the Henny Flynn podcast

Tap to send me your reflections ♡ Today it’s all about Disruption - and how the fear of change can often be the thing that stops us moving forward. You’ll hear I recorded this before the election result in America. Perhaps that sense of disruption was more present then - and for some, of course, it will feel more present now. Sometimes (often?) even the things we seek to change can hold elements t...

Tap to send me your reflections ♡ This week it’s all about change from within - and how the emotional experience of being triggered can both benefit from our willingness to change AND be a beautiful tool in enabling it.  | 6'15” | Even the things that trigger us offer an opportunity for growth and learning. The key is always about how we bring our conscious observation to the fore - and what we ta...

Tap to send me your reflections ♡ This week is a musing on how something that we think is serving us can actually be masking a deeper need. And that something is… LIST MAKING! I know, in the grand scheme of things it may not feel like one of the major things to face into - but sometimes it’s the little habits that mask other behaviours. And there may be a resonance here with other habits you conti...

Tap to send me your reflections ♡ This week is all about sleep... rest... routine. It's about how we signal to our body that it's ok to lay down the burdens of the day and be restored by a good night. How do you get ready for bed?  Are you ready for whatever life might throw at you? Or are you ready for rest? Today's episode is full of tips and tools to help create a bedtime routine that signals t...

Tap to send me your reflections ♡ Today I’m talking with Emmanuelle Passes. A wise woman with a wealth of experience working with people going through changes in their lives. Emmanuelle is an expert in energy.  A cranio sacral therapist, she brings a wide range of therapeutic training and decades of experience to how she works with her clients. I first invited her onto the podcast back in season 1...

Tap to send me your reflections ♡ This episode explores how being cheerful... grateful... happy is not about suppressing the things that make us feel sad, hurt or angry. It's about noticing and accepting all the things that are happening around us, to us, and experiencing them consciously. It's through our conscious awareness that we are able to make choices - and that includes choosing how we fee...

Tap to send me your reflections ♡ As ever, if there is anything in this episode that particularly resonates with you, and you feel you would benefit from some support, please do reach out. One of the joys of creating this podcast is the opportunity it gives me to talk with others about the changes they have made - and the steps they’ve taken to get there. This conversation with Carl tracks his per...

Tap to send me your reflections ♡ (Forgive the wind, sheep and horses who intermittently appear in this episode - it was recorded in an open field in the wilds of Shropshire!) Today’s episode is largely inspired by a pair of rose tinted glasses I used to wear as a student. Notwithstanding they gave me a 60’s hippy-chick kind of look (always pleasing!), I loved them as much for the glow they gave t...

Tap to send me your reflections ♡ There are two key themes this week; exploring ways to look at change. One where I focus on the truth that if we want something to change, we have to change something. It feels so obvious when we say it, and yet still we can feel stuck or resistant to take the action that will make the changes we say we desire come into being. Secondly I look at a principle of chan...

Tap to send me your reflections ♡ This week's episode builds on last week's exploration of self-care ( So, what actually is self-care, anyway? ).  I focus in on 3 approaches that can be useful in supporting us to make habits that serve us - and break habits that we feel have had their time. In the first example, I look at how the language of 'I can't' vs the language of 'I don't' influences our co...

Tap to send me your reflections ♡ I often speak of how self-care underpins our ability to make deep and lasting change. Yet, for many of us it can feel hard to identify what self-care actually is. How do we know what it is? And what it isn't? And how do we identify habits that may masquerade as self-care, without truly serving us? Self-care is not simply the practice of eating well or exercising (...

Tap to send me your reflections ♡ Rebekah Brown is the founder and creator of MPowder . She spent her career helping other companies to build brands and products as a researcher and creative consultant. Then the peri-menopause arrived.   Turned away by her GP because she was ‘too young’ to have symptoms, she found herself trawling the aisles of the local health food store, staring at a vast range...

Tap to send me your reflections ♡ What happens when we emerge from a moment of vulnerability - and how can we stop ourselves retreating behind our defences once again? In this time, as we all emerge from lock-down and the global impact of Covid, it may be that as we lower the barriers to our external world, we begin to raise our internal barriers, in order to protect ourselves once more from the n...

Tap to send me your reflections ♡ A few years ago I started smiling at myself in the mirror... The real story is what the smiling replaced. This podcast shares my story of how I see myself - and how the stories we have grown up with influence how we see ourselves. It is also about how we can change - how we have a choice about what we think and what we choose to do. You might find you engage with...

Tap to send me your reflections ♡ This week, we joined up with the wonderful Emmanuelle Passes to hear about ways we can manage our energy levels - and find the still point within. This is a live event, sharing practical steps we can all take to support us in how we navigate our experience of the world. This work is especially beneficial if you've ever found yourself becoming anxious or weary, and...

Tap to send me your reflections ♡ This episode of The Reegroup Hour draws on a theme I've seen emerging for many people around working out what comes next, as we transition from one phase of lockdown into... whatever phase lies ahead. I know I've been doing lots of planning myself over the past week or so - stepping back and reflecting and getting my thoughts in order. It's connected with last wee...

Tap to send me your reflections ♡ The Gift of Time, how we seek it, but when we find it, we can end up filling it without thinking about what will most serve us. In this episode of The Reegroup Hour, I look at how our time horizons have shifted with the impact of COVID19; how we can find ourselves stuffing time full (and hunting round for more) and how at times it can drag like wading through mola...

Tap to send me your reflections ♡ You can see the Drama Triangle playing out in boardrooms, teams, family units, friendship groups - in fact, almost any situation where people come together. You can also see it playing out in the way we relate to ourselves. The rescuer says... let me help e.g.: "I have the quick fix, I know best, you can't manage without me." The victim says... nothing's going rig...

Tap to send me your reflections ♡ Sometimes when we talk with others it can feel like we're playing the same game... but by different rules. Have you ever been halfway through a conversation and suddenly realised it’s heading into an argument, and you’re not sure how it got there? Or suddenly realised that you and the other person have actually been at crossed-purposes - but by that point emotions...

Tap to send me your reflections ♡ This week, we join up with the lovely Gemma Sandwell to see how mindfulness with kindfulness helps us access and grow our resilience.  I first met Gemma a few years ago, not in person but over the speaker in a large auditorium in the centre of the city in London - she was leading a Resilience Shot for a group of financial services leaders - a short mindfulness exe...

Tap to send me your reflections ♡ This week, we've joined up for the second time with the wonderful Abbie Lathe to see how using our voice helps us access and grow our resilience.  Following the wonderful feedback from our last session with Abbie, we're teaming up with her once more for another practical voicework session. This session builds on the tools shared on Sunday 12 April, 2020, so do hav...

Tap to send me your reflections ♡ PART ONE of a series of podcasts on how we can access, understand and grow our RESILIENCE, with compassion, to support us in times of change. PART ONE of a series on how we can access, understand and grow our RESILIENCE, with compassion, to support us in times of change. Over the next three weeks, we'll look at different tools we can use to develop our resilience,...

Tap to send me your reflections ♡ This week, we joined up with the wonderful Abbie Lathe to see how using our voice helps us deal with fear.  This was a practical session, sharing tools we can all use now - and in the future. In fact, any time we are nervous, anxious or afraid.  Abbie is singer / songwriter with over 35 years’ experience performing in bands, session singing for BBC wildlife progra...

Although journalling is essentially a private practice, I thought it might be rather lovely to see how we can still join together and experience how it feels as a virtual group. During this session, I shared some of the different ways journaling can be used - and how I use it as part of my (almost) daily practice.  I also took a look at gratitude and a couple of techniques that we can use to build...