Surrender The Outcome, Not Your Power | SOVEREIGN Magazine Podcast with Michelle Vande Hey

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 Hey01:54 Redefining Surrender03:37 Control and Safety05:52 Trusting Your Parenting Work08:41 Overcontrol Costs11:45 Reclaim Power in Conflict12:56 Teen Connection Without Fixing14:52 Wrap Up and Next EpisodeConnect with Michelle Vande HeyEmailInstagramWebsiteFacebookProducer’s credits:Nicole George - Podcast Host | CEO/Founder SOVEREIGN Magazine® | Editor-in-ChiefAriane Lim - Podcast Producer + EngineerSara Wagle - Audio Efficiency & Flow ManagerMarielle Setenta - Enterprise AssistantLatest Issue: Click hereBecome a Columnist: learn more here.Connect with Us:InstagramFacebookLinkedInSubstackYouTubeThreads