Cheaper Than Therapy with Vanessa and Dené

Podcast

Our podcast is ending but we aren’t leaving! Connect with us in our Cheaper Than Therapy online Community. Weekly process groups and classes with us and our expert guest facilitators on a range of topics, plus one-on-one interactions with us and an amazing supportive community! Learn more here

Connect with Vanessa:

Instagram: @vanessasbennett
TikTok: @thecodayoda

Connect with Dené:

Instagram: @dene.logan
Website: denelogan.com
TikTok: @denelogan

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Ep 234: Friendships & Goodbyes Sep 18, 2024

Ep 234: Friendships & Goodbyes

In this emotional and reflective episode of Cheaper than Therapy the Podcast, we discuss the cycles of relationships, touching on our personal friendship dynamics and the upcoming conclusion of Cheaper than Therapy the Podcast after an incredible 4 years.

What You’ll Gain from this Episode:

✨ An emphasis on the importance of prioritizing friendships over romantic relationships, which often get placed on a societal pedestal, and how our friendship has thrived because of our commitment to this mindset

✨The cyclical nature of relationships, using the metaphor of a spiral to illustrate how old wounds and dynamics resurface, but with each turn of the spiral, they move further from the center, showing growth and healing

✨Exploring the concept of respecting where each person is in their development and capacity to engage in relationships, and how recognizing that capacity in one another helps prevent the ego from taking a “one-up” position, allowing for empathy and understanding

✨The conclusion of Cheaper than Therapy the Podcast after 4 years together, our immense gratitude for this journey, our guests, and you - the amazing community we’ve built together

🎙This podcast is definitely Cheaper than Therapy

Our podcast is ending but we aren’t leaving! Connect with us in our Cheaper Than Therapy online Community. Weekly process groups and classes with us and our expert guest facilitators on a range of topics, plus one-on-one interactions with us and an amazing supportive community! Learn more here

Interested in joining Vanessa’s substack? Email Sondra@vanessabennett.com for more information

Connect with Vanessa:

Instagram: @vanessasbennett
TikTok: @thecodayoda

Connect with Dené:

Instagram: @dene.logan
Website: denelogan.com
TikTok: @denelogan

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Ep 233: Dating Realism and Emotional Growth with Sabrina Zohar Sep 11, 2024

In this episode of Cheaper than Therapy the Podcast, we sit down with Sabrina Zohar, a prominent voice in dating and relationship psychology and host of the Sabrina Zohar Show, a top resource for no-nonsense relationship advice backed by the expertise of board-certified and licensed psychologists.

What You’ll Gain from this Episode:

✨ How dating emotionally unavailable people will often lead to the realization that you are emotionally unavailable, showing the importance of accountability vs blame in relationships

✨Why we should challenge common social media dating advice like “If they wanted to, they would,” due to a need for deeper self-reflection and understanding, rather than blindly following oversimplified advice

✨How past trauma can influence current dating patterns and the importance of healing from these experiences so you are able to approach relationships by prioritizing authenticity and depth over superficial connections

✨The importance of maintaining high standards in dating without getting caught in unrealistic ideals, and to begin prioritizing compatibility and shared values over physical appearance or fleeting excitement

🎙This podcast is definitely Cheaper than Therapy

If you find value in these conversations, please take a moment to rate and review the podcast wherever you listen to pods. It helps us reach a larger audience looking for soulful insights!

Connect with Sabrina:

Podcast

Check out our online community, Cheaper Than Therapy the Community. Weekly process groups, live workshops, weekly live workshop series with expert guest facilitators, and one-on-one interactions with us and an amazing supportive community! Learn more here

Connect with Vanessa:

Instagram: @vanessasbennett
TikTok: @thecodayoda
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@vanessabennettlmft5631

Connect with Dené:

Instagram: @dene.logan
TikTok: @denelogan

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Ep 232: Live Coaching Session: Navigating Mental Health and Family Dynamics Sep 04, 2024

In this episode of Cheaper than Therapy the Podcast, we sit down with Michelle, who is struggling with her husband’s mental health issues and their recent impact on their family dynamics. The conversation explores step-parenting, mental health in relationships, and more.

What You’ll Gain from this Episode:

✨ The difficulties in finding common ground with her husband regarding parenting decisions, especially as her children have grown older

✨ What to do when when mental health struggles have created an ongoing sense of unpredictability and fear within the family dynamic

✨ Approaching conversations with curiosity and vulnerability, and the possibility that open communication about their fears and past traumas could help alleviate some of the tension in the relationship

✨Why it’s important to take accountability in relationships and address your own trauma to recalibrate your own nervous system to better cope with the present, and how by doing the necessary inner work, you can embrace the good surrounding your external

🎙This podcast is definitely Cheaper than Therapy

Remember, we’re therapists, but we’re not your therapists. These coaching sessions, and other episodes, are meant for entertainment purposes only, and are not meant to replace your therapy practice.

If you find value in these conversations, please take a moment to rate and review the podcast wherever you listen to pods. It helps us reach a larger audience looking for soulful insights!

Check out our online community, Cheaper Than Therapy the Community. Weekly process groups, live workshops, weekly live workshop series with expert guest facilitators, and one-on-one interactions with us and an amazing supportive community! Learn more here

Connect with Vanessa:

Instagram: @vanessasbennett
TikTok: @thecodayoda
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@vanessabennettlmft5631

Connect with Dené:

Instagram: @dene.logan
TikTok: @denelogan

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Ep 231: Approaching Mental Health with Nuance with Gabriella Ulloa & Meadowlark Monaghan Aug 28, 2024

In this episode of Cheaper than Therapy the Podcast, we sit down with Gabriella Ulloa and Meadowlark Monaghan, co-hosts of the “Thoughts May Vary” podcast; a podcast about changing our minds, with the common threads of mental health and nuance weaved throughout. We talk about mental health and the value of open, honest conversations & feeing understood in relationships.

What You’ll Gain from this Episode:

✨Normalizing exploring mental health conversations in an approachable and authentic way, without falling into toxic positivity

✨The value of holding space for differing opinions and the need for discussions that allow for change and growth

✨Approaching the topics of mental health with compassion and understanding, and the importance of feeling safe to speak openly about difficult subjects without fear of judgment

✨The importance of vulnerability in relationships, both romantic and platonic, and why showing up authentically, especially in the messiest parts of life, is crucial for building deep, authentic connections

🎙This podcast is definitely Cheaper than Therapy

If you find value in these conversations, please take a moment to rate and review the podcast wherever you listen to pods. It helps us reach a larger audience looking for soulful insights!

Connect with Gabriela and Meadowlark

Thoughts May Vary

Check out our online community, Cheaper Than Therapy the Community. Weekly process groups, live workshops, weekly live workshop series with expert guest facilitators, and one-on-one interactions with us and an amazing supportive community! Learn more here

Connect with Vanessa:

Instagram: @vanessasbennett
TikTok: @thecodayoda
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@vanessabennettlmft5631

Connect with Dené:

Instagram: @dene.logan
TikTok: @denelogan

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Ep 230: Live Coaching Session: A Path to Self-Compassion Aug 21, 2024

In this episode of Cheaper than Therapy the Podcast, we sit down with Sarah, who is grappling with the aftermath of overhearing a negative conversation about herself between her in-laws and parents.

What You’ll Gain from this Episode:

✨Exploring the motivation behind listening to a recorded conversation and why it’s important to consider the deeper truths that might be present in the feedback

✨The challenge of reconciling the desire for space and healing coupled with the pressure from others to resolve the conflict quickly, and why setting boundaries for space to process your emotions is important

✨Why personal accountability is important and how our past experiences can influence our behavior

✨Sometimes healing can be complicated and relationships have to change, so allowing yourself to feel your emotions fully is important for a sense of clarity, self-awareness, and spiritual growth

🎙This podcast is definitely Cheaper than Therapy

Remember, we’re therapists, but we’re not your therapists. These coaching sessions, and other episodes, are meant for entertainment purposes only, and are not meant to replace your therapy practice.

If you find value in these conversations, please take a moment to rate and review the podcast wherever you listen to pods. It helps us reach a larger audience looking for soulful insights!

Check out our online community, Cheaper Than Therapy the Community. Weekly process groups, live workshops, weekly live workshop series with expert guest facilitators, and one-on-one interactions with us and an amazing supportive community! Learn more here

Connect with Vanessa:

Instagram: @vanessasbennett
TikTok: @thecodayoda
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@vanessabennettlmft5631

Connect with Dené:

Instagram: @dene.logan
TikTok: @denelogan

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Ep 229: Brave Expression with Africa Brooke Aug 14, 2024

In this episode of Cheaper than Therapy the Podcast, we sit down with Africa Brooke, internationally acclaimed consultant, credentialed coach, speaker, and podcaster to discuss self-censorship, brave expression, navigating complex social dynamics, and how to trust your inner voice. Her book, The Third Perspective: Brave Expression in the Age of Intolerance is available now!

What You’ll Gain from this Episode:

✨Why non-binary thinking is necessary to breaking free of self-censorship and having open, authentic conversation

✨The significance of brave expression in the age of intolerance, and the struggle to remain authentic when facing societal pressures that go against your own truth

✨How social media may have amped the culture of fear and intolerance, and why focusing on meaningful posting and interacting may have more authentic results than performative social media presences

✨The necessity of holding space for nuance in difficult conversations, and why true understanding doesn’t always mean agreement

🎙This podcast is definitely Cheaper than Therapy

Connect with Africa Brooke:

The Third Perspective

If you find value in these conversations, please take a moment to rate and review the podcast wherever you listen to pods. It helps us reach a larger audience looking for soulful insights!

Check out our online community, Cheaper Than Therapy the Community. Weekly process groups, live workshops, weekly live workshop series with expert guest facilitators, and one-on-one interactions with us and an amazing supportive community! Learn more here

Connect with Vanessa:

Instagram: @vanessasbennett
TikTok: @thecodayoda
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@vanessabennettlmft5631

Connect with Dené:

Instagram: @dene.logan
TikTok: @denelogan

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Ep 228: Live Coaching Session: Managing Overwhelming Emotions Aug 07, 2024

In this episode of Cheaper than Therapy the Podcast, we sit down with Erica to talk about her struggles with managing strong emotions and staying grounded in emotionally overwhelming situations, and what to do when you tend to outwardly focus on others when overwhelmed, and how to trust your inner voice and listen to Self.

What You’ll Gain from this Episode:

✨How somatic tools can help manage intense feelings during moments of emotional overwhelm

✨ The importance of self-compassion and acceptance when dealing with big emotions, and how to uncouple negative beliefs from emotional reactions

✨Why being emotionally vulnerable and authentic can feel challenging when learning how to trust your inner voice

🎙This podcast is definitely Cheaper than Therapy

If you find value in these conversations, please take a moment to rate and review the podcast wherever you listen to pods. It helps us reach a larger audience looking for soulful insights!

Check out our online community, Cheaper Than Therapy the Community. Weekly process groups, live workshops, weekly live workshop series with expert guest facilitators, and one-on-one interactions with us and an amazing supportive community! Learn more here

Connect with Vanessa:

Instagram: @vanessasbennett
TikTok: @thecodayoda
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@vanessabennettlmft5631

Connect with Dené:

Instagram: @dene.logan
TikTok: @denelogan

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Ep 227: Therapy for Black Girls with Dr. Joy Harden Bradford Jul 31, 2024

In this episode of Cheaper than Therapy the Podcast, we sit down with Dr. Joy Harden Bradford, licensed psychologist, author, speaker, and founder and host of Therapy for Black Girls, a podcast and platform dedicated to making mental health topics more relevant and accessible for Black women. We discuss Dr. Joy’s journey to creating a significant platform aimed at destigmatizing mental health issues among Black women, community, generational trauma, self-awareness and spiritual growth, and more.

What You’ll Gain from this Episode:

✨The critical role that community plays in mental health, particularly in the context of collective trauma and support systems

✨Dr. Joy emphasizes the intertwined nature of spirituality and mental health in Black communities, advocating for a holistic approach to well-being.

✨The impact of generational trauma and the importance of acknowledging and healing these deep-seated wounds to foster overall mental health

🎙This podcast is definitely Cheaper than Therapy

Connect with Dr. Joy

Sign up for Therapy for Black Girls

If you find value in these conversations, please take a moment to rate and review the podcast wherever you listen to pods. It helps us reach a larger audience looking for soulful insights!

Check out our online community, Cheaper Than Therapy the Community. Weekly process groups, live workshops, weekly live workshop series with expert guest facilitators, and one-on-one interactions with us and an amazing supportive community! Learn more here

Connect with Vanessa:

Instagram: @vanessasbennett
TikTok: @thecodayoda
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@vanessabennettlmft5631

Connect with Dené:

Instagram: @dene.logan
TikTok: @denelogan

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Ep 226: Rebuilding After an Abusive Marriage Jul 24, 2024

In this episode of Cheaper than Therapy the Podcast, we sit down with Jill, a single mother and entrepreneur who is navigating the challenges of rebuilding her life after leaving a toxic and abusive marriage. The conversation touches on how to trust your inner voice, boundaries, impacts of relationships on children, and more.

What You’ll Gain from this Episode:

✨How societal and cultural pressures can cause us to feel like we need external validation and approval, and how that can make it difficult to learn how to trust your inner voice, especially after leaving an abusive relationship

✨The importance of making independent decisions, even in what seems like small daily matters, as a way to reclaim personal agency and build trust in Self

✨The significant impact past relationships have on children, highlighting the importance of modeling healthy behaviors and open communication to break generational cycles of trauma

✨Why seeking family therapy to facilitate open discussions and provide a supportive environment is key to heal and grow together

🎙This podcast is definitely Cheaper than Therapy

If you find value in these conversations, please take a moment to rate and review the podcast wherever you listen to pods. It helps us reach a larger audience looking for soulful insights!

Check out our online community, Cheaper Than Therapy the Community. Weekly process groups, live workshops, weekly live workshop series with expert guest facilitators, and one-on-one interactions with us and an amazing supportive community! Learn more here

Connect with Vanessa:

Instagram: @vanessasbennett
TikTok: @thecodayoda
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@vanessabennettlmft5631

Connect with Dené:

Instagram: @dene.logan
TikTok: @denelogan

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Ep 225: The Vital Spark with Lisa Marchiano, LCSW, NCPsyA Jul 17, 2024

In this episode of Cheaper than Therapy the Podcast, we sit down with Lisa Marchiano, LCSW, NCPsyA, a Jungian analyst, author, and podcaster. Her writings have appeared in numerous publications. She is the co-host and creator of the popular depth psychology podcast This Jungian Life. She is on the faculty of the C. G. Jung Institute of Philadelphia, and lectures and teaches widely.

What You’ll Gain from this Episode:

✨The significance of feminine archetypes, like Lilith and Eve, and how they represent different aspects of the feminine experience and self-empowerment

✨Why recognizing and integrating shadow aspects like anger and assertiveness can lead to personal growth and authenticity, teaching you how to trust your inner voice

✨How embracing the power of storytelling and sharing personal stories fairytales can facilitate deeper understanding and healing in both therapy and personal life

🎙This podcast is definitely Cheaper than Therapy

Connect with Lisa Marchiano, LCSW, NCPsyA:

This Jungian Life

If you find value in these conversations, please take a moment to rate and review the podcast wherever you listen to pods. It helps us reach a larger audience looking for soulful insights!

Check out our online community, Cheaper Than Therapy the Community. Weekly process groups, live workshops, weekly live workshop series with expert guest facilitators, and one-on-one interactions with us and an amazing supportive community! Learn more here

Connect with Vanessa:

Instagram: @vanessasbennett
TikTok: @thecodayoda
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@vanessabennettlmft5631

Connect with Dené:

Instagram: @dene.logan
TikTok: @denelogan

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Ep 224: Boundaries, Abandonment, and Personal Growth Jul 10, 2024

In this episode of Cheaper than Therapy the Podcast, we address listener questions around boundaries and dealing with significant changes in your relationships. We discuss themes around abandonment, setting boundaries, and accountability vs blame in relationships.

What You’ll Gain from this Episode:

✨How a fear of abandonment can make setting and maintaining boundaries challenging/unclear, often leading to negative responses from others

✨The importance of accountability vs blame in relationships, and not personalizing others’ actions

✨Distinguishing between someone’s capacity to show up in a relationship and their desire to do so, and that a lack of capacity doesn’t necessarily mean a lack of care

✨How controlling behaviors stem from deep-seated fears of abandonment and emphasize the need for self-reflection and personal responsibility to take accountability in relationships and foster healthier relationships

🎙This podcast is definitely Cheaper than Therapy

Remember, we’re therapists, but we’re not your therapists. These coaching sessions, and other episodes, are meant for entertainment purposes only, and are not meant to replace your therapy practice.

If you find value in these conversations, please take a moment to rate and review the podcast. It helps us reach a larger audience looking for soulful insights!

Check out our online community, Cheaper Than Therapy the Community. Weekly process groups, live workshops, and one-on-one interactions with us and an amazing supportive community! Check it out here: https://vanessa-bennett-dene-logan.myshopify.com/collections/the-community

Connect with Vanessa:

Instagram: @vanessasbennett
TikTok: @thecodayoda
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@vanessabennettlmft5631

Connect with Dené:

Instagram: @dene.logan
TikTok: @denelogan

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Ep 223: Live Coaching Session: Redefining Yourself Post-Breakup Jul 03, 2024

In this episode of Cheaper than Therapy the Podcast, we sit down with Joy, who is navigating the complex and practical life challenges following the end of a long-term relationship. We explore the difficulties of fully moving on when there is significant overlap in social and professional circles, and how to handle lingering feelings especially during potential future interactions.

What You’ll Gain from this Episode:

✨The importance of self awareness in recognizing and validating your feelings of discomfort and jealousy, and why radical acceptance of these emotions is a key part of the healing process

✨Why you need to fully grieve the ending of a relationship, and why both intellectual acceptance and emotional processing are crucial for moving forward

✨ Finding a way to balance your desire to share your experience with others and not bleeding your pain onto them by prioritizing tending to your own wounds before engaging in activism or public discussion

🎙This podcast is definitely Cheaper than Therapy

Remember, we’re therapists, but we’re not your therapists. These coaching sessions, and other episodes, are meant for entertainment purposes only, and are not meant to replace your therapy practice.

If you find value in these conversations, please take a moment to rate and review the podcast. It helps us reach a larger audience looking for soulful insights!

Check out our online community, Cheaper Than Therapy the Community. Weekly process groups, live workshops, and one-on-one interactions with us and an amazing supportive community! Check it out here: https://vanessa-bennett-dene-logan.myshopify.com/collections/the-community

Connect with Vanessa:

Instagram: @vanessasbennett
TikTok: @thecodayoda
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@vanessabennettlmft5631

Connect with Dené:

Instagram: @dene.logan
TikTok: @denelogan

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Ep 222: Transforming Trauma with Empathy with Dr. Jody Carrington Jun 26, 2024

In this episode of Cheaper than Therapy the Podcast, we sit down with Dr. Jody Carrington, psychologist, speaker, and three time author known for her expertise in trauma, connection, relationships, and mental health, to discuss emotional regulation, how to be emotionally available in what Dr. Jody calls a loneliness epidemic, and the transformative power of leading with kindness and compassion.

