Hello, everyone. I'm so excited to introduce you to our guests today. Vanessa Bennett is a licensed

psychotherapist and has become an expert as it relates to motherhood and all of the

feelings and complications that go into that, especially in the modern day and age.

And this is something Vanessa that I've been talking about on the show for a really long time.

I'm the mother of four, ages 15 to 20,

and have both adopted and have biological children. We were a foster family. So I have been,

I'm licensed to parent. I like to tell people, but I have been through the gamut in terms of

like parenting trainings and what kind of difficulties I could face

and the life that then gets disrupted and all the things that I think affect us.

I'm really super fortunate that I have a partner who wants to be a partner, but I know that

not everybody has all of those

things. And so I'm really excited about the resources that you share and the voice that you have.

Can you tell listeners a little bit about the work that you do?

Yeah, I mean, first I will say I am definitely not an expert on motherhood or parenting,

because I don't think anybody is. And I think that those who claim to be, probably we should

look at a little bit deeper. Yeah, my background is in depth psychology. So I come from more

of a Jungian background, which essentially means that while, of course, as a

therapist, I am trained to work with behaviors and work with, you know, relational difficulties

and such. My training, my expertise, if you will, is really more in working with that which cannot

be named. It's the unspoken language of the unconscious,

right? So I'm trained to really go deeper into the metaphor and the image and the dreams

and the symbolism and essentially the soul's journey to becoming fulfilled. We actually call

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