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

"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