With "True Companions", Dr. Kelly Flanagan has written a Valentine to all humans who are in relationships with other humans. After having been such a fan of his previous book "Lovable", my bar for his new book was set fairly high, but Dr. Kelly surpassed it with room to spare!

I am grateful for the book's insights because I have previously explained my nearly 30-year marriage by saying, "I married my best friend," while knowing it was so much more. Now I know and can say that my husband and I quickly became true companions, starting with our deep discussions in email before we ever met face-to-face.

Valentine cards can be exchanged by friends and family members as well as romantic partners, and thus the information in this book is applicable to many different kinds of relationships. We should ALL have an assortment of true companions who accompany us on this journey we call life.

I've been with my husband for a long time. Let me say what this book is NOT..it's not your typical "marriage" or "self-help" book.

When was the last time you read something that revealed something REAL about the author, and more than that, revealed something new about yourself? This is Kelly Flanagan's new book, True Companions. Filled with personal stories, humor, wisdom, and THE most incredible way of writing that truly stops you in your tracks. This book is for everyone, not just married couples. It's not a marriage book, It's a human's book. 10 stars in my book!

True Companions is a must read, a must share for every human.

Lyrical and warmly humorous, Dr. Flanagan re-frames the loneliness that is the inescapable core of every heart, showing us not only how to embrace it, but how to become more connected to others through it.

God often shows up in this way, in and through the very thing that we would fear and those things we seek to avoid. Are you lonely? In the swirling busyness, the noise, even the happy noise of life? In your most intimate relationship?

I initially thought this book may not be for me, a divorced person. I was wrong. It is for all of us, because regardless of marital status or relationship lack, we are wired for connection. We are often clumsy, and need the sort of guide that we find in the pages of this wise book, through the words of a wise person who has been and is leaning in to his own loneliness and the expressions of his family and his clients and learns...and teaches from that learning.

Perfect. Pick up this book and hold hands with your loneliness as it leads you into a place of finding your True Companions, and becoming one as well.

While we've all been having to live in and out of isolation over the past year, Dr. Kelly Flanagan, clinical psychologist and gifted author of the book Loveable, has been busy preparing to shake things up again with his new book, True Companions. It was just released February 9, 2021.

Dr. Kelly's first book, Loveable, is one fantastic life-changing lesson, chapter after chapter. Knowing his new book was about to be released and being a skeptical one, I pictured in my mind for True Companions to be similar to a sequel of "the best movie ever made". (You know, "meh".) I was SO wrong!

It's so rare to outdo something that's the best ever made. And he did it again.

True Companions is written in three parts: 1. Grow Quiet- Befriending Your Loneliness; 2. Grow Strong- Embracing Your Struggle; and 3. Grow Old- Cherishing Your Time.

I can't even write "3." without choking up. It's so incredibly relevent, at any of life's stages, considering any or all of one's truest companions.

Dr. Flanagan takes his knowledge, wraps it with his own (sometimes gritty) family experiences & an innate gift of expressing himself, and helps us see within ourselves how much more we can each "become".

When we realize our own true companions and keep learning how to be a true companion, all of heaven smiles.

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I had never encountered Dr. Kelly Flanagans writing before, and I was not quite sure what I was getting into with this book. While some may hear the word relationships in the subtitle and think of romantic relationships, this book is actually much broader and more applicable than that. This is a book for everyone, a book that explores what it means to be human because to be human is to have relationships. For my own life, chapter 16 was worth the price of admission. It is on Fixing, which is something that I find it easy to do, something that actually hinders healthy relationships. Dr. Flanagans words were healing to my soul. But the whole book is healing. It is best read slowly, so that the reader can digest the principles, and the principles are wrapped up in easy-to-read and easy-to-hear stories. These are mostly stories from the life of Dr. Flanagan, and I admire his family in allowing all of these stories to be shared! All in all, this is a book that everyone, at any stage of life, will benefit greatly from. Every moment spent with this book is well worth your time.