What You’ll Gain from this Episode:

✨The importance of emotional regulation as the foundation for healthy relationships and effective leadership

✨The need for more supports for first responders and the effects of organizational trauma

✨ Why our society may be facing a loneliness epidemic and why professionals like teachers, therapists, and first responders need increased supports for the well-being of their communities

🎙This podcast is definitely Cheaper than Therapy

Connect with Dr. Carrington:

If you find value in these conversations, please take a moment to rate and review the podcast. It helps us reach a larger audience looking for soulful insights!

Check out our newly launched online community, Cheaper Than Therapy the Community. Weekly process groups, live workshops, and one-on-one interactions with us and an amazing supportive community! Check it out here: https://vanessa-bennett-dene-logan.myshopify.com/collections/the-community

Connect with Vanessa:

Instagram: @vanessasbennett
TikTok: @thecodayoda
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@vanessabennettlmft5631

Connect with Dené:

Instagram: @dene.logan
TikTok: @denelogan

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Ep 221: Finding the Right Therapist Jun 19, 2024

In this episode of Cheaper than Therapy the Podcast, we delve into the complexities of the therapeutic process and how to trust your inner voice as you navigate the challenges of finding the right therapist for yourself.

If you have a question for Dené and Vanessa, click here. Or, if you’d like to apply for a live coaching session, click here.

What You’ll Gain from this Episode:

✨The importance, as a therapist, to understand individual client needs and examine your own reactions and countertransference during therapy

✨How interviewing therapists is similar to the early stages of dating, and why you should ask potential therapists about their own therapy experiences and their modalities to help ensure alignment within the relationship

✨ Why the relationship between therapist and client is crucial for effective therapy, and why open communication is the best way to foster a healthy and vulnerable relationship between you and your therapist

🎙This podcast is definitely Cheaper than Therapy

Remember, we’re therapists, but we’re not your therapists. These coaching sessions, and other episodes, are meant for entertainment purposes only, and are not meant to replace your therapy practice.

If you find value in these conversations, please take a moment to rate and review the podcast. It helps us reach a larger audience looking for soulful insights!

Check out our newly launched online community, Cheaper Than Therapy the Community. Weekly process groups, live workshops, and one-on-one interactions with us and an amazing supportive community! Check it out here: https://vanessa-bennett-dene-logan.myshopify.com/collections/the-community

Connect with Vanessa:

Instagram: @vanessasbennett
TikTok: @thecodayoda
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@vanessabennettlmft5631

Connect with Dené:

Instagram: @dene.logan
TikTok: @denelogan

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Ep 220: Live Coaching Session: Navigating Calm Amidst Chaos Jun 12, 2024

In this episode of Cheaper than Therapy the Podcast, we sit down with Veronica, joining us for a second live coaching session, to discuss her experiences with social anxiety and navigating calm environments after growing up in a chaotic household.

If you have a question for Dené and Vanessa, click here. Or, if you’d like to apply for a live coaching session, click here.

What You’ll Gain from this Episode:

✨Why growing up in chaos can lead to feeling uncomfortable and anxious in calm environments, and how to begin to reset your nervous system

✨The importance of somatic awareness and understanding your body’s responses to specific environments and triggers

✨ How approaching new relationships from a mindset of being in-service, rather than reciprocation, can help ease the fear of vulnerability when forming new connections

🎙This podcast is definitely Cheaper than Therapy

Remember, we’re therapists, but we’re not your therapists. These coaching sessions, and other episodes, are meant for entertainment purposes only, and are not meant to replace your therapy practice.

If you find value in these conversations, please take a moment to rate and review the podcast. It helps us reach a larger audience looking for soulful insights!

Check out our newly launched online community, Cheaper Than Therapy the Community. Weekly process groups, live workshops, and one-on-one interactions with us and an amazing supportive community! Check it out here: https://vanessa-bennett-dene-logan.myshopify.com/collections/the-community

Connect with Vanessa:

Instagram: @vanessasbennett
TikTok: @thecodayoda
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@vanessabennettlmft5631

Connect with Dené:

Instagram: @dene.logan
TikTok: @denelogan

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Ep 219: Humans Loving Humans with Todd Baratz, LMHC Jun 05, 2024

In this episode of Cheaper than Therapy the Podcast, we sit down with Todd Baratz, LMHC, a certified sex therapist, licensed individual and couples psychotherapist, co-host of the Our Diagnonsense Podcast, and writer who specializes in relationships and sex. We talk about relationships, his philosophy that “you aren’t fucked up - our culture is,” and his first book, How to Love Someone Without Losing Your Mind which is available now! Todd is one of our favorite people and we had so much fun during this conversation. We know you’re going to have so many take-aways and love this conversation with him, as well!

What You’ll Gain from this Episode:

✨ The complex reality of therapeutic support on social media, it’s influence on current societal trends, and the need to hold space for the inevitable lack of nuance that exists in the digital world

✨ An emphasis on the importance of understanding the complexities and meanings behind behaviors, rejecting black-and-white thinking, and taking personal responsibility to recognize the influence of social norms on your own personal development

✨ How our relationship structures are evolving in ways that offer less dogma and more authenticity in our healing, and how that’s begun to shift the societal “normal” away from staying in unhealthy relationships

✨The necessity for therapists to check in with their countertransference and not be too quick to look for a solution when “stuck” is a necessary stage of their own personal development

🎙This podcast is definitely Cheaper than Therapy

Connect with Todd:

Order Todd’s New Book Here

If you find value in these conversations, please take a moment to rate and review the podcast. It helps us reach a larger audience looking for soulful insights!

Check out our newly launched online community, Cheaper Than Therapy the Community. Weekly process groups, live workshops, and one-on-one interactions with us and an amazing supportive community! Check it out here: https://vanessa-bennett-dene-logan.myshopify.com/collections/the-community

Connect with Vanessa:

Instagram: @vanessasbennett
TikTok: @thecodayoda
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@vanessabennettlmft5631

Connect with Dené:

Instagram: @dene.logan
TikTok: @denelogan

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Ep 218: Is a Societal Shift toward Celibacy the Answer? May 29, 2024

In this episode of Cheaper than Therapy the Podcast, we talk about a conversation we’ve been hearing around celibacy as a form of activism and a way to shift the often challenging landscape of modern dating and traditional gender dynamics.

Some Takeaways from this episode:

✨ How a recent controversy around the new Bumble ad-campaign has a seemingly tone-deaf message toward women in 2024

✨ The 4B Feminist movement happening in South Korea advocating for non-hetero relationships, hetero-celibacy, and child-less lives, and how the awareness of it is shaping conversations around relationship dynamics worldwide

✨ How there seems to be a disconnect between cis men and women and how they experience what is happening in heterosexual relationship dynamics

✨ We share insights from a historian about the concept of incels and what the evolution of masculinity will look like in a post-patriarchal culture

🎙 This podcast is definitely Cheaper than Therapy

If you find value in these conversations, please take a moment to rate and review the podcast. It helps us reach a larger audience looking for soulful insights!

Check out our newly launched online community, Cheaper Than Therapy the Community. Weekly process groups, live workshops, and one-on-one interactions with us and an amazing supportive community! Check it out here: https://vanessa-bennett-dene-logan.myshopify.com/collections/the-community

Connect with Vanessa:

Instagram: @vanessasbennett
TikTok: @thecodayoda
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@vanessabennettlmft5631

Connect with Dené:

Instagram: @dene.logan
TikTok: @denelogan

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Ep 217: Q&A: Finding the Middle Ground May 22, 2024

In this Q&A episode, someone wrote in to ask: as I’m starting to do recovery work around codependency, I find that I sometimes swing into hyper-independence. How do I find a middle ground?

We talked about:

✨What it looks like to move out of the space of enmeshment into a differentiated sense of self.

✨Realizing that we staying present with ourselves is a practice that we all have to continuously come back to.

✨The evolution of relationships that are co-created by the people involved instead of looking to society to define what’s “normal.”

✨Understanding the distinction between attachment and intimacy and how we can fall into patterns of self-abandonment

🎙 This podcast is definitely Cheaper than Therapy

If you find value in these conversations, please take a moment to rate and review the podcast. It helps us reach a larger audience looking for soulful insights!

Check out our newly launched online community, Cheaper Than Therapy the Community. Weekly process groups, live workshops, and one-on-one interactions with us and an amazing supportive community! Check it out here: https://vanessa-bennett-dene-logan.myshopify.com/collections/the-community

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Ep 216: Parenting and You with Dr. Shefali May 15, 2024

We’ll be back with all new episodes of Cheaper than Therapy starting next week! But we’re so excited about the launch of Dr. Shefali’s new podcast, PARENTING & YOU, that we wanted to do a throwback episode to when we had her on the podcast to talk about her most recent book, The Parenting Map.

Dr. Shefali is not your typical parenting expert and PARENTING & YOU is not your typical parenting podcast. There are no guest experts or celebrities. Every episode has 2 parents being helped through their parenting journey.

It’s raw, real and totally relatable.

In Ep. 142, we did an Instagram Live with Dr. Shefali, three time New York Times best-sellers author, including her two landmark books The Conscious Parent and The Awakened Family.

We talked about:

🌟 The importance of raising our children to be sovereign beings, rather than a possession that fit into our idealized parenting fantasies

🌟 Shifting our parenting paradigms from being in control to being in charge, and what that tangibly looks like

🌟 The difference between ego-enhancing boundaries and life-enhancing boundaries in parenting

🌟 What to do when your parenting paradigm/style doesn’t align with your partners, and what that means for your children

Dr. Shefali has been a huge source of inspiration for both of us - certainly as women and therapists, but even more than that - in the way we show up as parents. We just know you’re going to be as inspired by this conversation with her as we were!

🎙 This podcast is definitely Cheaper than Therapy

If you find value in these conversations, please take a moment to rate and review the podcast. It helps us reach a larger audience looking for soulful insights!

Check out our newly launched online community, Cheaper Than Therapy the Community. Weekly process groups, live workshops, and one-on-one interactions with us and an amazing supportive community! Check it out here: https://vanessa-bennett-dene-logan.myshopify.com/collections/the-community

Connect with Vanessa:

Instagram: @vanessasbennett
TikTok: @thecodayoda
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Ep 215: Embracing the Liminal Journey May 08, 2024

In this episode of Cheaper than Therapy, we sit down to discuss transitions and the concept of liminal spaces, and how these transitional moments challenge existing paradigms, inviting personal and societal transformations.

Some Takeaways from this Episode:

✨ Why these phases of major transition can feel deeply unsettling but are necessary for for growth and true authenticity to Self

✨ How traditional life scripts and societal norms are being questioned and dismantled, offering a unique opportunity to redefine values and ways of living in more authentic and fulfilling ways

✨ The importance of staying true to your authentic Self in the face of societal expectations, even when you feel uncertain and “othered”

🎙 This podcast is definitely Cheaper than Therapy

If you find value in these conversations, please take a moment to rate and review the podcast. It helps us reach a larger audience looking for soulful insights!

Check out our newly launched online community, Cheaper Than Therapy the Community. Weekly process groups, live workshops, and one-on-one interactions with us and an amazing supportive community! Check it out here: https://vanessa-bennett-dene-logan.myshopify.com/collections/the-community

Connect with Vanessa:

Instagram: @vanessasbennett
TikTok: @thecodayoda
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@vanessabennettlmft5631

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TikTok: @denelogan

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Ep 214: Episode Rewind - How Therapy Can Mirror Our Innate Goodness with Ashley Torrent May 01, 2024

In this episode, we go into our archives and bring back one of our first episodes EVER with our good friend, Ashley Torrent. Ashley is a psycho-spritual counselor and intuitive medium, Co-Host of “The Blue Butterfly Effect” and “The Practice of Love” podcasts, and recurring guest on the “Single on Purpose” podcast. Dené and Vanessa sit down to talk with Ashley about her journey and insights into holistic therapy, and her practice of blending clinical psychology with spiritual practices to help clients navigate their emotional and spiritual well-being and challenges.

Some Takeaways from this Episode:

✨ The importance of being present and curious about oneself, and how that practice of mindfulness can accelerate the healing process and give you insight to a bigger purpose, providing additional emotional support in your healing journey

✨ How combining empathy and intuition in therapy allows a deeper connection between therapist and client, allowing authentic connection and healing

✨ The challenges and rewards of being a therapist, particularly as an intuitive, and the delicate balance of maintaining professional boundaries with deep empathy

🎙 This podcast is definitely Cheaper than Therapy

Connect with Ashley:

If you find value in these conversations, please take a moment to rate and review the podcast. It helps us reach a larger audience looking for soulful insights!

And, we’d love for you to join us at In Bloom, an unbelievable love and relationship summit that we’ll each be speaking at, along with The Angry Therapist, Gabor Maté, Ray Maté, Dr. Jody Carrington, Shaun Gallinos, Jillian Turecki, Dr. Jess O’Relily, and more. We hope to see you April 12-14 in Vancouver, Canada. Use code LEVELUP to receive 20% off your ticket!

Check out our newly launched online community, Cheaper Than Therapy the Community. Weekly process groups, live workshops, and one-on-one interactions with us and an amazing supportive community! Check it out here: https://vanessa-bennett-dene-logan.myshopify.com/collections/the-community

Connect with Vanessa:

Instagram: @vanessasbennett
TikTok: @thecodayoda
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Ep 213: Liberated Love with Mark Groves Apr 24, 2024

This episode of Cheaper than Therapy the Podcast is from an Instagram live with Vaness and Mark Groves, Human Connection Specialist and founder of Create The Love. Mark works as a bridge between the academic and the human, inviting people to explore the good, bad, downright ugly, and beautiful sides of connection. Join us as we talk emotional armor, the necessity of integrating bodywork with talk therapy, relationships as the jump off point for our deeper internal work, co-regulation and of course codependency!

🎙 This podcast is definitely Cheaper than Therapy

Connect with Mark:

Order Mark’s new book, Liberated Love, here!

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If you find value in these conversations, please take a moment to rate and review the podcast. It helps us reach a larger audience looking for soulful insights!

And, we’d love for you to join us at In Bloom, an unbelievable love and relationship summit that we’ll each be speaking at, along with The Angry Therapist, Gabor Maté, Ray Maté, Dr. Jody Carrington, Shaun Gallinos, Jillian Turecki, Dr. Jess O’Relily, and more. We hope to see you April 12-14 in Vancouver, Canada. Use code LEVELUP to receive 20% off your ticket!

Check out our newly launched online community, Cheaper Than Therapy the Community. Weekly process groups, live workshops, and one-on-one interactions with us and an amazing supportive community! Check it out here: https://vanessa-bennett-dene-logan.myshopify.com/collections/the-community

Connect with Vanessa:

Instagram: @vanessasbennett
TikTok: @thecodayoda
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@vanessabennettlmft5631

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Ep 212: Complex Connections: Navigating Feedback with Authenticity Apr 17, 2024

Ep 212: Complex Connections: Navigating Feedback with Authenticity

This episode of Cheaper than Therapy the Podcast is part of a series where we answer questions submitted by listeners. We dive into the complexities of accountability in all relationships.

Some Takeaways from this Episode:

✨Recurring Themes in Society: Many of the topics addressed in the show are themes that have come up repeatedly within therapeutic spaces, reflecting collective societal trends and healing journeys indicating a widespread desire to evolve past self-abandonment and the cultivation of healthier relationships

✨Staying Authentic: The importance of staying true to your beliefs and message, even when it may not resonate with everyone, to remain authentic to Self

✨ Personal Accountability: Consider how you may be self-abandoning or using relationships as a means to avoid addressing something you may need to work through, and how deeper self-examination will naturally lead to more authentic relationships

✨Complexity and Nuance in Human Behavior: Not simplifying complex human behaviors into labels (like narcissist), and instead take a compassionate and curious approach to understanding others’ actions, promoting dialogue that embraces the full complexity of human experiences and interactions

🎙 This podcast is definitely Cheaper than Therapy

Check out our newly launched online community, Cheaper Than Therapy the Community. Weekly process groups, live workshops, and one-on-one interactions with us and an amazing supportive community! Check it out here: https://vanessa-bennett-dene-logan.myshopify.com/collections/the-community

Connect with Vanessa:

Instagram: @vanessasbennett
TikTok: @thecodayoda
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@vanessabennettlmft5631

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TikTok: @denelogan

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Ep 211: How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness with Dr Peter Levine Apr 10, 2024

In this Cheaper than Therapy episode, we sit down with Dr. Peter Levine for a deep dive into the complexity of trauma, and the transformative possibilities within therapeutic practices. Dr. Levine holds a doctorate in biophysics and a doctorate in psychology. He is the developer of Somatic Experiencing and Somatic Experiencing International, a naturalistic and neurobiological approach to healing trauma, Founder and President of the Ergos Institute for Somatic Education, dedicated to community outreach and post-advanced somatic experiencing training, and author of several best-selling books on trauma. His work has been taught to over 30,000 therapists in over 42 countries.

Some Takeaways from this Episode:

✨ Trauma and the Body: The importance of recognizing that trauma is not merely a brain disorder, but becomes deeply embedded in the body’s responses and requires therapeutic techniques that addresses physical manifestations of trauma(s)

✨Interconnectedness of Generations: How trauma is interconnected across generations and survival mechanisms passed down, recognizing that patterns and responses inherited from ancestors may not just be through behavior, but through epigenetic modifications

✨ Healing in Community: The importance of community and collective healing practices when addressing trauma, and that the often isolated approach to mental health should be replaced with communal support systems and shared healing experiences

🎙 This podcast is definitely Cheaper than Therapy

Connect with Dr. Peter Levine:

And, we’d love for you to join us at In Bloom, an unbelievable love and relationship summit that we’ll each be speaking at, along with The Angry Therapist, Gabor Maté, Ray Maté, Dr. Jody Carrington, Shaun Gallinos, Jillian Turecki, Dr. Jess O’Relily, and more. We hope to see you April 12-14 in Vancouver, Canada. Use code LEVELUP to receive 20% off your ticket!

Check out our newly launched online community, Cheaper Than Therapy the Community. Weekly process groups, live workshops, and one-on-one interactions with us and an amazing supportive community! Check it out here: https://vanessa-bennett-dene-logan.myshopify.com/collections/the-community

Connect with Vanessa:

Instagram: @vanessasbennett
TikTok: @thecodayoda
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@vanessabennettlmft5631

Connect with Dené:

Instagram: @dene.logan
TikTok: @denelogan

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Ep 210: Impermanence and the Transformative Power of Love with Rainier Wylde Apr 03, 2024

In this special Cheaper than Therapy episode, we sit down with our friend Rainier Wylde in person to talk about the often painful truth of love’s impermanence and conditionality, and how love can lead to personal growth. Rainier is a highly sought after mentor and consultant to authors, athletes, business professionals, coaches, healers, and ordinary radicals who want to see change in their world. He is known for his unique blend of spirituality and in depth strategic coaching and is the author of “As You Are: Meditations on Self & Other” and the co-host of Love Like Hell podcast.

Some Takeaways from this Episode:

✨The Link Between Love and Loss: The importance of embracing loss as an inevitable part of all relationships and that grief and joy are intertwined

✨Fantasy Love and Consequences: The misconceptions about the idea of “fantasy love” and pitfalls of chasing unconditional love in romantic relationships

✨ The Evolution of Love through Life: How the progression of love, from initially meeting to the mature connection highlights how love is a dynamic force that can foster profound inner growth and self-alignment

✨Parental Love and Selfhood: The complexities of parental love and the challenges of maintaining your sense of self, especially in romantic relationships

Connect with Rainer:

Podcast: Love Like Hell

Instagram: @rainerwylde

Book: As You Are: Meditations on Self and Other

🎙 This podcast is definitely Cheaper than Therapy

If you find value in these conversations, please take a moment to rate and review the podcast. It helps us reach a larger audience looking for soulful insights!

