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Reviewed by Jamie Michele for Readers' Favorite
Boundless is Carolyn Dawn Flynn’s memoir of incredible life transitions, especially concerning her twin children, Grace and Paul. She recounts a medical emergency involving the twins and the emotional hurdles of co-parenting. Flynn shares career decisions and the pain of losing her mother. As the kids grow up, Flynn adjusts to life as an empty nester, loneliness, and holiday schedules. Flynn speaks on her spiritual journey, including a deep dive into grief, forgiveness, and personal development. She revisits memories of her childhood faith, describes memorial services, and contemplates her intentional pulling away from consumerism while gravitating toward spiritualism. Ultimately, Flynn embraces emotional healing, focusing on love and human connections, while reconciling her past and embracing a fresh turn into self-care, love, and hope of moving forward.
Carolyn Dawn Flynn’s Boundless offers an intimate, candid look into one woman's life in the juggling of motherhood, career changes, and the inevitable transitions that come with children reaching adulthood. Flynn does a beautiful job of harnessing the bittersweet nature of parenting, particularly the push-and-pull of letting go as her twins approach college. I found her honesty to be a welcome invitation into the turmoil of the balancing act she was repeatedly faced with and I was able to connect with so much of what she shared on a level that I have not been able to do with other memoirs I've read. I think it will be the moments of disorganization and pervading emotional fights that readers will be most heartened by, as this is when her resilience shines the brightest. Flynn’s authenticity in the throes of both tenderness and frustration makes her memoir a powerful testament to the greatest prize of all: the reward of meaningful personal transformation.
