Ep. 304: Truth-Telling and Healing: Rewriting Your Life's Narrative with GG Renee Hill
The Baggage Reclaim Sessions
Natalie Lue
4.9 • 867 Ratings
🗓️ 8 November 2025
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Natalie chats with writer GG Renee Hill, author of Story Work, about the stories we tell ourselves and how they shape our lives. They discuss the impact of growing up with a mentally ill parent, estrangement, the way we humans judge ourselves in general, and how to rewrite narratives that leave room for hope rather than keeping you stuck.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Natalie Liu, and you're listening to the baggage reclaim sessions, where we break the patterns that break our hearts, relationships and bodies. |
| 0:09.5 | Since 2005, I've run one of the longest running self-help blogs in the world, Baggaggagreglaim.com. |
| 0:16.0 | I'm a boundaries and relationship coach and the author of five books including Mr. Unavailable and the |
| 0:21.5 | fallback girl and the joy of saying no. I help you reclaim yourself from emotional baggage |
| 0:27.6 | by letting go of emotional unavailability, people pleasing and unhealthy relationships so you can |
| 0:33.9 | live in love with more love, care, trust and respect. |
| 0:52.1 | Hello, hello, hello. How are you doing? |
| 1:00.2 | I've thought a lot about stories this year, the stories we tell ourselves, the inner and outer narratives that drive our feelings for its behavior and choices, and whether we feel |
| 1:07.3 | empowered or disempowered by them. |
| 1:11.1 | Today's guest, Gigi Renene Hill's work, centers on exploring our stories and finding a way |
| 1:18.1 | into ourselves through excavating and rewriting our narratives. |
| 1:24.7 | We met when she invited me to discuss the themes of my book, The Joy of |
| 1:30.0 | Saying No, with her writing group. And it was such a wonderful, powerful conversation because |
| 1:37.0 | we were really talking about applying that breaking away from people pleasing and being more authentic |
| 1:44.9 | and how that can show up in a creative process. |
| 1:49.4 | And we've of course stayed in touch. |
| 1:52.1 | And over that couple of years or so, |
| 1:55.2 | we discovered a lot of shared experience. |
| 1:58.8 | So when she shared her new book storywork with me, I knew it was my |
| 2:03.9 | opportunity to have her on. And I hope you're as touched by this conversation as I've been. |
| 2:12.6 | Let's get into it. |
| 2:16.9 | Hello, Gigi. |
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