The Inner Compass Podcast with Vanessa Bennett
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Vanessa 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.
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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 explores how women…
Too Much, Not Enough: Two Sides of the Same Wound
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…
When Love Isn’t Enough: Desire vs Capacity in Relationships
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…
When You Lose Your Capacity for Drama External Inbox
If you’ve noticed you have far less tolerance lately for chaos, mixed signals, unnecessary drama, or relationships that require constant management, this episode is for you. Vanessa Bennett explores…
The Myth of Closure in a Culture That Doesn’t Know How to Grieve
What if closure isn’t actually what grief needs? In this episode, Vanessa explores the difference between grief that has been witnessed, ritualized, and given symbolic form, and grief that stays…
Beyond Anxious vs Avoidant: Earned Security and Attachment Healing
Attachment language is everywhere, but it often gets used as a shortcut: anxious, avoidant, disorganized as labels instead of doorways into real work. In this episode, Vanessa Bennett, LMFT reframes…
Is it Love or Projection? Differentiation, Fantasy, and the Real Work of Love
Early love is often thick with projection and fantasy—not because love is fake, but because the unconscious is trying to reveal itself through intimacy. In this episode, Vanessa Bennett, LMFT…
Why Apologizing Feels So Loaded: Shame, Repair, and Accountability
A lot of us were taught that apologizing means taking full responsibility for the whole dynamic—becoming the problem so the relationship can stabilize—or avoiding repair because it feels too…
How to Stay With Yourself in Hard Conversations (When You Want to Disappear)
In yoga, there’s a teaching: the pose begins the moment you want to leave it—and the same is true in healing, intimacy, and hard conversations. In this episode, Vanessa Bennett, LMFT explores how…
Codependency Is Cultural: Shame, Control, and the False Self
Codependency isn’t a personal flaw - it’s a cultural adaptation shaped by shame, external validation, and the belief that your worth lives outside of you. In this workshop episode, Vanessa Bennett…
The Trinity Wounds: Witch Wound, Sister Wound, Mother Wound
So much of women’s pain gets individualized as “personal failure,” when so many of our struggles are intelligent adaptations to patriarchal and capitalist systems. In this episode, Vanessa Bennett,…
Assumptions in Relationships: The Codependency Loop That Keeps You Stuck
Assumptions are one of the most common ways we manage anxiety in relationships, but they also keep us stuck in the very patterns we’re trying to heal. In this episode, Vanessa Bennett, LMFT is joined…
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…
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,…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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The Inner Compass Podcast with Vanessa Bennett has published 19 episodes since February 2026, covering topics in Health & Fitness, Mental Health.
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