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the Henny Flynn podcastThe Morning of the Soul (S16E9)Tap to send me your reflections ♡This episode is a bit of a love letter to mornings. Not the jump-out-of-bed, high-energy kind where we hand ourselves straight over to others and give them our day. No. This is a paean to that liminal space between sleep and wakefulness. To gifting ourselves slow moments to enjoy the dawning day.I’m talking about real mornings and the metaphorical ones. The ones that come after a 'dark night' or period of wintering - when the world starts to feel a little more possible again...2025-04-1230 minthe Henny Flynn podcastLetters of Love: Navigating the Tenderness of Mother’s Day (S16E7)Tap to send me your reflections ♡Depending on the stories we each carry, Mother’s Day can stir deep and complicated emotions. In this tender episode, I share that I was recently invited to write an article for The Gloss on the aspects of Mother's Day, that don't always get acknowledged. It inspired this episode and I include an invitation to write an unsent letter as a way of exploring the truth of your relationship with your mother, whatever shape that truth takes.This isn’t about sentimentality or simplify...2025-03-2924 minthe Henny Flynn podcastPower & Fear: Reclaiming What Is Ours (S16E4)Tap to send me your reflections ♡So, you might remember that I'd decided to publish the podcast every two weeks - but here we are, just a week after the last episode. Because sometimes, there are no rules. Sometimes, something asks to be shared.This is one of those episodes.We're talking about power and fear - two forces that shape so much of how we move through the world. What happens when we hand over our power? And are we, in fact, handing it to fear itself?These questions have be...2025-03-0119 min
the Henny Flynn podcastComfort in the Darkness: Navigating the Dark Night of the Soul with Aisling Mustan (S16E3)Tap to send me your reflections ♡In this deeply heartfelt conversation, I’m joined by the wonderful Aisling Mustan (founder of the festivals: 'Exhale' and 'Good Grief') to explore the raw, tender terrain of what many call a 'dark night of the soul'. Aisling shares vulnerably and powerfully about her own recent experience - how it unfolded, what it revealed and the practices that supported her through it.We talk about the discomfort most of us try to avoid, and how, paradoxically, it’s often where our deepest wisdom resides. We explore:The dif...2025-02-2258 minthe Henny Flynn podcastWhen Fear Comes Knocking: A Love Letter to Ourselves (S16E2)Tap to send me your reflections ♡Sometimes, fear rushes in like an unexpected tide - one moment we're steady, the next we're caught in the swell. In this episode, I share a raw and honest entry from my journal, written during a winter break in Vietnam, where doubt and uncertainty flooded in. Through the simple yet profound act of listening - really listening - I found my way back to myself.In this moment of listening, I wrote one of my My Darling Girl letters, those love notes from my wisest, kindest self. I share it...2025-02-0821 minthe Henny Flynn podcastKnowing What Is Enough: Balancing Joy, Pain and Connection (S16E1)Tap to send me your reflections ♡In this episode, I dive into the tender and transformative topic of 'knowing what is enough.' Inspired by personal experiences, reflections on love, and the wisdom of the body, I explore how we can hold space for both joy and pain, embrace the impressions left by connection, and recognise when to say, “Enough, enough now.” This conversation touches on themes of vulnerability, gratitude, and self-compassion, offering insights into how we navigate the balance between striving and contentment. I hope it resonates with you as deeply as it doe...2025-01-2523 minthe Henny Flynn podcastReleasing what binds you: a meditation (S14E5)Tap to send me your reflections ♡Today's offering is something different - a mindful meditation; an invitation to explore the concept of 'releasing what binds you' from a physical, mental and emotional place of rest and relaxation.There are no demands here. Simply the act of listening and following my voice. Seeing how it feels to let go of all tension, to fully rest in the present moment.You'll hear I mention this is a piece I wrote as a stepping stone into a Flow Journaling practice. If you'd like to journal after li...2024-07-0621 min
