Dan Jennings
@dnjnnngs.bsky.social
Transforming inherited stories. Moving toward truth, connection, and belonging. Psychotherapist (ret.). Writing about healing, cultural narratives, and wholeness.
Self-regulation isn’t something you do alone. It’s learned in the presence of someone who meets you with steadiness.
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Can We Really Regulate Ourselves?
We often think self-regulation is something we do alone—but our nervous system tells a different story.
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February 12, 2026 at 12:27 AM
Self-regulation isn’t something you do alone. It’s learned in the presence of someone who meets you with steadiness.
towardswholenessdanjennings.substack.com/p/can-we-rea...
towardswholenessdanjennings.substack.com/p/can-we-rea...
Passivity isn’t calm.
It’s anger on a tight leash.
When anger and fear collide, the body often chooses survival over expression.
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It’s anger on a tight leash.
When anger and fear collide, the body often chooses survival over expression.
New Post: When Anger Turns Inward towardswholenessdanjennings.substack.com/p/when-anger...
When Anger Turns Inward
When anger has no safe place to land, it doesn’t disappear — it turns inward and calls itself calm.
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February 9, 2026 at 5:29 PM
Passivity isn’t calm.
It’s anger on a tight leash.
When anger and fear collide, the body often chooses survival over expression.
New Post: When Anger Turns Inward towardswholenessdanjennings.substack.com/p/when-anger...
It’s anger on a tight leash.
When anger and fear collide, the body often chooses survival over expression.
New Post: When Anger Turns Inward towardswholenessdanjennings.substack.com/p/when-anger...
What if behaviour isn’t the problem, but a clue to something unspoken?
Episode 2 of Towards Wholeness: Lost Questions — Listening Beneath Our Behaviour
Read here
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Episode 2 of Towards Wholeness: Lost Questions — Listening Beneath Our Behaviour
Read here
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Lost Questions: Listening Beneath Behaviour in a Culture That Teaches Us Not to Ask
This essay explores how behaviour often becomes the language of the questions we were never taught how to ask — and what becomes possible when we learn to listen beneath our reactions with curiosity r
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February 6, 2026 at 9:17 PM
What if behaviour isn’t the problem, but a clue to something unspoken?
Episode 2 of Towards Wholeness: Lost Questions — Listening Beneath Our Behaviour
Read here
open.substack.com/pub/towardsw...
Episode 2 of Towards Wholeness: Lost Questions — Listening Beneath Our Behaviour
Read here
open.substack.com/pub/towardsw...
I finally joined BlueSky.
I’m a ret. therapist exploring our stories— from family, culture, etc, — what harms and what heals.
My 1st episode, How I Got Here, sets the stage for the conversation I hope to host here.
Grateful to be here.”
👇 Read the essay/episode:
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I’m a ret. therapist exploring our stories— from family, culture, etc, — what harms and what heals.
My 1st episode, How I Got Here, sets the stage for the conversation I hope to host here.
Grateful to be here.”
👇 Read the essay/episode:
open.substack.com/pub/towardsw...
How I Got Here
Tracing the winding path that shaped Towards Wholeness
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December 11, 2025 at 7:50 PM
I finally joined BlueSky.
I’m a ret. therapist exploring our stories— from family, culture, etc, — what harms and what heals.
My 1st episode, How I Got Here, sets the stage for the conversation I hope to host here.
Grateful to be here.”
👇 Read the essay/episode:
open.substack.com/pub/towardsw...
I’m a ret. therapist exploring our stories— from family, culture, etc, — what harms and what heals.
My 1st episode, How I Got Here, sets the stage for the conversation I hope to host here.
Grateful to be here.”
👇 Read the essay/episode:
open.substack.com/pub/towardsw...