The Inner Compass Podcast with Vanessa Bennett
Jun 8, 2026 · 25 min · 11 segments
If you’ve ever felt something in your body long before you had language for it, and then immediately started talking yourself out of it, this episode is for you. Vanessa Bennett explores how women are…
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And instead, she waits for more evidence because she's been taught that knowing must first become explainable before it can be trusted.
And that's the split that I'm interested in, the split between instinct and intellect.
I'm Vanessa Bennett, licensed depth psychotherapist and author, and you're listening to Inner Compass Podcasts, 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.
If you've ever felt something in your body long before you had language for it and then immediately started talking yourself out of it, this episode is for you.
If you've ever had that tightening, that pull, that no, that sense that something was off and instead of listening, you started negotiating with yourself, Maybe I'm just being anxious.
Because today I want to talk about the way that so many women are taught to distrust the very instincts that were developed to keep them, us, alive.
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And instead, she waits for more evidence because she's been taught that knowing must first become explainable before it can be trusted.
And that's the split that I'm interested in, the split between instinct and intellect.
I'm Vanessa Bennett, licensed depth psychotherapist and author, and you're listening to Inner Compass Podcasts, 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.
If you've ever felt something in your body long before you had language for it and then immediately started talking yourself out of it, this episode is for you.
If you've ever had that tightening, that pull, that no, that sense that something was off and instead of listening, you started negotiating with yourself, Maybe I'm just being anxious.
Because today I want to talk about the way that so many women are taught to distrust the very instincts that were developed to keep them, us, alive.
