Warning: This Post Could Be Hazardous to Your Paralysis | UnTangled

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Kelly Flanagan on digital detox. NOT A SAFE POST! 🙂

What I Will Miss When They Are Gone | UnTangled

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In celebration of grandfathers.

This Is the Truth About a Post-Truth World (Maybe) | UnTangled

The Oxford English Dictionary’s 2016 Word of the Year was post-truth, an adjective describing “circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to …

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This is Kelly Flanagan at his best. A must read.

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Why You Shouldn’t Waste Time Working on Your Marriage | UnTangled

It has been said so often it is now cliché: you have to work on your marriage. I wish I’d known fifteen years ago, when I got married, how false that truism actually is… Our first honeymoon was a b…

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Kelly Flanagan makes so much sense and is so fresh. A must read, I would say.

A Daddy’s Letter to His Little Girl (About How Fast She’s Walking Away)

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A very moving letter of a father to his growing daughter.

[New Post] Why Healing Our Hearts Might Be Simpler Than We Think

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Kelly Flanagan is an author I often read with great benefit. Like in this case. Enjoy! Or maibe this is not the right word.

5 Essential Life Lessons from 4 Surprising Years of Blogging | UnTangled

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Some good lessons of blogging.

Kelly Flanagan on Unwrapping the Real You

For some time now I am following the personal blog of Kelly Flanagan, a clinical psychologist living in Wheaton, Ill. The text he has just published is, up to this moment, the best I have read this Christmas. Here is just a fragment, the most important one, I think.

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I don’t believe in identity formation anymore.

Because figuring out who we are isn’t about making something new; it’s about seeing something old. There’s no such thing as identity formation; there is only identity recognition. There is only a new awareness of something original in us. In the end, we don’t make something of ourselves; we glimpse something of ourselves.