Podcasts by Spiritual Psi-Kology
Snackable teachings on spirituality, psychology and all things personal growth. Renee shares her 30+ years as a recovering addict, therapist and Shamanic healer with depth and humor. This short show offers a wide range of topics designed to evoke and provoke your own self-development. Each segment provides practical tips and tools to nudge and nourish your own authentic self. From anxiety and archetypes to death and depossession, Renee delivers moving client stories and her own crazy life experiences in her raw, no-nonsense, Boston-style.
Further podcasts by Renee LaVallee McKenna, MA, CCH
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149. The Too Good Mother from 2023-12-13T18:10:36.097900
The too good mother is the part of ourselves that wants us to stay safe and comfortable at all costs. The too good mother makes us weak, frightened, limited and often creates the self-hating bad...
Listen195. Anxiety Relief from 2023-12-12T00:24:03
Like many of you, I've struggled with anxiety much of my life. Though it's better than it's ever been, anxiety is still a feeling that comes up. Feelings always carry information if ...
Listen194. Authenticity from 2023-12-05T04:02:37
In a time of fake news and AI, being authentic, genuine and real is very valuable. Miriam Webster chose authentic as the word of the year because it was searched so much.
When we act fro...
Listen193. WTF Is Codependency? from 2023-11-27T03:46:47
We can all grow in relationship and there are many ways we relate to other people. Some of these patterns of relationship are healthy and others are destructive. Renee compares the unhealthy sig...
Listen192. Addiction, Distraction & Gratitude from 2023-11-21T01:18:56
An attitude of gratitude can be a game changer for how we feel and for our perspective on life. We live in a culture filled with addictions and distractions, yet gratitude can bring us present a...
Listen191. Healing Power Of Connection from 2023-11-13T23:20
Loneliness and isolation are unfortunately common in modern life. The suffering of isolation isn't just emotional, it can become systemic and lead to deeper disconnection and dysfunction. Listen
190. Receiving & Releasing from 2023-11-13T23:13:16
How do we get what we really want and let go of what no longer serves us? Hoarding, addiction, bad jobs or dead relationships are all indications that positive change is being called for. But ch...
Listen189. Ancestral Connection from 2023-11-06T15:51:58
We all have ancestors, whether we love and respect them, distance ourselves from their dysfunction or whether we have been separated by immigration or adoption. This is the week of Halloween, Al...
Listen188. Can We Care Too Much? from 2023-10-24T05:10:33
Caring for others is part of being human. We have concern. We wish people well. We want to help. Caring feelings and actions are acts of love and kindness. But there can be a shadow side of cari...
Listen187. Talking To God from 2023-10-17T03:34:46
Talking to God doesn't have to be formal prayer or proper, fancy language. We can just talk, ask for direction or say thank you. We can also spend quiet time listening for the response or th...
Listen186. Energetic Protection from 2023-10-10T03:57
We are always exchanging energy with other people and the environment. Most of the time this is fine, but sometimes this means we are picking up energies or emotions of places, people and things...
Listen185. Order vs Chaos from 2023-10-03T01:26:12
They say there are two forces in the Universe, Love or Fear. We could also call them order vs chaos. Rather than being opposing forces, these are two sides of the greater whole. Each provides a ...
Listen184. The Gifts of Failure from 2023-09-26T01:00
We often think in terms of success or failure, win or lose. This black and white perspective takes the color and flavor out of the many interesting circumstances in our lives. It is said that li...
Listen184. What Is Success? from 2023-09-26T01:00
We often think in terms of success or failure, win or lose. This black and white perspective takes the color and flavor out of the many interesting circumstances in our lives. It is said that life ...
Listen183. Perspective Is Everything from 2023-09-19T01:17:03
Our perspective creates our reality. Our emotions and level of consciousness are like glasses we look through to see the world. But these glasses can be changed. Renee uses David Hawkins Map of ...
Listen182. Dealing With Difficulty from 2023-09-12T03:13:53
Life is difficult. This is a great truth. Once we accept this truth, life actually becomes less difficult. Problems can actually be opportunities for growth. Pain is important information that s...
Listen181. F*ck Being Nice from 2023-09-05T02:50:39
Many of us have been taught to "be nice" rather than to be honest. We ignore our own deeper instincts and don't develop needed survival skills in the face of the darkness, danger o...
Listen180. Care For The Self from 2023-08-29T03:30
Caring for our deeper self is more than naps and hot baths in candle light. In fact, we often confuse comfort with self care. Sometimes the deeper caring is to push ourselves toward or through d...
Listen179. Reality Creation from 2023-06-21T18:56:54
Is the glass half empty or half full? This question points to the idea that our perspective has much to do with our experience of reality. It's easy to believe that our world view or perspec...
Listen178. Detach With Love from 2023-06-13T05:01:21
Letting go of people, relationships, plans and ideas can be really challenging. When we detach, we separate or disengage from someone or something. We can detach with love, or we can let go wit...
Listen177. Life Purpose from 2023-06-06T00:50:52
Taking time to assess our life from a meta-perspective is a potent practice for finding happiness, joy and fulfillment. Annual or bi-annual self survey of our work, relationships, health and fam...
Listen176. The Value Of Courage from 2023-05-23T03:06:35
Courage is not the absence of fear. Courage is what allows us to face the scary, difficult or dangerous thing and do it anyway. Courage helps us move into new terrifory, take risks and expand ou...
Listen175. Freedom or Chaos? from 2023-05-16T03:35:11
Many think of freedom as the ability to do whatever we want, whenever we want. But this idea of freedom has a shadow side and may be more fantasy than reality. Real freedom is deeper, more inter...
Listen174. Healing The Past from 2023-05-02T04:52:46
When we change how we think, we change how we feel. When we consider wounds from our past, we are often thinking about things in a habitual way. Although we may believe that facts don’t change, ...
Listen173. Ninety% Is Just Showing Up from 2023-04-25T03:45:40
Show up. Tell the truth. Leave the results to God. These three suggestions or spiritual principles are a powerful foundation for moving in positive, constructive ways in life. It is said that 90...
Listen172. How We Heal from 2023-04-18T02:40:35
Physical healing can be a model for how we heal emotionally, mentally and spiritually. The physical world is a metaphor or even a manifestation of the metaphysical. Eastern wisdom about life ene...
Listen171. Don't Follow Your Dreams from 2023-04-10T23:40:22
I believe we are here to be our unique and quirky selves in this world. Following our dreams is the shortcut to happiness and fulfillment. When we cultivate and nourish the secret hopes and desi...
Listen170. Let Go & Let Goddess from 2023-04-04T03:12:17
Letting go can bring us peace, relaxation and even new directions and opportunities in our life. But it's hard to let go of our fears and need for control. It can be hard to trust that the U...
Listen169. Functional & Dysfunctional Relationship from 2023-03-28T02:27:02
What's the difference between a functional and a dysfunctional relationship? What do they have in common? How do we change the dynamics of our relationships to be more healthy? We always hav...
Listen168. Love & Fear from 2023-03-21T03:37:35
Love and fear and the two main motivators in our lives. Almost everything we do could be understood as an act or love or and act of fear. When we choose love, we are rooted in growth, hope, cour...
Listen167. Unearned Guilt from 2023-03-14T03:20:19
There are two kinds of guilt. Healthy guilt is when we act badly and our own conscience in letting us know we need to change our behavior. Unhealthy guilt is triggered when we step outside of th...
Listen166. The Four Noble Truths from 2023-03-07T05:21:38
The Four Noble Truths of Buddhism are:
1. Suffering is real
2. Suffering has a cause
3. Suffering can end
4. There is a path out of suffering
Renee...
Listen165. Surrender To Win from 2023-02-28T04:13:32
Surrender is associated with defeat, but the ego deflation of admitting our limitations can open the door to suprising and unexpected solutions. In fact, it is often only through true surrender ...
Listen164. Disconnecting From Difficult People from 2023-02-21T02:19:36
We always have three choices in any relationship. We can accept things as they are. We can ask for change. We can remove ourselves. There are many ways that people can be difficult. Two patterns...
