Healing is not about perfection; it is about remembering who you are beneath the labels, diagnoses, and stories.

Depth psychotherapist Vanessa Bennett joins Lisa Marie Rankin to explore the messy middle between spiritual bypassing and wallowing, why self-obsession can keep us stuck, and how service and community help us rise above our own drama. They unpack anxious attachment and dating culture, the TikTok-driven rise in ADHD self-diagnosis, and how our nervous systems are being hijacked by a world built on dysregulation. Vanessa shares her depth psychology view of the Self with a capital S, explaining why boundaries are sacred micro-moments of self-remembrance, and how her book, "The Motherhood Myth," maps the myths, motherhood, and patriarchy that keep women isolated and ashamed.

This conversation cuts through labels, questions why partnership is so often pursued from wounded places, and reframes healing as a return to inner balance between masculine and feminine. It reminds us that nothing is wrong with us; we are remembering who we are in a world designed to keep us fragmented.

Connect with Vanessa:

https://www.vanessabennett.com/

https://www.instagram.com/vanessasbennett/

Connect with Lisa:

Join me on Substack: This Enchanted Life

If you’re craving deeper connection, mythic insight, and soulful storytelling—step into This Enchanted Life, my Substack community where you'll be guided to reconnect with your imagination, your creativity, and the archetypal wisdom that lives deep in your bones.

https://lisamarierankin.substack.com/

Book: The Goddess Solution

Instagram: @lisamarierankin

Website: lisamarierankin.com

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As the year turns and a new threshold opens, this reflection invites you into a deeper, more enchanting way of living that goes far beyond goals and resolutions.

Standing in the liminal space between endings and beginnings, Lisa Marie Rankin shares five sacred forces she is weaving into 2026: imagination, beauty, creativity, play, and connection to the divine. Through storytelling, mythic imagery, and soulful wisdom, she explores how these qualities awaken possibility, restore wonder, and help women move out of fixing and into becoming. This is an invitation to let life feel alive again through presence, devotion, and embodied feminine wisdom.

By choosing expansion over self-optimization and devotion over manifestation, a richer relationship with the divine becomes possible. These sacred threads offer a way to step forward with curiosity, creativity, and trust as the next chapter begins.

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Join me on Substack: This Enchanted Life

If you’re craving deeper connection, mythic insight, and soulful storytelling—step into This Enchanted Life, my Substack community where you'll be guided to reconnect with your imagination, your creativity, and the archetypal wisdom that lives deep in your bones.

https://lisamarierankin.substack.com/

Book: The Goddess Solution

Instagram: @lisamarierankin

Website: lisamarierankin.com

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Winter can be cozy and magical, yet it can also leave you feeling dry, scattered, anxious, and depleted.

With a seasonal Ayurvedic lens, this conversation explores why winter tends to amplify vata qualities like cold, dryness, and restlessness, especially when the holidays add more socializing, richer food, and disrupted routines. You will hear five grounding rituals designed to bring in the opposites: warmth, nourishment, oil, slowness, and steadiness, including abhyanga self-massage with sesame oil, a warm spiced milk bedtime ritual, and choosing soups and stews to support digestion and energy.

The guidance also weaves in nervous system care through a winter-friendly digital detox and a return to imagination through epic novels and mythic stories. The invitation is simple: let winter reset your rhythm and support you in feeling held, nourished, and inspired.

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Join me on Substack: This Enchanted Life

If you’re craving deeper connection, mythic insight, and soulful storytelling—step into This Enchanted Life, my Substack community where you'll be guided to reconnect with your imagination, your creativity, and the archetypal wisdom that lives deep in your bones.

https://lisamarierankin.substack.com/

Book: The Goddess Solution

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Website: lisamarierankin.com

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When life feels like it is burning to the ground, the goddess Kali might be clearing the way for your freedom.

Host Lisa Marie Rankin explores the wild, liberating and often terrifying medicine of Kali, the Hindu goddess of transformation and breaking through the status quo. She shares the myth of Kali and the demon Raktabija, explains how crises like divorce, job loss or health scares can be expressions of Kali energy, and tells a vulnerable story of how the ruins of her own marriage became the doorway to a more aligned, soulful life. Listeners are invited to notice where safety has become a gilded cage, where they are numbing instead of growing, and how Kali cuts away what no longer serves so a truer self can emerge.

To work with Kali consciously, Lisa offers simple practices like meditating with her image, journaling on where you are choosing safety over growth, and reading the signs inside everyday chaos as invitations to deeper liberation. You will walk away with a new understanding of destruction as an act of love and a reminder that your soul is always calling you toward greater freedom.

Connect with Lisa:

Join me on Substack: This Enchanted Life

If you’re craving deeper connection, mythic insight, and soulful storytelling—step into This Enchanted Life, my Substack community where you'll be guided to reconnect with your imagination, your creativity, and the archetypal wisdom that lives deep in your bones.

https://lisamarierankin.substack.com/

Book: The Goddess Solution

Instagram: @lisamarierankin

Website: lisamarierankin.com

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What if your true wealth has far more to do with devotion, purpose, and love than the number in your bank account?

Lisa invites listeners into the shimmering world of Lakshmi, the Hindu goddess of love, beauty, and prosperity, to reframe what abundance really means. Through myth, archetypal insight, and the four aims of life Artha, Kama, Dharma, and Moksha she explores how inner wealth, spiritual connection, and generosity create a life that actually feels rich. Lisa weaves Lakshmi's story with modern life, showing how gratitude, beauty, and sincere devotion magnetize the kind of prosperity that cannot be lost.

