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Reviewed by Rosalba Mancuso for Readers' Favorite
Into the Flow: A Journey to Freedom by Trying It All by Kathleen Branigan is a journey of discovery and awakening. It is also a fascinating memoir in which the author recounts the most intimate aspects of her life. The narrative combines the topics of grief and loss with universal concepts from religion, psychology, and philosophy. Kathleen is raised in a devout Catholic family. When the story begins, she is building a successful career in marketing. But the death of her mom after long years of an insurmountable battle against cancer breaks the perfect world she had constructed on the beliefs of childhood. Kathleen is taught to believe in God, in Jesus, in heaven and hell, but when her most significant loved ones pass away, her religion, and above all, her faith, begin to waver. “Be free” are the last words pronounced by Kathleen’s mother before dying.
And so, a private sorrow becomes a way to self-awareness, a quest to discover whether the things she has always believed in are true or false. Indeed, the entire human society is founded on predefined roadmaps in which everyone grows, works, marries, has children, and at last dies without ever wondering if this path is right or wrong, and aligned with their own nature and identity. Kathleen Branigan is different. She feels something is missing in her life, despite a successful career and a stable marriage. The truth about herself, and the correct sense of God and the Universe elude her. With a moving writing style, Into the Flow transforms tears of pain into joy and mindfulness. The author reaches her mystical revelation not through yoga or escaping in a remote retreat, but in her reality, in her own writing and reading, in the present, that “now” which speaks to our soul and teaches truths that not even religion can reveal.