And, we’d love for you to join us at In Bloom, an unbelievable love and relationship summit that we’ll each be speaking at, along with The Angry Therapist, Gabor Maté, Ray Maté, Dr. Jody Carrington, Shaun Gallinos, Jillian Turecki, Dr. Jess O’Relily, and more. We hope to see you April 12-14 in Vancouver, Canada. Use code LEVELUP to receive 20% off your ticket!

Check out our newly launched online community, Cheaper Than Therapy the Community. Weekly process groups, live workshops, and one-on-one interactions with us and an amazing supportive community! Check it out here: https://vanessa-bennett-dene-logan.myshopify.com/collections/the-community

Connect with Vanessa:

Instagram: @vanessasbennett
TikTok: @thecodayoda
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Instagram: @dene.logan
TikTok: @denelogan

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Ep 209: Balancing Love and Boundaries: Supporting Loved Ones Through Abusive Relationships Mar 27, 2024

This episode of Cheaper than Therapy the Podcast is part of a series where we answer questions submitted by listeners. Today’s listener writes in concerned about a loved one’s abusive marriage, asking how to balance personal boundaries and navigate the challenges supporting a loved one in an abusive relationships.

If you have a question for Vanessa and Dené, click here.

Some Takeaways from this Episode:

✨Supporting without Enabling: The importance of offering love and support without enabling or trying to rescue your loved one

✨Challenging and Honest Communication: How to navigate the complexities of honest communication when trying to help a loved one see the reality of their situation, with a recommendation for trying to be a "release valve" for frustrations and addressing issues directly with those involved, rather than using others as a sounding board

✨Personal Boundaries and Self-Reflection: Understanding your own motivations and biases to ensure your offered support is genuinely in your loved one’s best interest, and allowing the individual to navigate their own path, ultimately respecting their right to make their own choices

🎙 This podcast is definitely Cheaper than Therapy

If you find value in these conversations, please take a moment to rate and review the podcast. It helps us reach a larger audience looking for soulful insights!

Check out our newly launched online community, Cheaper Than Therapy the Community. Weekly process groups, live workshops, and one-on-one interactions with us and an amazing supportive community! Check it out here: https://vanessa-bennett-dene-logan.myshopify.com/collections/the-community

Connect with Vanessa:

Instagram: @vanessasbennett
TikTok: @thecodayoda
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@vanessabennettlmft5631

Connect with Dené:

Instagram: @dene.logan
TikTok: @denelogan

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Ep 208: Embracing Change: Navigating a New Perspective on Relationships Mar 20, 2024

This episode of Cheaper than Therapy the Podcast is part of a series where we answer questions submitted by listeners. Today, we’re addressing the discomfort some listeners have talking about relationships, specifically when discussing the evolving paradigms of love and partnership and our ownership template of relationships.

If you have a question for Vanessa and Dené, click here.

Some Takeaways from this Episode:

✨Shifting Perspective: While uncomfortable, it is important to shift your viewpoint of relationships in a way that prioritizes personal responsibility and growth over controlling others, as a way to foster more genuine connections

✨ The Role of Control: Recognizing that attempting to control our environment and the people around us is actually anxiety and/or fear manifesting and the first step to breaking free from codependency

✨Navigating Activation and Resistance: Remember that when feeling activated, it’s an invitation to look inward and focus on Self, pushing past the discomfort

✨Empowerment through Agency: By focusing on what we can control (our actions, responses, participation, etc.) we reclaim our power and cultivate healthier, more authentic connections

🎙 This podcast is definitely Cheaper than Therapy

If you find value in these conversations, please take a moment to rate and review the podcast. It helps us reach a larger audience looking for soulful insights!

And, we’d love for you to join us at In Bloom, an unbelievable love and relationship summit that we’ll each be speaking at, along with The Angry Therapist, Gabor Maté, Ray Maté, Dr. Jody Carrington, Shaun Gallinos, Jillian Turecki, Dr. Jess O’Relily, and more. We hope to see you April 12-14 in Vancouver, Canada. Use code LEVELUP to receive 20% off your ticket!

Check out our newly launched online community, Cheaper Than Therapy the Community. Weekly process groups, live workshops, and one-on-one interactions with us and an amazing supportive community! Check it out here: https://vanessa-bennett-dene-logan.myshopify.com/collections/the-community

Connect with Vanessa:

Instagram: @vanessasbennett
TikTok: @thecodayoda
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@vanessabennettlmft5631

Connect with Dené:

Instagram: @dene.logan
TikTok: @denelogan

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Ep 207: Beyond Control: Embracing Personal Growth in Relationships Mar 13, 2024

This episode of Cheaper than Therapy the Podcast is part of a series where we answer questions submitted by listeners. A listener writes in expressing concern about her boyfriend checking out other women in public, despite repeatedly expressing her discomfort to him. We dive into relationship dynamics, and how sometimes fixating on others’ behavior can be a distraction from your own personal growth.

Some Takeaways from this Episode:

✨Self-Focus Over Partner-Surveillance: When you notice yourself becoming focused on a partner’s behaviors it’s a clear sign that your energy should be redirected inward and focus on personal development

✨ Relationships as a Platform for Growth: Relationships should be a catalyst for personal development, rather than a means to seek external validation

✨Acceptance of Who Your Partner Is: Attempting to change fundamental aspects of a partner’s personality or habits, especially if they existed prior to the relationship, is futile

✨Fallacy of Control: Relationships dynamics should be safe for each person to be their full authentic self, with a focus on mutual growth and understanding instead of control

🎙 This podcast is definitely Cheaper than Therapy

If you find value in these conversations, please take a moment to rate and review the podcast. It helps us reach a larger audience looking for soulful insights!

Check out our newly launched online community, Cheaper Than Therapy the Community. Weekly process groups, live workshops, and one-on-one interactions with us and an amazing supportive community! Check it out here: https://vanessa-bennett-dene-logan.myshopify.com/collections/the-community

Connect with Vanessa:

Instagram: @vanessasbennett
TikTok: @thecodayoda
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@vanessabennettlmft5631

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TikTok: @denelogan

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Ep 206: Boundaries 101 with Nedra Glover Tawwab Mar 06, 2024

In this episode of Cheaper than Therapy the Podcast, we sat down with Nedra Glover Tawwab, MSW, LCSW - author of three bestselling books, licensed therapist, and renowned relationship expert with 15 years of experience in relationship therapy. She is the founder of Kaleidoscope Counseling, where she aids individuals in cultivating healthy relationships through boundary implementation. Nedra's approach is grounded in the belief that many relationship issues stem from a lack of boundaries and assertiveness.

Some Takeaways from this Episode:

✨Boundaries are Positive: While boundaries are often seen as a way to keep people out, setting boundaries for yourself within relationships with others creates an innate sense of security and trust, rather than seeking it externally, leading to healthier, balanced, and more authentic relationships

✨ Motherhood and Personal Capacity: Becoming a parent reduces the capacity you have for taking on the responsibility of other peoples’ problems and creates more invisible labor for your day to day, making it absolutely crucial to have open conversations within relationships, and setting boundaries to take care of your well-being

✨ Social Media has Limits: It’s important to remember the humanness behind social media and set boundaries for sharing, interacting, as well as consuming to protect our time, mental health, and maintain authentic connections with others

🎙 This podcast is definitely Cheaper than Therapy

Connect with Nedra:

If you find value in these conversations, please take a moment to rate and review the podcast. It helps us reach a larger audience looking for soulful insights!

Check out our newly launched online community, Cheaper Than Therapy the Community. Weekly process groups, live workshops, and one-on-one interactions with us and an amazing supportive community! Check it out here: https://vanessa-bennett-dene-logan.myshopify.com/collections/the-community

Connect with Vanessa:

Instagram: @vanessasbennett
TikTok: @thecodayoda
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Ep 205: Unlocking Inner Safety: Overcoming the Need for Reassurance Feb 28, 2024

In this episode of Cheaper than Therapy the Podcast, we sit down to address two questions submit by listeners with similar “energies.” One listener wants to know how to stop comparing themselves to their partners ex and feeling insecure in their ability to trust due to past relationships. Another listener is looking for clarification differentiating between an anxious attachment versus being a human seeking safety, consistency, and reassurance in a relationship.

Some Takeaways from this Episode:

✨ Safety in Self: Having an internal sense of security and interdependence will help to ease the insecurity of self-comparison, rather than repeatedly seeking outside validation to temporarily make you feel safe and secure

✨ Boundaries Help Personal Growth: Taking personal responsibility to remain authentically true to Self and maintaining personal boundaries to honor that authenticity over a partner’s insecurities

✨ Managing Anxiety: Seeking constant reassurance and validation can create a perception the relationship is unsafe, so take time to actively recognize and appreciate what about the relationship makes you feel good and secure in the attachment

🎙 This podcast is definitely Cheaper than Therapy

If you find value in these conversations, please take a moment to rate and review the podcast. It helps us reach a larger audience looking for soulful insights!

Check out our newly launched online community, Cheaper Than Therapy the Community. Weekly process groups, live workshops, and one-on-one interactions with us and an amazing supportive community! Check it out here: https://vanessa-bennett-dene-logan.myshopify.com/collections/the-community

Connect with Vanessa:

Instagram: @vanessasbennett
TikTok: @thecodayoda
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@vanessabennettlmft5631

Connect with Dené:

Instagram: @dene.logan
TikTok: @denelogan

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Ep 204: Live Coaching Session: Grief and Self-Discovery Feb 21, 2024

In this live coaching session episode of Cheaper than Therapy the Podcast, we sat down with Jess, who is approaching dating for the first real time in her life while simultaneously navigating being a young widow.

Some Takeaways from this Episode:

✨ It’s all about Self-Discovery: When approaching dating for the first real time and/or after a loss, you’re really on a journey of self-discovery and self-exploration, which is really all being a human is, anyway.

✨ A Balancing Act: Being open-minded to what the universe has to offer and taking your time, while simultaneously desiring to start a family and feeling pressured to do so quickly

✨ Trusting Yourself: Learning how to trust yourself again after experiencing a great loss that leaves you shaken

🎙 This podcast is definitely Cheaper than Therapy

Remember, we’re therapists, but we’re not your therapists. These coaching sessions, and other episodes, are meant for entertainment purposes only, and are not meant to replace your therapy practice.

If you find value in these conversations, please take a moment to rate and review the podcast. It helps us reach a larger audience looking for soulful insights!

Check out our newly launched online community, Cheaper Than Therapy the Community. Weekly process groups, live workshops, and one-on-one interactions with us and an amazing supportive community! Check it out here: https://vanessa-bennett-dene-logan.myshopify.com/collections/the-community

Connect with Vanessa:

Instagram: @vanessasbennett
TikTok: @thecodayoda
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@vanessabennettlmft5631

Connect with Dené:

Instagram: @dene.logan
TikTok: @denelogan

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Ep 203: Relationship Anarchy Pt. 2 with Annie Undone Feb 14, 2024

In this episode of Cheaper than Therapy the Podcast, we sat back down with Annie Undone, a visionary artist and writer working to normalize diverse relationship styles and varied sexual experiences. She is a queer, kinky, relationship anarchist on a mission to incite individuals to experience personal revolutions. Get ready for an exciting and revolutionary conversation about deconstructing not only your romantic and sexual relationships with others, but your relationship with Self.

Some Takeaways from this Episode:

✨ Decentering Romantic Relationships: The importance of an autonomous relationship with Self and the pursuit of your most authentic life, regardless of conventional societal norms and expectations.

✨Unpacking Jealousy: Welcoming jealousy in your relationships as an opportunity for growth rather than conflict, especially where it relates to non monogamy and polyamory

✨Doing the Work: The heavy emotional lifting required when you open yourself up to relationship anarchy, non monogamy, and polyamory, particularly with trust and attachment

🎙 This podcast is definitely Cheaper than Therapy

Connect with Annie:

If you find value in these conversations, please take a moment to rate and review the podcast. It helps us reach a larger audience looking for soulful insights!

Check out our newly launched online community, Cheaper Than Therapy the Community. Weekly process groups, live workshops, and one-on-one interactions with us and an amazing supportive community! Check it out here: https://vanessa-bennett-dene-logan.myshopify.com/collections/the-community

Connect with Vanessa:

Instagram: @vanessasbennett
TikTok: @thecodayoda
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@vanessabennettlmft5631

Connect with Dené:

Instagram: @dene.logan
TikTok: @denelogan

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Ep 202: Relationship Anarchy Pt. 1 with Annie Undone Feb 07, 2024

In this episode of Cheaper than Therapy the Podcast, we sat down with Annie Undone, a visionary artist and writer working to normalize diverse relationship styles and varied sexual experiences. She is a queer, kinky, relationship anarchist on a mission to incite individuals to experience personal revolutions. Get ready for an exciting and revolutionary conversation about deconstructing not only your romantic and sexual relationships with others, but your relationship with Self.

Some Takeaways from this Episode:

✨ Decentering Romantic Relationships: The importance of an autonomous relationship with Self and the pursuit of your most authentic life, regardless of conventional societal norms and expectations.

✨Relationship Anarchy: Deconstructing what society says a romantic relationship is “supposed” to look like, and creating a sustainable model for romantic and sexual relationships that works specifically for the people in them

✨Non-Monogamy and Autonomous Growth: How ignoring societal norms and journeying into non-monogamy, kink, and relationship anarchy can lead to deep introspection and embracing your most authentic Self and genuine romantic and sexual relationships

✨ Compassionate Curiosity is Key: Staying open-minded and curious as you challenge traditional relationships while simultaneously holding compassion for your partners’ questions, fears, and desires is absolutely key when exploring polyamorous relationships and other varied relationship styles and sexual experiences

🎙 This podcast is definitely Cheaper than Therapy

Connect with Annie:

If you find value in these conversations, please take a moment to rate and review the podcast. It helps us reach a larger audience looking for soulful insights!

Check out our newly launched online community, Cheaper Than Therapy the Community. Weekly process groups, live workshops, and one-on-one interactions with us and an amazing supportive community! Check it out here: https://vanessa-bennett-dene-logan.myshopify.com/collections/the-community

Connect with Vanessa:

Instagram: @vanessasbennett
TikTok: @thecodayoda
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@vanessabennettlmft5631

Connect with Dené:

Instagram: @dene.logan
TikTok: @denelogan

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Ep 201: Daring to Feel with Alexandra Roxo Jan 17, 2024

In this episode of Cheaper than Therapy the Podcast, we sat down with Alexandra Roxo (@alexandraroxo), a bestselling author, artist, spiritual seeker, and teacher and mentor in the space of feminine embodiment, sacred sexuality, and spiritual transformation. Alexandra has mentored thousands of women in embodying the fullness of their authentic, magnificent Self, and seeing it as sacred and necessary medicine for the planet. On her retreats around the world, she has spoken about the modern sacred feminine spiritual path, and helped many women heal their relationships to their body and their sexuality.

Her latest book Dare to Feel: The Transformational Path of the Heart is available now!

Some Takeaways from this Episode:

✨Feel your Feelings: Why intentionally and artfully feeling our feelings, instead of being afraid of them or intellectualizing them, is such a fundamental aspect of the spiritual path

✨Unique Spiritual Journeys: The importance of holding space for where others might be in their own spiritual development instead of labeling or othering them for not being as embodied as we feel like they ‘should’ be

✨Embodied Authenticity: Why the embodied space of our feelings can serve as an invitation to those we love to be present with us, over the critiques and judgements we often use as a means to avoid our feelings

✨ Start Small: How we can use various access points to start titrating our way into feeling bigger feelings so that we don’t get overwhelmed by moving too quickly

🎙 This podcast is definitely Cheaper than Therapy

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Ep 200: On Thriving with Brandi Sellerz-Jackson Jan 10, 2024

In this episode of Cheaper than Therapy the Podcast, we sat down with Brandi Sellerz-Jackson, a renowned birth and postpartum doula and what she calls a Life Doula (supporting people through various life transitions); the co-founder of Moms in Color, a Black mom collective centered on celebrating diversity in motherhood; and the creator of Not So Private Parts, a resource that removes the shame and stigma surrounding women’s issues.

Some Big Takeaways from this Episode:

✨ Why it’s so important to prioritize a relationship with yourself first so that all of your other relationships can be the icing on your cake - instead of all of the ingredients

✨How much is lost for mothers when they don’t have a community of women ushering them through the cataclysmic internal shift that occurs when you become a mama

✨The impact of childhood trauma on our adult relationships - and why sometimes our relationship ruptures can serve as a beautiful catalyst to investing in time and space for healing

✨How to do the work of discovering what our version of a life where we feel like we are thriving looks and feels like

You can purchase Brandi’s book on thriving here:

🎙 This podcast is definitely Cheaper than Therapy

There’s still time to join us for our upcoming Intensive January 18-21 in Malibu, CA:

The Return of the Sovereign Feminine where we will be supporting you in:

✨ Cultivating tangible tools for the development of a strong sense of Self

✨ Understanding how we live our lives from an authentic place of clarity, aliveness, and unapologetic execution of the life we want to embody

✨ Developing a set of actionable steps to take home with you and daily practices to maintain the skills you learn during this time

✨ Communing in the sacred space of fellowship and sisterhood in a way that awakens the intuitive wisdom that has been lying dormant within each of us for far too long

Payment plans are also available - email Sondra@vanessabennett.com for details.

If you find value in these conversations, please take a moment to rate and review the podcast. It helps us reach a larger audience looking for soulful insights!

Check out our newly launched online community, Cheaper Than Therapy the Community. Weekly process groups, live workshops, and one-on-one interactions with us and an amazing supportive community! Check it out here

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Ep 199: Q&A Session Why do Women Tear Down Other Women? Jan 03, 2024

In this episode of Cheaper than Therapy, the Podcast, we talk about the history, the why, and the way forward surrounding the societal norm for women to tear one another down. We talk about using this practice as a point of entry to examine and excavate our inner misogyny and begin to heal our inherited sister wound.

Some Big Takeaways from this Episode:

✨ Support not Competition: Patriarchal foundations have created societal norms that condition women to view one another as competition, rather than form secure attachments and create community

✨Inner Healing is Collective Healing: Going inward and examining our own insecurities and limiting beliefs is imperative to coming together in safety and community

🎙 This podcast is definitely Cheaper than Therapy

If you want to go deeper into these types of conversations, to get in there, roll up your sleeves, and discover the parts of yourself that have been relegated to the basement of your psyche along with the “why” behind your conditioning to live small and to not rock the boat - you should consider joining us January 18-21 for:

The Return of the Sovereign Feminine where we will be supporting you in:

✨ Cultivating tangible tools for the development of a strong sense of Self

✨ Understanding how we live our lives from an authentic place of clarity, aliveness, and unapologetic execution of the life we want to embody

✨ Developing a set of actionable steps to take home with you and daily practices to maintain the skills you learn during this time

✨ Communing in the sacred space of fellowship and sisterhood in a way that awakens the intuitive wisdom that has been lying dormant within each of us for far too long

Payment plans are also available - email Sondra@vanessabennett.com for details.

