# The Unfolding
> Essays and podcast conversations from therapists Ryan and Jennie Denney exploring psychology, relationships, faith, philosophy, family, and the lifelong process of becoming more integrated and fully alive.
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## Pages
- [Ryan & Jennie Denney](https://theunfold.ing/about.md) - Meet Ryan and Jennie Denney and learn how a journey through faith deconstruction, family, therapy, and hard questions became The Unfolding.
- [Ryan Denney](https://theunfold.ing/ryan-denney.md)

## Posts
- [The Man Against the Wall](https://theunfold.ing/the-man-against-the-wall.md) - We had been given just enough information to become furious and nowhere near enough information to understand what we were furious about. Looking back, I wonder if that night was one of the first cracks.
- [Episode 1: Learning to Live the Questions](https://theunfold.ing/podcast-episode-1-learning-to-live-the-questions.md) - What happens when certainty stops working? In our first episode of On Unfolding, we talk about the questions that have followed us through faith, marriage, parenting, therapy, and the slow work of becoming ourselves. For both of us, certainty once offered a kind of safety. But our relationships to…
- [One Wild Life](https://theunfold.ing/one-wild-life.md) - There was something healing about it. To let joy stay joy and freedom feel alive even when sadness brushed against it. To look out the window in awe without demanding that everything inside me be settled first.
- [Thirteen](https://theunfold.ing/thirteen.md) - At thirteen, I knew how to be respectful. I knew how to listen to adults. I knew not to cause a scene. What I didn’t know was that fear could be enough. That I didn’t need permission to pull away. That my body was allowed to know something before I had words for it.
- [Weightless](https://theunfold.ing/weightless.md) - I was a good swimmer. I knew how to keep myself above water. But somewhere along the way, I had learned that being good meant carrying a weight that was never mine to begin with.
- [Permission](https://theunfold.ing/permission.md) - As a child, I disappeared into stories where girls were loud, curious, brave, and fully alive. It took me years to realize I wasn’t escaping into someone else’s life. I was catching glimpses of my own.
- [Interpretation](https://theunfold.ing/interpretation.md) - After the Zoom window disappeared, the words from the conversation followed me down the stairs. Somewhere between the black screen and the kitchen, I could no longer tell which judgments had been spoken aloud—and which ones I had been carrying for years.
- [Commuting](https://theunfold.ing/commuting.md) - I drove an hour and a half each way, every day, through the Dallas sprawl. Somewhere in all those miles I started to notice how much of what I was wearing had never been mine.
- [Undertone](https://theunfold.ing/undertone.md) - We don't all learn the same first language. Some of us grow up speaking words. Others grow up speaking subtext.
- [What the Hell?](https://theunfold.ing/what-the-hell.md) - A boy selling Chiclets in Tijuana planted a question I spent thirty years trying to answer. This is a small part of the story of how the framework I'd inherited for understanding the world slowly came apart.
- [Yellow Tulips](https://theunfold.ing/yellow-tulips.md) - I don't remember much from that season. Trauma has a way of stealing the details. But I remember the yellow tulips. I remember the woman who stood on my porch and silently reminded me that I wasn't alone. This is that story.
- [Trailer](https://theunfold.ing/trailer-2.md) - Welcome to our podcast, On Unfolding. New Episodes will be published soon.
- [Welcome to The Unfolding](https://theunfold.ing/welcome.md) - Meet Ryan and Jennie
- [What Kind of Person Do I Want to Be in the World?](https://theunfold.ing/what-kind-of-person-do-i-want-to-be.md) - A reflection on anger, complexity, and a strange afternoon in Portland
- [Me–We–The](https://theunfold.ing/me-we-the.md) - A Framework for Holding Complexity, Identity, and Meaning
- [The Pattern of Change](https://theunfold.ing/the-pattern-of-change.md) - How We Remain Ourselves While Becoming New
- [The Posture of Presence](https://theunfold.ing/the-posture-of-presence.md) - How Curiosity Cultivates Empathy
- [A Place to Stand](https://theunfold.ing/a-place-to-stand.md) - How We Hold Meaning in a Shifting World

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