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The Inner Compass Podcast with Vanessa Bennett

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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 ofThe Motherhood Mythand coauthor ofIt’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

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00:34:34

Why You Sabotage the Closeness You Want Most:...

The Inner Compass Podcast with Vanessa Bennett ·

2026/10/05

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 connection starts to feel unsafe, drawing on attachment theory, polyvagal theory, and depth psychology to explain the shutdown, the merge, and everything in between. She traces how early relational wounds get encoded in the body long before they show up as adult patterns, and offers a simple, uncomfortable practice for

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00:50:22

Your Gut Mirrors the Soil: Kelsey Crane on Fertility,...

The Inner Compass Podcast with Vanessa Bennett ·

2026/09/28

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 up on hope. In this conversation, Vanessa and Kelsey trace the thread between fertility and land, motherhood and creative risk, and what it actually means to become an apprentice of regenerative living. They talk about self-publishing a debut novel in the stolen pockets of a busy life, the difference between despair and

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00:45:05

The Ego Is Not the Enemy: Laura Day on Intuition,...

The Inner Compass Podcast with Vanessa Bennett ·

2026/09/21

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 different life. Together they explore why transcendence can become a spiritual cop-out, why a strong “I” is necessary for relationship and impact, and how old childhood contracts can keep us recreating familiar patterns even when we think we are choosing something new. Laura brings her signature grounded approach to

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00:46:54

Dr. Shefali on Conscious Parenting, Cycle Breaking,...

The Inner Compass Podcast with Vanessa Bennett ·

2026/09/14

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 about parenting as one of the most direct encounters with the parent’s unconscious. Together they explore projection, control, codependency, rupture, repair, and the painful ways parents can use children to soothe their own anxiety or fulfill an unlived life. Dr. Shefali also shares the heart behind her two new books,

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00:28:38

The Three C’s: Codependency and the End of the...

The Inner Compass Podcast with Vanessa Bennett ·

2026/09/07

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-Anon recovery spaces: I didn’t cause it, I can’t control it, and I can’t cure it. Through family systems, Bowen’s differentiation of self, Jungian ego inflation and individuation, detaching with love, and the grief underneath control, this episode looks at why overfunctioning, rescuing, fixing, and emotional caretaking often

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01:18:49

Taking the Unseen Seriously: Lizzie Tilia on...

The Inner Compass Podcast with Vanessa Bennett ·

2026/08/31

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 practice, soul work, and what it means to take the unseen seriously without losing your ground. Together they explore Lizzie’s path from OCD, Catholic conditioning, and fear of the spirit world into psychic development, containment, and a more loving relationship with the unseen. They also talk about Jung’s collective

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00:51:56

Embodiment Isn’t a Performance: Ailey Jolie on the...

The Inner Compass Podcast with Vanessa Bennett ·

2026/08/24

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 embodiment actually means beyond the performance of being calm, sensual, regulated, or healed. Together they explore why disembodiment and dissociation can be intelligent survival strategies, how food and sexuality both ask us to reconnect with hunger, desire, permission, disgust, control, pleasure, and shame, and why the

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00:27:34

When Suffering Becomes Identity: The Martyr,...

The Inner Compass Podcast with Vanessa Bennett ·

2026/08/17

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 humbles, transforms, and moves us toward greater honesty, and suffering that becomes a role, a claim, a performance, or a way to stay morally protected. Through depth psychology, meaning-making research, Viktor Frankl, Jung, terror management theory, Freud’s mourning and melancholia, secondary gain, pathological altruism,

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00:28:33

Some Things Change You Forever: Initiation, Rupture,...

The Inner Compass Podcast with Vanessa Bennett ·

2026/08/10

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. Vanessa explores initiation as the kind of rupture that does not return us to who we were, but reorganizes the self entirely. Through rites of passage, liminality, trauma, witness, and the loss of ritual in modern life, we look at why some experiences are not interruptions to the old life, but thresholds into another one. The

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00:31:30

Narcissism Is Not Always Loud: The Fragile Self...

The Inner Compass Podcast with Vanessa Bennett ·

2026/08/03

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 problem of selfhood: what happens when a person does not have a stable enough inner sense of Self to stay emotionally coherent without constant reflection from the outside. Through Kohut, Kernberg, the myth of Narcissus, vulnerable and grandiose narcissism, the false self, parental overvaluation, and the difference between

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00:32:24

God Is Change: Trust, Impermanence, and Learning to...

