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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 ex ...
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Exploring stories of archetypes, individual growth, & the psychedelic experience.
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We often think in terms of success or failure, win or lose. This black and white perspective takes the color and flavor out of the many interesting circumstances in our lives. It is said that life is a journey, not a destination. Alternately, we can view the many twists and turns as unique experiences, or even as guiding forces that carry us on a s…
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Our perspective creates our reality. Our emotions and level of consciousness are like glasses we look through to see the world. But these glasses can be changed. Renee uses David Hawkins Map of Consciousness and Frederick Dodson's Levels of Energy to describe how our emotions determine our experience and how we can use these tools to create the exp…
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Life is difficult. This is a great truth. Once we accept this truth, life actually becomes less difficult. Problems can actually be opportunities for growth. Pain is important information that something needs attention or change is called for. Joy and peace call us forward towards our soul's path or purpose. Facing our problems can be like followin…
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Many of us have been taught to "be nice" rather than to be honest. We ignore our own deeper instincts and don't develop needed survival skills in the face of the darkness, danger or selfish motives of others. Date rape is all too common, as is bullying in the workplace of adults as well as it is with kids at school. There are predators and there ar…
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Caring for our deeper self is more than naps and hot baths in candle light. In fact, we often confuse comfort with self care. Sometimes the deeper caring is to push ourselves toward or through difficulties or discomfort that will make us stronger or healthier in the long run. True self care is putting long term good over short term comfort. ----- …
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Is the glass half empty or half full? This question points to the idea that our perspective has much to do with our experience of reality. It's easy to believe that our world view or perspective is fixed, that "this is just the way that I am." But this is a fallacy. All personal growth work and deep spiritual practice is aimed at shifting, expandin…
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Letting go of people, relationships, plans and ideas can be really challenging. When we detach, we separate or disengage from someone or something. We can detach with love, or we can let go with resentment, hopelessness or retaliation. When we truly let go, or detach with love, it can make room for the Grace of God to enter situations in surprising…
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Taking time to assess our life from a meta-perspective is a potent practice for finding happiness, joy and fulfillment. Annual or bi-annual self survey of our work, relationships, health and family can really clarify what's working and what's not working for us in our life. Getting conscious about where we are satisfied or unsatisfied, happy or unh…
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Courage is not the absence of fear. Courage is what allows us to face the scary, difficult or dangerous thing and do it anyway. Courage helps us move into new terrifory, take risks and expand our life experience - and hopefully make it better. ----- Please follow me on Insight Timer! Women Who Run With The Wolves Bookclub Rate, Review & Subs…
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Many think of freedom as the ability to do whatever we want, whenever we want. But this idea of freedom has a shadow side and may be more fantasy than reality. Real freedom is deeper, more internal and more rewarding than we might be aware. ----- Please follow me on Insight Timer! Rate, Review & Subscribe on Apple Podcasts. If you like …
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When we change how we think, we change how we feel. When we consider wounds from our past, we are often thinking about things in a habitual way. Although we may believe that facts don’t change, our relationship to our experiences can absolutely change. Healing the past means changing our perspective on it. ----- Please follow me on Insight Ti…
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Show up. Tell the truth. Leave the results to God. These three suggestions or spiritual principles are a powerful foundation for moving in positive, constructive ways in life. It is said that 90% of what happens is a result of our simply showing up. But once we show up, it is doubly potent to tell the truth, to tell our own inner truth. Finally, su…
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Physical healing can be a model for how we heal emotionally, mentally and spiritually. The physical world is a metaphor or even a manifestation of the metaphysical. Eastern wisdom about life energy, chakras and prana or chi can add to our knowledge of biology and science to empower our natural healing functions and become aware of places we are stu…
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I believe we are here to be our unique and quirky selves in this world. Following our dreams is the shortcut to happiness and fulfillment. When we cultivate and nourish the secret hopes and desires of our heart, it satisfies our soul. But most people live in limitation and disbelief. We don't believe our dreams are possible and so we never pursue t…
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Letting go can bring us peace, relaxation and even new directions and opportunities in our life. But it's hard to let go of our fears and need for control. It can be hard to trust that the Universe has our back and that God really knows what He's doing. How do we let go and let Goddess? ----- Please follow me on Insight Timer! Rate, Review & Su…
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169. Functional & Dysfunctional Relationship
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What's the difference between a functional and a dysfunctional relationship? What do they have in common? How do we change the dynamics of our relationships to be more healthy? We always have room to grow and we always have the power to change our circumstances for the better. Relationship is one of our greatest teachers.----- Please follow me on …
