Cheaper Than Therapy with Vanessa and Dené Podcast
1) The Friendships That Hold Us When Life Falls Apart: What Support Looks Like
Friendship gets tested in crisis, and sometimes the hardest grief isn’t just what happened, it’s what gets revealed about who can actually stay with you. In this episode, Vanessa Bennett, LMFT sits do...Show More
2) Not Surprised Anymore: Collective Trauma, Recognition, and the Body
We’re carrying a lot of emotion right now, but not much surprise, and that matters because surprise is what you feel when your system expects safety, predictability, and repair. In this episode, Van...Show More
3) The Infantilized Adult: Why We Keep Handing Our Power to Partners, Groups, and Gurus
We’re in a radical shift in how we understand relationships, and it’s bigger than romance: the same reflex lives everywhere we attach, the hope that if you do it right, someone will keep you safe, app...Show More
4) Codependency in Chaotic Times: How to Hold Yourself in the Storm
When the world feels like it’s on fire, codependency can look like “staying informed,” “staying useful,” and carrying everyone else’s feelings, but it’s often just overfunctioning in the face of chaos...Show More
5) Shame and the Performance of Love: When Belonging Becomes Conditional
There’s a version of love many of us were trained into: the kind you earn. Be agreeable, be impressive, don’t need too much, don’t make waves. When belonging becomes conditional, love becomes performa...Show More
6) The Invisible Contract: When Working on Yourself Becomes Self-Abandonment
Most of us were raised inside an invisible contract: if you try hard enough, improve yourself enough, and play your role well enough, you’ll be loved, safe, and chosen. So we become diligent students ...Show More
7) Welcome to the Inner Compass Podcast
Inner Compass is a depth psychology and relationships podcast with Vanessa Bennett, LMFT, for people who are tired of self-improvement that leaves their lives unchanged. Each episode explores codepen...Show More
8) Ep. 248 ENOUGH WITH THE ‘HAVE TO’S’
In this episode of the podcast, Vanessa and Dené talk about the ways in which we are all being challenged to stay with ourselves through the discomfort of releasing the things we have been holding as ...Show More
9) Ep 247 AMERICA’S COLLECTIVE EGO DEATH
In this week’s episode, Vanessa and Dené talk about the energy that is being felt by so many of us as we move through what many astrologers are calling a ‘turning point’ eclipse season. we talk abo...Show More
10) Ep 246 THE EGO DEATHS ARE INEVITABLE
..the growth that comes from them is optional. In this week’s episode, Vanessa and Dené talk about the extent to which 2025 has felt like - to many - one enormous ego death, what that means, and why ...Show More