The Inner Compass Podcast with Vanessa Bennett ·

2026/07/27

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 psychological problem: why we confuse trust with continuity, why change can feel like abandonment, and what it means to stay in relationship with reality as it keeps moving. Through Octavia Butler’s “God is Change,” Heraclitus, Buddhist impermanence, process theology, attachment theory, meaning-making research, and Jungian

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00:34:35

Fear Belongs: Why Healing Isn’t Becoming Fearless

The Inner Compass Podcast with Vanessa Bennett ·

2026/07/20

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, transcend, or shame, but as something ancient, intelligent, protective, and deeply human. Through polyvagal theory, Buddhist psychology, the teaching of the first and second arrow, RAIN practice, and self-compassion, we look at what changes when we stop treating fear like the enemy. Healing is not becoming fearless; it

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00:26:42

When Betrayal Breaks More Than Trust: How to Heal...

The Inner Compass Podcast with Vanessa Bennett ·

2026/07/13

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 disorganizing, especially when harm comes from someone or something that was supposed to feel safe. We talk about betrayal trauma, betrayal blindness, attachment injury, projection, reality testing, and why not every devastating feeling is the same kind of event. The deeper healing is not becoming harder or more armored, but

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00:42:50

Re-Nature with Clara Schroeder: Ecotherapy, Climate...

The Inner Compass Podcast with Vanessa Bennett ·

2026/07/06

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, climate grief, ritual, and the healing intelligence of the natural world. Together they explore why “we are nature” is not just a poetic idea, but a psychological and spiritual reality - and how separation from the earth mirrors separation from self, body, belonging, and ritual. They also discuss nature as a

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00:27:19

Are You Actually Healing, or Are You Trying to Become...

The Inner Compass Podcast with Vanessa Bennett ·

2026/07/01

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-development will eventually turn us into someone without friction: endlessly patient, available, social, regulated, and easy to love. Through Jung’s ideas of persona, Self, and shadow, along with research on self-discrepancy, ACT, self-compassion, and self-concept clarity, we look at the grief of realizing the idealized self may

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00:24:09

The Sacred Was Never Separate From the Body

The Inner Compass Podcast with Vanessa Bennett ·

2026/06/24

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 body not as a problem to solve or a machine to manage, but as intelligence, using the archetype of Gaia as a map for rhythm, instinct, descent, and embodied truth. We talk about productivity culture, chronic override, interoception, allostatic load, and why the body often interrupts the life the mind keeps trying to

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00:23:12

The Burden of Consciousness: The Exhaustion of Being...

The Inner Compass Podcast with Vanessa Bennett ·

2026/06/15

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. Vanessa explores the burden of consciousness: the exhaustion of being aware when insight has outrun integration, and the nervous system hasn’t caught up to what the mind can explain. We unpack why the observer can become its own persona (or even a defense), how awareness turns into self-surveillance, and why “more insight”

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00:25:00

When Women Stop Trusting Their Own Knowing:...

The Inner Compass Podcast with Vanessa Bennett ·

2026/06/08

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 explores how women are conditioned to distrust instinct, often becoming the first ones to disbelieve themselves. She explains why this isn’t accidental, it’s socialization and policing. Using Jung’s frame on intuition and the Cassandra archetype, we unpack the difference between intuition, anxiety, trauma activation, and

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00:25:53

Too Much, Not Enough: Two Sides of the Same Wound

The Inner Compass Podcast with Vanessa Bennett ·

2026/06/01

If you’ve ever felt like being fully yourself would make you harder to love, this episode is for you. Vanessa Bennett explores how the too much wound and the not enough wound are often the same core fear: that authentic selfhood threatens belonging. We talk about the way self-editing becomes a survival strategy—somatically, relationally, culturally—and how “being good” can masquerade as maturity while actually costing you your aliveness. The work isn’t “just be yourself”—it’s staying connected to

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00:26:09

When Love Isn’t Enough: Desire vs Capacity in...

The Inner Compass Podcast with Vanessa Bennett ·

2026/05/25

It's not always "if they wanted to they would," because sometimes the issue isn’t desire—it’s capacity, and that distinction changes everything. In this episode, Vanessa Bennett explores why someone can love you, mean well, even want closeness, and still not be able to sustain repair, intimacy, or emotional steadiness in a consistent way. We talk about the collapse of potential into pattern, why protest can keep fantasy alive, and how “victimhood” can quietly protect us from the terror of choice and

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