Listen163. WTF Is Shadow Work? from 2023-02-14T01:40:18
Our Shadow is all the things that are a source of shame, guilt and fear that we hide from others and even from ourselves. Often our shadow side is denied or even unconscious - we don't acknowled...
Listen162. Most Important Thing In Life from 2023-02-07T03:51:33
Knowing what's important to us can help us make decisions that impact the quality of our lives. Knowing what’s most important to us, can bring a sense of order, direction and clarity that is pro...
Listen161. The Truth Will Set You Free from 2023-01-31T03:26:51
There is a spiritual principle that "the truth will set us free." The shadow aspect of this principle is that we are as sick as our secrets. Renee talks about her experiences with drug addiction...
Listen160. Living Your Dreams from 2023-01-24T02:43:27
Living your dreams is not a luxury. In fact, the roots of depression, anxiety, addiction and much of our dysfunction may be found in our unrealized desires, our unexpressed talents and our undis...
Listen159. Progress Not Perfection from 2023-01-17T04:39:27
Perfectionism is a lie that kills creativity and tells us that we are not good enough, unworthy, unacceptable as we are. What makes people happy is progress and seeking perfection stifles our ef...
Listen158. Spirit Release from 2023-01-10T03:21:56
Spirit release and spirit attachment are aspects of working with the dead that are foreign to modern Western culture. But, there is more going on in the metaphysical realms than we might be awar...
Listen157. Are You Open or Closed? from 2023-01-03T02:11:31
Knowing when to be open and when to close ourselves in the different areas of our lives is an important skill that can have big implications for our relationships, our work and our general life ...
Listen156. Hopeless Hope from 2022-12-27T01:15:08
Hope is a wonderful, energizing attitude. There are many things to hope for in life. But when we lay our hopes on others to change or on outside circumstances to make us happy, we can become dis...
Listen155. Truth=Freedom from 2022-12-21T06:29:20
Many of us feel trapped in lives of seeming priviledge that don't fulfill our deeper needs. We think we "should" be happy with the house, the relationship or the job we have, but deep inside we ...
Listen154. Cultivating Love from 2022-12-13T03:10:14
We can cultivate love like we cultivate a garden. We can grow flowers or fruits with care and attention. We can let the land grow wild, or we can water the weeds. What we focus on expands. Do we...
Listen153. Energy Vampires from 2022-12-06T01:47:28
Energy Vampires suck the life force of others. When we feel drained, abused or resentful in our interactions with others, we may be in the presence of an energy vampire. Renee talks about her ow...
Listen152. Your Soul's Purpose from 2022-11-29T00:08:16
Asking the right questions will get us the answers we seek. It may take some time to answer the biggest questions in life, but if we "live the question," we are more apt to live into the answers...
Listen151. Needs vs. Wants from 2022-11-22T03:23:47
There's a difference between what we want and what we need, but it's easy to confuse them. Wants tend to be material or superficial, while needs make us healthy and whole. When we spend time and...
Listen150. False Gods & Inner Demons from 2022-11-15T01:55:04
Inner Demons are our unresolved emotional issues, old wounds, fears and dysfunction. False gods are the people, places and things we chase after thinking they will make us happy or fulfilled. Th...
Listen148. Open Hearted from 2022-11-01T01:11:13
When we spend too much time in our heads and not enough in our hearts, our souls and our relationships suffer. We are each individual aspects of the Divine and the human heart is a portal to the...
Listen147. Everything Is Perfect from 2022-10-25T01:23:23
Everything is consciousness, including us. Informed by Hindu and other deep traditions, Renee describes the greater reality of cosmic unfolding. God experiences Him/Herself through us and throug...
Listen146. Praying For The Highest Good from 2022-10-17T21:46:30
Praying for the highest good for everyone involved is a win/win intention. Because we are all connected on the ultimate level, the optimal outcome for us provides the best circumstances for ever...
Listen145. Feeding Your Demons from 2022-10-11T00:36:31
We all have inner demons. Our fears, anger, unresolved emotional issues often drive us in negative, destructive ways. But these demons can be resolved, dissolved and even transformed into allies...
Listen144. Sexual, Social & Emotional Anorexia from 2022-10-04T01:40:09
Sexual anorexia is the avoidance or fear of giving or receiving social, sexual or emotional nourishment. In food anorexia, a person refuses the nourishment of food. Sexual, social and emotional ...
Listen143. Loneliness vs Solitude from 2022-09-27T00:08:17
Loneliness is the painful experience of disconnection, longing for love and companionship. Solitude is the nurturing and fulfilling experience of deep time alone and connected with oneself and t...
Listen142. Spirituality & Addiction from 2022-09-19T23:24:01
Addiction is about medicating unresolved suffering and hopelessness. Whether it's too much wine, ice cream, Netflix or heroin; facing and healing our underlying issues and being our authentic se...
Listen141. The Law Of One from 2022-09-13T00:14:23
The Law of One, also known as the Book of Ra, offers a profound meta-perspective of the evolution of consciousness and humanity. Everything is connected and works for the greater good on the ult...
Listen140. Care For The Soul from 2022-09-06T03:37:49
Spirit, personality self and soul are the three aspects of a human. Spirit is the larger system, God or Goddess, the Divine. Our personality self is our ego and life circumstance. Our soul is th...
Listen139. 100 Good Things About You from 2022-08-30T03:25:56
Most of us limit ourselves and what we think is possible in our lives. We play small. We live in fear of the unknown. But prayer and focusing on what is good in ourselves and others is like mira...
Listen138. Spiritual Parenting from 2022-08-23T02:54:58
We are children of the Universe. God, Goddess, the Divine is our spiritual parent. We have human parents. We include our spiritual perspectives in parenting our own children and others in our li...
Listen137. Vulnerability Is Strength from 2022-08-16T01:20:07
Vulnerability is often seen as a weakness in our emotionally shut down and self-defended culture. But vulnerability, openness, receptivity actually takes tremendous strength. When we bring our a...
Listen136. WTF Is Metaphysics from 2022-08-02T12:22:52
Metaphysics teaches that he physical world of form and the non-physical realms of mind, emotion and spirit operate as a system. They are not separate. What is happening in our physical reality o...
Listen135. Prayer vs. Meditation from 2022-08-02T12:22:35
Prayer and meditation are like a spiritual conversation. Prayer is talking and meditation is listening. We can all grow in our communication skills, both with the people in our lives and with So...
Listen134. Conditional vs Unconditional Love from 2022-07-19T05:02:52
There is a difference between conditional and unconditional love. Most of what we call love may not actually be loving. We often confuse neediness, desire or dependency for love. Growing in our ...
Listen133. Intuitive Tarot from 2022-07-11T23:33:30
Tarot card reading is a fun and interesting way to explore and evoke our intuition. Renee talks about reading cards for others and her own journey from skeptic to enthusiast for the many images ...
Listen132. Money Is Energy from 2022-07-05T05:06:27
Money is how we exchange energy or power with others. But there are many ways we exchange energy and many healthy and unhealthy dynamics we can have with money. Understanding our relationship wi...
Listen131. The Great Mother from 2022-06-27T08:56:56
There is an infinite resource for unconditional love, wisdom, compassion and healthy boundaries available to us all. The Great Mother, a powerful aspect of the Divine Feminine, comes to us in ma...
Listen130. Karmic Issues from 2022-06-20T15:14:27
Our birth circumstances can create a template for the karmic issues that call us to grow in this lifetime. What we resist persists. If we don’t work through our stuff and grow and evolve in the her...
Listen129. Mindfulness, Silence & Thich Nhat Hanh from 2022-06-14T07:03:11
In our busy lives we often spend more time checking off our to do list and getting on to the next task then we do actually experiencing the beauty and complexity of life. It's easy to take ...
Listen128. The Bright Side of Shadow from 2022-06-07T05:36:54
All light casts a shadow. We all have a shadow side. Shadow is the part of ourself that holds all of the things that we reject about ourselves. It holds our fears, our rage, even our potential. ...
Listen127. Judgement from 2022-05-31T05:42:21
Judgement is rooted in fear and separates us from others and from our own authentic self. Like Rapunzel locked in the tower, our judgement often imprisons the innocent, unique and magical parts ...
