Cheaper Than Therapy with Vanessa and Dené

Shaun Galanos is an internationally recognized love coach, podcast host, and speaker on a mission to help people have better, more loving relationships. We sat down with Shaun to talk all things dating – the stigmas, what it’s like to date right now, emotional availability, and intimacy. He also shares how he himself struggled to form healthy relationships – always finding it easy to give great advice to friends, but realizing he needed to do some work to ‘walk his own talk.’Shaun does such a great job offering tangible tools for navigating the rough waters of dating. We know you’ll find his perspectives to be as valuable as we did. You can connect with Shaun on social @thelovedrive or through his website shaungalanos.com. You can also keep up with Shaun by subscribing to his podcast, The Love Drive, available wherever you listen to your podcasts. Be sure to check out his new live course, “How to Hold Space for your own Emotional Experience and Those of Others,” that begins on Thursday August 11 – more details can be found on his website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Tricia Huffman is a podcast host, speaker, and founder of Your Joyologist. She specialized in working with those in the public eye to keep them in integrity with who they want to be while also enjoying their life. Tricia empowers others through her social media, her Claim It! Podcast show, Your Joyologist product line, and Own Your Awesome daily inspiration app.We sat down with Tricia to discuss her journey to walking away from the word ‘should,’ tangible ways to harness the power of our intuition, how to get clear on the choices we make and why, and how to allow ourselves to be seen in all of our relationships.This was such a rich conversation, and we know you’ll be as moved by Tricia’s story as we were. You can connect with Tricia on social media @_triciahuffman. Her book, “F the shoulds. Do the Wants,” is available for purchase through all major online booksellers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, Dené drops in on a TAT Lab session on codepency led by Vanessa. We discuss the differentiation between intentions and outcomes, the codependent survival strategy of making ourselves and our needs smaller to maintain connections, the importance of not deciding for others which truths they can tolerate hearing, and asking ourselves, “what do I imagine it would feel like if I actually felt like I was heard?We loved having the opportunity to bring our TAT LAB community in on one of our conversations, and we know you’ll have some of your own takeaways after hearing the processing we did together as a group. Interested in joining a live virtual group class with us? We lead a variety of wellness sessions every week in TAT Lab. Visit tatlab.app or @thetatlab on Instagram to learn more about the safe, supportive community created to help you on your journey to a better version of yourself. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Bryan Reeves is a former US Air Force Captain turned life coach, author, podcast host, and blogger with over 30 million readers. Since 2014, he has been coaching couples and men to help them discover and live out their dreams. His new book “Choose Her Every Day (Or Leave Her)”, discusses men’s challenges with intimacy and boundaries and thriving in intimate relationships.We talked with Bryan about what happens in a society where we look to our intimate relationships to be the containers in which we find adulthood - when that’s not what they’re supposed to be for, the trouble with us attempting to maintain a “two person village,” the healing that comes from men learning to trust other men after a lifetime of experiences that have taught them not to, and why we’re drawn to partners that have the qualities we long to experience within ourselves - but then we immediately reject those qualities within them.This conversation provided potent insight into the ‘why’ behind the relational dynamics we’ve all struggled with. We know you’re going to find it as valuable as we did.You can connect with Bryan on social media @bryanreevesinsights or through his website bryanreeves.com. His book, “Choose Her Every Day (Or Leave Her)”, is available for purchase through all major online booksellers. Bryan also hosts the podcast, “Men, This Way”, available wherever you listen to your podcasts.Are you interested in joining a live virtual group class with us? We lead a variety of wellness sessions every week in TAT Lab. Visit tatlab.app or @thetatlab on Instagram to learn more about the safe, supportive community created to help you on your journey to a better version of yourself. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this solo episode, we hit record on a passionate conversation we were having based on some questions we received from all of you. We dove into the question, “what do I do if my partner no longer finds me attractive”, to unpack the social and cultural pressures placed on what monogamy “should” be. We love having conversations about various ways of breaking out of codependent paradigms and cultivating relationships that not only support our growth - but are in alignment with our authentic values. We hope this episode leaves you with some questions to explore for yourself and those you’re in relationship with, and challenges you to think about what kind of partnership would feel most true to who you are becoming. Have questions you want us to answer on a future episode? Send us an email at cheaperthantherapythepod@gmail.com.Interested in joining a live virtual group class with us? We lead a variety of wellness sessions every week in TAT Lab. Visit tatlab.app or @thetatlab on Instagram to learn more about the safe, supportive community created to help you on your journey to a better version of yourself. