Cheaper Than Therapy with Vanessa and Dené – Details, episodes & analysis

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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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

Website

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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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:

Website

Instagram

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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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!

Connect with Preston

*** Instagram

*** Join Preston's Online Community

*** YouTube

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

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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

*** Instagram

*** Website

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.

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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:

Dr. Ellyn Bader / The Couples Institute

Esther Perel

Dr. Mary Catherine McDonald 

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.

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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:

1. 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
2. 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
3. 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

🌐 Dive Deeper Into The Show:

• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@cheaperthantherapypodcast 
• Instagram: @cheaperthantherapythepodcast
• TikTok: @cheaperthantherapypod

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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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

*** Instagram

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.

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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

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.

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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

*** Pre-Order her book

*** Website

*** Instagram

*** Facebook

*** Twitter

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.

Follow Cheaper Than Therapy on Instagram

Follow Vanessa

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YouTube

Follow Dené

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