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the Henny Flynn podcastWhat We Already Know: Tapping Into the Skills We Forget We Have (S17E7)Tap to send me your reflections ♡I’ve been meaning to talk about this for a while – and then a conversation in my kitchen with a friend reminded me why it’s such an important theme.In this episode, I’m exploring the power of cross-skilling – noticing how the skills we use in one part of our lives can help us in another. Sometimes we forget just how capable we already are because we keep parts of our lives too separate. What if we could gently bring more awareness to the strengths we already have...
2025-07-1936 min
the Henny Flynn podcastA New Kind of Pause: A piece of quiet (S17E6)Tap to send me your reflections ♡This week, I’m sharing a podcast within a podcast...It's the launch of something I hope you’ll love, that’s been gently forming behind the scenes.A piece of quiet is a brand new private podcast offering. A weekly pause. A place to return to when life feels full, your heart feels tender, or you simply long for a few minutes of stillness and space.In this episode, I’ll explain:What A piece of quiet is - and how it...
2025-07-1243 min
the Henny Flynn podcastLoveWords & Oracle Cards: Unlocking Inner Wisdom (S17E4)Tap to send me your reflections ♡How do you feel about oracle cards?Love them? Dislike them? Unsure about them? For me, I see them as another tool that can help us access our own inner wisdom.In this episode, I share the story of how I reconnected with a long-lost set of Angel cards - and how that unexpected reunion became part of the change journey I’ve been on ever since. It’s an episode about openness, intuition, and how we can work with simple tools in ways th...
2025-06-3028 min
Self-Compassionate Professor206. Navigating difficult life seasons with Henny FlynnIn this nourishing conversation with therapeutic coach, Henny Flynn, we discuss navigating difficult seasons in career and life, the importance of trusting one's own body, and the healing nature of movement and the natural world. Find Henny Flynn at https://hennyflynn.co.uk/ or on Instagram.
2025-06-2542 min
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 min
the 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 min
the 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 min
the 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 min
the 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 min
the 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 03
the 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 min
Inside QVCHenny FlynnWill Gowing speaks to compassion coach, author, podcaster and retreat host, Henny Flynn. Henny tells Will about the importance of self-compassion, how we can use self-compassion as a tool in life and the work Henny has been doing with QVC's Menopause Your Way initiative.
2024-03-1129 min
the 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 min
the 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 min
the 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 min
the 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 min
the 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 min
the 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
the Henny Flynn podcastBegin with Resonance, with Susan McCulley (S9E5)Tap to send me your reflections ♡Every year, Susan has a word. A word that accompanies her on her journey through the year. This year it’s resonance.It sparked a series of thoughts, because at the time she shared it with me we were both feeling into the new year. We were both also feeling bombarded by the often frantic demands of the emails and social posts telling us it was time to BEGIN, time for something NEW, time to throw out the old and leap into this new year....
2023-02-041h 08
the Henny Flynn podcastExternal Desire or Inner Fire? (S9E1)Tap to send me your reflections ♡This episode is about how we can be drawn by things we think we want but they can sometimes seem impossible to attain.Like moving jobs - we might find ourselves often retelling the same story of how we 'should' be doing something else / hate what we’re doing / want to move on - but year after year find ourselves still working in the same way at the same place.And there’s an important point about that phrase ‘working in the same way’ - often the...
2023-01-0727 min
The Authentic You PodcastEpisode 38 - What really is self care? An interview with Henny FlynnIn this video Henny and I discuss all this self compassion related, what it really means and how we can find that slither of space between stimulus and response which is just magic.
Henny is a coach, author, retreat host, founder of the compassionate menopause and helps people make and manage deep and lasting change through deepening self-awareness with self-compassion.
Her work is all underpinned by her deep understanding of the power of non-judgement and profound self-compassion in effecting positive, powerful inner change. She calls it practical compassion.
To find out more hennyflynn.co.uk...
