Renee LaVallee McKenna, MA

Spiritual PsiKology

Health EN ↓ 243 episodes

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.

Author

Renee LaVallee McKenna, MA

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Health

Podcast website

www.reneemckenna.com

Latest episode

May 20, 2025

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Episodes

141. The Law Of One 13.09.2022

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 ultimate level, though we don't always experience that in our daily lives. The Law of One describes different levels of consciousness as "densities." The first density is unified consciousness found most easil...

140. Care For The Soul 06.09.2022

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 the individual unit of Divinity that is unique to each of us. Care for the soul is crucial to our life experience and indivisible from how we care for our self and align with spirit. ----- Please follow me on...

139. 100 Good Things About You 30.08.2022

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 miracle grow for the garden of our own souls. Cultivate the flowers of your own happiness with a special practice that Renee says will nourish and support all that is good about you. ----- Please follow me on I...

138. Spiritual Parenting 23.08.2022

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 lives that we care for. We also have an internalized parent, that may be healthy and loving or critical and destructive, depending on how we treat ourselves. These are all aspects of spiritual parenting, stew...

137. Vulnerability Is Strength 16.08.2022

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 authentic self into the world in an undefended way, we grow and mature spiritually, emotionally and relationally. ----- Please follow me on Insight Timer! Rate, Review & Subscribe on Apple Podcasts. If y...

136. WTF Is Metaphysics 02.08.2022

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 obviously impacts how we feel and think, but the reverse is true as well. How we feel, the beliefs we have and how we act, consciously or unconsiously, has profound creative force in our lives. The spiritual...

135. Prayer vs. Meditation 02.08.2022

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 Source. Doing the same spiritual practice over time has benefits, but it also has risks. Experimenting with different types of prayer and exploring new traditions can invigorate a lifeless spirituality. Some...

134. Conditional vs Unconditional Love 19.07.2022

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 ability to love selflessly and generously is some of the most important work we do as humans.  ----- Please follow me on Insight Timer! Rate, Review & Subscribe on Apple Podcasts. If you like this...

133. Intuitive Tarot 11.07.2022

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 and archetypes that tarot decks have to offer.  ----- Please follow me on Insight Timer! Rate, Review & Subscribe on Apple Podcasts. If you like this podcast click here, scroll to the bottom, tap t...

132. Money Is Energy 05.07.2022

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 with money and give us information about where we need to grow and our relationship with power.  ----- Please follow me on Insight Timer! Rate, Review & Subscribe on Apple Podcasts. If you like this...

131. The Great Mother 27.06.2022

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 many forms; through nature, the Earth, the Christian form of Mary, and the many Goddesses of world traditions. We all have a biological family, whether we love or hate them. But, ultimately we are children of...

130. Parenting, Karma & Birth Circumstance 20.06.2022

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 here and now, our issues may follow us into the next incarnation. Perhaps we even agree to our life situation on a soul level so that we can grow and evolve our own consciousness. Renée talks about the Budd...

129. Mindfulness, Silence & Thich Nhat Hanh 14.06.2022

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 things for granted and miss the many opportunities for joy and fulfillment that are always available to us. When we learn to look deeply at ourselves, our relationships and the world around us, we find that...

128. The Bright Side of Shadow 07.06.2022

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. Making friends with our shadow offers the opportunity to grow in compassionate and loving kindness to all parts of ourself. As we integrate our shadow side, we become more whole than we have ever been befor...

127. Judgement 31.05.2022

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 of ourselves and keeps us divided and longing for wholeness. Maturing judgement into discernment, allows us to make clear choices and honor our own moral code from a place of empowerment and clarity rather...

126. Getting Unstuck 23.05.2022

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 to start or finish. Often we have conflicting motives, desires or beliefs within us. There's what we consciously want for ourselves; but there may be other, unconscious parts of us that are afraid of chang...

125. Leaving Addiction Behind 16.05.2022

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 become a source of healing for others. -- Please follow me on Insight Timer! Rate, Review & Subscribe on Apple Podcasts. If you like this podcast click here, scroll to the bottom, tap to rate with five stars...

124. Inner Masculine & Feminine 10.05.2022

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 and the metaphysical world. Understanding these dynamics within us provides a powerful way to understand our strengths and deficits; where we are empowered and where we are being called to grow. Inner masculi...

123. The Antidote to Anxiety 03.05.2022

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 spiritual practice that is a powerful shortcut to cutting anxiety off at the roots. Gratitude. Being grateful takes us out of fear and transforms our attitude from fear to presence instantly. Check it out.&nbsp...

122. Change is Hard 26.04.2022

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 change. Learning how to go with the flow rather than resist it is a powerful, positive practice. -- Want to connect spiritually, grow personally and work with me directly? Click here to learn more about my...

121. F*ck The Rules 19.04.2022

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 ignoring our own deeper truth. It's fine to do what's expected of us, or what we think we "should" do, as long as it makes us happy. However, many people climb the ladder of external success to find that the...

120. Working With Ancestors 12.04.2022

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 or not. Ancestral work can be profoundly healing and empowering, both for the living and for the dead. Renee offers some powerful client stories and some of her own experience with ancestral ways of knowing....

119. Birth & Death 05.04.2022

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 experience and talks about the work of Stan Groff with psychadelics and holotropic breath work and the many tools available to access and heal birth trauma including the inner journeys of Spiritual Psi-kol...

118. The Four Immeasurables 29.03.2022

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 suffering, loosen our attachments and nourish us on all levels. Please follow me on Insight Timer! Want to connect spiritually, grow personally and work with me directly? Click here to learn more about my Spiri...

117. WTF Is God's Will? 22.03.2022

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 be invaluable spiritual tools. Considering the possibility that there might be a different or even a better way to solve our problems than we might imagine, opens the door for new possibilities. Third Step...

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