19: From Limping Lonely to Loving Together [Loveable 020] | There are two kinds of loneliness. The first kind is a natural and inevitable part of being human—it exists because you exist. The second kind of loneliness, however, is a loneliness of our own creation. And that’s good news, | 3/5/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWeek 18: A Kid Named Lonely [Loveable 019] | “Places of belonging are not meant to be places where our loneliness is taken away. They are meant to be places where we reveal our loneliness to one another…Once you have made your loneliness available to one of your people, | 2/26/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWeek 17: The One Illusion We Cannot Afford to Believe In [Loveable 018] | “Experiencing our worthiness does not lead us to believe we are self-sufficient; it helps us to be at peace with the knowledge that we are insufficient. We are interconnected. Interdependent. As big as a limitless soul, | 2/19/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWeek 16: The Fear (and Joy) of Removing the Masks We Wear [Loveable 017] | “Grace is what happens when someone or Someone sees through our many masks, recognizing and celebrating the innocent little one that still resides beneath all of our disguises…Grace is the assurance that everyone is of equal value and equally worthy | 2/12/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWeek 15: The Mess Will Set You Free! [Loveable 016] | “Ann Lamott once wrote, ‘The grace of age is radical self-acceptance.’ Life is messy and we human creatures are messy. Life isn’t about eliminating the mess; it’s about embracing the mess.” In Episode 16 of The Loveable Podcast, | 2/5/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWeek 14: The Life-Changing Difference Between Shame and Guilt [Loveable 015] | “Guilt is shame redeemed by grace. Shame tells us we are lousy; guilt tells us we did something lousy. Shame whispers, “Your mistakes define you,” but guilt proclaims, “We are defined by redemption, not by transgression. | 1/30/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWeek 13: Embracing Your Valuable Flaws [Loveable 014] | “Perfection is overrated. Competition makes us common. The game is over. You are here to be unique. You are here to be you. Enjoy the freedom of that.” In Episode 14 of The Loveable Podcast, we focus on not just accepting, but embracing, | 1/22/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWeek 12: The Voice of Grace [Loveable 013] | “Grace isn’t just acceptance of the status quo. Grace contains the status quo—all of our struggle and pain and mess—and embraces us and values us anyway. Grace demands that nothing be changed for love and connection to happen, | 1/16/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWeek 11: Choosing Which Voices to Listen to Around You [Loveable 012] | “Maybe growing up and growing healthy is as simple as discerning which voices to allow in, and learning how to keep the rest of the voices out.” In last week’s episode, we began to focus on the voice of shame all of us hear on the inside of us. No | 1/2/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWeek 10: Why Shame Is the Beginning of Your Story (Not the End of It) [Loveable 011] | “There is a place inside of you where a better voice is telling a better story about you. Let the next chapter of your story be about listening for that voice.” In Episode 11 of The Loveable Podcast, we define shame, | 12/19/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWeek 9: What to Do When Your Heart Feels Like a Jungle [Loveable 010] | “Embracing your worthiness is up to you and you alone—we cannot truly receive love until we have embraced that we are worthy of love. However, we all need someone to walk with us as we do so. We don’t depend upon this person for our sense of worth | 12/12/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWeek 8: The Small Gate and Narrow Road Back to Your True Self [Loveable 009] | Emotional healing and spiritual growth are not about eliminating our pain; they are about approaching our pain. Rather than moving away from our pain, we learn how to move toward it, enduring it, learning from it, transforming it, | 12/5/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWeek 7: You Are Not Your Thoughts (You Are the Observer of Your Thoughts) [Loveable 008] | “This is the promise of your pain: to relate to it properly, you must learn how to observe it, and as you learn to observe it, you begin, for the first time, to fully inhabit the soul within you that is doing the observing. This week, | 11/21/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWeek 6: Unbecoming Who You Are Not [Loveable 007] | “You already are what you are becoming. You don’t build what you are; you chip away at what you are not. We are, each of us, like blocks of wood, and becoming our true self is the gradual process of carving away the excess and steadily becoming more | 11/14/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWeek 5: Letting Go of the Solution to All of Your Problems [Loveable 006] | What is the only thing worse than not getting what you want? Getting what you want. Because after you get what you want, you will probably realize it wasn’t the hoped-for solution to all of your problems. And then what? | 11/7/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWeek 4: Self-Acceptance Is the Foundation of All Self-Improvement [Loveable 005] | What if all our efforts to improve ourselves are actually keeping us stuck, because, sometimes, self-help is just cleverly disguised self-rejection? And what if, sometimes, self-acceptance is the most helpful, most transformative thing of all? | 10/31/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWeek 3: Replacing Suffering with Presence [Loveable 004] | What if pain is an inevitable part of being alive, but suffering is not? And what if you could begin reducing your suffering right now, with a few simple practices? Join us for Episode 4 of The Loveable Podcast, | 10/24/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWeek 2: Rest Is Revolutionary [Loveable 003] | Welcome to Episode 3 of The Loveable Podcast! Join us, as we read and discuss Week 2 of Loveable’s companion book (which is available nowhere else). It was another great conversation, this time about why most rest isn’t very restful at all… This w | 10/10/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWeek 1: Doing Is the Enemy of Becoming [Loveable 002] | This is Episode 2 of The Loveable Podcast, and the first week of our on-line book club! We got together on Facebook Live, read Week 1 of Loveable’s companion book (which is available nowhere else), and had a great discussion about it. | 10/1/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanAn Introduction to The Loveable Podcast [Loveable 001] | Welcome to Episode 1 of The Loveable Podcast. In this introductory episode, I give you a behind-the-scenes glimpse at my story, share details about the podcast, narrate the introduction to Loveable’s companion book (which is available nowhere else), | 9/15/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Customer Reviews
Helping Me See Through Pain
Recently found this podcast and blog with Dr. Kelly Flanagan and I have found it so helpful. My new practice is to get up early and listen to 1 podcast and then start the day feeling much stronger, and less frustrated! I'll be ordering his book Loveable and doing the worksheets as well. A BIG THANK YOU TO Dr. Kelly Flanagan for doing this work.
Gift this to yourself!
I read Lovable as a member of the street team - reading and reviewing the book before it was sold in stores. It is life changing. Dr. Flanagan's truth and vulnernablity guides you through a process to study yoursel in a very gentle manner. I purchased copies of this book and gifted it to several friends. Now I am listening to Dr. Flanagan's free podcast which is a year long study of this book. The podcast is amazing. Dr. Flanagan's openness and wisdom in each weekly podcast allows me to continue the journey of self-study unafraid*. *Unafraid - able to face the fear and shame we have layer by layer built inside of ourself while seeing the amber of our true lovable self getting brighter and brave enough to want to shine.
You will love Loveable
You are loveable. If you ever have doubts about then you will benefit from this podcast. I have the book but the podcast allows me to listen while I am working or driving and learn or be reminded of the simple truth that I am loveable. We all need reminders from time to time. Wherever you are on your own loveable journey subscribe to this podcast and take this journey with Dr. Flanagan one week at a time. You will be glad you did.
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