Listen126. Getting Unstuck from 2022-05-23T20:56:15
Most of us feel stuck in some areas of our life. We might be stuck in an unfulfilling job, a dead relationship, with our health, weight, education, or with a creative project we can't seem...
Listen125. Leaving Addiction Behind from 2022-05-16T22:42:14
We can be free of our addictions. Healing our unresolved emotional issues and filling the unmet needs that underlie addiction is our deepest work as humans. As we heal our inner wounds, we becom...
Listen124. Inner Masculine & Feminine from 2022-05-10T05:10:13
We all have masculine and feminine energy within us. These are universal archetypes that have nothing to do with gender. They are the complimentary structures that help us manage the physical an...
Listen123. The Antidote to Anxiety from 2022-05-03T05:43:17
Fear, worry and anxiety are almost always about the future. Being present keeps us in the moment and out of the future. But this is not always easy to do. But there is a simple, very simple spir...
Listen122. Change is Hard from 2022-04-26T04:10:14
Change is hard, but it is also part of the natural flow of life. Surrendering to this life flow is the path to peace, joy and fulfillment. Nature can be our guide and companion in times of great...
Listen121. F*ck The Rules from 2022-04-19T04:46:38
Rules, structure and cultural norms can be helpful, but they can also keep us small or limited. When we measure our success or model our behavior to meet the expectations of others, we may be ig...
Listen120. Working With Ancestors from 2022-04-12T04:34:59
Working with ancestors is an ancient spiritual practice found on nearly every continent and in every culture on Earth. We all have a legion of ancestors behind us, whether we are aware of them o...
Listen119. Birth & Death from 2022-04-05T01:06:11
Birth trauma can have incredible impact on our development in life. But birth trauma is unrecognized by much of modern psychology and medicine. Renee share her own birth story, a powerful client...
Listen118. The Four Immeasurables from 2022-03-29T05:53:25
The four immeasurables of compassion, Loving kindness, equanimity and joy are principles that can improve our lives. These ancient Buddhist concepts can be cultivated and matured to relieve suff...
Listen117. WTF Is God's Will? from 2022-03-22T05:06:16
What if we changed the word God to the word Good? How would it be to surrender to the highest good? Renee talks about distrusting the Divine and how surrender, willingness and openmindedness can...
Listen116. The Lie Of Unworthiness from 2022-03-14T23:32:37
Questioning our value or worth as a person is a soul level issue. Starting with Adam and Eve, humans have struggled with unworthiness or feeling that they are bad in some fundamental way that go...
Listen115. The Cauldron Of Relationship from 2022-03-08T03:27:04
Relationships can be a source of joy or a source of pain, but either way they call us to grow. Our friendships, family and love relationships all have one thing in common: us. When we can own 10...
Listen114. Releasing Regret from 2022-03-01T06:05:46
There are many forms of regret; regret for things we have done, for things undone and remorse for things that have happened. Regret can suck our life energy and keep us focused on the past or on...
Listen113. Broken & Brilliant from 2022-02-22T05:59:42
We are all a unique combination of brokenness and brilliance. In fact, often our strengths and our weaknesses are intertwined in complex, almost mysterious ways.
Knowing our gifts a...
Listen112. Selfless from 2022-02-15T06:23:15
Narcissism and selflessness are opposite ends of the spectrum of how we relate to others and to ourselves. Selfishness is generally seen as a negative and being selfless as positive. However, th...
Listen111. The Advanced Guide To Change from 2022-02-08T04:49:22
Looking for positive change in your life? Here's the breakdown of the four stages to change in any area of our lives: acceptance, action, chaos and resolution. Each stage has particular gifts an...
Listen110. Conflict, Creativity & Chaos from 2022-02-01T05:56:14
Chaos and conflict are often elements of creativity. Chaos is the element of the unknown that is a vital part of the creative process, but so is stability. Structure and chaos can be in conflict...
Listen109. Luck Is Bullsh*t from 2022-01-25T06:55:23
Are people really lucky or unlucky? How much does hard work, dedication and skill have to do with our success and what role does good fortune play in the opportunities of our life? Renee tells s...
Listen108. Underbeing from 2022-01-18T06:09:10
Underbeing is a concept from a little known 12 Step fellowship called Underearners Anonymous. Underbeing is when we don't bring our authentic self into the world. When we follow the external exp...
Listen107. The Fractal Nature Of Reality from 2022-01-11T04:54:03
Fractals are infinitely complex, never ending patterns that repeat on the smallest and the largest scales. These repetitive patterns create on-going feedback loops found in structures throughout...
Listen106. Releasing Toxic Relationships from 2022-01-04T06:51:55
Our uncomfortable feelings are connected to our deeper truth. When we have difficult feelings in relationship, change is called for. We always have 3 choices in relationship. We can accept what ...
Listen105. Is Meditation Listening To God? from 2021-12-28T07:02:17
If prayer is talking to God, than meditation is listening. There are as many ways to meditate as there are people on the planet. Although many teachers will tell you there is a right and a wrong...
ListenBe Your Own Shaman Trailer from 2021-12-24T15:55:16
Shamanism is one of the most ancient and powerful tools for personal growth, transformation and healing. The shamanic journey is an easily accessible path to connect with nature spirits, your ow...
Listen104. Be Your Own Shaman from 2021-12-21T00:12:23
Shamanism is like a power tool for personal growth and spiritual connection. Tools simplify our work and even make it easy. The Shamanic journey is one of the most ancient methods for working wi...
Listen103. Past Life Regression from 2021-12-14T06:38:59
Past Life Regression is a powerful method allowing us to understand the patterns and implications of unhealed wounds that we carry on a soul level. You don't have to believe in reincarnation to ...
Listen102. Why We Suck At Receiving from 2021-12-06T22:15:06
Giving and receiving are like breathing in and breathing out, but most of us are out of balance. We either give too much and feel depleted and unappreciated or we take too much and become selfis...
Listen101. Inner Child Work & Emotional Self Care from 2021-11-30T05:45:51
How much time do we spend on our emotional self care? Most of our physical needs are met. We may have a healthy social life. Intellectual stimulation is easy to find. We may even have a spiritua...
Listen100. Gratitude Is Dangerous from 2021-11-23T04:39:10
Gratitude is a powerful spiritual practice. But, gratitude can also be used to avoid or distract from deeper truths. Renee talks about her many experiences with being grateful and ungrateful and...
Listen99. Stop Wanting To See The Good In Everyone from 2021-11-16T01:29:26
If we don't develop discernment and honest appraisal of others, how will we know who to give our car keys? Who to invite in our bed? Who to turn and run away from? It's imperative to see the goo...
Listen98. Sacred Contracts from 2021-11-09T05:12:04
What if the relationships in our life, even the difficult ones, are agreements or contracts to help us grow and evolve? When we take this perspective, we step into personal responsibility and ou...
Listen97. Working With The Dead from 2021-11-01T21:53:22
Working with ancestors and the dead is an ancient practice. Awareness of the unhealed dead or disembodied souls has long plagued and fascinated people. There are clear and helpful ways to work w...
Listen96. The 3 Things We Fear Most from 2021-10-25T23:15:04
Fear causes tremendous suffering, but it can also warn us of danger and keep us safe. There is a nearly endless list of human fears, but these three are present in almost every human. How we man...
Listen95. Goddess Kali & The Fierce Feminine from 2021-10-19T04:56:59
The Hindu Goddess Kali is a powerful form of the fierce feminine. She cuts through illusion, ego and fear with her weapons of truth and wisdom. Some say we are living in the age of Kali, a time ...
Listen94. WTF Is Intuition? from 2021-10-12T05:06:21
We all have access to other ways of knowing and gathering information beyond our basic five senses of sight, sound, taste, touch and smell. Intuition goes by many names; gut reaction, instinct, ...
Listen93. The Best Question from 2021-10-05T04:43:56
We often ask, "Why?" when faced with difficulty, but why is often NOT a helpful question. Why questions look for causes, but don't usually provide solutions and can even be blaming or shaming.&n...
