The Work of Being Human

By Vanessa Bentley

Listen to a podcast, please open Podcast Republic app. Available on Google Play Store and Apple App Store.


Category: Mental Health

Open in Apple Podcasts


Open RSS feed


Open Website


Rate for this podcast

Subscribers: 0
Reviews: 0
Episodes: 194

Description

This is a podcast about facing truth in a world that keeps offering better-sounding lies. We talk about the ideas people organize their lives around—spiritually, psychologically, relationally, and culturally—and what those ideas actually do to real human beings when lived out. Some episodes lean clinical, some philosophical, some cultural, some theological—but the backbone is the same: human beings heal when we face reality and embrace our humanity. We believe Truth is discoverable, and orienting our lives around it — that's the Work of Being Human.

Episode Date
What a VETERAN THERAPIST Thinks After 50 Years: Dr. Jeffrey Smith
Jun 15, 2026
INCOMPATIBLE: Where Modern Psychology and Christianity Collide
Jun 08, 2026
TRAUMA: What It Actually Is (And How to Really Heal)
Jun 01, 2026
Dr. Adam Urato: The Weaponization of Empathy
May 11, 2026
What Man-Hating Does to Your Mental Health
May 04, 2026
Eli Singer: Stop Blaming the Algorithm and Take Your Life Back From Your Phone
Apr 27, 2026
Mental Health Is NOT What You’ve Been Told: Reality, Truth, and What it Takes to Heal
Apr 20, 2026
David Lea: Are We Responsible for Every Bad Thing That Happens to Us?
Apr 01, 2026
Is Celebrity Culture Good for Our Mental Health? (No.)
Mar 23, 2026
Deconstructing Impulsivity: Why We Act Before We Think
Mar 09, 2026
The Depression No One Sees
Mar 02, 2026
The Epstein Files: How Humans Slide into Utter Depravity
Feb 23, 2026
Dr. Chloe Carmichael: Free Speech is a Matter of Mental Health
Feb 16, 2026
Judith Belmont: Train Your Brain to Think Rationally
Feb 09, 2026
The War Within: What Your Nervous System is Trying to Tell You
Feb 03, 2026
Is There Really Such a Thing as a "Happy Childhood?"
Jan 26, 2026
Foundations: Has Therapy Become Our Religion?
Jan 12, 2026
Foundations: The Two Things You Need in Order to Grow
Jan 05, 2026
Ending the Year Well: A Christmas Special - Presence
Dec 22, 2025
Ending the Year Well: Recruit, Reconcile, Release
Dec 15, 2025
Ending the Year Well: Forgiveness
Dec 08, 2025
Thanksgiving Special
Nov 27, 2025
Elysia Skye: The Brilliance Method
Nov 17, 2025
Dr. Alan Weissenbacher: Change Isn’t About Will Power
Nov 03, 2025
Marcia Earhart: Holding Grief in the Land of the Living
Oct 20, 2025
"How Do I Change My Negative Beliefs?"
Oct 13, 2025
How to Disagree with Someone (without being a jerk)
Sep 29, 2025
“Why Am I So Hard on Myself?”
Sep 22, 2025
My Reaction to the Recent National Traumas and the Assassination of Charlie Kirk
Sep 12, 2025
"I'm So Confused!" Here's What You Can Do About It
Sep 08, 2025
This is THE MOST Frequently Asked Question in Mental Health
Sep 01, 2025
"Can ChatGPT Replace My Therapist?"
Aug 25, 2025
The Trauma Informed Relationship
Aug 18, 2025
Layers
Aug 12, 2025
The Bench
Aug 04, 2025
David Lea: Creating Harmony in Relationships
May 05, 2025
The Wisdom of Weeding
Mar 24, 2025
Drill Down to the Real Issue: Your Belief Systems
Feb 17, 2025
Dr. Chip Dodd: A Champion for the Human Heart
Feb 10, 2025
You Can't Grow IF...
