
How Your Unhealed Past Keeps Controlling Your Parenting with GG Renee Hill
About this episode
Have you ever stopped to wonder how the stories you grew up with—the ones you absorbed in childhood—still shape the way you parent today?
Author and creative coach GG Renee Hill on uncovering, rewriting, and reclaiming the stories that define us.
Timestamps:
0:03 – How our childhood stories shape parenting
0:06 – Parenting from old patterns
0:09 – When others silence your intuition
0:12 – Finding yourself amid parenting chaos
0:15 – GG's inner child awakening
0:18 – Turning sensitivity into strength
0:21 – Growing up with a schizophrenic mother
0:25 – Redefining strength as a Black mom
0:29 – Coaching kids without tearing them down
0:33 – GG's breaking point and repair
0:38 – Anger is human, violence is not
0:43 – Hope for a more conscious generation
0:48 – Healing through storytelling and reflection
0:53 – The power of rewriting your narrative
0:58 – GG's message to parents and creators
- Her book: Story Work: Field Notes on Self-Discovery and Reclaiming Your Narrative
- Her viral essay, "Choosing My Mental Health over My Mother"
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