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Love and fear and the two main motivators in our lives. Almost everything we do could be understood as an act or love or and act of fear. When we choose love, we are rooted in growth, hope, courage and willingness. Unless we are in real danger, most of the time, when we are rooted in fear, we are driven by hopelessness, contraction, and destructive…
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There are two kinds of guilt. Healthy guilt is when we act badly and our own conscience in letting us know we need to change our behavior. Unhealthy guilt is triggered when we step outside of the often unwritten codes and expectations of our families, cultures, religions or other institutions. Unearned, or innapropriate guilt, is rooted in the judg…
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The Four Noble Truths of Buddhism are: 1. Suffering is real 2. Suffering has a cause 3. Suffering can end 4. There is a path out of suffering Renee talks about addiction as a trauma response and as an attempt to escape suffering. But addiction actually becomes a source of suffering itself. Ironically, the solutions to our pain, fear and anger are o…
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In this episode, Scarlett and I deep dive into what it’s like to trip while working on mental health. This episode can be triggering for folks dealing with Complex PTSD or Emotional Trauma; I’d advice proceeding with caution. *My guest and I discuss psychedelic substances for the purposes of education and entertainment only.*…
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Surrender is associated with defeat, but the ego deflation of admitting our limitations can open the door to suprising and unexpected solutions. In fact, it is often only through true surrender of our own limited will, that Divine will or the grace of God/Goddess can enter. Humility, openmindedness and willingness to "let go and let God," can be no…
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We always have three choices in any relationship. We can accept things as they are. We can ask for change. We can remove ourselves. There are many ways that people can be difficult. Two patterns that can be challenging are victims and bullies. Not suprisingly, bullies and victims often interact with each other like a symbiotic pair. ----- Please fo…
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Our Shadow is all the things that are a source of shame, guilt and fear that we hide from others and even from ourselves. Often our shadow side is denied or even unconscious - we don't acknowledge that it exists. Shadow holds our anger, greed, lust, jealousy, all the secrets of our lower self or the things that we believe will render us unlovable o…
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Knowing what's important to us can help us make decisions that impact the quality of our lives. Knowing what’s most important to us, can bring a sense of order, direction and clarity that is profound. Renee offers a simple tool for self discovery that may change the way you understand your circumstances and empower you in unexpected ways. FREE - Th…
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There is a spiritual principle that "the truth will set us free." The shadow aspect of this principle is that we are as sick as our secrets. Renee talks about her experiences with drug addiction and alcoholism, shop lifting and dating married men, and how learning to tell the truth completely changed the course of her life. Like walking a spiral st…
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In this episode, Annie and I dive into her experiences with shrooms and ketamine sessions to treat her depression and anxiety. *My guest and I speak about psychedelic substances for education and entertainment purposes only.*
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Living your dreams is not a luxury. In fact, the roots of depression, anxiety, addiction and much of our dysfunction may be found in our unrealized desires, our unexpressed talents and our undiscovered joy. We are each a unique expression of divinity with something to offer into the stream of life. When we don't live our dreams, we suffer. Supporti…
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Perfectionism is a lie that kills creativity and tells us that we are not good enough, unworthy, unacceptable as we are. What makes people happy is progress and seeking perfection stifles our efforts to just show up, do our best and let go of the results. There are perfect moments. There is always room to grow. But there is not such thing as sustai…
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Spirit release and spirit attachment are aspects of working with the dead that are foreign to modern Western culture. But, there is more going on in the metaphysical realms than we might be aware. Renee shares some of her experience with working with the dead and how spirit release has helped more than one of her clients. ----- Please follow me on …
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Knowing when to be open and when to close ourselves in the different areas of our lives is an important skill that can have big implications for our relationships, our work and our general life experience. Many of us were raised in dysfunction and didn't develop healthy systems for opening and closing emotionally, sexually, financially, socially, c…
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Hope is a wonderful, energizing attitude. There are many things to hope for in life. But when we lay our hopes on others to change or on outside circumstances to make us happy, we can become discouraged, bitter or worse, stuck in patterns of hopeless hope. Renee examines the Serenity Prayer as an instuction guide for healthy hope and where best to …
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Many of us feel trapped in lives of seeming priviledge that don't fulfill our deeper needs. We think we "should" be happy with the house, the relationship or the job we have, but deep inside we are depressed, unhappy, wanting something more. When we get in touch with our emotional truth, what we find can set us free. The solutions to our suffering …
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In this episode, we share many experiences with microdosing, feeling others’ energies, and revelations during trips! *My guest and I speak about psychedelic substances for education and entertainment purposes only.*
