Motivation is Overrated | SOVEREIGN Magazine® Podcast with Michelle Vande Hey
Published: August 31, 2026
Duration: 17:16
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 August Full Moon theme of Hitting Rock Bottom, with a trigger warning for child loss.
Michelle shares how losing her son in October 2018 exposed the limits of motivation and toxic positivity as she faced depression, PTSD, anxiety, and feeling disconnected from herself and motherhood.
She explains how choosing to train for a 10K - rather than relying on surface-level goals - helped her uncover a deeper “five layers...