Jan 27, 2025
How to Leave the Past in the Past
Jan 20, 2025
Healthy and Unhealthy Pain (Yes, some pain is healthy.)
Jan 13, 2025
No Excuses
Jan 06, 2025
The Four Books You Must Read at the Start of Every Year
Dec 16, 2024
David Thornton: Healing the Soul (a follow up to “You Are Holy”)
Nov 18, 2024
Get a Thicker Skin! (Or don't)
Nov 05, 2024
Valentina Bain: What's Genes Got to Do with It?
Oct 07, 2024
Erika Enriquez: Transforming Wounds Into Wisdom
Sep 23, 2024
The Turning Point
Sep 16, 2024
"It's your fault!" Understanding the Persecutor
Aug 26, 2024
"Let me help!" Understanding the Rescuer Mindset
Aug 13, 2024
"Poor me!" The Victim Mindset
Jul 08, 2024
How to Heal a Family
Jun 24, 2024
Tracey Higgins: Healing a Shattered Mind
Jun 10, 2024
If You Get This, You Get It
Apr 29, 2024
Virgil Stucker: How Communities Heal
Apr 08, 2024
Can a Relationship Actually Heal Us?
Mar 11, 2024
Erin Watt: Making Relationships EASIER
Feb 26, 2024
Is It True? That You Can't Love Someone Until You Love Yourself?
Feb 12, 2024
Listener Requested: When Is It Time to “Break Up” with a Friend?
Feb 05, 2024
Michael Giles: How Therapy Fails Men
Jan 29, 2024
Mental Push Ups
Jan 15, 2024
Carry the Weight
Jan 01, 2024
Dr. David Thornton: You Are Holy
Dec 18, 2023
How I Do Therapy and Why I Do It the Way I Do It
Dec 11, 2023
How to Break the Chain of Dysfunction
Dec 04, 2023
Who Do You Let Into Your Life?
Nov 20, 2023
All of Us Need to Be “Bilingual”
Oct 16, 2023
Interview: Hannah and Kate are Therapists in the Making
Sep 25, 2023
But It's Family!
Sep 11, 2023
Jared Bentley “When Men Seek Therapy”
Aug 28, 2023
Understanding Your Anger
Aug 22, 2023
"I'm Okay"
Aug 14, 2023
The Silent Partner
Aug 07, 2023
Listener Requested: Living in the Land of Dysfunction
Jul 31, 2023
In the Wake of a Personal Loss...
Jul 24, 2023
Keeping it Real
Jul 10, 2023
How Support Systems Actually Work
Jul 03, 2023
Is Therapy a Waste of Time?
Jun 26, 2023
The Domino Effect
Jun 19, 2023
More Bad Advice: You, the Audience, Have Spoken!
Jun 12, 2023
Bad Advice: "Just Get Over It!"
Jun 05, 2023
A Thought is Not a Feeling
May 22, 2023
The Mountain and the Valley
May 15, 2023
We Have to Learn
May 08, 2023
The Imprint
May 01, 2023
AnneMarie Anderson: Brain Sex
Apr 24, 2023
Every Day Narcissism
Apr 17, 2023
Your Inner Child: How to Make Contact and Why You Need To
Apr 10, 2023
The Root of Violence
Apr 03, 2023
Real Rest
Mar 27, 2023
Listener Requested: How an Eating Disorder Can Heal with Courtney Grimes, LCSW
Mar 20, 2023
The Triangle of Madness
Mar 13, 2023
The Middle Step
Mar 06, 2023
The Real Pandemic
Feb 27, 2023
Tell Yourself the Whole Story
Feb 20, 2023
Let's Pop the Bubble of Shame, Shall We?
Feb 13, 2023
Stop Comparing Yourself to Perfect
Feb 06, 2023
Jeremy Lister: Recovering What Was Lost
Jan 30, 2023
It's Human Nature
Jan 23, 2023
Those Pesky Emotions
Jan 16, 2023
The Point of Reference
Jan 09, 2023
"New Year, New You" ... Blech!
Jan 02, 2023
The Final Installment of the Yearly Inventory: YOU
Dec 26, 2022
The Yearly Inventory: Part III
Dec 19, 2022
The Yearly Inventory: Part II
Dec 12, 2022
The Yearly Inventory: Part I
Dec 05, 2022
The Holiday Trap
Nov 28, 2022
The Frame
Nov 21, 2022
Listener Requested: Breaking Free From People Pleasing
Nov 14, 2022
An Issue That Affects All of Us
Nov 07, 2022
