the Henny Flynn podcast

Tap to send me your reflections ♡ When we were kids at the school gate we all knew there were unwritten rules of which group you COULD belong to, which you’d ASPIRE to belong to and which you’d never want to belong to. We might not have always understood the rules - but we thought we knew that others knew them. Connecting with people who feel like a good fit for us - that's really what it means to...

Tap to send me your reflections ♡ Sophie is a holistic health coach with 30 yrs experience in the field of nutrition with a background in Traditional Chinese Medicine and Western Naturopathy.  She talks fondly and with deep respect of the training she completed with Barbara Wren who created the College of Natural Nutrition. And of how Barbara, now in her 80s, developed her own philosophy of health...

Tap to send me your reflections ♡ I used to believe that if I made a change in my life, I would transform in some way. That I’d become something OTHER than who I was. And that ‘otherness’ meant I’d become somehow ‘better’.  And that’s how I used to approach the changes I wanted to make. With the core belief, underneath all the good intentions, that I wasn’t quite good enough as I was. I applied th...

Tap to send me your reflections ♡ This episode - the first in our brand new series (whoop!) is all about... The strategies we adopt to try to BECOME the person we THINK we OUGHT to be as we grow up - and how those strategies can become so mis-guided at times that we turn into someone maybe even we don’t recognise. All through life we have cross-roads - or as Gwyneth Paltrow might say, Sliding Door...

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 how things could be. We held hands and talked late into the night, imagining how that dream would feel and taste and look. Exploring all th...

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...

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...

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 de...

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...

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 co...

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 (...

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 used It 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...

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 'mor...

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 Retur...

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 ado...

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 chall...

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... De...

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 t...

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...

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 an...

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 a...

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 (mor...

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 p...

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...

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 wou...