Listen92. Three Keys To Success from 2021-09-28T04:21:15
There are 3 keys to bring success to any area of your life, in fact these principles will help you clarify or redefine what success actually means for you. These powerful tools are simple and pr...
Listen91. Honest, Openminded & Willing from 2021-09-20T19:37:20
Honesty, Openmindedness and Willingness are spiritual principles that create a solid foundation for personal growth and evolution. Our feelings are connected with our true self. Our feelings pro...
Listen90. Making Friends With Trauma from 2021-09-14T04:33:09
When an experience is too much to handle and the psyche is unable to process or integrate the event in a manageable way, trauma happens. In trauma, a part of the psyche gets almost stuck in the ...
Listen89. Never Enough from 2021-09-07T04:31:11
Is your glass half empty or half full? Our perspective on ourselves and our life circumstances deeply influence our experience. Many of us suffer with an insatiable drive to do more, to be more,...
Listen88. The Biology of Risk from 2021-08-31T04:39:01
People naturally lean toward a desire for adventure or toward predictability and routine. We all fall somewhere on the risk-safety continuum and it can be helpful to value each of these perspect...
Listen87. Create, Sustain, Destroy from 2021-08-24T03:14:05
Birth, life and death are an endless cycle found on all levels of material reality. Known in Hinduism as the trimurti, or the three forms of creation, sustenance and destruction. We often think ...
Listen86. God Is Not My Father from 2021-08-17T05:18:05
God as father can be a limiting concept, or even a negative one if your experience with fatherhood was difficult or abusive. Exploring new, more meaningful or personal concepts of Source is part...
Listen85. WTF Is Self Esteem? from 2021-08-10T04:55:08
Having confidence in our own worth and value is the essence of self esteem. How others feel or think about us is important, but outside opinions often have nothing to do with how we feel about o...
Listen84. Dark Side of People Pleasing from 2021-08-03T05:01:50
The desire to please people is different from people pleasing. One is a way we share love and spread kindness. The other is manipulative, controlling and based on fear.
There are ma...
Listen83. Spirit, Soul and Personality from 2021-07-27T02:18:38
Spirit, soul and ego are three main areas of personal development. Spiritual growth calls us into communion with the Universal Life Force, the God of our own understanding (or misunderstanding.) So...
Listen82. Cycles, Seasons & Healthy Structure from 2021-07-20T05:08:35
We are children of nature. Trusting the natural cycles and seasons of our bodies, minds, emotions and spirits can be profoundly grounding and empowering. As we discover and honor our own daily, ...
Listen81. Feeling Deeply Is A Superpower from 2021-07-12T23:23:29
Many of us try to moderate and manage our emotions. Feeling deeply is often considered a weakness in our culture. This is a mistake. When we make friends with our feelings, we have access to ins...
Listen80. Making Room For God from 2021-07-06T03:28:11
As Within, so without. Our outer experience often correlates with our inner experience. It is powerful to notice that our relationship with our stuff can be a metaphor for our emotional, spiritu...
Listen79. Reclaiming Lost Power from 2021-06-30T05:41:40
Personal Power can be lost, drained, stolen or given away. Personal power or life energy can also be reclaimed, regained and restored. In Spiritual Psi-Kology, we take the concept of power liter...
Listen78. Fatherhood & Forgiveness from 2021-06-21T22:36:58
Fatherhood, like motherhood, has a profound impact on our self development, but we are not helpless victims of our parents. Facing and forgiving the humanity of our fathers is an important part ...
Listen77. Is Ego A Bad Thing? from 2021-06-15T03:34:20
Most of us play either too big or too small in our lives. Becoming "right sized" is the hallmark of a healthy ego and allows us to function optimally. An over or under inflated sense of one's se...
Listen76. Blame to Bliss: Evolving Levels of Consciousness from 2021-06-08T03:27:47
What does it mean to be conscious, unconscious or supra-conscious? Our level of consciousness is like a lens we see the world through. People are complicated and our unique algorithm of experien...
ListenWTF Is Real Love? from 2021-06-01T02:22:37
What does it mean to love, really? Do we think about what we bring to our relationships? Or, do we think about what we can get from them? Is all love the same? Do we love our dog the same way we...
Listen75. WTF Is Real Love? from 2021-06-01T02:22:37
What does it mean to love, really? Do we think about what we bring to our relationships? Or, do we think about what we can get from them? Is all love the same? Do we love our dog the same way we...
Listen74. Beginner's Mind from 2021-05-25T01:02:13
Beginner's mind is an aspect of mindfulness and Zen Buddhism where one approaches life free of expectations, preconceptions and innocent openness. To have beginner's mind is when we look at thin...
Listen73. WTF Are Spirit Guides? from 2021-05-18T04:40:58
Spirit guides are aspects of the Universal Life Force, aka God, that are easily or consciously accessible to humans. Spirit guides in their highest form resonate with love, compassion and have o...
Listen72. The Problem With Mother from 2021-05-11T04:41:03
The idealized image or archetype of Mother is often very different from the imperfect women who hold that title. Words are powerful and many of us have a concept of the perfect mother unconsciou...
Listen71. Synchronicity from 2021-05-04T03:49:53
Synchronicity is coincidence that has a conscience. Some would say it is God's way of staying anonymous. This phenomenon, also called serendipity, can be seen as guidance or affirmation from the...
Listen70. WTF Is Inner Work? from 2021-04-26T22:56:15
Inner work is the profound process of updating our beliefs, healing our wounds and reorienting how we experience life. We underestimate the level of change that is possible in every area; physic...
Listen69. Let's Talk About Sex from 2021-04-20T01:18:14
Talking about sex in a mature way can build incredible intimacy in relationship, but most of us just don't know how. Growing in the ability to talk openly and honestly about our sexuality is a s...
Listen68. Energy Matching from 2021-04-13T03:44:59
We are all affected by the energy of the people, places and things around us, both positive and negative. Becoming aware of this natural energy matching tendency, we can grow in the ability to h...
Listen67. Deeply Understanding Chakras from 2021-04-06T14:14:58
Chakras are energy centers in the body that correlate with emotional, spiritual and health issues. Understanding the lessons each chakra offers can give us important information and insight on o...
Listen66. WTF Is Spiritual Psi-Kology? from 2021-03-30T17:55:30
Spiritual Psi-Kology works directly with the emotional, spiritual or body felt experience of a person using guided imagery, hypnotherapy, mindfulness and Shamanism. Western psychology operates p...
Listen5 Benefits Of Healthy Stress from 2021-03-24T20:50:40
Most of us know the dangers of chronic stress, but do you know that a certain amount of stress is actually needed for our growth and strength in many areas of our life. Find out the necessity of he...
ListenDemon of Depression from 2021-03-23T02:54:20
Facing depression is the heroes journey. We go into the cave of our own unconscious and heal, slay or expel the demon that is hoarding the treasure of our own authentic self. When we face our de...
Listen65. Demon of Depression from 2021-03-23T01:54:20
Facing depression is the heroes journey. We go into the cave of our own unconscious and heal, slay or expel the demon that is hoarding the treasure of our own authentic self. When we face our de...
ListenHealthy Relationships 101 from 2021-03-16T01:27:49
We all benefit from healthy, loving relationships in our lives. But most of us didn't get the "How To" manual on creating and maintaining intimacy that works for us. Renee offers four simple, ac...
Listen64. Healthy Relationships 101 from 2021-03-16T00:27:49
We all benefit from healthy, loving relationships in our lives. But most of us didn't get the "How To" manual on creating and maintaining intimacy that works for us. Renee offers four simple, ac...
ListenJoy Is A Source Of Power from 2021-03-09T06:01:11
Happiness often comes from the outside, but joy arises from within. We can cultivate joy in our lives through creativity, selfless service and random acts of kindness.
As Willia...
Listen63. Joy Is A Source Of Power from 2021-03-09T05:01:11
Happiness often comes from the outside, but joy arises from within. We can cultivate joy in our lives through creativity, selfless service and random acts of kindness.
As William Sh...
ListenSlave To Fear from 2021-03-02T03:38:12
Love and fear are opposing forces that drive our decisions and dominate our life experience. Renee talks about her long experience with anxiety and how we can outgrow fear. The forces for love a...
