The Inner Compass Podcast with Vanessa Bennett
by Gamut Podcast Network · 38 episodes
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NEW PODCAST SERIES HOSTED BY VANESSA BENNETTVanessa Bennett, LMFT, is a licensed depth psychotherapist, author, and facilitator known for her no-nonsense yet compassionate approach to healing. She’s the author of The Motherhood Myth and coauthor of It’s Not Me, It’s You, and the founder of Inner Compass Academy. She hosts the Inner Compass Podcast, where she explores the intersection of depth psychology, relationships, and cultural conditioning to support personal and collective liberation.
Latest episodes
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25 min
Re-release: Shame and the Performance of Love: When Belonging Becomes Conditional
This week, we’re re-releasing our most listened to episode to date, just in case you missed it!There’s a version of love many of us were trained into: the kind you earn. Be agreeab…
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35 min
Why I Love Resentment: Silent Agreements, Fear, and Doing Your Own Work
Can you actually do your own work while you're still living inside an imperfect relationship — dishes undone, feelings unresolved, your partner moving at a different pace? In this…
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35 min
Why You Sabotage the Closeness You Want Most: Attachment, Intimacy, and the Fear of Being Known
Why does the thing we long for most (real closeness, being truly seen) so often make us want to run? In this solo episode, Vanessa unpacks what happens in the nervous system when c…
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50 min
Your Gut Mirrors the Soil: Kelsey Crane on Fertility, Permaculture, and Climate Grief
Kelsey Crane found her way from unexplained infertility to the healing intimacy of soil — and from there, to writing climate fiction that refuses to look away from collapse or give…
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45 min
The Ego Is Not the Enemy: Laura Day on Intuition, Healing, and The Prism
In this episode, Vanessa sits down with New York Times bestselling author and intuitive Laura Day to talk about The Prism, intuition, ego, and what it actually takes to create a di…
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47 min
Dr. Shefali on Conscious Parenting, Cycle Breaking, and Raising Sons and Daughters
In this episode, Vanessa sits down with Dr. Shefali, clinical psychologist, New York Times bestselling author, and pioneer of the conscious parenting movement, for a conversation a…
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29 min
The Three C’s: Codependency and the End of the Fantasy of Control
If you grew up learning that the safest thing you could do was manage the emotional environment, this episode is for you. Vanessa explores the Three C’s from codependency and Al-An…
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1 h 18
Taking the Unseen Seriously: Lizzie Tilia on Intuition, Soul, and Earth Practice
In this episode, Vanessa sits down with Lizzie Tilia, spiritual guide, psychic, teacher, and founder of Earth Mystery School, for a conversation about intuition, earth-based practi…
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52 min
Embodiment Isn’t a Performance: Ailey Jolie on the Body, Pleasure, and Healing
In this episode, Vanessa sits down with Ailey Jolie, Chartered Psychologist, somatic psychologist, certified sex therapist, and creator of INBODY, for a conversation about what emb…
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28 min
When Suffering Becomes Identity: The Martyr, Meaning-Making, and Codependency
If you’ve ever wondered whether suffering can be meaningful without becoming your whole identity, this episode is for you. Vanessa explores the difference between suffering that hu…
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29 min
Some Things Change You Forever: Initiation, Rupture, and the New Self
If you’ve ever gone through something that changed you so completely that the language of “getting back to normal” started to feel almost insulting, this episode is for you. Vaness…
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32 min
Narcissism Is Not Always Loud: The Fragile Self Behind the Mirror
Narcissism is usually imagined as arrogance, dominance, and the loudest person in the room, but it is not always that obvious. In this episode, Vanessa explores narcissism as a pro…
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32 min
God Is Change: Trust, Impermanence, and Learning to Stay Present
What if trusting life doesn’t mean trusting that everything will become stable, coherent, or reassuring? In this episode, Vanessa explores change as both a spiritual and psychologi…
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35 min
Fear Belongs: Why Healing Isn’t Becoming Fearless
If you have ever felt fear in your body and then immediately made that fear mean something bad about you, this episode is for you. Vanessa explores fear not as something to conquer…
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27 min
When Betrayal Breaks More Than Trust: How to Heal What the Relationship Broke
Betrayal doesn’t only break trust in another person; it can also rupture your trust in yourself. In this episode, Vanessa explores why betrayal can feel so psychologically disorgan…
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43 min
Re-Nature with Clara Schroeder: Ecotherapy, Climate Grief, and Healing Our Bond with Nature
In this episode, Vanessa sits down with Clara Schroeder, ecotherapist and author of Re-Nature: How Nature Helps Us Feel Better and Do Better, for a conversation about ecopsychology…
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27 min
Are You Actually Healing, or Are You Trying to Become More Acceptable?
What if some of what we call healing is actually an argument with the Self?In this episode, Vanessa explores the fantasy that enough therapy, coaching, spirituality, or self-develo…
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24 min
The Sacred Was Never Separate From the Body
If you say you want to feel more embodied, but what you really mean is “I want my body to calm down enough so I can keep functioning,” this episode is for you. Vanessa explores the…
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23 min
The Burden of Consciousness: The Exhaustion of Being Self-Aware
If you can name the pattern in real time—"I’m projecting, I’m shutting down, this is my attachment stuff"—and still feel unable to stop the behavior, this episode is for you. Vanes…
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25 min
When Women Stop Trusting Their Own Knowing: Intuition, Anxiety, and Discernment
If you’ve ever felt something in your body long before you had language for it, and then immediately started talking yourself out of it, this episode is for you. Vanessa Bennett ex…