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Trigger Warning: In this episode of the SOVEREIGN Magazine® Podcast, host Nicole George reconnects with Michelle Vande Hey, SOVEREIGN Magazine®’s Love Your Life Columnist, to explore the September New Moon theme of Surrendering to the Unknown through Michelle’s article, “Surrender The Outcome, Not Your Power.”
Michelle shares how the common definition of surrender can feel like “giving up power,” which may be retraumatizing, and reframes surrender as trusting the work you’ve done while releasing control of outcomes. Together they discuss how overcontrol can show up as helicopter parenting, micromanaging, or relationship control, often rooted in safety needs and trauma, and how it becomes mentally exhausting and can remove others’ opportunities to choose, learn, and grow.
Michelle offers practices like body awareness, stepping away when heated, and repeating “I am safe,” while Nicole shares tools for teen communication and empowerment, and previews a future episode about caregiving her nephew.
Timestamps:
01:06 Meet Michelle Vande Hey
01:54 Redefining Surrender
03:37 Control and Safety
05:52 Trusting Your Parenting Work
08:41 Overcontrol Costs
11:45 Reclaim Power in Conflict
12:56 Teen Connection Without Fixing
14:52 Wrap Up and Next Episode
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Producer’s credits:
- Nicole George - Podcast Host | CEO/Founder SOVEREIGN Magazine® | Editor-in-Chief
- Ariane Lim - Podcast Producer + Engineer
- Sara Wagle - Audio Efficiency & Flow Manager
- Marielle Setenta - Enterprise Assistant
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