Listen62. Trapped In Fear from 2021-03-02T02:38:12
Love and fear are opposing forces that drive our decisions and dominate our life experience. Renee talks about her long experience with anxiety and how we can outgrow fear. The forces for love a...
Listen12 Steps For Everyone from 2021-02-23T03:45:46
The spiritual principles underlying the 12 Steps are powerful tools for anyone who wants to use them. Renee highlights the guiding principles for each step and how to apply it for personal growt...
Listen61. 12 Steps For Everyone from 2021-02-23T02:45:46
The spiritual principles underlying the 12 Steps are powerful tools for anyone who wants to use them. Renee highlights the guiding principles for each step and how to apply it for personal growt...
ListenOur Inner Allies & Demons from 2021-02-16T05:57:45
Our demons are our fears, dysfunctions and unresolved emotional issues. Our allies are our honesty, willingness and openmindedness as well as the wealth of human and spiritual help that is alway...
Listen60. Our Inner Allies & Demons from 2021-02-16T04:57:45
Our demons are our fears, dysfunctions and unresolved emotional issues. Our allies are our honesty, willingness and openmindedness as well as the wealth of human and spiritual help that is alway...
ListenThe Prince, The Princess & The Evil Queen from 2021-02-09T03:26:01
Myths, great stories and the characters in them are like instruction manuals for personal growth. The story of Snow White provides a powerful template for the healthy marriage of our intellect (...
Listen59. The Prince, Princess & Evil Queen Archetype from 2021-02-09T02:26:01
Myths, great stories and the characters in them are like instruction manuals for personal growth. The story of Snow White provides a powerful template for the healthy marriage of our intellect (...
ListenNeed vs. Love from 2021-02-02T06:19:22
It's easy to confuse neediness with love. Optimally, love is what we bring to a relationship and what we share within it. As adults it is empowering to be a whole person first, to fulfill our ow...
Listen58. Need vs. Love from 2021-02-02T05:19:22
It's easy to confuse neediness with love. Optimally, love is what we bring to a relationship and what we share within it. As adults it is empowering to be a whole person first, to fulfill our ow...
ListenThe Divine Feminine Is Not Just For Girls from 2021-01-26T03:49:21
The Divine Feminine connects us with important resources for fulfillment, growth and healing that are often under valued by our culture. We all have masculine and feminine principles withi...
Listen57. The Divine Feminine Is Not Just For Girls from 2021-01-26T02:49:21
The Divine Feminine connects us with important resources for fulfillment, growth and healing that are often under valued by our culture. We all have masculine and feminine principles withi...
ListenMany Ways To Be Smart from 2021-01-19T06:46:57
Multiple Intelligence Theory points out the many ways we can be smart in our lives besides reading, writing and math. Some are gifted at dance or sports. Musical intelligence, social awareness, ...
ListenMultiple Intelligence Theory from 2021-01-19T06:46:57
Multiple Intelligence Theory points out the many ways we can be smart in our lives besides reading, writing and math. Some are gifted at dance or sports. Musical intelligence, social awareness, ...
Listen56. Multiple Intelligence Theory from 2021-01-19T05:46:57
Multiple Intelligence Theory points out the many ways we can be smart in our lives besides reading, writing and math. Some are gifted at dance or sports. Musical intelligence, social awareness, ...
ListenTake Aways from a 7-Day Water Fast from 2021-01-12T06:13:18
I'll try anything once, but I won't do a 7 day water fast again. Though I went in openminded and without expectations, my 7 day water fast was still surprising. It was a powerful experience and ...
Listen55. Take Aways From A 7-Day Fast from 2021-01-12T05:13:18
I'll try anything once, but I won't do a 7 day water fast again. Though I went in openminded and without expectations, my 7 day water fast was still surprising. It was a powerful experience and ...
ListenHealthy Confrontation from 2021-01-04T15:31:55
Confrontation can be compassionate and empowering. Renee offers a simple formula for healthy confrontation which is effective and transformative. There are times to let things go and times to co...
Listen54. Healthy Confrontation from 2021-01-04T14:31:55
Confrontation can be compassionate and empowering. Renee offers a simple formula for healthy confrontation which is effective and transformative. There are times to let things go and times to co...
ListenSex & Intimacy from 2020-12-29T02:59:56
Sex, intimacy, love and desire are the engines that drive relationship and drive us crazy. We can have sex without intimacy and intimacy without sex, but many of us seek a blend of both. There a...
Listen53. Sex & Intimacy from 2020-12-29T01:59:56
Sex, intimacy, love and desire are the engines that drive relationship and drive us crazy. We can have sex without intimacy and intimacy without sex, but many of us seek a blend of both. There a...
ListenMary Was Not A Virgin from 2020-12-22T06:33:30
The Divine Feminine has many faces. In Christianity the Virgin Mary and Mary Magdalen are powerful figures. We can look at them as archetypes of madonna and whore or we can look at them as real ...
Listen52. Mary Was Not A Virgin from 2020-12-22T05:33:30
The Divine Feminine has many faces. In Christianity the Virgin Mary and Mary Magdalen are powerful figures. We can look at them as archetypes of madonna and whore or we can look at them as real ...
ListenWTF is Non-Duality? from 2020-12-15T07:12:18
Non-duality is the experience of the one-ness of all things. There is a ground of being underlying the duality of the material world. Duality is the pairs of opposites; day and night, love ...
Listen51. WTF Is Non-Duality? from 2020-12-15T06:12:18
Non-duality is the experience of the one-ness of all things. There is a ground of being underlying the duality of the material world. Duality is the pairs of opposites; day and night, love ...
ListenEquanimity & Healthy Boundaries from 2020-12-08T08:45:22
Equanimity is loving detachment. This powerful, peaceful practice is one of the Four Immeasurables, Buddhist principles for healthy boundaries and happy relationships. The other three "Immeasura...
Listen50. Equanimity & Healthy Boundaries from 2020-12-08T07:45:22
Equanimity is loving detachment. This powerful, peaceful practice is one of the Four Immeasurables, Buddhist principles for healthy boundaries and happy relationships. The other three "Immeasura...
ListenTransforming Trauma from 2020-12-01T06:02:10
Trauma can absolutely be healed. In Spiritual Psychology, trauma is caused by the splitting or shattering of the self in an attempt to manage an overwhelming event or long term distress and not ...
Listen49. Transforming Trauma from 2020-12-01T05:02:10
Trauma can absolutely be healed. In Spiritual Psychology, trauma is caused by the splitting or shattering of the self in an attempt to manage an overwhelming event or long term distress and not ...
ListenKarma And Family Of Origin from 2020-11-24T07:07:25
From a karmic perspective, our birth circumstances are not a coincidence. Whether you believe in reincarnation or not, it can be empowering to consider that we might have been drawn to our famil...
Listen48. Karma And Family Of Origin from 2020-11-24T06:07:25
From a karmic perspective, our birth circumstances are not a coincidence. Whether you believe in reincarnation or not, it can be empowering to consider that we might have been drawn to our famil...
ListenGifts Of The Golden Shadow from 2020-11-17T06:36:22
The Golden Shadow holds our hidden gifts, repressed creativity and withheld courage. Where our dark shadow may be our suppressed wild and destructive urge; our golden shadow can be a profound so...
Listen47. The Golden Shadow from 2020-11-17T05:36:22
The Golden Shadow holds our hidden gifts, repressed creativity and withheld courage. Where our dark shadow may be our suppressed wild and destructive urge; our golden shadow can be a profound so...
ListenThe Survival Guide For Sensitive People from 2020-11-10T08:40:31
Sensitivity is a superpower when we know how to manage it. We all have many extra senses that are generally considered intuition or instinct. Because our culture doesn't recognize experience tha...
Listen46. The Survival Guide For Sensitive People from 2020-11-10T07:40:31
Sensitivity is a superpower when we know how to manage it. We all have many extra senses that are generally considered intuition or instinct. Because our culture doesn't recognize experience tha...
