Cheaper Than Therapy with Vanessa and Dené

In this solo episode, we discuss some of our perspectives on parenting. We explore the possibility that feeling a sense of ownership of our children is a bit of an outdated paradigm, leaning into a more spiritual perspective of parenting which acknowledges the role our children can play in being their parent’s teachers, and that our job as parents may be more about honoring the Truth of who our ch...

In this live coaching session, we talk with Claire about her self-discovery following the end of a 13 year relationship. We discuss navigating the various forms of grief that come from the loss of a relationship, the dance between taking personal responsibility and allowing yourself to feel all of the feelings that need to be felt and reframing the end of a relationship as an opportunity to regain...

Krista Berlincourt is the CEO & Co-Founder of Kenshō Health, a company focused on bettering the lives of people by making wellness experts accessible. She is an internationally accredited coach and author who explores the wide world of shame, grief, joy, and all of the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual things that make us human. We sat down with Krista to hear about her journey to bec...

In this live coaching session, we talk with Ashlyn about the journey of self-discovery she’s been on following her divorce. We discuss how impactful safe friendships can be in the process of reprogramming and reparenting ourselves, why all emotions are welcome, and having big emotions doesn’t mean we’re not fine (they’re actually just an indication that we’re human), how to approach our interactio...

Sasha Cuff is a Relational Somatic Practitioner who has spent the last 25 years studying trauma and trauma resolution of all types, along with exploring a multitude of healing modalities and cultural perspectives on wellness. Sasha is deeply committed to his own shadow work and helping others in an embodied way.  We sit down with Sasha to discuss his work in somatic therapy and the fact that what...

In this live coaching session, we talk with Olanna about the impact of social media on our romantic relationships.  We dig into navigating the inevitable activations and how we might see them as an invitations to notice the narratives they bring up, how we bring our partners into the messy side of our inner work, the fears and historic wounds that social platforms can often bring to the surface, a...

Debra Silverman is an astrologer, teacher, psychotherapist, and author. Over the past 40 years, she has helped thousands of people—individuals, families, and couples—achieve emotional health and wisdom.  We sit down with Debra to discuss the deep connection between astrology, psychology, and the transitional period we’re experiencing on a collective level.  We discuss the freedom and balance that...

In this live coaching session, we talk with Chelsea about certain patterns she’s noticed in her dating experiences over the last decade since her marriage ended.  We dissect the commonly used phrase that comes up in the world of dating around finding “emotionally unavailable people” and how we can often be creating a distraction away from our own work when we’re fixing, helping, and mothering othe...

Madison Morrigan is an international award-winning life coach, leadership consultant, sovereignty guide, and host of the Everything Belongs podcast. Centered on self-belonging, sacred self-responsibility, spiritual freedom, and full expression, Madison coaches humans as they shed layers of old programming to come to their true selves.  We sit down with Madison to explore the path she has taken to...

In this solo episode, we explore the conversation that seems to be coming up quite a bit around toxic positivity, and how using this phrase may impact our ability to stay curious and view others without judgment.  We discuss the challenge around the loss of nuance that has come with the rise of mental health conversations happening on social media with character limits, the fact that life will ine...

In this live coaching session, we talk with Dani about navigating some challenging dynamics in a newly formed relationship. We explore how to communicate our needs in a way that can be heard, why compassion is inauthentic if we don’t include ourselves, the challenges that come from seeing the best in someone no matter despite what our current experience is with them, and why someone needing us can...

We are so thrilled to have Katherine Winter-Sellery back with us on the podcast as our first returning guest! Katherine is a 3-time TEDx speaker, parenting coach, and mom of two. For over 20 years, she has been helping families thrive through her conscious guidance approach to parenting. We talk with Katherine about the gifts that come from meeting our children with a sense of humility, the antiqu...

In this live coaching session, we talk with Jane about the contradictory feelings that come up as we’re on the precipice of a new phase of life. We explore the realities of prioritizing our needs as parents,, how sometimes we can be attempting to postpone the action steps of going after what we really want by continuing to pursue additional letters behind our names, how much power we can find when...

