“Allow yourself to be loved when you hurt. Then allow yourself to become love. Then go love others.”
— From Trust Yourself to Be All In
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WINNER OF THE 2023 CIPA EVVY & BOOKFEST GOLD AWARDS & THE 2024 LITERARY TITAN GOLD AWARD!
WINNER OF THE 2023 CIPA EVVY & BOOKFEST GOLD AWARDS & THE 2024 LITERARY TITAN GOLD AWARD!
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About Me
Hello!
I’m Amanda McKoy Flanagan, LMSW—Award-winning author, podcaster, motivational speaker, and life-long spiritual seeker. A native New Yorker turned Coloradan, I blend street smarts with tree hugging for a sensible and spiritual approach to love and loss.
Co-founder of the nonprofit organization, Castle Rock Clubhouse, a recovery clubhouse providing meeting space for various 12-step programs, I’m passionate about sobriety, meditation, and connecting with others on a deep and meaningful level...
“Mixing Flanagan's story with her sincere advice is a refreshing approach. It's evident she speaks from experience, and her style offers readers the chance to personalize her wisdom for their own lives.”
BookLife Prize
“This memoir is a courageous act of full disclosure, a soul-cleansing the author encourages her readers to replicate in their own way to build trust in themselves and others, noting: ‘When you heal, I heal, and when we heal, the world heals.”
BlueInk Review
"In Trust Yourself to Be All In, I felt like I was curling up with a friend, sharing my deepest, darkest secrets, my fears, my pain, and my joy. You will experience everything in this book and come out on the other side more embodied and ready for this journey called life…A must read.”
Rea Frey
award-winning, bestselling author of Not Her Daughter
A Boundless Quest for Emotional Freedom and Soul Evolution
Everyone leaves you or hurts you. This false myth of generational family dysfunction, compounded through trauma, appeared frighteningly true to Amanda the moment her brother overdosed and died. Devastated, she shined up the emotional armor she wore to protect herself from pain and soldiered on. But a decade of self-reflection and personal growth in 12-step recovery could not save her from herself. Attempting to destroy everything around her, including her troubled marriage, she experienced a spiritual awakening that radically transformed deeply engrained lies about love, loss, and connection. Lies she didn’t even know she believed.
Trust Yourself to Be All In: Safe to Love and Let Go is a pragmatic yet soulful inspirational memoir delivering uncompromising self-love that heals deep wounds. Amanda’s revealing, thought-provoking narrative will guide you to find comfort in your emotions and meaning in your suffering, while organically bridging an inseparable, trustworthy connection with self, others, and the universe.
Mission Statement
10% of proceeds will be donated to HopeKids
HopeKids provides ongoing events, activities and a powerful, unique support community for families who have a child with cancer or some other life-threatening medical condition.