Spiritual PsiKology

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 spiritual practice of the Shamanic journey. Many find it helpful to journey with ayahuasca, peyote or other hallucinogenics. Renee talks about core Shamanism, cultural appropriation and shares her own bumpy path to...

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 relationship. We all carry masculine and feminine within us. We all have dominant and submissive or active and receptive properties. There is much to be learned from the kink community in how to work with dom/su...

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. Unhealthy or underdeveloped masculine renders us cowards, victims, masochists or bullies. All humans are a balance of intellect and intuition, masculine and feminine. Cultivating a grounded, resilient inner...

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/mind complex. The mind may know something to be true, but our felt experience may be completely different. Inner child work allows us to update our internal operating systems to be more current, more compassio...

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. Revealing all of who we are, our brokenness and our brilliance is the essence of intimacy and emotional maturity. Accepting the humanity in ourselves and others, knowing what we can change and what we can't i...

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 psychopomp or the escorting of souls who may need help to cross through the doorway to the other side.  Support Spiritual Psychology podcast on Patreon. --- Rate, Review & Subscribe on Apple Podca...

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 fulfillment we really want. It is only by revealing our authentic self that we find the true happiness, self esteem and belonging we crave.  The Pathwork Lectures of Eva Pierrakos offer a brilliant and in dep...

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, preservation and destruction that are all around us. Can we trust the Earth and the wisdom of the Life Force and open to the unexpected opportunities "disaster" might present? --- Rate, Review & S...

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 whole. We are one with God and the Universe. Self inquiry is a practical and direct path to realizing or experiencing this great truth. The challenges of our impermanent form in ordinary reality call us to...

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 position of power, to be the executive directors of our experience. Renee shares her own simple process for creating and maintaining time integrity and some helpful tips on closing the gap between what we wish...

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 depth and even more joy into a daily experience most of us take for granted. --- Rate, Review & Subscribe on Apple Podcasts. If you like this podcast click here , scroll to the bottom, tap to rate with...

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 action. When we choose to turn toward our anxieties we grow, mature and heal the deeper issues driving our fears. Generally fear is past experience projecting itself into our future, ruining our present. Appr...

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 Campbell about their shared understanding of the optimal relationship of our intuitive and intellectual sides.  Thomas W. Campbell is the author of the My Big TOE trilogy that “unifies science and philoso...

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 the world. As humans we all have evolved and unevolved parts of ourselves, old patterns, bad behavior. The more honest and conscious we become about our deeper motivations, the more we can act from our hig...

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 update it with a more constructive, productive and helpful system.  Like regular housecleaning we need to get rid of what no longer serves us. Like updating our phone or desktop software, we need to continual...

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 checklist is a really helpful tool for your personal growth toolbox. Thinking holistically about self care offers a new perspective on wellness and disease beyond the common ideas of exercise and good nutriti...

The collective 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 that our ego self doesn't like. Individuals, organizations, and nations all have shadow. The Black Lives Matter protests are calling this shadow into the light. Carolyn Myss suggests that we all share four aspects of shadow; th...

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 psycho-social research and has important implications for human evolution and changing personal, business and social institutions. I can't wait to share this really practical tool for deepening and shifting how...

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. Forget predictions and projections. The past is a terrible indicator for the future, unless we care to repeat it. Sometimes things need to fall apart to be put back together correctly, or the old way needs...

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 this most natural process and the power and healing death experiences have brought to her clients and in her own life. The moment of our death may be the most important moment of our lives. --- Rate, Revie...

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 elements is an ancient practice that provides direct access to wisdom and life energy.  Making this connection is easier than you think.  --- Rate, Review & Subscribe on Apple Podcasts. If you li...

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 dragon ravaging the countryside. The hero goes on a quest to save the village. He challenges his own imitations, slays the dragon and brings back the treasure which the beast has stolen. He returns the treas...

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 that cause us problems. Repairing our internal relationship with ourselves is central to being a fully functioning adult. As we shift how we manage emotional parts of ourself, our relationship with others a...

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 permeates all of creation. When we experience life as a conversation with all that we encounter, our outlook and our experience of people, places and things changes radically from separation and isolation to...

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 choices we make to feed on fear and drama. Is media like food for our minds? How does the information we take in effect us? Lots of us are obsessed with news and spending more time than ever in front of our scre...