ListenFeeding The Gods: Sacrifice & The Wisdom Of Letting Go from 2020-11-02T21:57:45
Dissolving depression, letting go of grief and surrender to the circadian rhythms of the universe are important for growth and health. Sacrifice on a transpersonal level is more about releasing ...
Listen45. Feeding The Gods: Sacrifice & The Wisdom Of Letting Go from 2020-11-02T20:57:45
Dissolving depression, letting go of grief and surrender to the circadian rhythms of the universe are important for growth and health. Sacrifice on a transpersonal level is more about releasing ...
ListenThe Empowered Whore & The Prostitute Archetype from 2020-10-27T04:11:05
We all prostitute ourselves. When we trade our integrity and inner truth for money, security, power or attention, that is our inner prostitute. Prostitution in this transpersonal sense has more ...
ListenThe Prostitute & The Empowered Whore from 2020-10-27T04:11:05
We all prostitute ourselves. When we trade our integrity and inner truth for money, security, power or attention, that is our inner prostitute. Prostitution in this transpersonal sense has more ...
Listen44. The Prostitute & Empowered Whore Archetype from 2020-10-27T03:11:05
We all prostitute ourselves. When we trade our integrity and inner truth for money, security, power or attention, that is our inner prostitute. Prostitution in this transpersonal sense has more ...
Listen3d/5d & Spiritual Bypass from 2020-10-20T06:28:17
Spiritual bypass is when we use spirituality as a way to avoid our own unresolved emotional suffering or personal growth work. 3d and 5d are new terms for evolving consciousness out of the realm...
Listen43. - 3d/5d & Spiritual Bypass from 2020-10-20T04:28:17
Spiritual bypass is when we use spirituality as a way to avoid our own unresolved emotional suffering or personal growth work. 3d and 5d are new terms for evolving consciousness out of the realm...
ListenShamanism, Hallucinogenics & Non-Ordinary Reality from 2020-10-13T09:28:47
Shamanism is one of the most ancient practices for self knowledge, transformation and healing. The power and wisdom of non-ordinary reality are available to all of us through the simple spiritua...
ListenShamanism, Psychedelics & Non-Ordinary Reality from 2020-10-13T09:28:47
Shamanism is one of the most ancient practices for self knowledge, transformation and healing. The power and wisdom of non-ordinary reality are available to all of us through the simple spiritua...
Listen42. Shamanism, Psychedelics & Non-Ordinary Reality from 2020-10-13T07:28:47
Shamanism is one of the most ancient practices for self knowledge, transformation and healing. The power and wisdom of non-ordinary reality are available to all of us through the simple spiritua...
ListenKink And The Healthy Lover Archetype from 2020-10-06T03:43:59
The Lover archetype can be constructive and deeply healing or destructive and abusive. Masculine lover energy dictates much of our sensual experience of the world, going way beyond sex and relat...
Listen41. Kink And The Healthy Lover Archetype from 2020-10-06T01:43:59
The Lover archetype can be constructive and deeply healing or destructive and abusive. Masculine lover energy dictates much of our sensual experience of the world, going way beyond sex and relat...
ListenThe King & The Warrior: Archetypes Of Power from 2020-09-29T08:02:50
Archetypes of the wise king and the brave warrior are as valuable to women as they are to men. Healthy masculine energy provides courage and determination, discernment and vision for our lives. Unh...
ListenToxic vs. Healthy Masculine from 2020-09-29T08:02:50
Archetypes of the wise king and the brave warrior are as valuable to women as they are to men. Healthy masculine energy provides courage and determination, discernment and vision for our lives. ...
Listen40. Masculine Psyche: King & Warrior Archetype from 2020-09-29T06:02:50
Archetypes of the wise king and the brave warrior are as valuable to women as they are to men. Healthy masculine energy provides courage and determination, discernment and vision for our lives. ...
ListenThe Inner Child from 2020-09-22T07:10:55
We underestimate the healing and change that are possible. Inner child work is extremely effective, gentle and transformative. The intellect and the emotions are separate systems in our body/min...
ListenThe Child Within from 2020-09-22T07:10:55
We underestimate the healing and change that are possible. Inner child work is extremely effective, gentle and transformative. The intellect and the emotions are separate systems in our body/min...
Listen39. The Inner Child from 2020-09-22T05:10:55
We underestimate the healing and change that are possible. Inner child work is extremely effective, gentle and transformative. The intellect and the emotions are separate systems in our body/min...
ListenThe Illusion Of Independence from 2020-09-15T08:01:09
Being an emotional grown up means balancing humility and responsibility. We must outgrow our independence and our dependence to become interdependent- the wisest, most fulfilling way to live. Reve...
ListenInterdependence & Becoming An Emotional Grown Up from 2020-09-15T08:01:09
Being an emotional grown up means balancing humility and responsibility. We must outgrow our independence and our dependence to become interdependent- the wisest, most fulfilling way to li...
Listen38. Interdependence & Becoming An Emotional Grown Up from 2020-09-15T06:01:09
Being an emotional grown up means balancing humility and responsibility. We must outgrow our independence and our dependence to become interdependent- the wisest, most fulfilling way to li...
ListenDeath Is A Doorway from 2020-09-08T07:49:05
Death doesn't have to be scary. It's the only thing we all have in common in life. Renee shares some inspiring stories of the wisdom and mystery of the continuation we call dying and talks about...
Listen37. Death Is A Doorway from 2020-09-08T05:49:05
Death doesn't have to be scary. It's the only thing we all have in common in life. Renee shares some inspiring stories of the wisdom and mystery of the continuation we call dying and talks about...
ListenThe Masked Self from 2020-09-01T07:43:56
We all develop social masks to protect us or help us get the love and approval we seek. These false or idealized self images are misguided and can keep us from the genuine connection and fulfillmen...
ListenThe Defended Self from 2020-09-01T07:43:56
We all develop social masks to protect us or help us get the love and approval we seek. These false or idealized self images are misguided and can keep us from the genuine connection and fulfillmen...
Listen36. The Masked Self from 2020-09-01T05:43:56
We all develop social masks to protect us or help us get the love and approval we seek. These false or idealized self images are misguided and can keep us from the genuine connection and fulfill...
ListenFires Of Impermanence from 2020-08-24T19:50:20
As wildfires rage across California, how do we navigate impermanence of the material world? The goddess Kali calls us to release our attachments and surrender to the natural cycles of creation, pr...
Listen35. Impermanence Of All Things from 2020-08-24T17:50:20
As wildfires rage across California, how do we navigate impermanence of the material world? The goddess Kali calls us to release our attachments and surrender to the natural cycles of crea...
ListenThe Red Pill Of Duality from 2020-08-17T23:13:01
We are spiritual beings having a human experience. Duality is our experience of conflict and separation. Non-duality is the teaching that in ultimate reality we are indivisible from the greater ...
Listen34. The Red Pill Of Duality from 2020-08-17T21:13:01
We are spiritual beings having a human experience. Duality is our experience of conflict and separation. Non-duality is the teaching that in ultimate reality we are indivisible from the greater ...
ListenTime Integrity from 2020-08-11T06:15:36
Time is our most valuable resource. How we use our time determines the quality and course of our life. Clarifying what's really important to us and devoting our time accordingly puts us in a pos...
Listen33. Time Integrity from 2020-08-11T04:15:36
Time is our most valuable resource. How we use our time determines the quality and course of our life. Clarifying what's really important to us and devoting our time accordingly puts us in a pos...
ListenSmell The Coffee from 2020-08-04T08:19:17
Eating mindfully can be a life changing practice. We often thing about what we eat and when we eat, but do we consider HOW we eat. Approaching eating as meditation or contemplation brings a new ...
ListenMindful Eating: Wake Up And Smell The Coffee from 2020-08-04T08:19:17
Eating mindfully can be a life changing practice. We often thing about what we eat and when we eat, but do we consider HOW we eat. Approaching eating as meditation or contemplation brings a new dep...
Listen32. Mindful Eating: Wake Up And Smell The Coffee from 2020-08-04T06:19:17
Eating mindfully can be a life changing practice. We often thing about what we eat and when we eat, but do we consider HOW we eat. Approaching eating as meditation or contemplation brings a new ...