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If you find value in these conversations, please take a moment to rate and review the podcast. It helps us reach a larger audience looking for soulful insights!

Check out our newly launched online community, Cheaper Than Therapy the Community. Weekly process groups, live workshops, and one-on-one interactions with us and an amazing supportive community! Check it out here: https://vanessa-bennett-dene-logan.myshopify.com/collections/the-community

Connect with Vanessa:

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Ep 198: Cultivating Authentic Connection with Alexandra Ballensweig Dec 27, 2023

In this episode of Cheaper than Therapy the Podcast, we sat down with Alexandra Ballensweig to discuss modern dating, the importance of approaching dating with awareness and slowness, and the drawbacks of online dating and dating apps. Alexandra Ballensweig is the founder of HumHum (short for human to human) a dating experience for people seeking meaningful and authentic connection with others, while simultaneously discovering themselves. Alexandra is a certified Kundalini Yoga teacher, Reiki Master Teacher, and practitioner trained in the Usui Method, and a Vipassana practitioner. She holds an M.S. of Industrial Design from Art Center College of Design and is currently enrolled in the Dedicated Practitioner’s Program at Spirit Rock Meditation Center.

🌟 Some Big Takeaways from this Episode:

Slow Down: Bringing stillness to dating in order to not only find authentic connection in relationship with another person, but authentic connection in relationship with Self, too
Be a Human: People are not meant to exist in a 2D online dating snapshot, and should be in person, authentically connecting with others face to face about what lights our souls on fire
Kick the Addiction: Recognizing that dating apps are created to not only create an addiction around constantly searching for the “next best thing,” but an addiction around “being chosen” and seeking external validation rather than validation from Self

🎙 This podcast is definitely Cheaper than Therapy

Connect with Alexandra:

If you find value in these conversations, please take a moment to rate and review the podcast. It helps us reach a larger audience looking for soulful insights!

And, for an even deeper dive, check out our newly launched online community, Cheaper Than Therapy Community. Weekly process groups, live workshops, and one-on-one interactions with us and an amazing supportive community! Check it out here: https://vanessa-bennett-dene-logan.myshopify.com/collections/the-community

Connect with Vanessa:

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Connect with Dené:

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TikTok: @denelogan

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Ep 197: Live Coaching Session: Re-Parenting while Co-Parenting Dec 20, 2023

This episode of Cheaper than Therapy the Podcast is part of a series where we coach one of our listeners through a topic or question. In this coaching session, we sat down with “Jane” to discuss moving forward with ending a 12 year relationship stuck in an unhealthy cycle, while attempting to co-parent a child together.

If you’re interested in joining us for a coaching session, click here.

🌟 Some Big Takeaways from this Episode:

Breaking the Cycle: Recognizing that every time we say we’re ending the relationship but stay we trust yourself a little less, plus some strategies to begin rebuilding that trust in self
Sit in the Discomfort: Learning how to put down someone else’s emotional work and be okay being uncomfortable with where that leaves us, like breaking the cycle and finally ending the relationship
Stop Self-Abandoning: When we, whether consciously or subconsciously, put ourselves in a place to be abandoned by another person we are self-abandoning and recreating a childhood abandonment wound. We can reclaim our power by taking ownership and ending that cycle and pattern

🎙 This podcast is definitely Cheaper than Therapy

If you find value in these conversations, please take a moment to rate and review the podcast. It helps us reach a larger audience looking for soulful insights!

And, for an even deeper dive, check out our newly launched online community, Cheaper Than Therapy Community. Weekly process groups, live workshops, and one-on-one interactions with us and an amazing supportive community! Check it out here: https://vanessa-bennett-dene-logan.myshopify.com/collections/the-community

Connect with Vanessa:

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TikTok: @thecodayoda
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Connect with Dené:

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TikTok: @denelogan

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Ep 196: Finding Safety in Spirituality After Religious Trauma with Dr. Laura Anderson, PhD. Dec 13, 2023

Dr. Laura Anderson, PhD. is a psychotherapist, trauma resolution coach and consultant, writer and educator specializing in complex and developmental trauma, dynamics of power and control and religious trauma. In this episode of Cheaper than Therapy the Podcast, we sat down with Dr. Anderson to discuss all things spirituality and religious trauma, and about her book “When Religion Hurts You.”

🌟 What You’ll Gain from this Episode:

Religion vs Spirituality: Addressing the role of religion and/or religious trauma in your upbringing is a personal spiritual journey that doesn’t have to create anti-religious rhetoric in your life, but helps find a way to feed your soul in a safe and fulfilling way
Patriarchy within The Church: Recognizing that at the root of most religions is the same intention and message, and the patriarchy’s need for control, power, and certainty are what create religious trauma, and that finding safety within religion and spirituality is possible
Finding Internal Safety: A lot of the work done to heal from religious trauma includes learning how to find safety within yourself for the first time, rather than looking to an external source like your parents or The Church

🎙 This podcast is definitely Cheaper than Therapy

Connect with Dr. Laura Anderson, PhD.:

If you find value in these conversations, please take a moment to rate and review the podcast. It helps us reach a larger audience looking for soulful insights!

And, for an even deeper dive, check out our newly launched online community, Cheaper Than Therapy Community. Weekly process groups, live workshops, and one-on-one interactions with us and an amazing supportive community! Check it out here: https://vanessa-bennett-dene-logan.myshopify.com/collections/the-community

Connect with Vanessa:

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Connect with Dené:

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TikTok: @denelogan

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Ep 195: IG LIVE - Reclaiming the Untamed, Messy Parts of Ourselves Dec 06, 2023

In this episode of Cheaper than Therapy the Podcast, we sat down for an IG LIVE to talk about reclaiming the feminine aspects within ourselves, as well as why this is the basis of so much of the relational work that we feel so strongly about as therapists.

🌟 Some Big Takeaways from this Episode:

Alone Not Lonely: What to do when you know your longing to be in a relationship is rooted in feelings of loneliness
Disconnected Partnership: How to navigate whether to stay in a relationship or go when a partner is regularly numbing with weed and social media
Support in Relationships: Why it’s a natural desire to be in a relationship with a partner who chooses your side and still has your back whenever a conflict arises
Shadow Work and Healing: What it looks like to accept and integrate the shadow parts of ourselves and throw away the notion that we will ever be fully “healed”

If you’re called to go deeper into your practice of self understanding and relationships we are gathering for an immersive long weekend in Malibu, CA January 18-21. Come join us in exploring the origin points of the limiting beliefs that may be holding you back, understanding how to begin to step onto the path of trusting ourselves, crafting a vision of what you want your life to look like and practices that can support you in being the creator of this reality.

Therapeutic workshops, delicious home cooked meals, and a group of like minded seekers. The perfect way to start off 2024.

We hope to see you at Reclaiming the Sovereign Feminine.

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🎙 This podcast is definitely Cheaper than Therapy

Remember, we’re therapists, but we’re not your therapists. These coaching sessions, and other episodes, are meant for entertainment purposes only, and are not meant to replace your therapy practice.

If you find value in these conversations, please take a moment to rate and review the podcast. It helps us reach a larger audience looking for soulful insights!

And, for an even deeper dive, check out our newly launched online community, Cheaper Than Therapy Community. Weekly process groups, live workshops, and one-on-one interactions with us and an amazing supportive community! Check it out here: https://vanessa-bennett-dene-logan.myshopify.com/collections/the-community

Connect with Vanessa:

Instagram: @vanessasbennett
TikTok: @thecodayoda
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Connect with Dené:

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Ep 194: Live Coaching Session - How Much Sharing is Too Much? Nov 29, 2023

In this episode of Cheaper than Therapy, we sit down with “Veronica” to discuss how much sharing is too much in friendships and romantic relationships, especially in the early stages. How do you bond and create authentic connections through vulnerability when your past feels like it’s too heavy for others?

If you’re interested in joining us for a coaching session, click here.

🌟 What You’ll Gain from this Episode:

You Are Not What’s Happened to You: It’s easy to fall into the mindset that the things that have happened to you mean something about you and what it means to have a relationship with you, but you have the power to decide who is safe enough to see the vulnerability in your heart and what authenticity looks like for yourself
We Attract What We Believe to be True: Remember that you attract into your life what you put out, so having that radical self-acceptance and unconditional love for your full Self will attract others with the same energetic capacity to hold space for the authentic you
Fear is not Vulnerability: Be sure you’re motivated by true, authentic, radical self-acceptance, rather than moving from a place of fear where your ego is working overtime to defend you, inadvertently proving your fears to be true by pushing away authentic connections

🎙 This podcast is definitely Cheaper than Therapy

Remember, we’re therapists, but we’re not your therapists. These coaching sessions, and other episodes, are meant for entertainment purposes only, and are not meant to replace your therapy practice.

If you find value in these conversations, please take a moment to rate and review the podcast. It helps us reach a larger audience looking for soulful insights!

And, for an even deeper dive, check out our newly launched online community, Cheaper Than Therapy Community. Weekly process groups, live workshops, and one-on-one interactions with us and an amazing supportive community! Check it out here: https://vanessa-bennett-dene-logan.myshopify.com/collections/the-community

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Connect with Vanessa:

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Ep 193: Live Coaching Session - Conquering Codependency Nov 22, 2023

This Cheaper than Therapy episode is part of a series where we coach one of our listeners through a topic or question. In this coaching session, we sat down with “Spencer” to talk about conquering codependency within romantic relationships, and finding self-worth and sourcing validation from within, rather than external relationships.

If you’re interested in joining us for a coaching session, click here.

🌟 Some Takeaways from this Episode:

Proving Your Worth: Recognizing that you may begin the dating process by going above and beyond in a subconscious effort to find validation and self-worth from this person
Overcoming Fears: It’s normal to harbor a fear of being truly seen for who you are, but vulnerability leads to the most authentic and comfortable relationships
Release Attachments: Remember that all relationships are temporary, and let that guide your authenticity so you remain honest and open
Feeling the Feelings: Learn how to sit in your feelings in a healthy way, so you’re able to validate and express your needs within relationships

🎙 This podcast is definitely Cheaper than Therapy

Remember, we’re therapists, but we’re not your therapists. These coaching sessions, and other episodes, are meant for entertainment purposes only, and are not meant to replace your therapy practice.

If you find value in these conversations, please take a moment to rate and review the podcast. It helps us reach a larger audience looking for soulful insights!

And, for an even deeper dive, check out our newly launched online community, Cheaper Than Therapy Community. Weekly process groups, live workshops, and one-on-one interactions with us and an amazing supportive community! Check it out here: https://vanessa-bennett-dene-logan.myshopify.com/collections/the-community

This episode brought to you by Astrology Hub

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Connect with Vanessa:

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TikTok: @thecodayoda
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Connect with Dené:

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TikTok: @denelogan

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Ep 192: Men’s “Clarity” After Sex Nov 15, 2023

Are cis/hetero men biologically programmed to experience a type of “post-sex clarity,” or have both men and women fallen victim to the societal norm of objectifying one another and dealing (or not dealing) with the repercussions later? In this Cheaper than Therapy episode, we discuss a recent episode on Vanessa’s partner, John’s, podcast discussing whether or not men have a biological predisposition that makes them interested in dating a specific woman until immediately after having sex with her.

🌟 Some Takeaways from this Episode:

Clarity or Shame: Sitting with yourself to ask the hard question, “Is it really ‘post-sex clarity’ helping you realize you aren’t actually attracted to this person and/or have no emotional connection with them, or is it unconscious shame being brought to the surface because we’ve been conditioned by the societal norm to objectify one another?”
Admitting Accountability: Accepting that there may be a subconscious level of manipulating a slightly fabricated connection with the intention of sleeping with a woman, rather than communicating clear intentions throughout

If you find value in these conversations, please take a moment to rate and review the podcast. It helps us reach a larger audience looking for soulful insights!

And, for an even deeper dive, check out our newly launched online community, Cheaper Than Therapy Community. Weekly process groups, live workshops, and one-on-one interactions with us and an amazing supportive community! Check it out here: https://vanessa-bennett-dene-logan.myshopify.com/collections/the-community

This episode brought to you by Astrology Hub

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Ep 191: Q&A: How Do I Make Sure I’m “Doing it Right” in Dating? Nov 08, 2023

In this Q&A episode of “Cheaper than Therapy,” a listener finds themself ready to begin dating after a long post-divorce hiatus, but finds themself overwhelmed with worry about choosing “wrong.” We discuss getting vulnerable to find the real information you need when dating, and get real about expectations in relationships.

🌟 Big Takeaways from this Episode:

Silence the Noise: Sometimes we have too much information and rely on our rational mind to protect ourselves from heartbreak, forgetting that true connection requires authentic vulnerability
Knowledge is Power: Remember that how you feel physically and emotionally when you’re with a person or activated by a person may sometimes provide more reliable information about compatibility in dating. How are you putting your “book” smarts into practice within these relationships?
People Process Information Differently: Speaking hetero-normatively, men and women face separate societal expectations, and usually process vulnerable conversations and experiences differently. Approaching dating with an open mind and grace for one another will help you remember you can’t get it “wrong,” and help you on your journey to authenticity.

If you find value in these conversations, please take a moment to rate and review the podcast. It helps us reach a larger audience looking for soulful insights!

And, for an even deeper dive, check out our newly launched online community, Cheaper Than Therapy Community. Weekly process groups, live workshops, and one-on-one interactions with us and an amazing supportive community! Check it out here: https://vanessa-bennett-dene-logan.myshopify.com/collections/the-community

Connect with Vanessa:

Instagram: @vanessasbennett
TikTok: @thecodayoda
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@vanessabennettlmft5631

Connect with Dené:

Instagram: @dene.logan
TikTok: @dene.logan

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Ep 190: Q&A: Longing for Partnership Outside the Box of Societal Norms Nov 01, 2023

What do you do when you find yourself craving a secure and trusting monogamous relationship but don’t want to contribute to the societal expectations, rooted in patriarchy, that traditionally influence the foundation of relationships? In this Q&A episode of “Cheaper than Therapy,” a male listener writes in, asking, “Where do I go from here?”

🌟 What You’ll Gain from this Episode:

Collective Shifts: An in-depth discussion about society’s new desires within relationships and what we want in a partner, as well as the generational societal norms that we are moving away from as a collective
Loneliness is Human: Validation that it’s necessary to give yourself grace and hold space for feelings of loneliness and sadness, while staying true to Self and not settling back in to patriarchy-based societal expectations, simply to be in relationship
Fulfillment from Self: A loving reminder that searching for partnership as a means to fulfillment will not work, and you must fully lean into creating the best life for your authentic Self, to truly find that security

Quotable moment: “I think the fact that we are alone is always an illusion, really, anyway. We are connected to one another, that is the larger truth, even when we are sitting by ourselves. We are still all one with the universal energy that vibrates and emanates through and as us.” - Dené Logan

If you find value in these conversations, please take a moment to rate and review the podcast. It helps us reach a larger audience looking for soulful insights!

And, for an even deeper dive, check out our newly launched online community, Cheaper Than Therapy Community. Weekly process groups, live workshops, and one-on-one interactions with us and an amazing supportive community! Check it out here: https://vanessa-bennett-dene-logan.myshopify.com/collections/the-community

Connect with Vanessa:

Instagram: @vanessasbennett
TikTok: @thecodayoda
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Connect with Dené:

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TikTok: @dene.logan

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Ep 189: The Life Brief with Bonnie Wan Oct 25, 2023

“When you have the clarity of your essence - who you are, what you stand for, what you believe in, and then also your ambition distilled in a way that sticks, in a way that you remember it, you can call it in and call upon it whenever you need” - Bonnie Wan

Bonnie Wan is an author and a speaker as well as Partner and Head of Brand Strategy at the world renowned advertising agency, Goodby Silverstein Partners. Alongside her new book, The Life Brief, Bonnie helps people live with greater clarity, creativity, and courage by teaching them how to write “creative briefs” for their lives.

Some big takeaways from this episode:

Perceived selfishness is good: it’s okay to sit with yourself and ask what you want, even if it feels selfish and/or uncomfortable
Our partnerships are most vulnerable in transition: when we’re faced with new life milestones we bring a period of transition into our lives that shines a spotlight on cracks in our relationships, forcing us to make conscious, intentional choices
Allow yourself to get messy: acknowledge that our society puts pressure on women to hustle and be perfectionists, but courage, creativity, joy, and so many other things are found in the mess

Pre-Order “The Life Brief” Here

If you find value in these conversations, please take a moment to rate and review the podcast. It helps us reach a larger audience looking for soulful insights!

And, for an even deeper dive, check out our newly launched online community, Cheaper Than Therapy Community. Weekly process groups, live workshops, and one-on-one interactions with us and an amazing supportive community! Check it out here: https://vanessa-bennett-dene-logan.myshopify.com/collections/the-community

Connect with Vanessa:

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Ep: 188 Live Coaching Session - What Does My Inner Child Need? Oct 18, 2023

What happens when we find ourselves so engrossed in society’s standards that we lose touch with our Self and inner knowing? In this live coaching session, we sit down with Catherine to talk about what it looks like to reconnect with our inner child and break codependent patterns.

Some big takeaways from this episode:

Recognizing that we are not there to fix others’ emotions, but to support them and hold our own emotional boundaries
Finding where we feel an anxious attachment in our body, and how to reconnect with ourselves to soothe our nervous system back to safety
The importance of being in relationship with Self rather than seeking fulfillment within a partnership

If you find value in these conversations, please take a moment to rate and review the podcast. It helps us reach a larger audience looking for soulful insights!

And, for an even deeper dive, check out our newly launched online community, Cheaper Than Therapy Community. Weekly process groups, live workshops, and one-on-one interactions with us and an amazing supportive community! Check it out here: https://vanessa-bennett-dene-logan.myshopify.com/collections/the-community

Connect with Vanessa:

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Ep: 187 Our Soul’s Evolution with Amanda Walsh Oct 11, 2023

Our Soul’s Evolution with Amanda Walsh

Amanda Pua Walsh, M.S., is the CEO & Founder of Astrology Hub, an online platform for astrological guidance and education reaching hundreds of thousands of people worldwide. She’s the creator of the top-rated Astrology Hub Podcast, with over 5 million downloads to date.

The insights from her first astrology reading illuminated a path forward for Amanda. She found hope, clarity and direction - inspiring her to create a platform that makes finding high-quality astrologers for readings and astrological education and guidance accessible to the masses.

🌟 Some Big Takeaways from this Conversation with Amanda Walsh:

Astrology Meets Therapy: The process of finding an astrologer that resonates personally can feel similar to finding the right therapist
Healing the Soul: Astrology can break down the process of our Soul’s evolution in a way that can be unbelievably healing and cultivate a sense of self-acceptance
Navigating Life’s Transits: A breakdown of what we can expect during various transits during various periods in our life
The Universe and Astrology: Astrology provides a framework for the invitation that the Universe is giving us toward the evolution of our soul, and how our society tends to pathologize a lot of what equates to us turning away from that invitation

🎙This podcast is definitely Cheaper than Therapy

✨Click here for a pdf of the life transits Amanda discusses in the episode

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Connect with Amanda Walsh:

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🌐 Dive Deeper Into The Show:

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Ep: 186 Live Coaching Session: Is Society's Path the Right Path? Oct 04, 2023

What happens when you don't follow society's expected relationship timeline? In this live coaching session episode, we talk about what it looks like to navigate walking a non-traditional path and taking the road less traveled. Alana opens up about her transformative decisions—whether it's breaking off a long-term relationship, returning to graduate school, or challenging societal norms around marriage and family.