2022-08-1550 min
the Henny Flynn podcastWelcome to the Henny Flynn podcast (trailer)Tap to send me your reflections ♡Welcome to the Henny Flynn podcast, the podcast that's all about deepening self-awareness with profound self-compassion. I'm Henny - an author, coach and retreat host - and I'm curious about our inner landscape. About what it is that shapes and drives our thoughts, feelings and actions. And I love exploring ways we can change our conditioned responses, behaviours and patterns, with endless tenderness.If you're curious too; if you, like me, wish to have an ever more open mind and open heart, then I hope the...
2022-07-1501 min
the Henny Flynn podcastCrossing the River of Doubt (S8 BONUS)Tap to send me your reflections ♡A reading from My Darling Girl, set to music (with credit for its sweeping beauty to Scott Buckley, details below).This piece is a love letter to those times when we feel we might be drowning in the doubts that swirl around us.It begins...Sometimes we cross the river of doubt with ease, skipping across the stepping stones, landing softly on the other side.And sometimes we stare at the raging waters, wondering how we ever thought we...
2022-06-1907 min
the Henny Flynn podcastAll the ways I tell myself I love you - new book (S7E8)Tap to send me your reflections ♡A few years ago - an idea for a book called ‘small pleasures’ came to me. It was intended as a collection of all the things that can give us a great sense of well-being, even though in themselves they might seem slight.The idea drifted about and occasionally I’d add another one to the mental list.But I couldn’t quite see how the book would look and feel, or how it would come into being.Then, over the past few months the idea has r...
2022-06-1131 min
the Henny Flynn podcastFinding Peace in Chaotic Times, with Udo Erasmus (S7E7)Tap to send me your reflections ♡Today’s guest is the inspirational Udo Erasmus. He’s the founder of Udo’s Choice and author of the book Fats That Heal Fats that Kill, which has sold over 250,000 copies. And he’s shared the stage with people like Deepak Chopra. So, when his team approached me about him joining as a guest on the show I was intrigued to hear more.His personal story began with intense struggle as a young child during the Second World War and has taken him throug...
2022-06-0457 min
the Henny Flynn podcastPast Emotion = Present Action (S7E6)Tap to send me your reflections ♡How do we connect memories with emotion that then influences our actions?If you remember the nursery rhyme about Dr Foster, you'll know that he went to Gloucester but because of one bad experience, involving a very deep puddle... he never went there again.My own realisation of how a 'bad' experience almost stopped me going to a garden centre again (I know!), helped me made a conscious decision (to go!), rather than having a subconscious emotional response (and stay home). This th...
2022-05-2822 min
the Henny Flynn podcastYou once spoke of a dream (S7 BONUS)Tap to send me your reflections ♡A little gift to drift away to... before season 7 fully begins.An extract from My Darling Girl, set to music. I love how this has come into being. I hope you do too.The piece begins...You once spoke of a dream. A vision for howthings could be. We held hands and talked lateinto the night, imagining how that dream would feel and taste and look. Exploring all the facets ofthat vision, we revelled in the picture th...
2022-04-1504 min
the Henny Flynn podcastSelf-love in a time of crisis (S6E10)Tap to send me your reflections ♡"If we’re in a time where it feels like things are HARD, where the CRISIS - real or perceived - feels like it’s threatening to (or has already) entered our life in some way - then this LOVE, this RECOGNITION of our own strengths, skills, knowledge, learnings, wisdom and growth becomes EVEN MORE important"There are so many ways we can practice self-compassion but acknowledging ourselves and the progress we have made (in whatever way that shows up for us, as an individual) can be a really practi...
2022-03-1922 min
the Henny Flynn podcastBalance is a verb, not a noun - with Susan McCulley (S6E9)Tap to send me your reflections ♡Susan’s 30-Lesson course on Building Balance is now live on Insight Timer. It’s something she’s been working on for months (well, years, actually). And it’s what led to us exploring this idea of balance from multiple angles today.One of the beautiful outcomes was recognising (once again) that while Susan and I approach things from our different disciplines, there are so many connecting threads within our work.The link to Susan’s course is included below as is a link to my book The...
2022-03-121h 16
the Henny Flynn podcastIs it ok to feel ok? (S6E8)Tap to send me your reflections ♡A short reflection today - sharing some poetry and words of wisdom from others.A new My Darling Girl poem arrived this week too. In response to my own question that in the face of such anguish and pain around us, is it ok for us to feel ok? Not in a way that dismisses or ignores the truth of what is happening - but in a way that enables us to connect even more deeply with ourselves, and with others.As always I hope this resonates wi...
