About The Book

For fans of Eat, Pray, Love and You Are a Badass, a bold and hilarious memoir of seeking and striving with a profound message: True awakening and fulfillment isn’t found in chasing “more” but in coming home to ourselves.

What would you let go of to be free—to live a life that feels truly yours?

When personal loss, burnout, and divorce upend her world, Kathleen Branigan launches a quest for transformation that takes her places she never imagined—devouring self-help books, jumping out of airplanes, earning a master’s in religious studies, and venturing into the Amazon for a life-changing ayahuasca retreat.

Into the Flow is an irresistibly funny, soul-baring spiritual memoir for anyone seeking answers to life’s Big Questions, healing from heartbreak, or craving deeper purpose in a world where the old maps have stopped working. Through entertaining encounters with metaphysical teachers, therapists, and shamans—plus a few wild adventures—Kathleen discovers that true awakening and freedom aren’t about miracle cures or doing “more.” They’re about finally coming home to yourself.

If you’re navigating fear, uncertainty, identity crisis—or simply want a real story about reinvention and manifesting an authentic life—Into the Flow delivers honest reflection, laughter, and a powerful reminder: clarity, fulfillment, and love arrive when you stop searching, connect with your own inner wisdom, and trust the flow of life. 

About The Author

Kathleen Branigan is an author and coach who explores what happens when we stop giving our power away and begin listening inward. Drawing on over twenty years of coaching experience and a master's degree in religious studies from Georgetown University, she invites us to come back to what's true and create our lives from there. After six years of vagabonding the globe with her life partner, she's traded her suitcase for hiking boots and now calls Asheville, North Carolina, home.

Product Details

  • Publisher: She Writes Press (October 20, 2026)
  • Length: 320 pages
  • ISBN13: 9798896363415

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Raves and Reviews

“In this bold book, Branigan writes with the immediacy and intimacy of a best friend . . .”Kirkus Reviews

“A candid record of one woman learning to stop outsourcing her own life . . . a good book for . . . anyone who has ever tried very hard to become whole before realizing they were never quite as broken as they feared.”Literary Titan, 5-star review

“Branigan refuses to turn herself into a memoir saint. She stays . . . hopeful, exhausted, and funny . . . a survival story about staying present when life breaks apart.”Los Angeles Book Review, 5-star review

“Few spiritual memoirs earn their authority as thoroughly as Kathleen Branigan's Into the Flow . . . For readers at a crossroads, tired of hollow inspiration . . . Branigan brings companionship on the page and a grounded sense of what freedom might actually feel like in real life.”Book Below

“With a moving writing style, Into the Flow transforms tears of pain into joy and mindfulness.”Readers Favorite, 5-star review

“. . . part memoir, part spiritual exploration, and part deeply personal account of what happens when life dismantles everything you thought you understood.”Portland Book Review  

“A gentle yet powerful guide to living with more creativity and ease. Kathleen shows how to transcend your mind's shenanigans and open the flow of creative connection.”—Gay Hendricks, New York Times best-selling author of The Big Leap

“A wise, disarmingly funny invitation to stop pushing against life and begin listening to it—a powerful reminder that what we resist is often the doorway to the fulfillment we seek.”—Mary O’Malley, author ofWhat’s in the Way Is the Way

“I started this book expecting insight, and instead I found company. Kathleen writes about waking up the way it actually happens: messy, funny, honest, and true. Her story touched me deeply . . . warm and real.”—Ilona Ciunaite, author of Liberation Unleashed

“Kathleen captures the Ayahuasca journey with courage and humor, offering a real glimpse into the transformation this medicine can facilitate.”—Hamilton Souther, Master Shaman, founder of the Blue Morpho Retreat Center, and author of The Mystical Secrets of Ayahuasca

“Funny, resonant, timely, and inspiring. Every woman I know is on some type of hunt for self . . . I will be buying this book for so many of my friends.”—Lindsey Salatka, author of Fish Heads and Duck Skin

“Loved it. It’s like Jen Sincero meets Eckhart Tolle. Kathleen's voice is such a unique combination of humor and deep insights.”—Stella Papadopoulos, author of I’m Getting Divorced, Where Do I Start?

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