🌟 What You'll Gain From This Episode:

Empowering Choices: How Alana took charge of her destiny by ending a significant relationship and opting for further education. Learn the dynamics of making such monumental life choices and the freedom that comes from it.
Non-Traditional Paths: Feel seen as Alana delves into the loneliness and isolation of choosing a route divergent from her peers—no marriage or kids (yet), but plenty of individual growth.
Surrendering to Life: Vanessa and Dené highlight the underestimated power of surrendering to the unknown and embracing life's uncertainties. Get insights into letting go and gaining more in return.
Culture & Self-Exploration: Listen in as they dissect the shortcomings of American culture's collective immaturity and the loss of cultural identity through assimilation.
Embodied Spirituality: How can spirituality become a lived experience? We talk about connecting with higher powers in day-to-day life, not just in sacred spaces.
Defining Stability: Is settling down always the right choice? Challenge your preconceptions as Alana questions the conventional wisdom around long-term relationships and societal 'stability.'

*These live coaching sessions are meant for entertainment purposes only and are not to replace therapy.

🌐 Dive Deeper Into The Show:

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@cheaperthantherapypodcast
Instagram: @cheaperthantherapythepodcast
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Ep: 185 Feeling in Process vs Feeling Lost with Dr. Scott Lyons Sep 27, 2023

Feeling in Process vs Feeling Lost with Dr. Scott Lyons

We were thrilled to have Dr. Scott Lyons on Cheaper than Therapy the Podcast! Dr. Lyons has an innovative approach to his practice, combining holistic psychology with somatic movement and mind-body medicine with embodied education. He founded The Embody Lab, Omala, is host of The Gently Used Human podcast, Creator of Somatic Stress Release, and author of “Addicted to Drama.”

Some Big Takeaways from this episode with Dr. Lyons:

Somatic Movement vs Embodiment: Recognizing the difference between somatic movement and actual, full embodiment within ourselves, and why that distinction and ability to metabolize and move emotions is so important to our growth.
Trauma isn’t Isolated: Trauma is everywhere and can’t necessarily be healed and processed through talking alone (or at all), and the resources to clear trauma and support others should be accessible to all.
I’m the Problem, It’s Me: Sometimes the common denominator in the chaos in our own lives is ourselves, and we may “stir the drama to avoid the trauma” as a coping mechanism.

🎙This podcast is definitely Cheaper than Therapy

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Ep: 184 Q&A: How to Know if a Big Life Change is the Right Decision? Sep 20, 2023

How do you

In this Q&A session, we answer a question about the differentiation between burn-out and the feeling that you might be running from something.

We talk about:

Normalizing the idea that in this life school we were never meant to have “it all figured out” or avoid mistakes at all costs
Why holding adulthood with an awareness of developmental stages tabes some of the emphasis off of our younger years equating to the end of our time if expansion
The importance of giving ourselves permission to bring a sense of wonder back into our lives and ask, “but am I having fun?”

And so much more!

If you love the conversations we’re bringing you as much as we do, please rate and write a review of the podcast so we can get the podcast out to even more people!

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Ep 183: Live Coaching Session: Should I Stay or Should I Go? Sep 13, 2023

In today's coaching session with Rachel, we unpack how to navigate the waters of whether or not it’s time for a relationship to end.

We dive into:

How to negotiate when it feels like the fundamental needs of you and your partner we hitting up against one another
That sometimes in an attempt to preserve a relationship, we end up doing a great deal of unintended emotional harm to one another
Why sometimes the brave step is surrender when we’ve been fighting for something to the point of exhaustion
Why the sensations in our body can be a profound way to get reacquainted with our truth when we’re accustomed to having our truth defined by someone else

And so much more!

*These live coaching sessions are meant for entertainment purposes only and are not to replace therapy.

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Ep: 182 Q&A: How to transition from a romantic to platonic relationship in a loving way? Sep 06, 2023

In today's episode, we explore a question about transitioning from a romantic to a platonic relationship.

We talk about

How rarely we acknowledge how difficult a role it is to be the one who takes the first step to end things when a relationship has expired
How the end of a relationship - while incredibly painful - can also be the birthplace of a new season of creating possibilities around who we’re becoming
Why we as a society can benefit from normalizing relationships reaching an expiration point without requiring a specific “reason” for something coming to an end

And so much more!

If you love the conversations we’re bringing you as much as we do, please rate and write a review of the podcast so we can get the podcast out to even more people!

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Ep: 181 Q&A: Reciprocal vs Transactional Relationships Aug 30, 2023

In today's episode, we explore the idea of what authentic reciprocity looks like in relationships and how we move away from relationships that are based on giving in an attempt to get something in return.

We talk about:

How resentment can be a barometer that indicates when and where our codependent tendencies are being activated
The idea that we entitled to anything from a partner being based on the ownership templates we’ve all been raised with
How often we over-give our time, effort, and energy to others into others hoping they’ll give the same back to us in return, and why the answer us to pull back some of that energy and begin putting into ourselves.
How over-functioners can reframe resentment into an opportunity to step into their own growing edge with vulnerability.

If you love the conversations we’re bringing you as much as we do, please rate and write a review of the podcast so we can get the podcast out to even more people!

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Ep 180 The Yoga of Parenting with Sarah Ezrin Aug 23, 2023

Sarah Ezrin is an author, world-renowned yoga educator, content creator, and mama based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Sarah loves guiding people along their wellness and parenthood journeys. Her words, classes, and social media are supportive, healing spaces where people can feel seen and heard.

We sat down with Sarah to talk about:

The unbelievably common sense of identity loss that early parenthood brings to the surface and how parenting can be an invitation to start cultivating a new sense of who we want to be in this life.
The need to understand and work with energy management as parents when we start to feel ourselves in the space of overwhelm.
The deficit we face as a society that has normalized a nuclear family system that has made parenting feel incredibly depleting and isolating.
The spiritual aspect of parenting and why the yoga of parenting is about so much more than being on a yoga mat.

We took away so many potent nuggets of information from this conversation with Sarah and we know you will too!

Connect with Sarah:

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Ep: 179 Q&A: Tough Conversations Around Sex & Porn Addiction Aug 16, 2023

In this Q&A episode, a listener wrote in asking for advice about a struggle she’s having with the frequency of her partner's desire for sex.

We discuss:

Normalizing the understanding that someone having access to you sexually isn’t a given just because it’s within the parameters of a partnership, and what actually constitutes as sexual assault.
How a society where men have been taught not to feel, often leads to sex as the primary outlet for connecting to their emotions and self-regulation.
The importance of seeking support and taking accountability for facing the underlying codependency that so often accompanies addictive tendencies within ourselves and others..

Accounts we reference:

Connor Beaton (@mantalks on instagram)

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Ep: 178 Spirituality, Politics, and the Role of The Feminine Today with Marianne Williamson Aug 09, 2023

In this highly anticipated episode of “Cheaper Than Therapy,” we got deep about collective generational healing with the formidable Marianne Williamson — a powerful changemaker whose insights have transformed countless personal and spiritual journeys for over 30 years, and who has been a monumental influence on both of us.

Marianne Williamson has not only been a leader in spiritual and religiously progressive circles for over three decades, she’s published 15 books, is a 4-time NY Times Best Selling Author, and is the Founder of Project Angel Food, a non-profit organization that has delivered more than 16 million meals to ill and dying homebound patients since 1989; originally created to help people suffering from the ravages of HIV/AIDS. Marianne also co-founded The Peace Alliance in 2004, and is currently running for the 2024 Democratic presidential nomination.

🌟What You’ll Gain from this Episode:

A Collective Feminine Awakening: Deep dive into the quandaries of the feminine’s role in our patriarchy-based society, and the courage required to break out of societal impositions by asking ourselves, “Who do I want to be and how do I want to show up?” to begin contributing to collective healing
Action Beyond Performance: An invitation for white women, specifically, to shift our focus from the masculine to the feminine and claim accountability for our direct role in upholding patriarchal structures so we may begin the deep generational healing required for the collective and stop metaphorically burning our sisters at the stake
Political Perspective: A conversation about Marianne Williamson’s decision to run for a presidential nomination amid a fear-laden political landscape, coupled with insights on managing cyberbullying and choosing grace and love in a time when it may sometimes feel impossible to pull ourselves out of fear and “othering.”

Join us for this rich conversation of complex topics with Marianne Williamson.

Connect with Marianne:

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Ep 177 What Are Your Thoughts On Soulmates? Aug 02, 2023

In this Q&A episode, we’re responding to a listener that asked to hear our thoughts on soulmates. They wrote, “I’d love to hear your thoughts on soulmates. I feel like I met mine at a time in my life, but it wasn't possible to be together. It still isn’t,, but I still feel it to be true. I always thought I had a strong intuition, but I'm starting to think I'm crazy.”

We talk about:

How society conditions women to associate our intuition with being crazy, in an attempt to shut down the feminine energy within us and force us to embody the wounded masculine.
The idea that a soulmate doesn’t have to be somebody that you are destined to be in partnership with in this lifetime, but that a soulmate is somebody that your soul has been with or will be with in another lifetime.
That a soulmate doesn’t necessarily need to be a romantic love and may simply mean that your souls have agreed to embark on a journey together in whatever shape that may take form.

If you love the conversations we’re bringing you as much as we do, please rate and write a review of the podcast so we can get the podcast out to even more people!

And, if you want to connect with us personally and deepen your work, we just launched our private online Cheaper Than Therapy Community. Weekly process groups on multiple topics, two live workshops a month, one on one interaction with us and an amazing supportive community. Learn more here

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Ep: 176 Coaching Session: From Self-Abandonment to Self-Acceptance Jul 28, 2023

In this Cheaper than Therapy coaching session, we sat down with Claire as she unravels the intricacies that come along with the end of a marriage. Claire's internal struggle echoes the question that many women are confronted with: what does it mean, as a woman, to end a relationship and find our true sense of Self within our patriarchy-based societal norms and expectations?

🌟 Big Takeaways from this Episode:

Tangled Societal Norms: We delve into societal expectations of women, and the paradox we face between individual desires and collective demands centered in codependency. Do we really need to exist in a tolerable level of permanent unhappiness, specifically in relationships?
Unveiling a Sense of Self:A relationship’s end brings an opportunity to trust yourself as you lean in to the reintroduction to your true sense of self, while simultaneously owning that our codependency invites self-abandonment. Acknowledging personal wants is not selfish, and we are worthy as is.
Sacred Solitude: Finding acceptance that we may walk through life’s fires without support or guidance, and how that trust in yourself can lead to spiritual epiphanies.

Our candid conversation with Claire aims to inspire and assure that even amidst the chaos of unraveling relationships, finding one's true self is the ultimate gift.

🎙This podcast is definitely Cheaper than Therapy

Remember, we’re therapists, but we’re not your therapists. These episodes are meant for entertainment purposes only, and are not meant to replace your therapy practice.

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YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@cheaperthantherapypodcast
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Ep 175 The Importance of Finding Your People with Eli Weinstein Jul 26, 2023

Eli Weinstein, LCSW is a Licensed Clinical Social Work Therapist (LCSW) based in New York and Nevada, and the founder/host of The Dude Therapist Podcast, a no BS male voice in the therapy, self-help, and parenting space. We sat down to talk with Eli about:

The importance, as a therapist, of seeing the wholeness of each person and getting to know them for the truth of who they are
How the current generation of men are opening up the space for curiosity, deeper feeling, and beginning to tap into healing within their friend groups and micro-communities
What it’s like being a male voice in the female dominated social media space of parenting, and why it’s important for fathers to have models as they move through the waves of parenthood

And so much more!

Connect with Buddy

*** The Dude Therapist Podcast

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Ep 174: Cheaper Than Therapy Rewind - Compassion is Half Sadness and Half Joy with Buddy Wakefield Jul 21, 2023

In this episode, we go into the archives and bring back one of our incredibly wise guests, Buddy Wakefield, from one of our first episodes ever on July 15, 2020!

Buddy Wakefield is an American spoken word artist, a three-time poetry slam world champion, and the most toured performance poet in history. In this unbelievably powerful conversation, Vanessa and Dené talk to Buddy about the dangers of tranquil states of existence, how we can benefit from exploring our “scary thoughts,” and the victim, villain, and hero archetypes we’re being asked to question in our current climate.

Connect with Buddy

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Ep 173: The Extinction Burst Jul 19, 2023

In today's episode, we share a bit of a conversation we were having driving home together after our weekend intensive in Idyllwild, CA. I’m our conversation we explored:

How the framework of all of our relationships are changing in a radical way
The resistance that comes to the surface whenever an outdated system or way of living is experiencing an imminent ego death
Why the most fundamental aspect of any form of awakening is a commitment to speaking the truth
The importance of meeting moments of transition with curiosity - especially when we feel most activated by someone’s perspective that deeply challenges our own

And so much more!

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Ep 172: Personal Responsibility: A Live Workshop Jul 14, 2023

In today's episode, we’re sharing a portion of one of our conversations from our week-long Intensive in Costa Rica.

We’re talking about:

What it means to claim a sense of authentic power in our lives
Understanding some of the ways we play into the systems we feel most challenged by when we live an ‘outside-in’ life vs. an ‘inside-out’ life
What some of the archetypal narratives in literature around the suppression of feminine energy can teach us about the path of female empowerment moving forward

And so much more!

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Ep 171 Q&A: What to do When There’s No More Attraction Jul 12, 2023

In this Q&A episode, a listener wrote in asking what to do with the knowledge that their partner is no longer physically attracted to them. When a relationship reaches the point where we are no longer having sex and we are on the verge of a break up - what advice would we give?

We’re talking about:

Acknowledging the pain and difficulty about the situation on both sides.
Letting go of the tendency to focus all of our energy on the negative, so that we might see this as an invitation back to ourselves and a way to reconnect with our individual turn ons.
Realizing that relationships and life ebb and flow, and how we might have important conversations with one another to dig deep and ask, “Is this about their attraction to me, specifically, or do one or both of us not have a vibrancy for anything in life right now?”
Remembering that the longevity of a relationship does not determine the level of happiness or success, and that a relationship ending doesn’t mean it was a failure.

And so much more!

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We have ONE SPOT left for THIS weekend’s immersive retreat, Living an Untamed Life, in IDYLLWILD, CA.

During this intensive weekend (July 14-16), we’ll support you in:

⁃ Exploring the origin points of the limiting beliefs that may be holding you back

⁃ Understanding how to begin to step into the process of trusting ourselves fully

⁃ Cultivating tangible tools for shifting into a growth mindset and building a greater sense of self-awareness

⁃ Crafting a vision of what you want your life to look like and practices that can support you in being the creator of this reality

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Ep. 170: Q&A: How do I Establish Boundaries and Gain Respect in My Relationship? Jul 07, 2023

In this episode of Cheaper than Therapy the Podcast, we’re answering a question submitted by one of our listeners that doesn’t feel respected in their relationship, especially in times of conflict or disagreement. They write, “Sometimes I feel like my partner doesn’t respect me when she’s upset; she swears and can get very upset. How do I deal with this?”

If you have a question you’d like us to discuss, click here.

🌟 Some Big Takeaways from this Episode:

Safe Communication: The importance of being in relationship where it is safe for you to have difficult communication with your partner
Alone Not Lonely: How to be alone with yourself to get clear about how you will and will not be treated, to set boundaries within your relationship
Follow-Through: Taking in your partners response to your boundaries as information to help you decide if you want to accept how they are willing to love you and stay in relationship with them

Books Mentioned:

Fair Play

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Ep 169 In Each Other's Care w Dr Stan Tatkin Jul 05, 2023

Stan Tatkin, PsyD, MFT is a teacher, clinician, researcher, and developer of the Psychobiological Approach to Couples Therapy® (PACT). He speaks and teaches around the world on secure-functioning relationships – how to understand them, create them, and support them, has written dozens of academic articles and six bestselling books, and is a TEDx Speaker.

We sat down with Stan to explore:

1. Why it is so important for couples to come to a shared agreement about what they are attempting to build

2. The importance of a couple being differentiated before attempting to find a sense of secure functioning

3. The preparation required for couples when shifting from a dyad to a triad in a family system

4. Why commuting to another person gives us an opportunity to know ourselves well through the activations that inevitable come to the surface

Connect with Stan:

You can see Richie in the CNN documentary “The Feminist on Cell Block Y”

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We are so excited to announce that we’ve decided to offer a weekend immersive weekend in IDYLLWILD, CA - July 14-16!

join us for: LIVING AN UNTAMED LIFE

During this intensive weekend, we’ll support you in:

⁃ Exploring the origin points of the limiting beliefs that may be holding you back

⁃ Understanding how to begin to step into the process of trusting ourselves fully

⁃ Cultivating tangible tools for shifting into a growth mindset and building a greater sense of self-awareness

⁃ Crafting a vision of what you want your life to look like and practices that can support you in being the creator of this reality

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Ep 168 Q&A Session: How to stay Connected with Someone I Disagree With? Jun 30, 2023

In this Q&A episode, a listener writes, “My friend uses pronouns that I don’t agree with and I’m not sure what to do. Is it necessary to keep the friendship honest?”

We discuss:

Challenging ourselves to be brutally honest with ourselves first, and how we get clear about what’s underneath our intentions for wanting to speak up.
Owning the possibility that we may feel like there’s a right and wrong way for others to be, and that we may have a subconscious desire to express to a friend that they’re wrong.
The importance of checking in with ourselves about how we often begin to show up in a similar energetic to the thing that we are holding with contempt in our space of certainty that others are wrong in their perspectives.

And so much more!

If you love the conversations we’re bringing you as much as we do, please rate and write a review of the podcast so we can get the podcast out to even more people!

And, if you want to connect with us personally and deepen your work, we just launched our private online Cheaper Than Therapy Community. Weekly process groups on multiple topics, two live workshops a month, one on one interaction with us and an amazing supportive community. Learn more here

We are so excited to announce that we’ve decided to offer a weekend immersive weekend in IDYLLWILD, CA - July 14-16!

join us for: LIVING AN UNTAMED LIFE

During this intensive weekend, we’ll support you in:

⁃ Exploring the origin points of the limiting beliefs that may be holding you back

⁃ Understanding how to begin to step into the process of trusting ourselves fully

⁃ Cultivating tangible tools for shifting into a growth mindset and building a greater sense of self-awareness

⁃ Crafting a vision of what you want your life to look like and practices that can support you in being the creator of this reality

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Ep 167 IG Live: What Does it Mean to Live an Untamed Life? Jun 28, 2023

In today’s episode, we’re addressing some of the responses we received on social media around what it means to live an untamed life.

We’re discussing:

Why we sometimes feel the need to sweep things under the rug and not speak up in order to please the people around us, and how it inadvertently keeps our relationships inauthentic instead of giving us the security we’re looking for.
How we oftentimes feel constrained to a certain way of living, and the importance of digging deep to discover those constraints live within our own mind and that those external pressures can be removed.
That when we are truly our most authentic self, that is how our people find us, and how we reframe our mind to look for things that validate our Self.

And so much more!