2022-03-0614 min
the Henny Flynn podcastYou are Beautiful (S6E7)Tap to send me your reflections ♡So, just to be clear, today’s episode isn’t anything to do with James Blunt or his song… and apologies if that now gives you an ear worm… which is what is now going through my own head!No.Instead, today's offering is an invitation.An invitation to join me in a delicious, delightful experiment. A delicious, delightful experiment that can bring a whole series of challenges - but it’s worth it none the less.A few years ago I began exploring ho...
2022-02-2522 min
the Henny Flynn podcastMaking Your Soul Shine, with Soulla Demetriou (S6E6)Tap to send me your reflections ♡Today's episode was such a joy to record.I am delighted to introduce you to my friend and teacher, Soulla - the founder of Soulshine.In this beautiful conversation, you'll hear some of her own journey to establish the highly renowned Soulshine Retreats, and what's brought her to the work she does today.Some of the areas you'll hear we touch on are: Soulla's compassionate attention to our shadow sides - supporting her clients with developing a full willingness to see our whole selves.The...
2022-02-191h 01
the Henny Flynn podcastThe Subtle Realm Between Story-Telling And Gossip (S6E5)Tap to send me your reflections ♡Gossip. Why we love it, how it serves us and other thoughts.Gossip is something we often lean toward. We love to listen to stories about other people we know, whether we know them directly or through their celebrity status or through the importance they hold in someone else’s life.It’s something that can really activate our level 1 and level 2 listening skills (I explain these in the episode). We all LOVE a story. And there’s plenty of research out there on why we natur...
2022-02-1238 min
the Henny Flynn podcastWho are you? (S6E4)Tap to send me your reflections ♡How would you describe yourself?Wife, mother, daughter, sister, friend, writer, coach.When I first started showing my face on Instagram a few years ago, they’re the words I usedIt felt true at the time - and seemed the best way to explain the breadth of me, not too tightly defined and seemed to go some way to expressing the importance of my wider life. Because in the past I would have likely described myself primarily by my job - so this...
2022-02-0521 min
the Henny Flynn podcastSit with it - comfort in the discomfort (S6E3)Tap to send me your reflections ♡How is it to sit with what we're experiencing?What are the devices, distractions, diversions we use to break a moment - to avoid the risk of discomfort that might come with a challenging feeling, conversation or thought?And what are the techniques, tools, treats we use to augment a moment - to enhance something that is already wonderful into being something 'more'?And when we do these things... what's their TRUE impact?An exploration of how it is to SIT wi...
2022-01-2922 min
the Henny Flynn podcastHow does it serve you? Exploring behaviours & beliefs. (S6E2)Tap to send me your reflections ♡An invitation to explore what it is our habitual behaviours give us - and what they take from us. To see how they SERVE us, in their entirety.To look inside and see what is attached to the behaviour that holds it in place - and through a process of disentanglement, to then see what would serve us even more fully.A question here can be - what's the ROI (the Return on Investment)? For the energy that you're putting into an action, habit, behaviour - is it...
2022-01-2223 min
The Midlife Feast#16 Week 4 - Practical Self-Compassion in Midlife with Henny FlynnDo you find it hard to be kind to yourself when you notice the changes that come with midlife? Or feel trapped in a body that seems to have a mind of its own? Listen and learn from Henny Flynn as we discuss the stories we tell ourselves, and how to apply practical self-compassion to our midlife experience.To learn more about Henny, including her podcast and books, visit her website. Need help making peace with food in midlife, learn about how I work with women in this season of life here: https://linktr.ee...
2022-01-2232 min
the Henny Flynn podcastHow do you create YOUR space? (S6E1)Tap to send me your reflections ♡What stops a space feeling just right?From Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs through to research on the challenges of hot desking and the realities of working from home; perched at the kitchen table... this episode explores how do we create the most conducive space for us to be FULLY present.I also raise the question of what are the unspoken rules we've created or adopted - the rules that somehow determine the way we're using a space.And from there, what are the ti...
