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THE ROAD LESS TRIGGERED starts here!
Five years ago today, a New Year’s resolution changed my life. Now it can change yours too.
Dec 31, 2025
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[Interview] Living Richly Podcast: How to Stay Open When You Want to Shut Down
If your wife tells you that you left the toilet seat up again, and your nervous system reacts like she just tried to kill you, there's more going on…
Jan 15
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Dr. Kelly Flanagan
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The Quickest Way to Open a Closed Heart
Most relationships come apart quietly and nonviolently—as hearts close silently and incrementally—so here’s how to open yours as quickly as you can.
Jan 14
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What is your word for 2026?
Your word for the year won’t determine where you end up, but it can determine how you show up.
Jan 7
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Dr. Kelly Flanagan
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A Sanity Hack for the Holiday Season
Listen for the little lulls in your life.
Dec 3, 2025
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Dr. Kelly Flanagan
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What are you grateful for in this moment?
"Can you be grateful for everything? No, not everything. But in every moment you can be grateful for something." —David Steindl-Rast
Nov 26, 2025
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Dr. Kelly Flanagan
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[Interview] The BizDad Podcast: Leading with an Open Heart
What if your calm—not your control—was your greatest leadership tool?
Nov 24, 2025
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Dr. Kelly Flanagan
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The Less Triggered Tribe
Turn your triggers into togetherness.
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THE ROAD LESS TRIGGERED starts here!
Five years ago today, a New Year’s resolution changed my life. Now it can change yours too.
Dec 31, 2025
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Dr. Kelly Flanagan
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Welcome to The Less Triggered Tribe!
Want to turn your triggers into togetherness? Start here.
Jul 30, 2025
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Rupture-Proof Your Relationships
What if you could become one of the 6% of people who don’t fall prey to their triggers?
Jul 23, 2025
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Dr. Kelly Flanagan
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Don’t miss the sacredness of any moment...
…by wishing it was some other way.
Jun 4, 2025
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Dr. Kelly Flanagan
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Get Calm
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The Quickest Way to Open a Closed Heart
Most relationships come apart quietly and nonviolently—as hearts close silently and incrementally—so here’s how to open yours as quickly as you can.
Jan 14
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Dr. Kelly Flanagan
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💬 CROWDSOURCING: How do you keep your cool?
Let’s talk about how to own your triggered moments, instead of your triggered moments owning you.
Sep 3, 2025
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Dr. Kelly Flanagan
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Why Calmness Can't Come Second
If you don't regulate before you relate, you’ll create chaos instead of connection.
Aug 27, 2025
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Dr. Kelly Flanagan
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Don’t Just Do Something, Sit There
Sometimes, when you’re triggered, the most powerful thing you can do is…nothing.
Aug 13, 2025
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Dr. Kelly Flanagan
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Get Free
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You've Been Lied to About Sadness
The truth about what your tears are trying to tell you - and where they're trying to take you.
Oct 15, 2025
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Dr. Kelly Flanagan
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How to Get Free of Your Past
You don’t get free of your past by rejecting it, but by remembering it, at just the right time.
Oct 8, 2025
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Dr. Kelly Flanagan
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Simplify the Solution to Your Triggers
You don’t have multiple problems to solve, just a single pattern to perceive.
Sep 24, 2025
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Dr. Kelly Flanagan
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How to Be Fully Free
Show me a heart that can fully feel everything, and I’ll show you a heart that can be fully free anywhere.
Jun 18, 2025
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Dr. Kelly Flanagan
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Get Connected
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The Mantra That Kills Conflict at the Root
When it becomes your default response, connection becomes your default reality.
Nov 12, 2025
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Turn Your Triggers into Treasure
Every time your heart starts to close, you’re standing on buried treasure—if you’re willing to dig.
Nov 5, 2025
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Boundaries Don't Have to Be Battles
They can begin with an openhearted ask, because what you want is mostly good, and so are other people.
Oct 29, 2025
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Dr. Kelly Flanagan
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Make Your Boundaries Beautiful
Do you set your boundaries bashfully, brutally, or beautifully?
Jul 16, 2025
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Dr. Kelly Flanagan
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More Clarity
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What is your word for 2026?
Your word for the year won’t determine where you end up, but it can determine how you show up.
Jan 7
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Dr. Kelly Flanagan
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A Sanity Hack for the Holiday Season
Listen for the little lulls in your life.
Dec 3, 2025
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Dr. Kelly Flanagan
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Live a Little More, Suffer a Lot Less
The cause of our suffering is not our vulnerability, but our pursuit of invulnerability.
Sep 10, 2025
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Dr. Kelly Flanagan
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What Makes You Come Alive?
The difference between being alive and feeling alive—and how to harness that feeling.
May 14, 2025
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Dr. Kelly Flanagan
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