If you love the conversations we’re bringing you as much as we do, please rate and write a review of the podcast so we can get the podcast out to even more people!

And, if you want to connect with us personally and deepen your work, we just launched our private online Cheaper Than Therapy Community. Weekly process groups on multiple topics, two live workshops a month, one on one interaction with us and an amazing supportive community. Learn more here

We are so excited to announce that we’ve decided to offer a weekend immersive weekend in IDYLLWILD, CA - July 14-16!

join us for: LIVING AN UNTAMED LIFE

During this intensive weekend, we’ll support you in:

⁃ Exploring the origin points of the limiting beliefs that may be holding you back

⁃ Understanding how to begin to step into the process of trusting ourselves fully

⁃ Cultivating tangible tools for shifting into a growth mindset and building a greater sense of self-awareness

⁃ Crafting a vision of what you want your life to look like and practices that can support you in being the creator of this reality

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Ep 166 Q&A Session: My Partner Keeps Bringing Up My Weight, What Should I do? Jun 23, 2023

In this Q&A episode, a listener tells us they’re struggling with their recent rapid weight gain, and the negative reinforcement from their partners remarks about how proud they’d be if they regained their previous body type.

We talk about:

Every person having a right to bodily autonomy in all facets, the right to show up in their life exactly as they are
How, as a partner, it’s our role to ask what that person wants and where they are in the process, rather than projecting what we think is right for them
The need to reach within ourselves and find resilience, so we don’t become enmeshed and codependent on others, and getting comfortable with the idea that maybe not all relationships are meant to continue if you are no longer in alignment

If you love the conversations we’re bringing you as much as we do, please rate and write a review of the podcast so we can get the podcast out to even more people!

And, if you want to connect with us personally and deepen your work, we just launched our private online Cheaper Than Therapy Community. Weekly process groups on multiple topics, two live workshops a month, one on one interaction with us and an amazing supportive community. Learn more here

We are so excited to announce that we’ve decided to offer a weekend immersive weekend in IDYLLWILD, CA - July 14-16!

join us for: LIVING AN UNTAMED LIFE

During this intensive weekend, we’ll support you in:

⁃ Exploring the origin points of the limiting beliefs that may be holding you back

⁃ Understanding how to begin to step into the process of trusting ourselves fully

⁃ Cultivating tangible tools for shifting into a growth mindset and building a greater sense of self-awareness

⁃ Crafting a vision of what you want your life to look like and practices that can support you in being the creator of this reality

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Ep. 165 Questioning Culture with Richie Reseda Jun 21, 2023

Richie Reseda is a feminist ally, community organizer, recording artist, and founder of the social-impact record label, Question Culture. Success Stories, the anti-patriarchy organization he started while incarcerated, was chronicled in the CNN documentary “The Feminist on Cell Block Y.” He changes California prison policy with Initiate Justice, an organization he co-founded in prison.

🌟 Some Key Points from this Conversation with Richie:

1. His role in introducing Bell Hooks’ work to incarcerated men as a way to illustrate and push back on the “Soul murder” a patriarchal society demands of men

2. How to teach our children to understand the truth of their power so they can learn to reach for love and safety over fear, vs the false ideations this society has conditioned them about where their power lies

3. Why our work is not to strive for reform, but rather the abolition of the colonial system we’re currently living in

4. The importance of understanding that society’s ‘rules of governance’ are essentially violence that perpetuates more violence, given that they are not collaborative and created with a community’s and consent

5. Why the patriarchal narrative of right and wrong or ‘good and bad’ always equate to a form of domination, and why the evolution of a Soul-based societal perspective is rooted in curiosity, consent, and community collaboration

Connect with Richie

Question Culture Instagram

For Everyone Collective Instagram

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Ep 164 Living with ADHD in a Neurotypical World with Martha Barnard-Rae Jun 07, 2023

Martha Barnard-Rae helps outside-the-box brands build seriously good client relationships with clear, clever copywriting and content. By day she's the CEO at Word Candy and co-host of The One That Works For You podcast. Martha moonlights as a feminist scholar, TEDx speaker, and sore loser of board games. Setting boundaries is her superpower. Her love language is oddly specific Tik Toks.

We sat down with Martha to talk about:

The shame that tends to be internalized with ADHD and the strategies that can be put in place for support.
The connection between women having children and being diagnosed with ADHD, and what that entails while also living in a capitalistic society.
The extent to which neurotypical and neurodivergent brains process information and sensory inputs very differently, and why communicating to understand one another is key for fulfilling relationships

And more!

Connect with Martha

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If you want to connect with us personally and deepen your work, we just launched our private online Cheaper Than Therapy Community. Weekly process groups on multiple topics, two live workshops a month, one on one interaction with us and an amazing supportive community. Learn more here

We are so excited to announce that we’ve decided to offer a weekend immersive weekend in IDYLLWILD, CA - July 14-16!

join us for: LIVING AN UNTAMED LIFE

During this intensive weekend, we’ll support you in:

⁃ Exploring the origin points of the limiting beliefs that may be holding you back

⁃ Understanding how to begin to step into the process of trusting ourselves fully

⁃ Cultivating tangible tools for shifting into a growth mindset and building a greater sense of self-awareness

⁃ Crafting a vision of what you want your life to look like and practices that can support you in being the creator of this reality

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Ep 163 Q&A: Can Men and Women be Just Friends? Jun 02, 2023

In today’s solo episode, a reader wrote in because she believes people can remain friends after a romantic relationship, but her partner does not share her sentiments. She asked to hear our thoughts.

We talk about:

Why the suggestion that heterosexual men and women can’t be just friends enforces the patriarchal narrative that men are only interested in sex, and that women have nothing valuable to offer a relationship other than something physical
How romantic possessiveness causes us to outsource our sense of self-worth and safety by reinforcing the idea that if you’ve been “chosen” for a relationship this person will never be attracted to someone else and you are “safe,” rather than finding safety within yourself
The value in sitting down and asking yourself, “If I really believe my partner would cheat on me, why am I in a relationship with them?”

And more!

And, if you love the conversations we’re bringing you as much as we do, please rate and write a review of the podcast so we can get the podcast out to even more people!

If you want to connect with us personally and deepen your work, we just launched our private online Cheaper Than Therapy Community. Weekly process groups on multiple topics, two live workshops a month, one on one interaction with us and an amazing supportive community. Learn more here

We are so excited to announce that we’ve decided to offer a weekend immersive weekend in IDYLLWILD, CA - July 14-16!

join us for: LIVING AN UNTAMED LIFE

During this intensive weekend, we’ll support you in:

⁃ Exploring the origin points of the limiting beliefs that may be holding you back

⁃ Understanding how to begin to step into the process of trusting ourselves fully

⁃ Cultivating tangible tools for shifting into a growth mindset and building a greater sense of self-awareness

⁃ Crafting a vision of what you want your life to look like and practices that can support you in being the creator of this reality

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Ep 162 What We Should’ve Been Taught with Rachelle Indra May 31, 2023

Rachelle Indra is a life coach and speaker specializing in the intersection of self-actualization and humor. She has made it her life's mission to teach the shit we should have been taught in school: how to have healthy relationships, discover your life's purpose, and how to retrain your brain to work for you instead of against you.

We sat down with Rachelle to talk about:

Recognizing that different people require different types of support and may be intimidated by the stigmas that surround therapy; and why a life coach can offer a means to bridge that gap
The power of combining science and the metaphysical world, and how we can reframe our thoughts to manifest what aligns with our truest self
How we shift the conversation around the choice to be child free or become a mother, and acknowledging that our current societal structures make parenting incredibly difficult in ways that are rarely spoken about

And so much more!

Connect with Rachelle

*** LinkedIn

And, if you love the conversations we’re bringing you as much as we do, please rate and write a review of the podcast so we can get the podcast out to even more people!

If you want to connect with us personally and deepen your work, we just launched our private online Cheaper Than Therapy Community. Weekly process groups on multiple topics, two live workshops a month, one on one interaction with us and an amazing supportive community. Learn more here

We are so excited to announce that we’ve decided to offer a weekend immersive weekend in IDYLLWILD, CA - July 14-16!

join us for: LIVING AN UNTAMED LIFE

During this intensive weekend, we’ll support you in:

⁃ Exploring the origin points of the limiting beliefs that may be holding you back

⁃ Understanding how to begin to step into the process of trusting ourselves fully

⁃ Cultivating tangible tools for shifting into a growth mindset and building a greater sense of self-awareness

⁃ Crafting a vision of what you want your life to look like and practices that can support you in being the creator of this reality

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Ep 161 Q&A Session: Step Out of Other’s Shadow and into Your Own May 26, 2023

In this solo episode, we’re answering a listener’s question about why they seem to attract “energy vampires” and feel like they’re constantly being sucked into others’ drama.

We’re discussing:

Reshifting your energy from, “why is this person always doing this TO me” to, “that’s challenging for them, but I don’t need to participate” and remembering that where you focus your energy is what you attract
Turning your focus inward to examine where you may have hidden shadow work that you are bypassing, and hiding behind the “drama” in others’ lives
Recognizing that your time and energy is your responsibility, and that at any point you’re able to reclaim your power by setting boundaries and removing yourself from circles that don’t align with your path

And so much more!

And, if you love the conversations we’re bringing you as much as we do, please rate and write a review of the podcast so we can get the podcast out to even more people!

If you want to connect with us personally and deepen your work, we just launched our private online Cheaper Than Therapy Community. Weekly process groups on multiple topics, two live workshops a month, one on one interaction with us and an amazing supportive community. Learn more here

We are so excited to announce that we’ve decided to offer a weekend immersive weekend in IDYLLWILD, CA - July 14-16!

join us for: LIVING AN UNTAMED LIFE

During this intensive weekend, we’ll support you in:

⁃ Exploring the origin points of the limiting beliefs that may be holding you back

⁃ Understanding how to begin to step into the process of trusting ourselves fully

⁃ Cultivating tangible tools for shifting into a growth mindset and building a greater sense of self-awareness

⁃ Crafting a vision of what you want your life to look like and practices that can support you in being the creator of this reality

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Ep 160 Doing the Hard Thing May 24, 2023

In this solo episode, we’re examining a situation we receive questions about frequently relating to moving on after the end of a 15+ year partnership. We so often hear that women have been unhappy in their (hetero) relationship for some time, then the relationship ends, and then the woman feels stuck and unsure about what comes next and how to move forward.

A patriarchal society normalizes the discontentment of life within women and sets an expectation that “this is just life,” birthing the mother wound and passing down the belief that life is suffering. But what happens if you reject that message, and instead choose to live fully?

Oftentimes, the story we tell ourselves of the suffering to come is much bigger than the suffering we actually endure. In order to begin, you must surrender and accept this new phase of life you’re in and get to know this new Self.

Recognize that you may be sitting in a space of what you thought your life “should” look like in feeling that being alone is “wrong,” and try shifting your perspective to a new approach as you take that first unsettling step into the unknown.

And, if you love the conversations we’re bringing you as much as we do, please rate and write a review of the podcast so we can get the podcast out to even more people!

If you want to connect with us personally and deepen your work, we just launched our private online Cheaper Than Therapy Community. Weekly process groups on multiple topics, two live workshops a month, one on one interaction with us and an amazing supportive community. Learn more here

We are so excited to announce that we’ve decided to offer a weekend immersive weekend in IDYLLWILD, CA - July 14-16!

join us for: LIVING AN UNTAMED LIFE

During this intensive weekend, we’ll support you in:

⁃ Exploring the origin points of the limiting beliefs that may be holding you back

⁃ Understanding how to begin to step into the process of trusting ourselves fully

⁃ Cultivating tangible tools for shifting into a growth mindset and building a greater sense of self-awareness

⁃ Crafting a vision of what you want your life to look like and practices that can support you in being the creator of this reality

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Ep 159 Speaking Up When You’re Afraid of the Response May 19, 2023

How do I speak up when I’m afraid of the response? How do I show up as my most authentic self and what does that even mean? These are just some of the questions that Dené and Vanessa get asked frequently addressed in this episode from sn IG Live.

If you’re ready to dive deeper into topics like these, we have ONE MORE SHARED ROOM LEFT for our upcoming retreat in Costa Rica June 3-10th so if you’ve been on the fence this is your last chance to join us! We’re offering a special discount for anyone that books 3 people together. Check it out: RECLAIMING AUDACITY.

If you love the conversations we’re bringing you as much as we do, please rate and write a review of the podcast so we can get the podcast out to even more people!

If you want to connect with us personally and deepen your work, we just launched our private online Cheaper Than Therapy Community. Weekly process groups on multiple topics, two live workshops a month, one on one interaction with us and an amazing supportive community. Learn more here

We are so excited to announce that we’ve decided to offer a weekend immersive weekend in IDYLLWILD, CA - July 14-16!

join us for: LIVING AN UNTAMED LIFE

During this intensive weekend, we’ll support you in:

⁃ Exploring the origin points of the limiting beliefs that may be holding you back

⁃ Understanding how to begin to step into the process of trusting ourselves fully

⁃ Cultivating tangible tools for shifting into a growth mindset and building a greater sense of self-awareness

⁃ Crafting a vision of what you want your life to look like and practices that can support you in being the creator of this reality

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Join Vanessa and Dené in Nosara, Costa Rica June 3-10th for their upcoming Intensive Retreat RECLAIMING AUDACITY.

Dené and Vanessa are joining forces with two of their colleagues - Milly Murillo & Ashley Torrent to create a week full of transformational healing.

They each draw from their work in the healing modalities of psychotherapy, coaching, mediumship, astrology, somatic movement, and group processing - to support others in reclaiming every aspect of the most fulfilling lives they can possibly live.

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Ep 158: How to Trust in Self-Love with Danny Morel May 17, 2023

What happens when a world-renowned business powerhouse awakens to his life’s highest timeline, causing him to shift gears and dive into the spiritual realm where his true sense of purpose lies? Vanessa and Dené sat down with Danny Morel to explore his transformative journey from real estate mogul to spiritual guide - prompting us to rethink our definitions of success and the positive impact authentic self-love has in our relationships.

🌟 Big Takeaways from this Episode:

Heart Centric Realizations: Asking if it’s possible to allow yourself to be loved in relationship before you’ve done the work of learning to trust and value yourself, and the impact of genuine self-love on life and relationships
Balancing Energies: Embracing the differences and space between the masculine and feminine, and why both are so important in self-love and within relationships
Healing Generational Trauma Scars: A poignant discussion around our collective generational trauma points, and the pathways to healing
True Authenticity: Bravery is required to surrender into the space of believing in something and standing firm in one's authentic sense of Self, irrespective of societal pressures.

🍲 Food for Thought: Stay until the end, for a tidbit from Danny’s unique diet that supports his spiritual journey.

Connect with Danny

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Ep 157 Is Co-Regulation in a Relationship Codependency May 12, 2023

In this solo episode, we’re discussing a common theme we see around whether or not healing and co-regulating ourselves within relationships is the same as being codependent.

We’re talking about:

Codependency, at its core, being being the belief that we ‘need’ one specific person outside of ourselves to regulate our internal world
Recognizing that society has conditioned us to equate attachment with love, and that without a certain amount of differentiation, we can fall into the trap of seeing the person in front of us as a means to an end - instead of loving them for who they are
How we find and provide a healing and safe space within a relationship, without taking on roles that start to become overly enmeshed

And so much more!

If you love the conversations we’re bringing you as much as we do, please subscribe, rate and write a review so we can get the podcast out to even more people!

If you want to connect with us personally and deepen your work, we just launched our private online Cheaper Than Therapy Community. Weekly process groups on multiple topics, two live workshops a month, one on one interaction with us and an amazing supportive community. Learn more here

We are so excited to announce that we’ve decided to offer a weekend immersive weekend in IDYLLWILD, CA - July 14-16!

join us for: LIVING AN UNTAMED LIFE

During this intensive weekend, we’ll support you in:

⁃ Exploring the origin points of the limiting beliefs that may be holding you back

⁃ Understanding how to begin to step into the process of trusting ourselves fully

⁃ Cultivating tangible tools for shifting into a growth mindset and building a greater sense of self-awareness

⁃ Crafting a vision of what you want your life to look like and practices that can support you in being the creator of this reality

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Ep 156 Strategies for Authentic Connection with Andrew Horn May 10, 2023

Andrew Horn is an Austin, TX based social entrepreneur, speaker, writer and leadership coach. He has been featured on TED.com, founded an INC500 company, keynotes for the Fortune 500, and serves as a personal coach to “second mountain” entrepreneurs. Andrew is on a mission to support others in understanding how we create meaningful connections in an authentic way.

We sat down to talk with Andrew about

How to shift our focus from the external to the internal to access our truth, and how to share the most authentic version of ourselves in meaningful relationships. We explore how seeing this allows others to liberate their own truest selves as well
Distinguishing between liking vs loving ourselves - acknowledging that we need to know ourselves to love ourselves, and that we are dependent on how our eyes and brain interact with our external world
How to break free from getting engulfed in the limiting belief patterns that cause us to create stories in our head

And so much more!

We know you’re going to be as inspired by this conversation with Andrew as we were. Have a pencil and paper ready for this one - he offers so many incredible tools!

Connect with Andrew

Mentioned: Byron Katie’s Liberating Questions

🌐 Dive Deeper Into The Show:

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@cheaperthantherapypodcast
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Ep 155 Q&A Session: Seeking fulfillment within May 05, 2023

In today’s episode, we’re answering a string of questions submitted by a listener that revolve around codependency within relationships and how to start the process of leaning more into interdependence.

We’re exploring::

The societal pressure on women, especially, to focus our energy on finding and keeping a partner, rather than being encouraged to go inward and discover our own interests and what brings us joy.
How the greatest act of rebellion a woman can participate in is the act of living authentically and loving her life.
The importance of asking yourself what you can do to create happiness within yourself, rather than searching for an external sense of fulfillment

And so much more!

If you love the conversations we’re bringing you as much as we do, please subscribe, rate and write a review so we can get the podcast out to even more people!

If you want to connect with us personally and deepen your work, we just launched our private online Cheaper Than Therapy Community. Weekly process groups on multiple topics, two live workshops a month, one on one interaction with us and an amazing supportive community. Learn more here

We are so excited to announce that we’ve decided to offer a weekend immersive weekend in IDYLLWILD, CA - July 14-16!

join us for: LIVING AN UNTAMED LIFE

During this intensive weekend, we’ll support you in:

⁃ Exploring the origin points of the limiting beliefs that may be holding you back

⁃ Understanding how to begin to step into the process of trusting ourselves fully

⁃ Cultivating tangible tools for shifting into a growth mindset and building a greater sense of self-awareness

⁃ Crafting a vision of what you want your life to look like and practices that can support you in being the creator of this reality

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Ep 154 Q&A Session: Reclaiming Audacity May 03, 2023

In today’s episode, we’re addressing some of the questions we received on social media around reclaiming audacity and calling back our power.

We’re discussing:

The concept of feeling stuck and learning how to lean into trusting that divine orchestration is always brings us exactly what we need
Feeling anxiety around where our lives are headed, and the importance of shifting our mindset to accepting the current moment and being okay with the uncomfortable feeling of not knowing what’s next
How a sense of community has been lost in our culture and why that support is needed to guide us through difficult and confusing moments throughout our lives

And so much more!

If you love the conversations we’re bringing you as much as we do, please subscribe, rate and write a review so we can get the podcast out to even more people!