2022-01-1529 min
the Henny Flynn podcastLoving kindness - METTA meditation (S5 BONUS)Tap to send me your reflections ♡Today's episode is not a podcast as such.It is a Christmas gift to yourself, a moment of deep self-compassion. And an opportunity to expand that field of compassion ever wider to encompass those you love, those you barely know, those with whom you have difficulty and those you have not yet met.We all know that this time of the festive season brings its own challenges and joys. Our compassion (for ourselves and others) can feel like it is worn a little thin. This practice enables us...
2021-12-1124 min
the Henny Flynn podcastWhat holds our attachment to things? Decluttering part two, with Susan McCulley (S5E9)Tap to send me your reflections ♡Today's episode is a build on Series 5, Episode 3 - Freeing ourselves from the inner (and outer) clutter.It was inspired by a message from my dear friend and frequent podcast guest, Susan McCulley: "I listened back to your wonderful Decluttering episode and took some notes / had some thoughts about where we might go with this…"And so, this is where we went...Decluttering is NOT just about 'things'. It is deeply associated with identity, memory, permanence (and impermanence). It is TENDER work...
2021-12-041h 02
the Henny Flynn podcastThe Wisdom of Winter... these things I know (S5E8)Tap to send me your reflections ♡What is the wisdom you have gathered to you?One of the things we’ll be exploring in the next retreat is how WINTER is a time of turning inward - the leaves have fallen, the crops have been harvested, the stores are full - and within that is the metaphor of seeing the wisdom (the crops) you have gathered to you. That you are now storing, ready for when they need to be used.What wisdom can you gather from reflecting on what chan...
2021-11-2720 min
the Henny Flynn podcastLove like this takes many forms (S5 BONUS)Tap to send me your reflections ♡This bonus episode is a recording of a new poem to My darling girl.A love letter to that special depth of friendship between women. Of course, deep friendship is not an exclusively female experience but this poem was inspired by my own friendships with the women in my life. As ever, I hope it speaks, in some way, to you too.To buy the published collection, go to https://www.shookbop.com/products/my-darling-girl-by-henny-flynn or order through Waterstones.My...
2021-11-2503 min
the Henny Flynn podcastThe art of self-confidence, with Debbie Pugh (S5E7)Tap to send me your reflections ♡What does it mean to be confident? How do we find it? What happens when it disappears?I'm joined today by my friend and fellow coach, Debbie Pugh.The founder of The Quiet Network, Debbie has a wealth of experience in exploring self-confidence, both for herself and her clients.I found this conversation deeply enriching as we explored a range of ideas, beliefs and behaviours that can contribute to - and detract from - a feeling of self-confidence.Today, we di...
2021-10-2958 min
the Henny Flynn podcastA meditation on Being With - from the Journal, Day 473 (S5 BONUS)Tap to send me your reflections ♡Today I am offering a meditation.The invitation is to release whatever is taking your attention, and turn your gaze toward yourself. To rest, reflect. To settle. To breathe. To listen.This has been a big week for me, personally. My second book, The Heart of Change was published, it's been World Menopause Day which has meant leading webinars with organisations as well as hosting events myself. And, we are edging ever closer to some major personal changes, as our son prepares to mov...
2021-10-2422 min
the Henny Flynn podcastThe Heart of Change (S5E6)Tap to send me your reflections ♡What do you think, feel, believe about change?This is the question we're asking today. We've all inherited stories through our family line, through our care-givers, through people we've learnt from, people we've worked with.And these stories can influence the way we feel about change. We may see it as something to be avoided at all costs - or leapt into. Or (more likely) a combination of the two.My new book, The Heart of Change, is published this mo...
2021-10-1637 min
the Henny Flynn podcastFull, intentional self-expression, with Susan McCulley (S5E5)Tap to send me your reflections ♡Susan wrote to me recently and said:"I've been thinking a lot about the idea of dressing/style as a kind of self expression and full showing up as opposed to dressing for others. The off shoot thought is that exercise can be the same: can I choose movement that feels great to me, what I love, as opposed to exercising to look a certain way or burn calories or as penance for what I've eaten."Her deeper reflection was wondering whether exercising this intentional CHOICEFULNESS in th...
