The Inner Compass Podcast with Vanessa Bennett
Jun 15, 2026 · 23 min · 12 segments
If you can name the pattern in real time—"I’m projecting, I’m shutting down, this is my attachment stuff"—and still feel unable to stop the behavior, this episode is for you. Vanessa explores the…
Vanessa BennettHost
So they start thinking, you know, "I know better," or, "I should know better," right? Or, "I should be past this," right? I'm- You probably have heard yourself saying these same things.

What is wrong with me that I can explain the pattern and still not stop the behavior? [gentle music] I'm Vanessa Bennett, licensed depth psychotherapist and author, and you're listening to Inner Compass Podcast.

This is a grounded space for real transformation, where healing is treated as both personal work and cultural resistance.

Here we explore the inner architecture of pattern, codependency, attachment, longing, resentment, desire, shame, and the myths that we inherit about love, worth, womanhood, parenthood, and power, bridging depth psychology with lived experience.
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So they start thinking, you know, "I know better," or, "I should know better," right? Or, "I should be past this," right? I'm- You probably have heard yourself saying these same things.

What is wrong with me that I can explain the pattern and still not stop the behavior? [gentle music] I'm Vanessa Bennett, licensed depth psychotherapist and author, and you're listening to Inner Compass Podcast.

This is a grounded space for real transformation, where healing is treated as both personal work and cultural resistance.

Here we explore the inner architecture of pattern, codependency, attachment, longing, resentment, desire, shame, and the myths that we inherit about love, worth, womanhood, parenthood, and power, bridging depth psychology with lived experience.