If you want to connect with us personally and deepen your work, we just launched our private online Cheaper Than Therapy Community. Weekly process groups on multiple topics, two live workshops a month, one on one interaction with us and an amazing supportive community. Learn more here

We are so excited to announce that we’ve decided to offer a weekend immersive weekend in IDYLLWILD, CA - July 14-16!

join us for: LIVING AN UNTAMED LIFE

During this intensive weekend, we’ll support you in:

⁃ Exploring the origin points of the limiting beliefs that may be holding you back

⁃ Understanding how to begin to step into the process of trusting ourselves fully

⁃ Cultivating tangible tools for shifting into a growth mindset and building a greater sense of self-awareness

⁃ Crafting a vision of what you want your life to look like and practices that can support you in being the creator of this reality

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Ep 153 Q&A Session: What It Means to Self-Abandon Pt. 2 Apr 29, 2023

In today’s episode, we’re answering your questions around the topic of self-abandonment, and what it means to self-abandon in various areas in your life.

We’re discussing:

How to not lose yourself in relationships and why we may begin a relationship with strong boundaries but gradually lose confidence as we become more attached
What healthy attachment in relationships looks like and how to discern the difference between wants vs needs within those relationships
Recognizing and working to break codependency patterns, and how to have compassion for yourself in the process

And so much more!

If you love the conversations we’re bringing you as much as we do, please subscribe, rate and write a review so we can get the podcast out to even more people!

*These live coaching sessions are meant for entertainment purposes only and are not to replace therapy.

If you have a question or topic you’d like us to address, we would love to hear from you for our new Q+A series! Email us at cheaperthantherapythepod@gmail.com

If you want to connect with us personally and deepen your work, we just launched our private online Cheaper Than Therapy Community. Weekly process groups on multiple topics, two live workshops a month, one on one interaction with us and an amazing supportive community. Learn more here

We are so excited to announce that we’ve decided to offer a weekend immersive weekend in IDYLLWILD, CA - July 14-16!

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Ep. 152: Q&A Session: What it Means to Self-Abandon Pt. 1 Apr 26, 2023

This episode of Cheaper than Therapy is part of a series where we answer questions you, our listeners, have sent in to us. Today, we’re discussing the topic of self-abandonment, and what it looks like to self-abandon in various areas in your life.

If you have a question you’d like us to discuss, click here.

🌟 Some Big Takeaways from this Episode:

Be Honest with Yourself: How to begin the work of facing hard truths about yourself instead of hiding behind familiar and unhealthy behaviors patterns, and why consciousness is key in decision making, so you are able to put down shame if and when you do make the easy/familiar choice in a difficult moment
Break Relationship Patterns: Why you may repeatedly find yourself in relationship with emotionally unavailable people, and how to begin the inner work of finding where you may also be afraid to be vulnerable
In Love, Out of Alignment: How to be in relationship, of any kind, with somebody whose values are not your own, and how you may still hold love for a person but find yourself out of alignment with them moving forward

🎙This podcast is definitely Cheaper than Therapy

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Ep 151 Q&A Session: Are They Actually Too Good for You? Apr 21, 2023

Episode 151 Q&A Session: Are They Actually Too Good for You is part of a series where we discuss topics and/or questions submitted by our listeners. In today’s episode we’re discussing the question, “What can lead someone to say to you that you are too good for them? Trauma, lack of self worth, etc.?”

We’re getting into:

The question of, “Wouldn’t they want to rise to the occasion if they really wanted to be in relationship with you?” and the possibility that somebody would use this as a way to lessen the hurt of not wanting to be together
Somebody in a state of active substance abuse may use this phrase as a way to continue hiding behind their addiction
How men, especially, may be confronted with their own Mother Wound when faced with rejecting a woman and being presented with her emotionality, and may use this phrase as a way to avoid being honest with themselves
Being needed vs being wanted, and how a hyper-independent/avoidant person may subconsciously avoid deeper connections because they’re chasing the feeling of being wanted
That consciousness is the key to decision making, and there’s no shame in making the easy choice in the moment with that awareness, and learning how to move forward as you learn your Self

If you have a question or topic you’d like us to address, we would love to hear from you for our new Q+A series! Email us at cheaperthantherapythepod@gmail.com

If you love the conversations we’re bringing you as much as we do, please subscribe, rate and write a review so we can get the podcast out to even more people!

If you want to connect with us personally and deepen your work, we just launched our private online Cheaper Than Therapy Community. Weekly process groups on multiple topics, two live workshops a month, one on one interaction with us and an amazing supportive community. Learn more here

We are so excited to announce that we’ve decided to offer a weekend immersive weekend in IDYLLWILD, CA - July 14-16!

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⁃ Exploring the origin points of the limiting beliefs that may be holding you back

⁃ Understanding how to begin to step into the process of trusting ourselves fully

⁃ Cultivating tangible tools for shifting into a growth mindset and building a greater sense of self-awareness

⁃ Crafting a vision of what you want your life to look like and practices that can support you in being the creator of this reality

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Ep 150: For the Love of Men with Connor Beaton Apr 19, 2023

Connor Beaton is the founder of ManTalks, an international organization dedicated to the professional and personal growth in men. He is an entrepreneur, writer, keynote speaker, and facilitator dedicated to building a better society of men. Connor has spoken to large corporate brands, nonprofits, schools, and international organizations such as the United Nations, Microsoft, Johnson & Johnson, Apple, TED, and Entrepreneurs’ Organization.

🌟 Some Takeaways from this Episode:

Men Need Community: The immense shortage of elders within our society to hold initiatory space for young men, and the importance of community, so men have opportunities to practice having vulnerable conversations within those spaces
Where are the Men: Men are psychologically retreating from society and romantic relationships in response to a lack of emotional safety, very few models of what expressing healthy masculinity might look like, and a lack of resources for support
Navigating Vulnerability: The challenges that arise when men attempt to bring raw and unprocessed vulnerability into their relationships in an effort to connect, and how it may inadvertently cause their partner to feel unsafe or turn them into an emotional processing center
Alignment Brings Emotional Safety: The conflict that shows up in relationships when a man is not living in congruence with the vision he holds in his head of his ideal Self

We have been wanting to sit down with Connor Beaton for such a long time and this conversation certainly did not disappoint. We know you’re going to be so impacted by it, as well!

🎙This podcast is definitely Cheaper than Therapy

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Ep 149 Q&A Session: Acts of Service vs Micromanaging Apr 14, 2023

Q&A Session: Acts of Service vs Micromanaging is part of a series where we discuss topics and/or questions submitted by our listeners. In today’s episode we’re answering a question regarding how to manage over-functioning when your love language is acts of service. What do you do when you want to make your partner’s life easier, but end up micromanaging?

We’re discussing:

Getting honest with your motivation to determine if you’re operating from a true desire to show them they’re loved, or if you’re creating environments in an attempt to make your own life easier and/or soothe your anxieties.
Finding the balance of showing up authentically in your relationship and not being resentful when those acts of service aren’t always returned. Are you operating from a place of love rather than a place of transaction or condition?
Establishing boundaries in your relationship that allow each of you to show up in a way that feels good for you both.

If you have a question or topic you’d like us to address, we would love to hear from you for our new Q+A series! Email us at cheaperthantherapythepod@gmail.com

If you love the conversations we’re bringing you as much as we do, please subscribe, rate and write a review so we can get the podcast out to even more people!

This podcast is, for sure, Cheaper Than Therapy.

If you want to connect with us personally and deepen your work, we just launched our private online Cheaper Than Therapy Community. Weekly process groups on multiple topics, two live workshops a month, one on one interaction with us and an amazing supportive community. Learn more here

We are so excited to announce that we’ve decided to offer a weekend immersive weekend in IDYLLWILD, CA - July 14-16!

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During this intensive weekend, we’ll support you in:

⁃ Exploring the origin points of the limiting beliefs that may be holding you back

⁃ Understanding how to begin to step into the process of trusting ourselves fully

⁃ Cultivating tangible tools for shifting into a growth mindset and building a greater sense of self-awareness

⁃ Crafting a vision of what you want your life to look like and practices that can support you in being the creator of this reality

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Ep 148 Expanding the Sexual Narrative with Dr. Candice Nicole Hargons, PhD Apr 12, 2023

Dr. Candice is an award winning Psychologist, Sexologist, and Professor of counseling psychology and researcher of sexual wellness and liberation, host of two dope ass podcasts “Fuck the System” and “How to Love a Human.” She has also been published over 50 times.

Some Big Takeaways from Our Conversation with Dr. Candice:

Racial Discrepancies in Sexuality: The differences between growing up and experimenting with your relationship to sexuality as young Black woman vs a young white woman
Socioeconomic Status Matters: We discuss the socioeconomic narratives, and social norms in those spaces, that shape opinions around certain sexual experiences, and how that shapes someone’s relationship to sexuality as they grow
Prioritize Your Pleasure: Let’s flip the script on performative sexual experiences and the importance of prioritizing pleasure for yourself
Choosing Sex vs Choosing Partnership: Patriarchal limitations that attempt to differentiate partnered and unpartnered women, and the social norms that attempt to devalue women who are ‘chosen’ sexually but not ‘chosen’ for partnerships

🎙This podcast is definitely Cheaper than Therapy

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Ep 147 Q&A Session: Creating Boundaries with Ourselves Apr 07, 2023

This is part of a series where we discuss topics and/or questions submitted by our listeners. In today’s episode, we’re helping two listeners with questions that arise around potentially ending a long term relationship.

We’re discussing:

Recognizing cyclical patterns in relationships and the difficulty we often have interrupting our patterns unless something comes into play that forces us to address it
Falling in love with potential instead of paying attention to what the dynamic feels like in our day-to-day lives
Doing the inner work to balance the feminine energy of clinging when we feel uneasy vs the masculine energy of creating firm boundaries and cultivating self respect
The societal pressures of being measured by whether we are in a relationship, regardless of whether that relationship is healthy or fulfilling
Finding what your motivation is to stay, and whether or not you have space to grow while in relationship with this person
And allowing yourself to be in grief and your inner wisdom to guide you in the process of uncoupling

If you have a question or topic you’d like us to address, we would love to hear from you for our new Q+A series! Email us at cheaperthantherapythepod@gmail.com

If you love the conversations we’re bringing you as much as we do, please subscribe, rate and write a review so we can get the podcast out to even more people!

This podcast is, for sure, Cheaper Than Therapy.

If you want to connect with us personally and deepen your work, we just launched our private online Cheaper Than Therapy Community. Weekly process groups on multiple topics, two live workshops a month, one on one interaction with us and an amazing supportive community. Learn more here

We are so excited to announce that we’ve decided to offer a weekend immersive weekend in IDYLLWILD, CA - July 14-16!

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During this intensive weekend, we’ll support you in:

⁃ Exploring the origin points of the limiting beliefs that may be holding you back

⁃ Understanding how to begin to step into the process of trusting ourselves fully

⁃ Cultivating tangible tools for shifting into a growth mindset and building a greater sense of self-awareness

⁃ Crafting a vision of what you want your life to look like and practices that can support you in being the creator of this reality

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Ep 146 Embodying Love with Vicky Vox Apr 05, 2023

Vicky Vox is a profound healer, a performer, spiritual empowermentor, a psychic medium, and a sorceress. She has spent a lifetime inspiring others through her work in the arts, standing unapologetically in the truth of her gifts, and raising the vibrational frequency to one of love and acceptance in every single space she enters.

We sat down to talk with Vicky about:

1. Navigating a world that feels against you when your spiritual and physical bodies don’t align with the conditioned limitations of those around you

2. The importance of decolonizing our therapeutic models in an attempt to provide safe spaces for those outside of the narrow landscape of who the western therapeutic modalities were designed to serve

3. The ways that our society often attacks those who model a radical acceptance of self, for holding up a mirror to the ways we have been conditioned to reject the deepest truths of who we are

4. How the integration of our masculine and feminine energetics can serve as a means to investigate and know ourselves more fully

Vicky is pure magic in human form, and we are so excited to share her incredibly profound wisdom through this conversation.

Connect with Vicky

This podcast is, for sure, Cheaper Than Therapy.

If you want to connect with us personally and deepen your work, we just launched our private online Cheaper Than Therapy Community. Weekly process groups on multiple topics, two live workshops a month, one on one interaction with us and an amazing supportive community. Learn more here

We are so excited to announce that we’ve decided to offer a weekend immersive weekend in IDYLLWILD, CA - July 14-16!

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During this intensive weekend, we’ll support you in:

⁃ Exploring the origin points of the limiting beliefs that may be holding you back

⁃ Understanding how to begin to step into the process of trusting ourselves fully

⁃ Cultivating tangible tools for shifting into a growth mindset and building a greater sense of self-awareness

⁃ Crafting a vision of what you want your life to look like and practices that can support you in being the creator of this reality

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Ep 145 Avoiding Resentment Mar 31, 2023

This episode is part of a series where we discuss topics and/or questions submitted by our listeners. Today’s question is: How do you avoid resentment?

We’re discussing:

The role of personal accountability in avoiding resentment
How resentment relates in situations where abuse or intentional harm was present
The ways peeling back layers of anger and grief to face your wounded inner child can help you to reclaim your power

If you have a question or topic you’d like us to address, we would love to hear from you for our new Q+A series! Email us at cheaperthantherapythepod@gmail.com

If you love the conversations we’re bringing you as much as we do, please subscribe, rate and write a review so we can get the podcast out to even more people!

This podcast is, for sure, Cheaper Than Therapy.

If you want to connect with us personally and deepen your work, we just launched our private online Cheaper Than Therapy Community. Weekly process groups on multiple topics, two live workshops a month, one on one interaction with us and an amazing supportive community. Learn more here

We are so excited to announce that we’ve decided to offer a weekend immersive weekend in IDYLLWILD, CA - July 14-16!

join us for: LIVING AN UNTAMED LIFE

During this intensive weekend, we’ll support you in:

⁃ Exploring the origin points of the limiting beliefs that may be holding you back

⁃ Understanding how to begin to step into the process of trusting ourselves fully

⁃ Cultivating tangible tools for shifting into a growth mindset and building a greater sense of self-awareness

⁃ Crafting a vision of what you want your life to look like and practices that can support you in being the creator of this reality

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Ep 144 Unapologetically a Man with Traver Boehm Mar 29, 2023

Traver Boehm is the founder of the UNcivilized Men’s Movement, author of Today I Rise, Man UNcivilized, and a two-time TEDx speaker, men’s coach and podcaster.

Traver draws upon an eclectic background ranging from work as a professional bodyguard, Mixed Martial Artist, and utilizing his Master’s Degree in Traditional Chinese MEdicine and Meditation. Traver counsels men, women, and couples on how to better understand men’s health and relationship difficulties.

We sat down to talk with Traver about:

1. Why we need to work to see that the current paradigm that insists that men are broken is itself broken

2. The importance of a man’s ability to dance with his darkness to understand it - so that his darkness doesn’t lead him blindly

3. Expanding the archetypes that men are able to embody beyond those of either the “Marlboro Man” or “The Sensitive New Age Guy

4. How women are best able to support the men in their lives in standing in their power and embracing their capacity to heal

Traver provides such a vital perspective on what is required for all of us to heal our collective wounding around how we define masculinity, and we know you’re going to find his ability to model integrated leadership as inspiring as we did!

If you love the conversations we’re bringing you as much as we do, please subscribe, rate and write a review so we can get the podcast out to even more people!

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*** LinkedIn

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We are so excited to announce that we’ve decided to offer a weekend immersive weekend in IDYLLWILD, CA - July 14-16!

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During this intensive weekend, we’ll support you in:

⁃ Exploring the origin points of the limiting beliefs that may be holding you back

⁃ Understanding how to begin to step into the process of trusting ourselves fully

⁃ Cultivating tangible tools for shifting into a growth mindset and building a greater sense of self-awareness

⁃ Crafting a vision of what you want your life to look like and practices that can support you in being the creator of this reality

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Ep 143 Q&A Session: Is Being Needed Negative? Mar 24, 2023

This episode is part of a series where we discuss topics and/or questions submitted by our listeners. Today’s question is: Why is it such a bad thing for your partner to need you and not just choose you?

We’re discussing:

1. Turning the question on yourself - why do you want to be needed?

2. The idea that the feeling of being needed, in any chosen relationship, gives us a sense of purpose and/or false sense of identity

3. How to reclaim your ability to be okay with the unknown and the possibility that somebody could leave you, in a romantic or platonic relationship, and still feel fulfilled within yourself

If you have a question or topic you’d like us to address, we would love to hear from you for our new Q+A series! Email us at cheaperthantherapythepod@gmail.com

And, if you love the conversations we’re bringing you as much as we do, please subscribe, rate and write a review so we can get the podcast out to even more people!

This podcast is, for sure, Cheaper Than Therapy.

If you want to connect with us personally and deepen your work, we just launched our private online Cheaper Than Therapy Community. Weekly process groups on multiple topics, two live workshops a month, one on one interaction with us and an amazing supportive community. Learn more here

We are so excited to announce that we’ve decided to offer a weekend immersive weekend in IDYLLWILD, CA - July 14-16!

join us for: LIVING AN UNTAMED LIFE

During this intensive weekend, we’ll support you in:

⁃ Exploring the origin points of the limiting beliefs that may be holding you back

⁃ Understanding how to begin to step into the process of trusting ourselves fully

⁃ Cultivating tangible tools for shifting into a growth mindset and building a greater sense of self-awareness

⁃ Crafting a vision of what you want your life to look like and practices that can support you in being the creator of this reality

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Ep 142 Conscious Parenting with Dr. Shefali Mar 22, 2023

We had an opportunity to do an Instagram Live with Dr. Shefali, three time New York Times best-sellers author, including her two landmark books The Conscious Parent and The Awakened Family.

We sat down to talk about her most recent book, The Parenting Map, and:

1. The importance of raising our children to be sovereign beings, rather than a possession that fit into our idealized parenting fantasies

2. Shifting our parenting paradigms from being in control to being in charge, and what that tangibly looks like

3. The difference between ego-enhancing boundaries and life-enhancing boundaries in parenting

4. What to do when your parenting paradigm/style doesn’t align with your partners, and what that means for your children

Dr. Shefali is such a wise and lovely light. We know that you’re going to be as inspired by this conversation as we were!

If you love the conversations we’re bringing you as much as we do, please subscribe, rate and write a review so we can get the podcast out to even more people!

Connect with Dr Shefali

*** In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction by Gabor Maté, MD

*** TikTok

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We are so excited to announce that we’ve decided to offer a weekend immersive weekend in IDYLLWILD, CA - July 14-16!

join us for: LIVING AN UNTAMED LIFE

During this intensive weekend, we’ll support you in:

⁃ Exploring the origin points of the limiting beliefs that may be holding you back

⁃ Understanding how to begin to step into the process of trusting ourselves fully

⁃ Cultivating tangible tools for shifting into a growth mindset and building a greater sense of self-awareness

⁃ Crafting a vision of what you want your life to look like and practices that can support you in being the creator of this reality

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Ep 141 Q&A: Trauma Bonds and Addiction Mar 18, 2023

Trauma Bonds and Addiction is part of a series where we discuss topics and/or questions submitted by our listeners.

