Penny Dennis - Time2talk

16/11/2025

I’ve read about five posts in the last five minutes that promote positivity before comjng across this from Susan David and I get it , who wants to be saturated by negativity , no one. However what is core to our well-being is to get a balance, to embrace all our emotions, and a good place to start is to reframe those thoughts from negative and positive thinking to helpful and unhelpful thinking ..after-all surely feeling overwhelming sadness when grieving is actually helpful rather than seeing it as a negative and unhelpful emotion that needs locking away..why not have a listen to Susan David podcast .

Our culture prizes positivity over emotional truth. Tough emotions like sadness are not “negative.” They are normal.

At the heart of it, a failure to acknowledge difficult emotions through forced, false positivity is a failure to see both ourselves and others. It’s an unseeing of our humanity.

In the newest episode of ReThinking with Adam Grant, Adam and I discuss some of the subtle messaging behind forced positivity. For example, when we tell people to “just be positive,” what we are actually saying is, “my comfort is more important than your reality.”

Listen here: https://www.susandavid.com/podcast/overcoming-forced-positivity?utm_campaign=meetedgar&utm_medium=social&utm_source=meetedgar.com

16/11/2025

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15/11/2025

15/11/2025

Let your heart remember its own rythmn .such beautiful guidance from Spirit of a Hippie ..I recall Rebecca , a wonderful chiropractor and acupuncturist first planting the seeds of being aware of one’s own heart rythmns in an acupuncture session. I was so overwhelmed by my own emotions and she just gently lifted my hand and placed it over my heart and though I cannot recall the words she spoke I do recall how it felt..like I was anchoring myself in the midst of a tsunami!!
Life can be so full on at times and stopping to connect with our own hearts rythmn just for a moment can be so grounding.

Let It All Go

Release everything that is not beneficial
to your well-being.
Let it all go.
Let it fall away like old leaves
that have reached the end of their season.

You do not need to carry
what drains your spirit
or dims your clarity.

What is heavy, let it rest.
What is tangled,
let it loosen.

In the small, quiet spaces
you create by letting go,
your breath softens,
your mind settles,
and your heart remembers
its own rhythm.

And in that stillness you find your peace again.

~ 'Let It All Go' by Spirit of a Hippie

✍️ Mary Anne Byrne

~ Art by Olamik

15/11/2025

14/11/2025

So true .

As therapists we aren’t here to fix you, you don’t need fixing 🫶

We are here to help you untangle your thoughts 💭

We are here to let you be yourself, without judgement 👩‍⚖️

We are here to give you a chance to be heard, understood and supported 💛

14/11/2025

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14/11/2025

Sometimes you get what you want… Other times, life gives you something more important:

Growth.

Every delay, disappointment, and detour is shaping you into the person who can handle what’s coming next ❤️

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14/11/2025

My morning focus on the ‘Headspace’ meditation today was sitting with not knowing and it made me think of a time when I was so in tune with not knowing and the unpredictability of life … I thrived on it.
Now I’m not so great with it and I miss that person I used to be so this is a timely reminder to myself and to anyone reading this that it resonates with …. embrace the unknown in the smallest of ways and see where it takes you .

14/11/2025

I got over 50 reactions on my posts last week! Thanks everyone for your support! 🎉

14/11/2025

Take a read of this amazing woman’s post The Nurture Programme

Hey! Have you ever felt like you don’t belong?

ANYWHERE!

All. The. Time.

I do. I felt it to the extremes when I was younger. Always on the edge of social circles.

Never daring to venture in through fear of rejection.

Not good enough.

My perception of self was flawed. But my internal pull towards the denial of this perception was so strong that you would never have known how much anxiety was crippling me.

Inside I was a mess. Outside I was the “naughty one.” “The daredevil” “the clown” “the truth seeker” “the questioner” “the - you will absolutely not tell me what to doer” because that was my safety mask.

Or what I thought was my safety mask.

The outcome of this, was that my actions were outrageous. I did things even I didn’t want to do. Quickly collecting pockets of trauma every single day. Those pockets weighed me down and isolated me.

I self-sabotaged. I told myself no one liked me, and eventually acted as if they didn’t. Further isolation. Further trauma.

Not understanding my own neurobiology crippled me. I was broken inside. But outside I didn’t give two F*cks. Denying all feelings and emotions as if that might make them non-existence.

I don’t care.

I don’t care.

I don’t care.

I don’t care.

I don’t care.

I don’t care.

Until those pockets filled so deeply and so heavily that there was no more room for me to not care. It was obvious now. I cared deeply. Or did I? Dare I admit this? Dare I allow myself to feel weakness, humiliation, shed a tear? Dare I be vulnerable? Who’s watching? Will they even care that I care? Probably not. So I’ll swallow it again. Just for a while. Just until I feel calm again.

Anxiety, ptsd. Trauma. OCD. All pushing each other into submission. Who will win? Certainly not me.

Can we ever win? Can we ever repair fully to enable us to feel the feels? Show the feels. Be vulnerable.

Lots of deep thinking led me here. Lots of internal conversations between and my “psycho bitch” - the internal voice that once held me hostage in my own thoughts.

Shhhhhhhhhh - she’s quiet now. Don’t disturb her, she’s resting. Gosh does she need it after all of those years of hard work bringing me down.

She’s silent. She’s settled. Do not disturb is fully initiated.

And this is what led me to working with the most amazing bunch of neurodivergent women this year. Guiding them to confront their inner self sabotaging, and while critical thinking replaces obedience we had honest conversations to begin our journey into Authenticity.

And we are landing. And whilst I’ve worked with these amazing women, I too, have learned more and more about myself each day.

And it’s liberating. And if you let me, I can be part of your journey to Authenticty, to guide you through those murky waters and bring you the clean energy you deserve .

In January we will begin afresh with a new coaching cohort and some existing, and we will share, laugh, cry.

TOGETHER. With no judgement. With compassion and care and connection.

13/11/2025

Not all feelings need to be acted upon.

What are you feeling right now? Take a step back. Sit with it for a minute.

Because while all of your emotions are valid (and may feel extreme in the moment), most of them do not need to be acted upon. Breathe into the contours of your inner world without racing for the exit.