exploring the intersection of writing and well-being
About GG
GG Renee Hill is the author of Self-Care Check-In: A Guided Journal to Build Healthy Habits and Devote Time to You (Rockridge, 2020) and A Year of Self-Reflection Journal: 365 Days of Guided Prompts to Slow Down, Tune In, and Grow (Rockridge, 2021). Her debut book of essays, Story Work: Field Notes on Self-Discovery and Reclaiming Your Narrative is forthcoming from Broadleaf Books in fall 2025. Her books center writing as a tool for healing, self-discovery, and creative courage.
She is the founder of The Inner Story Writing Circle, a membership for creatives that supports the whole writer, providing mentorship and community support for the emotional, strategic, and developmental challenges of pursuing creative callings. In addition to working with individuals through 1:1 and group coaching, she facilitates transformative workshops for a diverse list of corporate and non-profit clients and literary organizations. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Marketing from Morgan State University, and she lives in Maryland with her family.
photo by Tomorrow’s Portraits
At 35, I made a decision that would alter the course of my life.
In 2013, I left my job in finance to pursue a career as a writer. Over the next several years, I navigated the learning curves, emotional highs and lows, and growing pains of building a creative life and business. Along the way, I discovered that sustaining a creative practice requires more than talent or discipline—it requires understanding yourself.
Before I changed careers, I was overwhelmed, uninspired, and disconnected from the parts of myself that longed to create. I had internalized countless stories about who I was supposed to be, what was practical, and what I was capable of. Those stories shaped my decisions long before I realized they were there.
As I built my writing career, I became fascinated by the creative process and the inner landscape within each of us that shapes it. I began studying the relationship between our stories, emotions, nervous systems, habits, and creative lives, recognizing that what often appears to be procrastination, perfectionism, self-doubt, or creative block is rarely about a lack of motivation. More often, it's an invitation to understand ourselves more deeply.
My work today reflects this realization. I help people use writing to explore the beliefs, experiences, emotions, and patterns that live beneath the surface and influence how they express themselves and move through the world. Because when we better understand ourselves, we create with greater clarity, intention, and freedom.
Now, I’m a facilitator and creative coach.
I help people use writing as a practice for understanding themselves, navigating challenge and change, strengthening creativity, and living with greater intention. Through workshops, coaching, speaking, and my writing, I create spaces where reflection becomes action and personal stories become sources of insight, connection, and possibility.
As a facilitator, I design writing experiences that invite curiosity, deepen self-awareness, and strengthen creative practice. Drawing on both my corporate and creative background, I help individuals and teams use writing to think more clearly, communicate more intentionally, and make meaning of their experiences.
I’ve hosted workshops for organizations such as The Writer’s Center, University of Maryland, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, The Smithsonian, The Recording Academy, and more, helping participants explore writing as a tool for reflection, well-being, creativity, and connection.
If you're interested in hiring me to work with your team or group, please contact me here.
If you’re interested in hiring me for individual coaching, you can learn more here.
I’m a writer and author.
I started out my career working in financial services where I held various positions in proposal writing and client communications.
When I left my corporate job to pursue self-employment, I had to rediscover my creative voice and learn how to be vulnerable in my writing. My journey began with blogging about self-discovery and self-publishing my first stories.
Between 2014 and 2018, I self-published a free-verse memoir about heartbreak and healing, a book of essays for quiet women who want to be heard, and a mindfulness workbook— as I organically built a writing platform through social media and my local creative community in the DMV area.
In 2020 and 2021, I was commissioned by Rockridge Press to write Self-Care Check-In and A Year of Self-Reflection, two guided journals that offer writing exercises and activities to promote well-being.
My new book, Story Work: Field Notes on Self-Discovery and Reclaiming Your Narrative is forthcoming from Broadleaf Books in November 2025. Preorders are now open!
I’m an advocate for the power of personal narrative.
Writing has helped me reframe old stories about mental illness and its impact on my life, and my mission is to help others improve the quality of their lives through the power of the written word.
I grew up with an undiagnosed mentally ill parent and a family that didn’t talk about it. When I became a mother in my early twenties, I experienced postpartum anxiety, but I didn’t have the language or awareness to ask for help. Not wanting to appear weak or unstable, I thought I could handle it on my own without talking about it—like my family did. After I attended my first therapy session at 29 years old, I wanted to end the silence.
Everything began to change when I started writing. Writing helped me examine the narratives I had inherited, make sense of my emotions, and imagine new ways of relating to myself and my life. That experience transformed my mental and emotional well-being as well as my understanding of creativity, healing, and personal growth.
Today, my work is grounded in the belief that writing helps us connect more deeply with ourselves and one another through our universal human experiences.
photo: D. Finney Photography
I invite to you:
+ Subscribe to my Substack newsletter for inspiration, resources, book + workshop updates, plus access to my free monthly writing workshop.
+ Check out my courses and workshops. If the idea of pursuing your creative callings inspires you, but you have fears and limitations that get in the way, learn more about the Inner Story Writing Circle.
+ Read my books and journals, and leave a review on Amazon.
+ Watch or listen to interviews from speaking engagements and podcast interviews.
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