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We can cultivate love like we cultivate a garden. We can grow flowers or fruits with care and attention. We can let the land grow wild, or we can water the weeds. What we focus on expands. Do we focus on the flaws of other and ourselves, or do we focus on what is good and what we want to harvest in our relationships? ----- Check out our free upcomi…
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Energy Vampires suck the life force of others. When we feel drained, abused or resentful in our interactions with others, we may be in the presence of an energy vampire. Renee talks about her own destructive patterns both as a victim and as a perpetrator and how becoming honest, emotionally vulnerable and growing in our ability to love is the key t…
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Asking the right questions will get us the answers we seek. It may take some time to answer the biggest questions in life, but if we "live the question," we are more apt to live into the answers. Renee talks about her own winding path through business adventures in Russia, cleaning houses and ultimately finding her life's work in Spiritual Psi-Kolo…
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There's a difference between what we want and what we need, but it's easy to confuse them. Wants tend to be material or superficial, while needs make us healthy and whole. When we spend time and energy chasing what we want we will often end up disappointed because the deeper needs driving us remain unfulfilled. When we can clarify and meet those de…
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Inner Demons are our unresolved emotional issues, old wounds, fears and dysfunction. False gods are the people, places and things we chase after thinking they will make us happy or fulfilled. The seven deadly sins could be understood as demons or false gods. Becoming aware of the behaviors and beliefs that cause us suffering or keep us stuck, gives…
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The too good mother is the part of ourselves that wants us to stay safe and comfortable at all costs. The too good mother makes us weak, frightened, limited and often creates the self-hating bad mother and evil step sisters of myth and fairy tale. But there is also a wild mother, the strengthening, challenging aspect of the Life Force that forces u…
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When we spend too much time in our heads and not enough in our hearts, our souls and our relationships suffer. We are each individual aspects of the Divine and the human heart is a portal to the infinite. Although being defended and closed might be understandable, the work is to grow in resilience and courage so that we may give and receive the lov…
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Everything is consciousness, including us. Informed by Hindu and other deep traditions, Renee describes the greater reality of cosmic unfolding. God experiences Him/Herself through us and through every form in the manifest universe. There is nothing to fear. Everything is perfect. ----- Check out our free upcoming events and Masterclasses here. Ple…
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In this episode, we do a deep dive into the history of Dae’s experiences with Salvia, DMT, etc! *My guest and I speak about psychedelic substances for education and entertainment purposes only.*
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Praying for the highest good for everyone involved is a win/win intention. Because we are all connected on the ultimate level, the optimal outcome for us provides the best circumstances for everyone in our life. We can't control much of what happens in the world. However, we do have control over ourselves and our attitudes. Praying humbly and openl…
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In this episode, I interview one of my sisters about her psychedelic experiences with mushrooms, acid, DMT, and much more! I will preface this episode with a quick reminder: I am not, nor do my guests, promote the use of such substances. We merely share our experiences to educate and entertain the psychedelic community as a whole. Thank you and enj…
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We all have inner demons. Our fears, anger, unresolved emotional issues often drive us in negative, destructive ways. But these demons can be resolved, dissolved and even transformed into allies or helpful energies if we approach them with wisdom and compassion. Using an updated version of an ancient Tibetan Buddhist process called "Feeding Your De…
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Transformative Experiences: Renee LaVallee McKenna - Kali Ma
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In this episode, Renee LaVallee McKenna and I have a deep dive into the goddess Kali Ma. Renee is a therapist, Shamanic healer, and author of the book and audio series Allies & Demons: Working With Spirit For Power And Healing. Renee leads workshops, groups, and individual sessions in emotional healing, spirituality and personal growth since 1988. …
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Sexual anorexia is the avoidance or fear of giving or receiving social, sexual or emotional nourishment. In food anorexia, a person refuses the nourishment of food. Sexual, social and emotional anorexics shut down or refuse to fulfill their needs for intimacy. In the extreme, food anorexics can die of starvation. Sexual and Emotional anorexics are …
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*Bonus Episode* Libra Season 2022 - Intuitive Hits
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Bonus content between episodes to give a brief life update, as well as influential dreams I’ve had lately. I hope you all enjoy.
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Loneliness is the painful experience of disconnection, longing for love and companionship. Solitude is the nurturing and fulfilling experience of deep time alone and connected with oneself and the larger consciousness system. These are very different perspectives and feelings in the same circumstance of being alone. Introverts may crave time for th…
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Addiction is about medicating unresolved suffering and hopelessness. Whether it's too much wine, ice cream, Netflix or heroin; facing and healing our underlying issues and being our authentic self is our most important work in this lifetime. There are many ways we distract and dissociate from our own deeper truth and needs. We all have phoenix ener…
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