2021-10-091h 13
the Henny Flynn podcastWhen someone you love is grieving (S5E4)Tap to send me your reflections ♡Of all the podcast episodes I’ve recorded so far - and there are over 50 of them now - the most listened to is the one with Lucy Cowan on Grief, Compassion & Recovery.Lucy is a trained Grief Recovery practitioner and I came across her at a time when several dear friends were each facing into their own grief. The timing, of course, was no coincidence, and the conversation with Lucy has been immensely helpful, not just to me personally but to so many people who’ve listen...
2021-10-0215 min
the Henny Flynn podcastFreeing up our inner (& outer) clutter (S5E3)Tap to send me your reflections ♡What are you holding onto that you no longer truly need?This is a question we can all ask ourselves - it's one I'm facing into right now, in a practical way, as we prepare to move home. And there's a powerful metaphor here of what are we holding within us that's no longer serving us?In this wide-ranging episode of the podcast, I explore...How in the past we would have cleared out the RAM in our computers, but now we simply buy mo...
2021-09-2536 min
the Henny Flynn podcastLeading Ourselves (and others) Gently, with Debbie Edwards (S5E2)Tap to send me your reflections ♡My guest today shares how her time in the military and the challenges she faced as a young woman combined to help her reach the Gentle place.Debbie Edwards is a transformational leadership coach and energy healer.In our conversation, we explore:The importance of a gentle / compassionate stance in the workplace - and how hard it can feel when it’s conditioned out of us - and its wider implications for our health and well-being (physically, mentally, emotionally, socially)Debbie's powerful story of what led her...
2021-09-191h 09
the Henny Flynn podcastGoing with the Slow (S5E1)Tap to send me your reflections ♡It’s taken me such a long time to work out how to begin this new series.Not through lack of willingness - perhaps in fact through too much WILLingness!I’ve thought and thought and thought and thought - and then I remembered that what I actually need to do is FEEL.So I did that instead - and it showed me the way in.Today's reflections include...Sometimes we need to slow down to speed up.We can’t ignore the long...
2021-09-1233 min
the Henny Flynn podcastGrief, Compassion & Recovery, with Lucy Cowan (S4E10)Tap to send me your reflections ♡How can we begin to recover from Grief?When I explored bereavement counselling for myself, a few years ago, I heard that it’s best not to approach it until 6-months or so has passed. The idea being that until that first wave has passed, we’re not ready to explore how to move forward.But, this gentle advice left me feeling a little lost. Unsure how to process or manage things in the waiting period until I could get support.I admit I didn...
2021-07-1657 min
the Henny Flynn podcastI am... Creating Intention (S4E9)Tap to send me your reflections ♡Today’s episode is a chance to dance through some of the areas we explore in the Season Retreats.These retreats are all about INTENTION SETTING.Each one designed to help us consider what it is we wish to draw to us over the coming season.An intention is a feeling that arises that informs a SHORT, POSITIVE statement in the PRESENT tense as though it is already happening. Today I share some of the neuroscience behind why intention setting works and a simpl...
2021-07-1337 min
the Henny Flynn podcastShame and Her Sisters, with Susan McCulley (S4E8)Tap to send me your reflections ♡I'm back with the wonderful Susan McCulley. And today we have a tender topic.When discussing shame it feels so essential to hold ourselves gently.We touch on areas that may feel challenging. We explore aspects of our own responses to shame, and the associated emotions that connect with it. We traverse the landscape of shame to see how we can hold ourselves with ever-deeper compassion.There are many angles to a conversation about shame. Our attention today is focussed on how we ca...
2021-07-111h 09
the Henny Flynn podcastSpeaking with our bodies, with Abi Adams (S4E7)Tap to send me your reflections ♡What language does your body speak?My guest this week says: "When you understand your hormones and the impact they have on every aspect of your life, you are then in a position to choose what’s best for you to feel your most vibrant."Abi Adams has created a unique approach to menstrual cycle health, exercise and emotional wellbeing, and offers her clients tools she's travelled the world to learn over the last 20 years to create a clear cut route of sustainable health.I...
