Cheaper Than Therapy with Vanessa and Dené

In this live coaching session, we talk with Alana about the complexity of her experience with loss and trauma. We dive into the ebbs and flows of grief, how we honor the truth of our experience when we lose someone we care for deeply, showing ourselves compassion around where we are moment to moment, and using titration as a tool for processing grief in a way that allows us to continue functioning...

Rainier Wylde is a teacher, guide, and writer who works with men and women around the world to discover their unacknowledged shadow and forge an intimate union with their masculine and feminine in order to awaken their wholeness.  We talk with Rainier about living authentically and honoring each and every part of our path, his own journey of self-discovery, how we are taught to define love vs the...

In this live coaching session, we sit down with Jennifer to discuss her experiences throughout her motherhood, career, and spiritual journey. We dive into navigating the unspoken anxieties that come with parenting, fostering compassion for yourself when you’re moving through any kind of change, and how to lean into your body and breath to return to center during moments of reckoning.  Interested i...

Nico Barraza is the founder of Altai Creative, specializing in producing and engineering strategic marketing, public relations, and outreach plans for businesses, organizations, and initiatives of all kinds.  He’s an ex-pro-athlete and host of the Starve the Ego Feed the Soul podcast that covers everything about the most important subject that we’ll ever study, ourselves.  We talk with Nico about...

In this live coaching session, we sit down with Nicole to discuss what comes up emotionally as we transition into a new stage of life. We talk about navigating imposter syndrome when charting a new career journey, how to differentiate your truth when experiencing gaslighting, how trauma can show up in different ways than we typically talk about, and standing in our power to build paths to fulfillm...

Amy E. Smith is a certified Life Coach and Hypnotherapist. As founder of thejoyjunkie.com, Amy uses her roles as coach, writer, podcaster, and speaker to move individuals to a place of radical personal empowerment and self-worth. We talk with Amy about tactical ways to establish and honor boundaries, how to stand up strongly for yourself, the power of using ‘no’, and the connection between our sel...

In this live coaching session, we sit down with Ben to discuss the lifelong work of strengthening our self awareness muscle. We talk about the ways codependency appears within relationships, navigating the dating waters after the end of a pivotal relationship, and how important it is to know that as long as we’re breathing we’re still growing and learning. If you love the conversations we’re bring...

Caitlin Slavens and Chelsea Bodie are registered psychologists, parenting experts, perinatal specialists and the founders of MamaPsychologists - where they focus on supporting the mental health and well-being of mothers and parents at every stage of their parenting journey. We talk with Caitlin and Chelsea about the parental shaming perpetuated through social media, some of the grief that comes fr...

In this live coaching session, we talk with Lisa about navigating the space between endings and new beginnings - also known as the liminal space. We talk with Lisa about getting caught on the societal hamster wheel of destinations and finished results, the ways our mental health struggles can often show up as an indication of where we are living out of alignment, challenging the idea of productivi...

Melissa Wood Tepperberg is a powerhouse mama, wife, digital entrepreneur, founder of Melissa Wood Health, and creator of The MWH Method. Melissa has created a digital movement of women supporting women through her willingness to show up authentically and share the tools she’s used in her own life to heal and thrive. We talk with Melissa about what it was like growing up in Syracuse with Vanessa, t...

In this live coaching session, we talk with Chester about moving out of apathy and into his life’s next steps after 11 years of marriage. We explore how living in a capitalist society conditions us to buy into the myth of “the white picket fence,” the reality of how hard it can be to make decisions for ourselves after a lifetime of self-abandonment, the tangible methods of putting self-love into a...

In this episode, we discuss self-abandonment and all the different ways it shows up. We share stories of our personal experiences with self-abandonment and what they’ve taught us. We talk about some of the implicit and explicit messages we receive in childhood, how an attempt to control our environment is often the consistent theme underneath most of our maladaptive behaviors, the extent to which...