Dolly Josette: REAL Sexual Healing
Oct 31, 2022
Listener Requested: Dysfunctional Family Roles, Part 2
Oct 24, 2022
Listener Requested: Dysfunctional Family Roles, Part 1
Oct 17, 2022
Sit In It
Oct 10, 2022
The Big, Bad DTR
Oct 03, 2022
Perhaps the Greatest Loss of All
Sep 26, 2022
The Inner Dialogue
Sep 19, 2022
If You Would Only Do This One Thing
Sep 12, 2022
The Narcissist's Toolbox
Sep 05, 2022
Patrick Hayes: Redefining Success
Aug 29, 2022
The Grief No One Tells You About
Aug 22, 2022
Stinkin' Thinkin'
Aug 15, 2022
Stay Centered in Your Core
Aug 08, 2022
You Have the Right to Remain Sane
Aug 01, 2022
Now I'm Mad
Jul 25, 2022
Life is Not an Ice Cream Sundae with a Pony Ride
Jul 18, 2022
Listener Requested: an Episode on Listening
Jul 11, 2022
Getting Your Priorities Right: Tina Parol
Jun 27, 2022
Is this field doing more harm than good?
Jun 20, 2022
Leaving Toxic
Jun 13, 2022
It's Never Too Late
Jun 06, 2022
The Path to a Meaningful Life
May 23, 2022
The Truth About Self-Care
May 16, 2022
The Essence of Shame
May 09, 2022
Conflict: The Long and the Short of It
May 02, 2022
The Way of Transformation: Dr. Brian Hooper
Apr 25, 2022
Mental Discipline
Apr 18, 2022
The Body Knows
Apr 11, 2022
Your Emotional Diet
Apr 04, 2022
Healed People Heal People: Angela Wittenberg
Mar 28, 2022
You Know You're Healing When...
Mar 21, 2022
The Psychology of Cults
Mar 14, 2022
The Relationship Killer
Mar 07, 2022
The Healing Space: Brad Ramsey, Principal Designer at Brad Ramsey Interiors
Feb 28, 2022
A Subtle but Devastating Wound
Feb 21, 2022
A New Definition of Love
Feb 14, 2022
Trust the Process
Feb 07, 2022
That Gut Feeling: Liz Sanfilippo, NTP
Jan 31, 2022
All Things Self
Jan 24, 2022
The Gentle Path
Jan 17, 2022
Connect More
Jan 10, 2022
Bring It In
Jan 03, 2022
Read the Room
Dec 14, 2021
The Work
Dec 06, 2021
The Yearly Inventory
Nov 29, 2021
The Cost Benefit Analysis of Doing Your Work
Nov 15, 2021
Love Grows
Nov 08, 2021
The Real Issue
Nov 01, 2021
Q & A
Oct 25, 2021
Core Beliefs
Oct 18, 2021
Time Takes Time
Oct 11, 2021
The House of Mirrors
Oct 04, 2021
Why We Need Boundaries
Sep 27, 2021
Substance Over Appearance
Sep 20, 2021
Living Numb
Sep 13, 2021
Read the Signs
Sep 06, 2021
Get Your Heart Back
Aug 30, 2021
Ten Unavoidable Truths Part II
Aug 23, 2021
Ten Unavoidable Truths Part I
Aug 16, 2021
The Five Stages of Waking Up: Acceptance
Aug 09, 2021
The Five Stages of Waking Up: Sadness
Aug 02, 2021
The Five Stages of Waking Up: Bargaining
Jul 26, 2021
The Five Stages of Waking Up: Anger
Jul 19, 2021
The Five Stages of Waking Up: Denial
Jul 12, 2021
The Mechanics of Change
Jul 05, 2021
The Trip of a Lifetime
Jun 28, 2021
The Foundation
Jun 21, 2021
Get Out of Your Own Way
Jun 14, 2021
Connect the Dots
Jun 07, 2021
The Power of Personal Accountability
May 31, 2021
The Cave You Fear to Enter
May 24, 2021
Connected, Not Happy
May 17, 2021
No, you're not crazy.
May 10, 2021
We Need To Talk About Depression... Differently
May 03, 2021
The Nearly Impossible Job of Being a Human Being
Apr 26, 2021
The Importance of Authenticity
Apr 19, 2021
The Importance of Integrity
Apr 12, 2021
Love Matters Part II
Apr 05, 2021
Love Matters Part I
Mar 29, 2021
We Have to Face Our Pain
Mar 22, 2021
What is Emotional Health?
Mar 15, 2021
What is Mental Health?
Mar 08, 2021
Growth
Feb 28, 2021