In this episode, we’re discussing:

1. The longstanding concept that drugs, alcohol, and other types of addictions can be a way to feel more in touch with Self/Source and numb the feelings of inadequacy

2. How safety in chosen relationships can initially come from a place of societal conditioning of needing/longing to be accepted and fit in, and how we can dig deeper to examine how our subconscious mind relates to others

3. The possibility that all chosen relationships have some form of trauma bond stemming from our Original Wound that we are separate from Self/Source

If you have a question or topic you’d like us to address, we would love to hear from you for our new Q+A series! Email us at cheaperthantherapythepod@gmail.com

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Mentioned:

Check out that Buzzfeed article here.

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We are so excited to announce that we’ve decided to offer a weekend immersive weekend in IDYLLWILD, CA - July 14-16!

join us for: LIVING AN UNTAMED LIFE

During this intensive weekend, we’ll support you in:

⁃ Exploring the origin points of the limiting beliefs that may be holding you back

⁃ Understanding how to begin to step into the process of trusting ourselves fully

⁃ Cultivating tangible tools for shifting into a growth mindset and building a greater sense of self-awareness

⁃ Crafting a vision of what you want your life to look like and practices that can support you in being the creator of this reality

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Ep 140 Talking Sexual Entitlement with Jeremie Lotemo Mar 15, 2023

Jeremie Lotemo is a Transformation Coach who supports both men and women with cultivating tools to create radical, lasting changes in their lives and relationships.

We are thrilled to have Jeremie joining us for a second time after the incredible response we had to our first conversation with him (ep. 118).

We sat down to talk about:

1. The insights he gained after making the conscious decision to be celibate for over a year

2. The ancestral trauma that is often being perpetuated in the unconscious sexual patterns that have become far too common place in modern day society

3. How all of us can challenge ourselves to bring a beginners mind into our relationships instead of making the assumption that we have nothing more to learn

Jeremie is an absolute force and consistently brings the most nuanced wisdom to the perspectives that he offers. We know that you’re going to be as moved by this conversation as we were!

Connect with Jeremie

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***Listen to “The Gates of Perception” podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/gates-of-perception/id1532617558

***Website: https://www.byermeas.com/

***Masterclass: https://www.byermeas.com/masterclass-life-beyond-the-mother-wound

If you have a question or topic you’d like us to address, we would love to hear from you for our new series! Email us at cheaperthantherapythepod@gmail.com or send us a DM.

And, if you love the conversations we’re bringing you as much as we do, please subscribe, rate and write a review so we can get the podcast out to even more people!

If you want to connect with us personally and deepen your work, we just launched our private online Cheaper Than Therapy Community. Weekly process groups on multiple topics, two live workshops a month, one on one interaction with us and an amazing supportive community. Learn more here

We are so excited to announce that we’ve decided to offer a weekend immersive weekend in IDYLLWILD, CA - July 14-16!

join us for: LIVING AN UNTAMED LIFE

During this intensive weekend, we’ll support you in:

⁃ Exploring the origin points of the limiting beliefs that may be holding you back

⁃ Understanding how to begin to step into the process of trusting ourselves fully

⁃ Cultivating tangible tools for shifting into a growth mindset and building a greater sense of self-awareness

⁃ Crafting a vision of what you want your life to look like and practices that can support you in being the creator of this reality

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Ep 139 What it Means to Feel Seen Mar 10, 2023

In this solo episode, we take a look at a Buzzfeed opinion article that examines the idea that kissing and cuddling can feel like a contract for sex.

In this episode we discuss:

1. The unspoken expectations for sexual intimacy that, many women feel come with any physical contact from our partners

2. The common differences in how men and women get to a place where they feel emotionally safe enough to express themselves sexually

3. How to find an integrated balance between our inner masculine and feminine, where both people - regardless of gender - feel safe enough to fully “be” and express their needs and wants in relation to each other

If you have a question or topic you’d like us to address, we would love to hear from you for our new series! Email us at cheaperthantherapythepod@gmail.com or send us a DM.

And, if you love the conversations we’re bringing you as much as we do, please subscribe, rate and write a review so we can get the podcast out to even more people!

JThis podcast is, for sure, Cheaper Than Therapy.

If you want to connect with us personally and deepen your work, we just launched our private online Cheaper Than Therapy Community. Weekly process groups on multiple topics, two live workshops a month, one on one interaction with us and an amazing supportive community. Learn more here

We are so excited to announce that we’ve decided to offer a weekend immersive weekend in IDYLLWILD, CA - July 14-16!

join us for: LIVING AN UNTAMED LIFE

During this intensive weekend, we’ll support you in:

⁃ Exploring the origin points of the limiting beliefs that may be holding you back

⁃ Understanding how to begin to step into the process of trusting ourselves fully

⁃ Cultivating tangible tools for shifting into a growth mindset and building a greater sense of self-awareness

⁃ Crafting a vision of what you want your life to look like and practices that can support you in being the creator of this reality

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Ep 138 Getting Social with Therapy Jeff Mar 08, 2023

Jeff Guenther, (also known as Therapy Jeff) is a licensed professional counselor from Portland, Oregon who has created a huge social media following by offering relationship advice, tips, pep talks, and other resources to maximize your mental health.

We sat down with Jeff to discuss:

1. working to be realistic about who people are, and the capacity they have to show up in certain ways

2. the challenges that come to the surface when we look for our partner to do our reparenting work for us

3. the challenges and benefits that coexist when therapists are creating content on social media

This was such a fun conversation and we know you’re going to enjoy getting to know Jeff as much as we did!

Connect with Therapy Jeff

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If you have a question or topic you’d like us to address, we would love to hear from you for our new series! Email us at cheaperthantherapythepod@gmail.com or send us a DM.

And, if you love the conversations we’re bringing you as much as we do, please subscribe, rate, and write a review so we can get the podcast out to even more people!

*These live coaching sessions are meant for entertainment purposes only and are not to replace therapy.

This podcast is, for sure, Cheaper Than Therapy.

If you want to connect with us personally and deepen your work, we just launched our private online Cheaper Than Therapy Community. Weekly process groups on multiple topics, two live workshops a month, one on one interaction with us and an amazing supportive community. Learn more here

We are so excited to announce that we’ve decided to offer a weekend immersive weekend in IDYLLWILD, CA - July 14-16!

join us for: LIVING AN UNTAMED LIFE

During this intensive weekend, we’ll support you in:

⁃ Exploring the origin points of the limiting beliefs that may be holding you back

⁃ Understanding how to begin to step into the process of trusting ourselves fully

⁃ Cultivating tangible tools for shifting into a growth mindset and building a greater sense of self-awareness

⁃ Crafting a vision of what you want your life to look like and practices that can support you in being the creator of this reality

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Ep. 137 Q&A Session: The Real Talk of Motherhood Mar 03, 2023

This week’s episode is part of a series where we discuss topics and/or questions submitted by you, our listeners. In this Cheaper than Therapy conversation, we get into the nitty gritty realness of motherhood and the societal shortcomings to support moms.

If you have a question you’d like us to discuss, click here.

🌟 What You’ll Gain From this Episode:

Accepting the Twists: The journey of accepting the ebb and flow of motherhood, after an initial resistance to having children, is a moment-by-moment process that requires patience and a true desire to be “in it”
Creating Your Normal: The societal norms around motherhood don’t have to be yours, and we can decide what motherhood actually looks like for ourselves
Motherhood is Personal: How to get in right relationship with yourself to address why you want motherhood for you, and not because of societal norms and/or relationship expectations

🎙This podcast is definitely Cheaper than Therapy

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Ep 136 Live Coaching Session: Be The Chooser, Not the Chosen Mar 01, 2023

In this live coaching session, we sat down with Jane to talk about some struggles she’s been having with infidelity in relationships and her own self-trust.

We explore:

1. How to create safety within ourselves and what that looks like, so that we are able to recognize safety, or lack thereof in relation to others

2. The opportunity to love ourselves so fully that we won’t allow anyone in our sphere who doesn’t mirror that same love back to us

3. What happens when we remove our negative self-talk and hold ourselves in grace and compassion while in an unwanted repeated pattern, and how that can help us in the future

and so much more!

If you have a question or topic you’d like us to address, we would love to hear from you for our new series! Email us at cheaperthantherapythepod@gmail.com or send us a DM.

And, if you love the conversations we’re bringing you as much as we do, please subscribe, rate and write a review so we can get the podcast out to even more people!

*These live coaching sessions are meant for entertainment purposes only and are not to replace therapy.

This podcast is, for sure, Cheaper Than Therapy.

If you want to connect with us personally and deepen your work, we just launched our private online Cheaper Than Therapy Community. Weekly process groups on multiple topics, two live workshops a month, one on one interaction with us and an amazing supportive community. Learn more here

We are so excited to announce that we’ve decided to offer a weekend immersive weekend in IDYLLWILD, CA - July 14-16!

join us for: LIVING AN UNTAMED LIFE

During this intensive weekend, we’ll support you in:

⁃ Exploring the origin points of the limiting beliefs that may be holding you back

⁃ Understanding how to begin to step into the process of trusting ourselves fully

⁃ Cultivating tangible tools for shifting into a growth mindset and building a greater sense of self-awareness

⁃ Crafting a vision of what you want your life to look like and practices that can support you in being the creator of this reality

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Ep 135 Trusting in Your Wisdom with Imani Tutt Feb 22, 2023

Imani Tutt is a Marriage and Family Therapist, an Intuitive, a Content Creator, and an incredibly powerful conduit in supporting those she works with in tapping into their innate wisdom and power. Imani specializes in working with those who are committed to exploring their journey through the process of self examination. She believes that everyone has the power to change when they give themselves the opportunity.

We sat down with Imani to talk about:

1. How her experience of the differentiation process and stepping into her gifts mirrors what so many of us have been experiencing on a collective level

2. The expectations of grief and empowerment that come from realization that no one is coming to save us but ourselves

3. Why similar values can be a greater indication of comparability than the different color flags we’ve been conditioned to look for when seeking a partner

and so much more!

Make sure you have a pencil and a piece of paper ready for this episode. Imani drops so many golden nuggets that you are not going to want to forget!

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If you have a question or topic you’d like us to address, we would love to hear from you for our new series! Email us at cheaperthantherapythepod@gmail.com or send us a DM.

And, if you love the conversations we’re bringing you as much as we do, please subscribe, rate and write a review so we can get the podcast out to even more people!

If you want to connect with us personally and deepen your work, we just launched our private online Cheaper Than Therapy Community. Weekly process groups on multiple topics, two live workshops a month, one on one interaction with us and an amazing supportive community. Learn more here

We are so excited to announce that we’ve decided to offer a weekend immersive weekend in IDYLLWILD, CA - July 14-16!

join us for: LIVING AN UNTAMED LIFE

During this intensive weekend, we’ll support you in:

⁃ Exploring the origin points of the limiting beliefs that may be holding you back

⁃ Understanding how to begin to step into the process of trusting ourselves fully

⁃ Cultivating tangible tools for shifting into a growth mindset and building a greater sense of self-awareness

⁃ Crafting a vision of what you want your life to look like and practices that can support you in being the creator of this reality

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Ep 134 Growing Through Self-Sabotage Feb 15, 2023

This week’s episode is part of a series where we discuss topics and/or questions submitted by our listeners. This week we’re discussing:

1. What it means to self-sabotage and the different ways this can show up in our lives and relationships.

2. How we can challenge ourselves to confront our shadow-self in order to pinpoint triggers and self-limiting beliefs and behaviors so that we can practice new patterns, even in a society that conditions us to quiet our self-love.

3. The freedom that can come from the possibility that self-sabotage is not a real concept, and that we are in a constant state of learning, evolving, and finding what’s in alignment with our truest selves.

If you have a question or topic you’d like us to address, we would love to hear from you! Email us at cheaperthantherapythepod@gmail.com or send us a DM.

If you love the conversations we’re bringing you as much as we do, please subscribe, rate, and write a review so we can get the podcast out to even more people!

*These live coaching sessions are meant for entertainment purposes only and are not to replace therapy.

This podcast is, for sure, Cheaper Than Therapy.

If you want to connect with us personally and deepen your work, we just launched our private online Cheaper Than Therapy Community. Weekly process groups on multiple topics, two live workshops a month, one on one interaction with us and an amazing supportive community. Learn more here

We are so excited to announce that we’ve decided to offer a weekend immersive weekend in IDYLLWILD, CA - July 14-16!

join us for: LIVING AN UNTAMED LIFE

During this intensive weekend, we’ll support you in:

⁃ Exploring the origin points of the limiting beliefs that may be holding you back

⁃ Understanding how to begin to step into the process of trusting ourselves fully

⁃ Cultivating tangible tools for shifting into a growth mindset and building a greater sense of self-awareness

⁃ Crafting a vision of what you want your life to look like and practices that can support you in being the creator of this reality

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Ep 133 Being in Right Relationship with Truth with Kelsey Grant Feb 08, 2023

Kelsey Grant is a teacher, writer, musician, wisdom keeper, and creatrix who loves the magic of love and believes in the power of cultivating a sense of healing through fulfilling relational experiences.

We sat down talk with Kelsey to talk about:

1. The importance of being honest with ourselves as we attempt to construct the relationships we most desire

2. How shadow work can serve as a tool to work with the activation our relationships inevitable bring up for us

3. How relational dramas often serve as a distraction from the deeper work of coming back home to ourselves

Kelsey is such an unbelievably old Soul and the most profound catalyst in the sphere of supporting others in living in alignment with the most honest, beautiful lives they possibly can. We know you’re going to be as inspired by her as we are.

If you love the conversations we’re bringing you as much as we do, please subscribe, rate and write a review so we can get the podcast out to even more people!

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Ep 132 Amplifying How We Love with Preston Smiles Feb 01, 2023

Preston Smiles is a teacher, a transformational thought leader, a conscious content creator, and a man on a mission to empower others by amplifying a multi-generational movement of radical love on the planet.

We sat down talk with Preston about:

1. The unspoken war of the sexes and the challenges that arise for couples during the early stages of parenthood

2. Some of the blind spots that we’ve held as women around the felt experiences of men

3. How our relationship dynamics instantly shift when we attempt to be mindful of the other person’s nervous system

4. How vital having trust in another person becomes when we’re attempting to let go of the urge to control.

Preston is an absolute force and offers such an inspiring perspective on how to navigate our lives from a higher level of consciousness. We know you’re going to love this conversation as much as we did.

If you love the conversations we’re bringing you as much as we do, please subscribe, rate and write a review so we can get the podcast out to even more people!

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Ep 131 Setting Ourselves Free with Kelli Moore Jan 25, 2023

Kelli Moore is the co-founder and CEO of Soulfire™ Productions: the premiere podcast network for thought leaders, free thinkers, and visionaries. She’s been the host of two top-rated podcasts, The Kelli Show and OK, Babe., and is deeply passionate about helping people see themselves more clearly.

Kelli believes in setting ourselves free from expectations, people pleasing, and the stories that hold us, hostage, in our own lives. Kelli is also an Emmy Award Winning former Sports TV Host with an eye for truth, and an ear for bullshit. She loves creating life-changing experiences for audiences and holding space for creatives to seek deeper within and become the most genuine expression of themselves.

Dene and Vanessa sat down to talk to Kelli about:

1. How to create relational safety when we’ve been taught that certain aspects of who we are should be taboo or unsafe to explore.

2. The power to shift collective narratives when you prioritize working with like minded creators to make an impact.

3. The gift that can come from allowing ourselves to confront difficult emotions like jealousy or fear of abandonment head on with our partners.

Kelli is so brilliant and we know you’re going to take away as much potent insight from this conversation as we did!

Connect with Kelli

Dr. Ellyn Bader / The Couples Institute

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Ep 130 Defining Interdependence Jan 18, 2023

In this solo episode, Vanessa and Dené passed a miniature microphone back and forth in the car to record a conversation they were having on the way to their New Year's retreat.

They talked about:

1. How their perspective on interdependence differs from the ways others describe it in several personal development and psychology spaces.

2. How a woman’s experience of safety in a relationship can have a lot to do with the emotional load she is carrying.

3. Why most of us are actually taking on way more in our day-to-day lives than is meant to be sustainable for our nervous systems.

Mental health professionals, we referenced in this episode:

Esther Perel

Dr. Mary Catherine McDonald

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Ep. 129 Self-Expansion Without A Partnership Jan 11, 2023

This episode is part of a series where we coach one of our listeners through a topic or question. In this coaching session, we sat down with “Anne” to talk about the internal struggle that comes from the societal norm to feel incomplete without a partnership.

If you’re interested in joining us for a coaching session, click here.

Some Takeaways from this Episode:

Differentiating Between Comfort vs Ease: There’s comfort in choosing the societal norm to be in partnership, but ease can be found when we accept that maybe this point in our lives is more about self-expansion rather than comfort
Expand on Our Healing: Unpack what the conditioned desire to be chosen for a partnership brings up for us in the context of our healing
Surrendering to What Is: Embracing the work of surrendering to the emotional turbulence as waves we will continue to ride throughout our healing journey in this lifetime

🎙This podcast is definitely Cheaper than Therapy

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Instagram: @vanessasbennett
TikTok: @thecodayoda
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Ep 128 Understanding the Feeling you Want to Feel with Flynn Skidmore Jan 04, 2023

Flynn Skidmore is a therapist, content creator, and business mentor who specializes in helping people create lasting change in their lives, faster. Through Flynn’s courses, community driven content, and work with individuals he finds that clients deepen their self-acceptance and start taking tangible action steps toward getting unstuck.

We sat down with Flynn to talk about:

1. Figuring out what it is we actually desire to feel in relationships so that we can come up with the best strategy for accomplishing that desired feeling.

2. The resistance that often accompanies the realization that we are the creator of our own experience.

3. Why it might be helpful to explore what we are doing or who we are with when we like being who we are the most, instead of simply attempting to be an authentic version of ourselves.

We know you are going to love hearing the way Flynn offers tangible solutions from an original perspective as much as we did!

Connect with Flynn

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Ep 127 To Control or Not to Control - Live Coaching Session Dec 28, 2022

In this live coaching session, we sat down with May to talk about some struggles she’s been having with codependent tendencies.

We explore:

1. how to know the difference between looking out for someone because you care about them and controlling them

2. the opportunities for building resilience that are lost when we protect those we love from difficulty

3. how important it is to hold ourselves with compassion in the moments that we’re being controlling, understanding that the need to control is usually linked to our desire to create a sense of safety

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Ep 126 Dipping into the Sugar Jar with Yasmine Cheyenne Dec 21, 2022

Yasmine Cheyenne is a writer, speaker, and self-healing advocate, born and raised in Brooklyn, NY. She helps people create and strengthen their individual self-care practices by teaching them the tools that empower lasting positive changes in their lives. An Air Force Veteran, Yasmine now focuses on her self-healing workshops as well as her writing. Her book, The Sugar Jar: Create Boundaries, Embrace Self-Healing, and Enjoy the Sweet things in Life, is available for preorder and releases on December 27.

We sat down to talk with Yasmine about:

1. Using self-healing language as a means to making mental health tools accessible, supporting others in understanding themselves, and becoming their own mental health advocates

2. Doing the work of unpacking the unspoken layers of perfectionism wounds that exist in marginalized communities

3. How she came to use the metaphor of a sugar jar to describe the beautiful mess called being human we are all attempting to wade our way through

Yasmine is an absolute treasure! We know this conversation will make you as excited to read her book as we are!

Connect with Yasmine

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