In this solo episode, we explore the shadow elements of being raised as women in a wounded patriarchal system. We talk about the differentiation between ‘wounded feminine’ and ‘healthy feminine’ energetics, how some of the narratives we were raised with have at times caused us to unconsciously reject elements of ourselves and other women, the challenge of confronting some of our subconscious progr...

Laura Grant is a Spiritual Teacher and Intuitive Coach who utilizes a combination of her background in music, business, education, and studies in spiritual science to provide service for humanity. She is a channel for the Spirit world who is deeply connected to her Ancestors and Ancient Wisdom. She is an awakened feminine who is inspired by a higher power and dedicated to assisting with the ongoin...

In this live coaching session, we sit down with Maia to talk about her experiences with codependency and boundaries in her marriage. Our conversation raised common relational questions like, “is it me?” “Is it them?” “Is it our communication?” “Could I be different or better?” And more painfully, “is this my fault?”  This session was such a beautiful example of how often our work in relationships...

Jesse Estrin is a Marriage and Family Therapist who does a majority of his work within California’s prison system, facilitating mindfulness-based emotional intelligence programs. He’s passionate about advocating for criminal justice policy reform in California and across the U.S. and exploring the intersections of religion, spirituality, and depth psychology. We sit down with Jesse to dive into hi...

In this live coaching session, we sit down with Arikka to talk about her relationship between grief, burnout, and fear of abandonment.  We dive into how to feed the desire to be of service while preserving ourselves and pushing back on the idea that our worth is in what we are able to do and be for others. Our conversation raised the important question, what are we not allowing ourselves to feel b...

Danette May is the Co-founder and CCO of Mindful Health LLC and Earth Echo Foods, best-selling author, founder of The Rise Movement, keynote speaker, high-level executive coach, fitness and nutrition expert, entrepreneur, wife, and mother. She has inspired millions of people around the world to step up into the true and full expression of themselves through her coaching, products, and programs, al...

In this live coaching session, we talk with Sarah about the work she’s doing following the end of a 7-year relationship and a called-off engagement. We dive into how to hold a desire to respect our family, cultures, and values, while knowing that we also need to step into an ever-expanding version of our authentic Self, and how sometimes our work is to be a paradigm shifter for our entire family s...

Xavier Dagba is a trauma-informed transformational life coach, shadow work facilitator, intuitive healer, and emotional alchemist. Xavier firmly believes that personal freedom can only be achieved when we allow ourselves to welcome the wisdom hidden within every emotional state, good or bad. We sit down with Xavier to talk about his path to discovering shadow work, how he served as a catalyst for...

In this episode, we share our thoughts on the new HBO Max series, Scenes From A Marriage, and what it triggered in both of us. We explore how we differentiate between a feeling, a thought we have, and the truth of how we feel, acknowledging that we all have our own traumas, our own pain, our own moments we feel alone, abandoned, scared, and how that shows up in our relationships.  We also share de...

After two decades of practicing psychotherapy, Dr. Sam Rader developed her own therapeutic approach that examines how early childhood experiences write source code in the unconscious. As the owner and clinical director of the Source Code Psychotherapy Center in Los Angeles, she and her team of mental health practitioners help individuals re-write their code for a healthier, more beautiful life. Wi...

In this live coaching session, we talk with DR about his moments of growth throughout the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.  We dive into shattering (or expanding beyond) the societal stigmas around being an emotional male, how sitting in the mud of rock bottom moments presents an opportunity to emerge and bloom, developing your toolboxes of who you are and who you want to be, and understanding that anxi...

Kathleen Cruger is a mindfulness coach, yoga instructor, writer, and creator of creative things. As founder of Yoga Etc. and Radiant Human Design, she helps her clients connect with their true, authentic selves, leading them to their soul’s unique blueprint to bring clarity and self-acceptance—two of the best gifts we can give to ourselves.  We talk with Kathleen about the ins and outs of human de...