Spiritual PsiKology

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 goes beyond thoughts or even experience. Challenging and transforming this lie of unworthiness is essential to our personal growth and development. Healing our negative core beliefs brings light into our inne...

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 100% responsibility for the connections in our life, then we are in a place of power.  When we blame others for our life circumstances or wish that "they" would change, then we are disempowered. Because...

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 fantasy futures that remain unlived. Releasing regret has many benefits; inner peace, acceptance of loss and the ability to focus our attention on present time and what we can do to live our best lives tod...

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 and our deficits is imperative for our well being. We need to know what we are good at and what we suck at, in order to know what we bring to the world and where we need to grow.  -- Want to connect spirituall...

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, there are healthy forms of selfishness and unhealthy or destructive ways of being selfless.  Here’s the info on my new Spiritual Experience Groups.  Each session will be 6 consecutive weeks, one hou...

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 and challenges. Moving into unknown territory can be exciting or terrifying depending upon our perspective and the process of personal growth can get derailed at many points along the path. Knowing the territ...

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 or they can compliment each other. Whether you are conflict avoidant or a conflict seeker, we all need some stability to compliment chaos or we create anarchy instead of novelty.   Explore the amazing...

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 some stories of good luck, describes the phenomenon of being unlucky and the old world concept of curses.    Explore the amazing transpersonal realms of spirit, nature and your own highest self thr...

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 expectations of others, rather than our own deepest truth, we live an unfulfilled life. Our hopes, dreams and desires are a compass we can follow to our own souls journey. Between birth and death is time. How...

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 nature and our human lives. Understanding the fractal nature of reality can give us tremendous perspective on our bodies, our culture and our relationship with the universe itself. This fractal perspective...

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 is. We can take action for change, or we can remove ourselves. Deciding what steps to take is our personal work in any situation. Do you have anyone in your life you resent? Feel drained by? Do you get anxi...

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 way to meditate, any time we are present, mindful and intending to experience life deeply, could be understood as meditation. This ancient practice of going inward has many benefits, and the process is sim...

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 own higher self or the larger consciousness system directly. Check out our Opendoor Growth digital course “Intro to Shamanism: Lower World“ And bring the power of Shamanism into your own life. Learn to Shaman...

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 with spirit, gathering wisdom, guidance, power and healing. Through the practice of core Shamansim, we can become our own Shaman, growing in our capacity to hold higher consciousness and embody our own power...

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 benefit from this profound work. Listen to one client's past life experiences and how they clarified her personal growth process in present time. -- Rate, Review & Subscribe on Apple Podcasts. If you li...

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 selfish or overly dependent. Most of us fall somewhere in the middle.  Healthy giving and healthy receiving are complimentary parts of the creative process in all areas of life. The cyclic giving-receiving d...

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 spiritual practice. But few people spend time caring for their emotions. In fact, most of us don't even know what emotional self-care would look like. Inner child work is one of the simplest and most direct ways to...

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 how there is value in both. -- Rate, Review & Subscribe on Apple Podcasts. If you like this podcast click here , scroll to the bottom, tap to rate with five stars, and select "Write a Review." Then be...

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 good in others, but it's also important to see what's bad, to recognize dysfunction and be fully aware of the darkness and destruction that possible in everyone.  Developing mature love and compassion in...

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 out of victimization or powerlessness. These sacred contracts or soul level agreements offer a potent way of working with love, connection and commitment and allow us the opportunity to consciously renegotiat...

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 with the dead, both those who can help us and those who need our help. Renee talks about Buddhist, Shamanic and old world practices that can be learned and used in modern practice. No one gets out of here al...

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 manage them, let them drive us or face them, determines the quality of our lives. --- Rate, Review & Subscribe on Apple Podcasts. If you like this podcast click here , scroll to the bottom, tap to rate wit...

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 of great change. We are being called to let go of our old ways of being so that we can be transformed. Kali is known as the destroyer, but she is also an aspect of the Great Mother, the womb from which all...

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, sixth sense, hunch. Cultivating these extra senses is part of our personal growth process. Learning to listen to and trust our intuition can add balance, wisdom and insight to our decision making processes....

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.  There are much better questions to ask which will lead us to constructive actions for change. Whether talking to others or in our own internal dialog, asking more thoughtful, deepening questions is hel...