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Podcast: Innerspace: Deep, Meaningful Conversations with Brett Kaufman
Episode: The Psychology of the Soul: Vanessa Bennett on Depth Healing, Motherhood, and Breaking Generational Patterns
Description: Vanessa Bennett is a depth psychologist, therapist, and author of The Motherhood Myth. In this conversation, Brett and Vanessa go all the way back. Vanessa grew up as a parentified child in a single-parent home — the overachiever who learned early that love was something you earned through achievement, not something freely given.At 25, a close friend told her she always seemed angry. That one honest observation cracked her open. It sent her into therapy, yoga, Al-Anon, and eventually across the country — alone, at 30 — to leave her career in New York a...