2021-07-0458 min
the Henny Flynn podcastOur choice to change (S4E6)Tap to send me your reflections ♡What happens when our choice to change gets questioned?How many times have you observed - in yourself, or someone else - a desire to JUSTIFY something that you’re doing - that you KNOW is really benefiting you… really serving you but that you suspect the other person won’t quite GET?Maybe it’s a little embarrassing to admit that you’ve adopted a new habit or behaviour that feels out of the ordinary for someone ‘like you’ - perhaps in your family, community, frien...
2021-06-2527 min
the Henny Flynn podcastThe Science & Art of Sleeping Well, with Dr. Kat Lederle (S4E5)Tap to send me your reflections ♡How can we relax into sleeping well... rather than striving to sleep 'better'?I met Dr. Kat when I was hosting an evening presentation, and she was the guest speaker. I was so impressed by her approach to the work that she does - and the huge range of knowledge she holds - that I immediately invited her to join me as a guest here.Dr. Kat Lederle, PhD, MSc, is Somnia’s sleep scientist and chronobiologist. She holds a PhD in Human Circa...
2021-06-151h 10
the Henny Flynn podcastPowered by Personal Purpose - with Sarah Rozenthuler (S4E4)Tap to send me your reflections ♡This episode was particularly important to me personally (well... let’s face it - ALL the episodes are important to me personally!), but this one felt particularly so… 30 years ago, I met Sarah Rozenthuler - then the girlfriend of my housemate at University… now a psychologist, coach and author.She has been part of my own change journey, sometimes in very subtle ways, but always there along the way. In this conversation you’ll hear why.Her immense resource of wisdom and compassion is palpable...
2021-06-131h 21
the Henny Flynn podcastEverything begins with an ending (S4E3)Tap to send me your reflections ♡“Every beginning is a consequence. Every beginning ends something.” Paul ValéryShifting into changes means sensing the new beginning ahead of us.ANDSaying goodbye to what went before.Endings are crucial to positive change. Whether that’s about shifting into a new life stage, a new job, a new mindset. And they’re often ignored - or rushed past.In this episode I share some things in my own life that are coming to a close - and explore...
2021-06-0430 min
the Henny Flynn podcastHope is now... with Susan McCulley (S4E2)Tap to send me your reflections ♡I am so delighted to say that once again I’m in conversation with the marvellous Susan McCulley.This episode builds on our most recent episode together, at the end of Series 3 - all about honouring what we need when we need it most.I’ve titled this episode ‘Hope is now’ as it was essentially where we landed with our explorations. And then Susan shared this quote from David Roberts: “Hope isn’t about the future as much as it is about...
2021-05-271h 04
the Henny Flynn podcastRunning from or moving toward? (S4E1)Tap to send me your reflections ♡We’ve all seen over the past year how houses in more remote (and beautiful) parts of the country have become so sought after. People leaving where they’ve lived for many years to move to the countryside… escaping city life… moving to a new life.There are many things that drive a drastic move or change in direction. Sometimes it’s a sharp realisation of ‘if not now, when?’ And at other times, we may be being subconsciously driven by fear.Sometimes it’s hard to know.In...
2021-05-2122 min
the Henny Flynn podcastHonouring what we need, when we need it most, with Susan McCulley (S3E11)Tap to send me your reflections ♡This episode was inspired by two personal, challenging events... that each required a moment to regroup, to come back to self.One of the events we discuss really belongs to my husband - here I share my experience of his story. And the other belongs to my guest today, the wonderful Susan McCulley.Susan joined me in a previous conversation. That was the first time we'd spoken - and we knew we'd want to speak again!So, I've asked her back to...
2021-03-281h 03
the Henny Flynn podcastYoga Nidra for rest and repair (S3E10)Tap to send me your reflections ♡Yoga Nidra is top of my personal self-care tool-kit.I use it for the long-term benefits it brings AND as a form of first aid whenever I feel tired and want to regather my energy, or if I feel that something is overwhelming me and I need to restore my sense of balance.If you're driving or walking or working on something, wait until you're somewhere you can fully relax and do nothing at all.Yoga Nidra is something I often re...
2021-03-2131 min