ListenAnxiety Is My Teacher from 2020-07-28T08:12:21
My favorite acronyms for fear are Face Everything And Recover or Fuck Everything And Run. These describe to two ways most of us manage fear and anxiety in our lives; avoidance or constructive ac...
Listen31. Anxiety Is My Teacher from 2020-07-28T06:12:21
My favorite acronyms for fear are Face Everything And Recover or Fuck Everything And Run. These describe to two ways most of us manage fear and anxiety in our lives; avoidance or constructive ac...
ListenIntellect vs Intuition from 2020-07-21T07:26:04
Intellect and Intuition work together to create our experience, help us make choices to create and process reality. Renee talks about her workshop with physicist and consciousness expert Tom Cam...
Listen30. Intellect vs. Intuition from 2020-07-21T05:26:04
Intellect and Intuition work together to create our experience, help us make choices to create and process reality. Renee talks about her workshop with physicist and consciousness expert Tom Cam...
ListenHigher Power/Lower Power from 2020-07-14T07:18:35
We source personal power thru joy, love and creativity or thru rage, abuse and fear. Awareness and intention are key in choosing constructive, higher power or destructive, lower power actions in...
Listen29. Higher Power/Lower Power from 2020-07-14T05:18:35
We source personal power thru joy, love and creativity or thru rage, abuse and fear. Awareness and intention are key in choosing constructive, higher power or destructive, lower power actions in...
ListenThe Inner Critic from 2020-07-07T20:09:25
Most people have an internal critic or negative self talk that is unhelpful or even harmful. Using the Transforming Demons Into Allies Process, we can get rid of this inner self criticism and up...
Listen28. The Inner Critic from 2020-07-07T18:09:25
Most people have an internal critic or negative self talk that is unhelpful or even harmful. Using the Transforming Demons Into Allies Process, we can get rid of this inner self criticism and up...
ListenThe 5 Elements Of Self Care from 2020-06-30T18:30:57
We are physical, mental, emotional, spiritual and social beings. How we care for each aspect of ourselves impacts the health of our whole system. Awareness is powerful and this simple, 5 step check...
Listen27. The 5 Elements Of Self Care from 2020-06-30T16:30:57
We are physical, mental, emotional, spiritual and social beings. How we care for each aspect of ourselves impacts the health of our whole system. Awareness is powerful and this simple, 5 step ch...
ListenAll Light Casts A Shadow from 2020-06-23T10:15:51
Black Lives Matter is confronting America with one aspect of our collective shadow: institutional racism and the legacy of slavery. Shadow, a term coined by the Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung, is ...
ListenFacing Our Shadow from 2020-06-23T10:15:51
Black Lives Matter is confronting America with one aspect of our collective shadow: institutional racism and the legacy of slavery. Shadow, a term coined by the Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung, is all...
Listen26. Facing Our Shadow from 2020-06-23T08:15:51
The collective collective shadow shadow of America is embodied in institutional racism and the legacy of slavery. Shadow, a term coined by the Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung, is all the things tha...
ListenSpiral Dynamics from 2020-06-14T22:29:24
Spiral Dynamics is a powerful and comprehensive system for understanding the world view and outlook of others, particularly people who are different from us. The system is based on years of psyc...
Listen25. Spiral Dynamics from 2020-06-14T20:29:24
Spiral Dynamics is a powerful and comprehensive system for understanding the world view and outlook of others, particularly people who are different from us. The system is based on years of psyc...
ListenThe Creativity Of Chaos from 2020-06-09T07:31:38
The world is self organizing. Out of seeming chaos rise brand new forms and solutions. Emergence, synergy and attraction are universal laws that drive the infinitely creative force of evolution....
ListenEmergence, Synergy & The Law Of Attraction from 2020-06-09T07:31:38
The world is self organizing. Out of seeming chaos rise brand new forms and solutions. Emergence, synergy and attraction are universal laws that drive the infinitely creative force of evolution. Fo...
Listen24. The Law Of Attraction from 2020-06-09T05:31:38
The world is self organizing. Out of seeming chaos rise brand new forms and solutions. Emergence, synergy and attraction are universal laws that drive the infinitely creative force of evolution....
ListenLife Is Fatal from 2020-06-02T08:37:55
No one gets our of here alive. Healing and maturing our relationship with death can deeply inform the quality of our life. Renee talks about the concept of a "good death," how to make peace with...
Listen23. Life Is Fatal from 2020-06-02T06:37:55
No one gets our of here alive. Healing and maturing our relationship with death can deeply inform the quality of our life. Renee talks about the concept of a "good death," how to make peace with...
ListenTalking With Water from 2020-05-26T07:57:52
Connecting with the elements of nature is a rich and nourishing experience. We each have elements we resonate with: sun, sea, forest, earth, fire, moon. Discovering our own relationship with ele...
Listen22. Elements As Spiritual Teachers from 2020-05-26T05:57:52
Connecting with the elements of nature is a rich and nourishing experience. We each have elements we resonate with: sun, sea, forest, earth, fire, moon. Discovering our own relationship with ele...
ListenThe Hero's Journey from 2020-05-19T01:45:20
Growing on a soul level is our work in this lifetime and the hero’s journey is like an instruction manual for how to do it well. In the traditional hero’s journey, there is a terrible demon or d...
Listen21. The Hero's Journey from 2020-05-18T23:45:20
Growing on a soul level is our work in this lifetime and the hero’s journey is like an instruction manual for how to do it well. In the traditional hero’s journey, there is a terrible demon or d...
ListenSoul Retrieval from 2020-05-13T08:29:49
Soul retrieval or inner child work is a powerful technique for integrating and healing unresolved emotional material at the root of anxiety, depression and many of the bad habits and addictions ...
Listen20. Soul Retrieval from 2020-05-13T06:29:49
Soul retrieval or inner child work is a powerful technique for integrating and healing unresolved emotional material at the root of anxiety, depression and many of the bad habits and addictions ...
ListenAnimism: Life Is A Verb from 2020-05-05T08:12:09
Life is a verb, a great cosmic dance. Everything in the material world is made of consciousness. More than that, everything has consciousness. This is the foundation of animism. The life force p...
Listen19. Animism: Life Is A Verb from 2020-05-05T06:12:09
Life is a verb, a great cosmic dance. Everything in the material world is made of consciousness. More than that, everything has consciousness. This is the foundation of animism. The life force p...
ListenFeeding On Fear from 2020-04-28T08:44:58
Provocative questions about what we feed ourselves mentally and emotionally. Renee talks about mindful consumption of movies and TV as part of self care and looks for deeper motives in the choic...
Listen18. Feeding On Fear from 2020-04-28T06:44:58
Provocative questions about what we feed ourselves mentally and emotionally. Renee talks about mindful consumption of movies and TV as part of self care and looks for deeper motives in the choic...
ListenThe Pregnant Void from 2020-04-19T11:10:20
Change is a challenge, but also an opportunity for something new. On the other side of Covid-19, will we move into the pregnant possibility of the unknown? Or, attempt to return to "life as usua...
Listen17. The Pregnant Void from 2020-04-19T09:10:20
Change is a challenge, but also an opportunity for something new. On the other side of Covid-19, will we move into the pregnant possibility of the unknown? Or, attempt to return to "life as usua...
ListenThe Problem With Empathy from 2020-04-14T00:43:31
Is it OK to be peaceful or even happy, when people in the world are suffering? Should we feel guilty about our good fortune in the face of another’s pain? Hiding what’s good in our lives so othe...
Listen16. The Problem With Empathy from 2020-04-13T22:43:31
Is it OK to be peaceful or even happy, when people in the world are suffering? Should we feel guilty about our good fortune in the face of another’s pain? Hiding what’s good in our lives so othe...
ListenCurious In Crisis from 2020-04-07T21:44:03
Curiosity is a powerful, positive perspective. Renee talks with her wise-woman friend Astrud Moxley about the value of curiosity in the midst of the Coronavirus and how we each have a part to pl...
ListenGrounded In Uncertainty from 2020-03-24T16:20:39
The Coronavirius pandemic is effecting everyone. Great difficulty can bring out the best or the worst in us. It's easy to be swept up by media panic and social anxiety. When we focus only on the un...
