Media & Speaking

Dennis Parnell — Author, Speaker, Coach

Dennis Parnell, LCSW, is an author, speaker, coach, licensed clinical social worker, and founder and CEO of The Parnell Group, LLC. Blending lived experience with professional insight, he explores fear, recovery, spirituality, adversity, and authentic living. His book, The Secret Life of Fear, invites readers to see fear as a guide to healing and transformation.

Dennis Parnell (LCSW): Media & Speaking

Honest conversations about fear, recovery, spirituality, and transformation.

Dennis Parnell brings warmth, candor, professional insight, and lived experience to conversations that matter. As an author, speaker, coach, and licensed clinical social worker, he helps audiences understand fear as a whole-person experience—and recognize how it can become a catalyst for healing, courage, and change.

Dennis is available for keynote presentations, workshops, panels, podcast interviews, television and radio appearances, book clubs, and organizational conversations.

Signature Speaking Topics

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The Secret Life of Fear

How hidden fear patterns shape identity, relationships, decisions, addiction, and behavior—and how truth can interrupt those patterns.

Fear as a Guide

A new way to view fear: not simply as an obstacle, but as information pointing toward the areas where growth and healing are most needed.

The Whole-Person Nature of Healing

How biological, psychological, social, and spiritual influences work together to shape our behavior, relationships, recovery, and well-being.

Recovery, Adversity, and The Second Round

What begins when surrender ends the first life: moving beyond abstinence and survival to rebuild identity through truth, responsibility, relationship, spiritual practice, and service.

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Building New Muscle Memory

How awareness, repetition, and small courageous actions can interrupt fear loops, reshape learned responses, and make connection, compassion, and freedom more available.

The Ascent From Fear to Love

Dennis’s model of human development moves from biological security and belonging through identity, agency, meaning, and purpose toward transcendence and a Sustainable State of Peace.