Today we're looking back to look forward - and I'm announcing the new podcast name. I'm not completely clear how these two things are related but I expect they are! This is still the same podcast, the same space, now naming its essence: everyday compassion with Henny Flynn.

As today's episode unfolded, the three threads that emerged:

• I reflect on what it means to look back in order to look forward - not as nostalgia, and not as a refusal to move on, but as a discerning kind of attention.
• I share a conversation with my husband Anton over thirty years ago, sitting on a bench in Nottingham, where one of us said 'this feels more like a separation than a divorce' - and how being willing to look back changed the whole course of both our lives.
• I think out loud about a kind of discarding I notice in the world - how easily we decide an idea, a relationship, versions of ourselves, as though they no longer hold value simply because it belongs to the past. And how often what gets presented as something new is really something old, rediscovered. I'd love to know whether that resonates with you, or whether you see it differently.

And I share that A piece of quiet is itself a living example of all this - a practice I created, let go of, and am now bringing back as something free and live, every Monday at 6.30pm (UK), starting this coming Monday.

Henny x

Resources & Ways of Connecting

• To join A piece of quiet... every Monday, 6.30pm UK, free - https://hennyflynn.kit.com/14116fc6c3
• To discover Immerse... grounded in The Heart of Change - https://www.hennyflynn.co.uk/immerse
• On the Hilary Mantel novel... A Place of Greater Safety, if you'd like to find it for yourself (I loved this book)
• Tell me what resonated... I'd love to hear what landed for you - https://www.hennyflynn.co.uk/contact

It's been a busy week, and I'm recording this a little bit tired, but happy.

As today's episode unfolded, there were three threads that appeared:

• The life imitating art moment when my co-host Grace's camera failed, right as we were about to deliver a free lunch and learn on the nervous system at work - and how these moments in life can become live, real-time demonstrations of the very thing we seeking to learn (or teach)
• I also share three simple techniques for vagal toning that came up in today's session - a gentle hold at the back of the neck, a hand resting on the heart, and a gentle press at the inner corners of the eyebrows. And I leave you with a question: what actually nourishes your nervous system when it's activated, rather than simply soothing or numbing it?
• Lastly, if this work on the nervous system resonates for you, I share a little about a four-week course Grace and I are running together, starting 5 November, on understanding the language of your own nervous system.

Henny x

Resources & Ways of Connecting

• To find out more about the-nervous-system-at-work-4-week-course-with-henny-flynn-and-grace-loveday we begin Thursday 5 November
• To join the mailing list... hennyflynn.co.uk/contact for all the free things, including this podcast

I hadn't planned this episode - it seems to be the way, these days - it arrived instead, out of a small, quite ordinary battle with a piece of technology that simply wouldn't cooperate - and the frustration that came with it.

As today's episode unfolded, there were three threads that appeared:

• What happens when something feels hard - not the BIG moments but those small things that thwart us - frustrating, annoying, irritating - and the choices we might forget we have
• How trying to enforce 'unenforceable rules' can lead us to 'pushing on through', when perhaps something else might serve the situation better
• And I share my new book, everyday compassion (365 days of ordinary kindness), is published on 22 September. Pre-orders are open now, and I would love to inscribe a copy for you, or for someone you love.

Henny x

Resources & Ways of Connecting

• To order everyday compassion... https://www.hennyflynn.co.uk/everyday-compassion
• To discover The Field... https://www.hennyflynn.co.uk/enter-the-field
• Share where you go... when things feel like they're thwarting you, I'd love to hear https://www.hennyflynn.co.uk/contact