She then grounds these teachings in real life, sharing her own divorce journey as an example of losing financial wealth while gaining love, purpose, and spiritual freedom. Listeners are invited to examine where their lives may be over focused on material success and how they can make their lives more hospitable to Lakshmi through grace, generosity, and caring for what they have.

By the end, you are encouraged to see abundance as a holistic tapestry of relationships, pleasure, purpose, and divine connection, not just numbers on a statement. Lakshmi becomes a living presence and guide, inviting you to cultivate inner wealth so that outer prosperity can flow in aligned and sustainable ways.

Connect with Lisa:

Join me on Substack: This Enchanted Life

If you’re craving deeper connection, mythic insight, and soulful storytelling—step into This Enchanted Life, my Substack community where you'll be guided to reconnect with your imagination, your creativity, and the archetypal wisdom that lives deep in your bones.

https://lisamarierankin.substack.com/

Book: The Goddess Solution

Instagram: @lisamarierankin

Website: lisamarierankin.com

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Winter can become a sacred season for grieving, composting pain, and remembering who you truly are.

Lisa Marie Rankin shares a deeply personal reflection on wintering after the sudden loss of her mother, describing how grief feels like a heavy weight on the body and soul. She explores winter as a sacred pause, a time to slow down, create white space, tend to home and family, nourish the body, and reconnect with spiritual practice through meditation, prayer, writing, and walking in nature. Drawing on mythic stories of Persephone and Inanna, she reclaims the underworld as a realm of transformation where grief and pain are alchemized into power, sovereignty, and wisdom, while also challenging the impact of short-form social media on our attention, self-energy, and connection to the divine.

Lisa invites you to return to long-form content, deep imagination, and self-connection, and to explore these themes with her through Substack, archetypal movies, book clubs, and Divine Feminine teachings. This winter becomes an invitation to treat grief, stillness, and darkness as portals into magic, mystery, and the living presence of the goddess within.

Connect with Lisa:

Join me on Substack: This Enchanted Life

If you’re craving deeper connection, mythic insight, and soulful storytelling—step into This Enchanted Life, my Substack community where you'll be guided to reconnect with your imagination, your creativity, and the archetypal wisdom that lives deep in your bones.

https://lisamarierankin.substack.com/

Book: The Goddess Solution

Instagram: @lisamarierankin

Website: lisamarierankin.com

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Tarot becomes a gateway into the unconscious when we learn to use it as a tool for truth rather than certainty.

Tarot counselor and scholar Mariana Louis shares how the cards help us reclaim inner authority, deepen self-awareness, and navigate the ongoing cycle of individuation. She explains the origins of Tarot, its connection to Jungian psychology, and why the most powerful readings emerge from curiosity instead of prediction. Mariana also offers guidance for beginners, explores common mistakes readers make, and illuminates how Tarot mirrors myth, shadow work, and the natural tensions of the human experience.

Her insights invite us to live inside our questions, grow comfortable with the unknown, and let symbolism open a richer dialogue with the psyche. By shifting our relationship with the cards, we shift our relationship with ourselves.

Connect with Mariana Louis:

Preorder Tarot and the Psychology of the Soul: Exploring the Archetypal Mirrors of the Psyche - https://a.co/d/h0KoM0k

Join Tarot and Shadow: A Guided Workshop of Self-Reckoning with the Cards - https://www.jungarchademy.com/tarot-and-shadow-2026

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/persephonessister/

Substack - https://persephonessister.substack.com/

YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@PersephonesSister

Free Archetypal Tarot Booklet - https://subscribepage.io/archetypal-tarot-booklet

Connect with Lisa:

Substack: https://lisamarierankin.substack.com/

Enlivened: https://programs.lisamarierankin.com/getenlivened

Book: The Goddess Solution

Instagram: @lisamarierankin - https://www.instagram.com/lisamarie.rankin/

Website: lisamarierankin.com - https://www.lisamarierankin.com/

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Your dreams hold wisdom that can shift your entire life when you know how to listen.

Author and Jungian analyst Lisa Marchiano reveals how dreams act as a personal spiritual guide, offering insight, clarity, and perspective when we need it most. She explains how the dream maker communicates through symbolism, why even the most mundane dreams hold powerful meaning, and how dreams help us navigate challenges, relationships, and life transitions. Lisa also shares practical tools for remembering dreams, interpreting them with confidence, and connecting with the unconscious as part of individuation and inner work.

This conversation invites you to partner with your dreams as an ongoing guide for healing and growth. Dreamwork becomes a doorway into intuition, emotional truth, and a deeper sense of your authentic self.

Connect with Lisa Marchiano:

Instagram @lisamarchiano, @thisjungianlifepodcast

lisamarchiano.com, thisjungianlife.com, dreamwisebook.com, spinningstraw.com

Resource:

Listen to Episode 8, Embracing Outlaw Energies with Lisa Marchiano

Connect with Lisa:

Substack: https://lisamarierankin.substack.com/

Enlivened: https://programs.lisamarierankin.com/getenlivened

Book: The Goddess Solution

Instagram: @lisamarierankin - https://www.instagram.com/lisamarie.rankin/

Website: lisamarierankin.com - https://www.lisamarierankin.com/

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