Renée Willis: Freed & On Fire

10/29/2025

10/29/2025

Have a hard time asking for help or receiving help? There will be signs.

10/27/2025

Real talk.

Travelling with you with all the healthy love,
Renee

“As an adult survivor of childhood abuse and neglect my mind is wired to assume fault and/or consequence in everything I do, including having my needs met.

“As an abused child I learned that my emotional needs were a burden to others. After a lifetime of suppressing my emotions, any emotional response from me as an adult feels like an overreaction.” – Shanon Page

10/27/2025

Boom. So true. And unhealthy.

Travelling with you with all the healthy love,
Renee

And the chances are very high….. 💔🫶

New episode of “A Little Less Lonely” is up! Check linktr.ee/natepost for links….

I’m so glad you’re here! 🫶💞✨

10/26/2025

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10/26/2025

As a mother, I will never accept the idea that a child should carry the emotional baggage of a parent. A child is not there to regulate us, stabilise us, or act as the peacekeeper in a home the parent refuses to put in order. When a parent hands their adult problems to a child, it doesn’t create strength or maturity, it creates hyper-vigilance, fawning, and the belief that self-abandonment and meeting everyone else’s needs is the price of belonging.

And I see it in my practice every day. The child grows up, becomes an adult, and finally sees the truth: they were never “mature for their age”, they were robbed of a childhood. They weren’t allowed to become who they wanted to be; they became who the parent and the system needed them to be. And what follows is deep sadness, grief, anger, and the painful realisation that they were a child doing a parent’s job, a childhood stolen by responsibilities that were never theirs to carry.

A parent must regulate themselves, confront their own internal world, and lead their household with stability and accountability…even when it’s hard. That is the role of a parent. It’s hierarchical. We lead, we protect our children from adult issues, and we let them be children.

10/24/2025

We all crave to be understood but not everyone can swim to the deep.