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week we’re welcoming Kristi Born and Rainier Wylde who are partners in both life and in podcasts as cohosts of the Love Like Hell podcast. Kristi is a Marriage and Family Therapist who has worked extensively with families, couples, and adolescents in a variety of contexts to bring peace of mind and decrease suffering. Rainier 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. We talk about their relationship, the immense amount of work involved in loving another well for a sustained period of time, breaking down the shame around infidelity and seeing challenges in marriage as moments to revisit broken agreements, and the curiosity that keeps their relationship propelling forward. We loved this session and witnessing the power of Rainier and Kristi’s relationship firsthand. You can connect with Kristi and Rainier on Instagram @kristimarieborn and @rainierwydle. For more about Kristi’s private practice visit relationallife.com. Listen to Rainier and Kristi’s podcast, Love Like Hell, wherever you listen to your podcasts. Interested in joining a live virtual group class with us? We lead a variety of wellness sessions every week in TAT Lab. Visit tatlab.app or @thetatlab on Instagram to learn more about the safe, supportive community created to help you on your journey to a better version of yourself. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this live coaching session, we sit down for our first-ever couples coaching session with Gloria and Jay to talk about their struggles with navigating parenting and vulnerability in the midst of a developing relationship. We talk with them about the value in modeling acceptance of our imperfections for our children, the fears that inevitably come to the surface when we’ve found someone to love, normalizing the challenges of parenting adolescents - who feel ambivalent in their need for you, but resisting you at the same time, and staying committed to what they’re creating for themselves in the sacred space of their relationship. This is such a potent episode, whether you’re a parent or not, there’s something that we can all relate to.Interested in joining a live virtual group class with us? We lead a variety of wellness sessions every week in TAT Lab. Visit tatlab.app or @thetatlab on Instagram to learn more about the safe, supportive community created to help you on your journey to a better version of yourself.And if you love the conversations we’re bringing you as much as we do, please subscribe, rate and write a review so we can get the podcast out to even more people!*These live coaching sessions are meant for entertainment purposes only and are not to replace therapy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jamie Graber is a coach, mind shifter, energy mover, crystal lover, meditator, author, yogi, speaker, teacher, and mother who helps others live their best life through conversation and meditation.We sat down with Jamie to talk about how her path has unfolded throughout her life and how we can connect with our humanness by remembering we’re all struggling with the same thing: self-worth, and how to nourish ourselves in authentic ways. You can connect with Jamie through her website organicallyjamie.com or on Instagram @organicallyjamieInterested in joining a live virtual group class with us? We lead a variety of wellness sessions every week in TAT Lab. Visit tatlab.app or @thetatlab on Instagram to learn more about the safe, supportive community created to help you on your journey to a better version of yourself. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this live coaching session, we sit down with Kay to talk about control and her struggles and frustrations with letting go of it both at home and at work.We talk with Kay about navigating martyr syndrome, exploring the payoff we’re taking away from our codependent tendencies, the opportunities for growth we rob others of when we don’t let them fall and playing the tape through on the worst-case scenario in our head.Interested in joining a live virtual group class with us? We lead a variety of wellness sessions every week in TAT Lab. Visit tatlab.app or @thetatlab on Instagram to learn more about the safe, supportive community created to help you on your journey to a better version of yourself.And if you love the conversations we’re bringing you as much as we do, please subscribe, rate, and write a review so we can get the podcast out to even more people!*These live coaching sessions are meant for entertainment purposes only and are not to replace therapy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Janelle Hardy is a writer, artist, host of the Personal Mythmaking Podcast, and the creator and teacher of an online transformational memoir-writing course called, “The Art of Personal Mythmaking.” She has been a trauma-informed bodyworker for over 13 years and has integrated her expertise to support people in their creative healing work.We sat down with Janelle to learn more about her origin story, how she has navigated pivots throughout her personal and professional lives, the trials and tribulations of entrepreneurship, and how her practice of transformational memoir-writing heals.You can connect with Janelle through her website janellehardy.com or on social media @janellemackinnonhardy.Interested in joining a live virtual group class with us? We lead a variety of wellness sessions every week in TAT Lab. Visit tatlab.app or @thetatlab on Instagram to learn more about the safe, supportive community created to help you on your journey to a better version of yourself. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.