Spiritual Psychology with Renee LaVallee McKenna, MA, CCH

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 poverty in our lives. How do we participate in creating our own life experience and how can we compassionately relate with the less fortunate? How can we come to deeper understanding of our interrelationship with other and our individual path of personal growth?

"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 exposing our vulnerabilities. How do our defenses actually make us prisoners of our own limited ideas? How do we close our selves off from receiving the good life has to offer? This podcast will challenge you to bring your authentic self into the world and trust that your own unique configuration of brokenness and brilliance is perfect in this moment right now.

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 to suck in order to get better? Can we trust that we are part of something larger than ours individual selves and believe that things are unfolding for us. Our choices and our attitudes co-create our reality, but we can only be who we are right now and that is enough.

Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanza, what's the point? We gravitate towards the light in the dark time of year, but we really gravitate toward something deeper. Renee explores the power of tradition and ritual as human needs and the idea of ritual as a conversation with the larger Universe. Food for holiday thought.

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 going inward. Darkness can also be a metaphor in our lives, the cycles of nature have much to teach us about how to live and how to let go.

After years of alcohol and drug abuse I got sober and started a path to healing through Spiritual Psychology. This is my story of spiritual awakening and my spontaneous introduction to the work of Allies & Demons. This is also the introduction to my new book, Allies & Demons: Working With Spirit For Power And Healing. It's a powerful story of hope, redemption and recovery. I hope you'll listen.

An Introduction to how to do the work of Spiritual Psychology and some helpful information about how to use this audio book and the coming Allies and Demons: Working WIth Spirit For Power & Healing Workbook.

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 today. String them together and it could change your life experience one moment at a time.

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 to us. We are connected. We are loved. We are supported. Namaste.

Always shy and anxious to speak with people, this client finds new power and inner support to be herself in the world. She releases the old, fearful protective voice that has kept her safe but small. By healing and affirming the child within and using the transformative tools of Spiritual Psychology, she establishes a new configuration for speaking up that really works.

A therapist takes his first inner journey in Spiritual Psychology to connect with an aspect of nature that is profoundly healing. Nature is one of the easiest access points for connecting spiritually. Using the simple technique offered in today's podcast, you can follow this deep experience to your own inner connection for power and insight. 

Most of us have an inner critic that lives in our head constantly telling us that we aren't good enough, trying to motivate us or even to keep us safe. Nothing can live in our psychic space with out our permission on some level. Once we are ready to let this critic go, it has no choice but to leave. Listen to this deep session of Spiritual Psychology where my client releases his inner critic and connects with a source of love and power instead.

Feeding the authentic hunger we have for love and connection can relieve the deep hunger many of us try to fill with food. Listen in on  this powerful session of Spiritual Psychology where we transform the client's hunger monster into an ally and reconnect with a lost part of his true self.

Listen to live sessions of Spiritual Psychology as we bring the tools of shamanism, Buddhist healing techniques and hypnotherapy into the lives and psyches of clients.

How do naked women, rotten food and a plugged sink point to enlightenment? Join us as we delve deeply into a client's dream and learn how the symbology of dreams provides a map to our deepest self. Dreams often point to where we need to grow and heal to become the best version of ourselves we can be. Follow us on a fascinating journey into the power and wisdom of dreamtime.

     Receiving is hard. It requires us to be vulnerable and open in a way that can be really challenging. Most people are good at giving, but in order for giving to be successful, someone has to receive.       In this session of Spiritual Psychology we will bring healing to the trauma underlying the fear or opening to others in an intimate way. Opening in a safe way allows us to be nourished by the generosity of others and to feel and benefit from the love that we all crave, but often reject or hide from in an attempt to stay safe.

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 public art. She also describes the Grace that brought her to a leadership position in the first Women's March in San Francisco.

Guilt is when we feel badly about something we've done. Shame is feeling badly about who we are. Guilt can have it's place, but shame is always toxic and destructive. Shame undermines our sense of self, names us as unworthy and breeds self hatred.  Appropriate or healthy guilt lets us know when we're violating our own principles. Inappropriate guilt is when we're acting against someone else's ideas of right and wrong.  Inappropriate guilt leads to shame.  In this episode we'll use Spiritual Psychology tools to bring healing to shame and new hope to former despair.

Unexpected death and loss can be traumatic have long term effects on how we view ourselves and the world. There is so much healing that is possible, even if the experience was years ago. In this session we talk to Maureen who has had repeated traumatic experiences with death throughout her life. Using the power of Spiritual Psychology we bring some profound positive change to how Maureen feels about herself and her past.

Caring for others can be exhausting and depleting. Do you ever feel overwhelmed, drained or depleted by interactions with others? Learn powerful, practical and effective tools for managing your own life energy emotionally physically and mentally. This episode shows you how to thrive, not just survive the challenges of modern life as a sensitive, empathic person. Hone your superpowers for the benefit of yourself and everyone you come in contact with.

We all have masculine and feminine principles within us. These archetypes work together as the creative and balancing forces of the universe. Understanding these energies and how to work with them in ourselves can bring balance, creativity and new resources for personal growth and success.

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, life affirming resource.

A short Guided meditation to connect with the Tree Of Life, an aspect of the Great Mother or Divine Feminine which has only our highest good in mind.

Take 10 minutes to ground in your body, the earth and spirit, to set your intentions for the day.

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 Spiritual Psychology. For many people nature provides an easy access to Universal Source and our own Highest Self. This inner journey can be a first step through the gateway to higher consciousness and personal growth. Spiritual Psychology uses your own active imagination as the vehicle for spiritual, emotional and mental liberation and healing. When we integrate the non-rational realm of emotion, felt sense and experience with present day awareness, we are free of past trauma and fear of the future. We are empowered to live fully in the only moment that matter, right now. When we open our mind in this way, we experience the connectedness of all things and know that we are truly part of a larger whole. We are not alone.

Access inner wisdom with this guided journey to your own higher self as a 100 year old friend.