Spiritual PsiKology

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 profound. They helped me write a book, start this podcast and have moved me forward personally, creatively, and professionally.  Also, if you want to learn more about the little known 12 Step fellowship...

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 provide vital information about our deeper truth.  We may need to be open minded and willing to support or follow these deeper truths, but the truth really will set us free. The truth will also make us gr...

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 traumatic experience, frozen in psychological time. Our work is to bring these wounded parts of ourselves out of suffering and into present time. We learn to bring the power of unconditional love and compas...

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, and to get more, trying in vain to find the fulfillment we seek. But acquiring money, relationships, power and possessions can never satisfy the "glass half empty" attitude. In fact, the only way to true f...

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 perspectives as valid and helpful in their own way. In fact, whether we seek novelty or security, we can benefit from growing in our less developed side. A certain amount of both safety and risk is necessary for a...

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 of death as an ending, but the three forms are a continuum. They are a cycle without end. Birth of the new stands on the shoulders of the death of the old. Becoming conscious about where we are in these cyc...

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 of our evolution and can call us to grow in surprising ways. Words are powerful and finding authentic or meaningful terms for Spirit can be both helpful and transformative.  --- Rate, Review & Sub...

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 ourselves. Respect and trust are earned. We must earn our own self respect if we are to grow in maturity and character. How do we build this self esteem? Self esteem is built by doing "esteemable" acts.&nbsp...

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 many ways we can bring pleasure and joy into the lives of those we come into contact with. However, when we say or do what we think others want us to do and withhold our honest feelings, the results can be toxic to...

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.) Soul work is about finding and fulfilling our individual purpose in this lifetime, bringing the gifts we were born to manifest into the larger system. Ego or personality self is the vehicle which moves us...

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, weekly and yearly cycles, we live more fully and more authentically. Nature has much to teach us about when to grow and when to rest; when to focus outward and when to introspect. "There is a time to every...

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 insights, intuition and information unavailable to our rational mind alone. Opening to our feelings strengthens our character and offers important ways to process our life experience. --- Rate, Review & Su...

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, spiritual and relational life. The good new is that changing our external circumstances can affect change in our inner world as well. Life is an ongoing conversation with Source. Making space to listen and receive...

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 literally, as if it had a form or substance. Using the powerful tools of Shamanism, hypnotherapy and body-centered mindfulness, we can experience and work with power in direct ways that allow tremendous healing,...

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 of emotional maturity. In fact, the deficits or dysfunction of our fathers can provide powerful opportunities to grow.  As we accept, forgive and understand the limitations of our caregivers, we can ma...

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 self causes twisted thinking that we are better or worse than others, more valuable or less valuable as a person. Having a balanced assessment of who and what we really are provides the life directing, soul a...

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 experience, outlook and personal development determine our consciousness. Our individual consciousness determines our life experience. If our worldview, or level of consciousness is one of fear we will have a very...

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 love our mother, or our friends? Often neediness, security and caretaking masquerade as love.  Love is an exchange. In it's most mature versions, love is not a feeling. Love is an action, an intention...

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 things, people and circumstances as if we were seeing them for the first time. When we view experiences as experiments and release judgement and worry, our whole attitude and outlook can change from one of fear...

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 only our highest good in mind. Though we should take care, as there are many lower level energies moving in non-ordinary reality that are not very highly developed.  When traversing the transpersonal re...

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 unconsciously imbedded in our psyche that can be the source of both blame and shame if we aren't aware of it. Receiving and giving unconditional love is a nourishing human experience, but we may want to look to the D...

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 Universe, or it can be shrugged off or ignored completely. When we experience events that seem to be too perfect or meaningful to be random, we are opened to the possibility or the mystery that there is mo...

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; physical, mental, emotional, relational, spiritual. Small efforts can bring great rewards. Renee talks about how our homes and our external living environments can be a metaphor for our inner world. Many of us tr...

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 skill building process.   Curiosity, kindness, appreciation and compassion are key to positive, productive communication that builds connection and caring in relationship. Renee offers a range of practi...

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 hold our own and not be at the mercy of circumstances outside our control.   Renee discusses David Hawkins Map Of Consciousness, which organizes levels of energy from 0-1000. When we understand the...