the Henny Flynn podcastReimagining Elderhood, with Katy Theakston (S14E2)Tap to send me your reflections ♡A GENTLE NOTE OF GUIDANCE: Early on in this episode (around 7 mins in), Katy shares a difficult story from her childhood that some listeners may find challenging to listen to.Katy Theakston and I first spoke on this topic sharing a stage at Wellbeing by the Lakes in 2023.We'd never met before, but we trusted we were safe in each other's hands. And, of course, so we were. At the end of the talk, our audience spontaneously asked for a group hug. For me...2024-06-151h 03the Henny Flynn podcastThe Ibiza Illusion - a reflection on perfection (S14E1)Tap to send me your reflections ♡I'm very mindful I've named this episode at risk of making it sound like Ibiza is an illusion. Which, of course, it's patently not! It's a beautiful island that's home to very real people. So... this is more of a metaphor about beauty and perfection, and the role of reality in and amongst it. Ibiza, because of my own wonderful experiences there, just happens to be my idealised concept of what perfection feels like. Your's may well be somewhere else.I asked AI to give me a summary of th...2024-06-0818 minthe Henny Flynn podcastCompassionate Wisdom: inner activism (S12E6)Tap to send me your reflections ♡I was sitting by a loch on the Isle of Mull, writing these words. When I looked up I saw a school of dolphin in front of me, and above me... a sea eagle.It felt pretty profound! And seemed to give the words I'd written a certain potency. I'm sharing them here. 10 thoughts on compassionate wisdom and a concept I'm calling inner activism. Here's some of what I cover:None of us know all the answers, and the wisest am...2023-12-1619 minthe Henny Flynn podcastSuccess (S11E6)Tap to send me your reflections ♡I’ve been pondering the idea of ‘success’. What is it? What does it mean when we do or don’t achieve it? How does our perception of it change, as we change?When I consider what I used to consider being successful meant, and how I look at what I consider to be success today… there are marked distinctions. Though I expect that if I’d drilled in when I was younger, the things I feel are most important now would still have been there, at the centre of thi...2023-08-2620 minthe Henny Flynn podcastLove words - speaking with compassion (S10E5)Tap to send me your reflections ♡Today's episode is a romp through wordy things.Headlines are:We bandy words about and use them without thinkingWords can have multiple meanings - including ones we haven't been consciously aware ofThe words we use influence our behaviours and the choices we makeThe word 'should' is a shame-based word (maybe not always - but it's an interesting perspective)Replacing 'should' with 'could' opens us up to new possibilitiesOur unconscious usage of language can express our profound awareness of what we’re experiencing insideFreud said we ‘leak’ what we'r...2023-05-0634 minthe Henny Flynn podcastChange Lightly (S10E4)Tap to send me your reflections ♡Change lightly - it doesn’t mean don’t change or don’t change a lot, it simply means change with grace.Often when we embark on change it can feel like a heavy thingWe fill it with all kinds of rules and denials and strictures. It becomes a burden perhaps.In this episode, I share 3 things that can make us feel change MUST be DIFFICULT… Our tendency to see changes as problems rather than opportunitiesTaking on so much it becomes overwhelmin...2023-04-2915 minthe Henny Flynn podcastTake a break: the creative power of the pause (S10E2)Tap to send me your reflections ♡By stepping away we create space for ideas to form.This is in direct contrast to the culture of HUSTLE, which can make us believe we HAVE to keep going. Keep up with the OUTPUT and never minding the INPUT. But that way not only exhaustion & burnout lie - also our creativity suffers.And that's what we're exploring today.I could have called this: Procrastination, percolation, avoidance & flow PART 2 - have a listen to episode 3 of season 8 for part 1!Tod...2023-04-1530 minthe Henny Flynn podcastReleasing Fear, Choosing Change - Journal, Day 48 (S9E10)Tap to send me your reflections ♡Today we return to an old, and never-ending, theme: Change. And embedded within that theme, we can often find our old friend: Fear.So, today I share an entry from my journal. Something I wrote several years ago, in an attempt to understand what I was going through at the time. It's a meditation on what it means to release our fear sufficiently that change becomes possible.As an unedited piece of writing from my journal, I hope it also shows ho...2023-03-1118 min