In this episode we sit down with Dr. Corey Emanuel. Corey is a writer, producer, author, mentor, and thought influencer with a Masters in Communication and PhD in Media Psychology. He’s the founder of Corey Emanuel Omnimedia, a Los Angeles based full-service production company, as well as founder of the social movement Men Talking Shift. Corey is passionately dedicated to using entertainment and m...

In this live coaching session, we speak with Carla about the dating patterns she’s feeling reemerge after doing a lot of hard work while single. We explore building the muscles of taking the brave step of speaking to our needs, how sometimes an emotional cutt-off can be the easier choice than a tough conversation, the fact that someone’s ability to hold space for our vulnerability is critical info...

In this episode, we explore the inner workings of an introvert and an extrovert - at least from our perspectives. We break down the meaning of these terms as they were originally defined by Carl Jung (versus how we see them sometimes misused in Pop Psychology), how experiencing the world as an introvert or an extrovert impacts our romantic, friend, and familial relationships, learning to be in acc...

We were absolutely thrilled to get to sit down with Miles Adcox. Miles is an entrepreneur, speaker, host, consultant, writer, and coach. He is known for his over 15 years as owner and CEO of Onsite, an internationally-known emotional wellness lifestyle brand that delivers life-changing personal growth workshops, inspiring content, leadership retreats, and emotional treatment. We talked with Miles...

In this live coaching session with Zoe, we talk about all of the realizations she’s had over the last year following a divorce. We explore the ways that we can shrink ourselves in relationships, the way that parenting can bring an awareness of what we’re capable of, how to move from survival mode to the experience of happiness and exploration, and following breadcrumbs in the pursuit of self, purp...

In this episode, we dive into the relational dynamics of over and under-functioning. We share some of our own experiences of healing and stepping into our power, the cost of our predilections toward over and under functioning, and the courage it takes to look inward and understand how our attempts to feel safe may be causing harm to the people we love the most. If you love the conversations we’re...

In this live coaching session with Jillian, we discuss the tension we experience when we’re struggling to follow through on the next steps we’re longing to take. We explore the need to pull in different tools when we’ve exhausted all of our current resources, becoming aware of our power and channeling it to set a new course, the impact of getting still when all we want to do is move, and how we st...

We were absolutely thrilled to sit down with internationally acclaimed yoga teacher and activist Seane Corn. Seane is a powerful force, known for her social impact, impassioned style of teaching, and raw, honest, self-expression. We take a deep dive into yoga and social justice, how it is impossible to separate our path as yogis from the core tenet of ahimsa (non-violence), the fact that generatio...

In this live coaching session with Olive, we talk about feeling skeptical as we get back into dating - especially as a single parent. We explore how to find a middle ground between self-abandonment and self-protection, using the relationships we saw growing up as a way to understand what was modeled for us, giving ourselves permission to create our own rule book when it comes to dating, and balanc...

Stefanos Sifandos is a relationship alchemist. He is also an advocate for men’s empowerment, a relationship coach, and well-known for his transformational way of educating on the interplay of masculine and feminine dynamics. We talk with Stefanos about how addressing our core wounds can support us in creating resiliency for the inevitable challenges we’ll continue to face in life, the contrast of...

In this live coaching session with Karen, we talk about how we start to acknowledge that we are worthy of creating new love experiences. We explore the power of language when describing who we are, giving ourselves credit for the ways in which we’ve grown, bringing our partners along for the ride as we process difficult moments, and using mindfulness practices as a way to bring ourselves back when...

In this episode we celebrate and reflect on the first 50 episodes of Cheaper Than Therapy! We look back at the decision to start a mental-health centered podcast in a year where mental health was at the forefront more than ever before, how we can stay hopeful when so much of the messaging around us creates a narrative that initiates a fear response, our argument in defense of love as our natural s...

Jori Adler is a Psychotherapist & Founder of Flow House Therapy in Los Angeles. She has a unique gift for pairing integrative healing modalities with a container that is just the right fit to facilitate healing. Jori is also someone who has had a tremendous influence on Dene’s journey to becoming a therapist. We sat down to talk with Jori about how EMDR can help us to process trauma through a...