Valerie Flanigan
Author, Life Coach, Advocate
Valerie’s debut book “Safe and Sound” will be available July 2025 on Amazon
Safe and Sound is a lifeline for anyone questioning their relationship, searching for clarity, or walking the road to healing.
With over 30 years of experience, Valerie Flanigan gently unpacks the hidden dynamics of emotional, psychological, financial, and spiritual abuse offering validation, guidance, and hope.
Through survivor stories, practical tools, and compassionate insight, this book helps victims become survivor and equips friends, families, and communities to offer real support.
You’re not alone. You’re not imagining it. And you deserve freedom.
Your journey to healing starts here.
Meet Valerie
Valerie Flanigan has devoted her career to advocating for safety, healing, and justice for survivors of domestic violence. Her work spans crisis response, program development, court advocacy, and community education. She has trained churches, counseling agencies, and law enforcement and developed innovative support programs for incarcerated women and vulnerable families.
A certified Christian life coach, Valerie brings a unique blend of professional expertise, spiritual sensitivity, and lived compassion to her work. She is the creator of Redeeming Your Resiliency, a support group curriculum for women of faith healing from childhood adversity, and the founder of LIFT Life Coaching, where she continues to help women reclaim peace, power, and purpose.
Her book, Safe and Sound, is the culmination of years spent listening deeply to the voices of survivors. With clarity and empathy, she offers practical tools, emotional insight, and a safe space for anyone seeking to understand, escape, or heal from abuse.
You have what it takes to rise. Sometimes all you need is a little lift.
Like a hot air balloon, everything you need is already there, your strength, your courage, your dreams. But even the most beautiful balloon can stay grounded without the right lift.
LIFT Life Coaching:
That’s where LIFT: Living in Freedom Today comes in. My coaching is the steady flame that helps you rise above fear, shame, and self-doubt so you can live the life of freedom you were made for. I help women reclaim their lives, rebuild healthy relationships, and grow the resilience to soar. You don’t have to wait for perfect conditions. Your journey to freedom begins the moment you choose to rise.
As your life coach, I help you:
• Reclaim your life after adversity or abuse
• Rebuild healthy, lasting relationships
• Strengthen your resilience and confidence
• Break free from patterns that keep you stuck
Together, we create a safe space for healing, growth, and forward movement so you can rise with intention and live in freedom today.
I provide advocacy, training, and consultation on the dynamics of domestic violence for community agencies, churches, and law enforcement.
Through seminars and workshops, I equip organizations to recognize abuse, respond with efficiency and compassion, and support survivors on their path to safety and freedom.
Advocacy