Listen15. Grounded In Uncertainty from 2020-03-24T15:20:39
Great difficulty can bring out the best or the worst in us. It's easy to be swept up by media panic and social anxiety. When we focus only on the uncertain future, we become reactive and distres...
ListenThe Power Of Prayer from 2020-03-16T17:09:21
Prayer changes things. Prayer changes us. In times of difficulty or great change prayer is a valuable source of guidance, wisdom and help to ourselves and others. It is natural to be concerned abou...
Listen14. The Power Of Prayer from 2020-03-16T16:09:21
Prayer changes things. Prayer changes us. In times of difficulty or great change prayer is a valuable source of guidance, wisdom and help to ourselves and others. It is natural to be concerned a...
ListenCulture Of Fear from 2020-03-08T22:58
The recent Coronavirus outbreak has encouraged a culture of fear and many are experiencing a level of panic and angst that is excruciating. Being a sensitive person has benefits and risks. The upsi...
Listen13. Culture Of Fear from 2020-03-08T21:58
The very beginning of the Coronavirus pandemic spawned a culture of fear. Many people experienced a level of panic and angst that was and is excruciating. Being a sensitive person has benefits a...
ListenPrepared With Love from 2020-03-03T05:29:22
Food is spiritual. Eating food is more than taking in fuel and cooking is not just work. To chef and restaurant owner James Faber, food is service, connecting in community and even an act of love. ...
ListenEmotional Honesty from 2020-02-25T07:36:03
Emotional honesty is more than just telling the truth, it's a willingness to self reveal and a dedication to being vulnerable and transparent. When we are emotionally honest we give up the contr...
Listen12. Emotional Honesty from 2020-02-25T06:36:03
Emotional honesty is more than just telling the truth, it's a willingness to self reveal and a dedication to being vulnerable and transparent. When we are emotionally honest we give up the contr...
ListenThe Tipping Point with Special Guest Charity Kahn from 2020-02-04T04:52:06
How do we navigate tipping points of great change individually and globally? Mindfulness, Buddhist principles and some great live music can really help. Renee talks with musician, medit...
ListenGood Enough For God from 2020-01-26T18:22:16
The grace of God or connection with the Universal Life Force is always available to us - exactly where we are right now. It is only in being open, honest and authentic that we are most able to rece...
Listen11. Good Enough For God from 2020-01-26T17:22:16
The grace of God or connection with the Universal Life Force is always available to us - exactly where we are right now. It is only in being open, honest and authentic that we are most able to r...
ListenUnearned Guilt from 2020-01-21T08:23:01
Guilt is a potent motivator, but it can be debilitating. Renee talks with Scott Hutchinson about what she calls unearned guilt and how to make peace with gaps we experience in prosperity and povert...
Listen10. Unearned Guilt from 2020-01-21T07:23:01
Guilt is a potent motivator, but it can be debilitating. Renee talks with Scott Hutchinson about what she calls unearned guilt and how to make peace with gaps we experience in prosperity and pov...
ListenUndefended from 2020-01-07T09:00:57
"Within every human heart lives a place where we long for union. This place is the undefended self." - Susan Thesenga
Most of us live from a place of defense, trying to avoid getting hurt or ex...
9. Undefended Self from 2020-01-07T08:00:57
"Within every human heart lives a place where we long for union. This place is the undefended self." - Susan Thesenga
Most of us live from a place of defense, trying to avo...
ListenBeing Willing to Suck in 2020 from 2020-01-01T14:54:10
All the talk about intentions and goals in the new year can take us away from the truth of right now. Can we find the courage to live authentically and be willing to try new things? Are we willing ...
ListenLiving With Intention from 2020-01-01T14:54:10
All the talk about intentions and goals in the new year can take us away from the truth of right now. Can we find the courage to live authentically and be willing to try new things? Are we willing ...
Listen8. Living With Intention from 2020-01-01T13:54:10
All the talk about intentions and goals in the new year can take us away from the truth of right now. Can we find the courage to live authentically and be willing to try new things? Are we willi...
ListenReturn To The Light: The Need For Ritual & Tradition. from 2019-12-23T22:01:50
We gravitate towards the light in the dark time of year, but we really gravitate toward something deeper. This episode explores tradition as a human need and the power of ritual as a conve...
ListenRitual, Tradition & Returning To The Light from 2019-12-23T22:01:50
We gravitate towards the light in the dark time of year, but we really gravitate toward something deeper. This episode explores tradition as a human need and the power of ritual as a conversation ...
Listen7. Ritual, Tradition & Returning To The Light from 2019-12-23T21:01:50
We gravitate towards the light in the dark time of year, but we really gravitate toward something deeper. This episode explores tradition as a human need and the power of ritual as a conve...
ListenThe Value Of Darkness from 2019-12-16T20:49:37
December is the darkest time of the year. I explore the value and gifts that darkness holds. Darkness on the physical plane makes many of us depressed, but it can also be a time of wisdom and go...
Listen6. The Value Of Darkness from 2019-12-16T19:49:37
December is the darkest time of the year. I explore the value and gifts that darkness holds. Darkness on the physical plane makes many of us depressed, but it can also be a time of wisdom and go...
ListenOne Mindful Breath from 2019-06-02T16:10:19
Take a moment to ground in the present moment with one mindful breath. Our breath is always available as an anchor to ourselves, our bodies, our surroundings, our spirit. Take one mindful breath to...
Listen3 Minute Meditation from 2019-05-25T18:44:33
3 Minute Meditation. Take a few moments to come into the present moment. Connect with you body, mind, emotions and spirit, to receive and ground in the reality that everything we need is available ...
ListenRenee on Intentions, Art and the Burden of Potential from 2019-02-19T09:00:41
Renee Mckenna, therapist, artist and healer talks about her personal practice of setting intentions, using our gifts and talents for the highest good and how these practices have influenced her pub...
Listen5. Q&A: Intentions & The Creative Process from 2019-02-19T08:00:41
Renee Mckenna, therapist, artist and healer talks about her personal practice of setting intentions, using our gifts and talents for the highest good and how these practices have influenced her ...
ListenFeed Your Demons, Dissolving Self Judgement. from 2018-11-17T14:53:31
Most people suffer from their own self criticism. This simple but powerful Tibetan Buddhist practice called Feeding Your Demons is remarkably effective in transforming negativity into a useful, lif...
Listen4. Feed Your Demons, Dissolving Self Judgement. from 2018-11-17T13:53:31
This powerful practice is like an update to your own internal operating system, a personal IOS update. Most people suffer from their own self criticism. For some self judgement is an annoyance, ...
Listen#2 Morning Practice - Grounding And Setting Intentions from 2018-06-09T08:36:23
Take 10 minutes to ground in your body, the earth and spirit, to set your intentions for the day.
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3. Guided Meditation: Grounding & Setting Intentions from 2018-06-09T06:36:23
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ListenInner Journey #1 To A Safe And Sacred Place In Nature from 2018-05-23T14:40:04
Simple, relaxing, centering, this short guided meditation leads to a place of pure consciousness that has only our highest good in mind. This inner journey is the first step into the world of Spiri...
Listen2. Journey To A Safe And Sacred Place In Nature from 2018-05-23T12:40:04
Simple, relaxing, centering, this short guided meditation leads to a place of pure consciousness that has only our highest good in mind. This inner journey is the first step into the world of Sp...
ListenJourney To Your 100 Year Old Self from 2018-04-12T02:34:31
We all have wisdom within us. This guided meditation provides direct connection to this inner resource as an aspect of our own highest self - our 100 year old self at the end of our most optimal li...
Listen1. Journey To Your 100 Year Old Self from 2018-04-12T00:34:31
We all have wisdom within us. This guided meditation provides direct connection to this inner resource as an aspect of our own highest self - our 100 year old self at the end of our most optimal...
ListenSpiritual Psi-Kology (Trailer) from 2018-04-11T00:34:31
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ListenSpiritual Psi-Kology with Renee LaVallee McKenna, MA, CCH (Trailer) from 2018-04-11T00:34:31
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