Dr. Rishel Mañas

Dr. Rishel Mañas Helping you reconnect with your body, strengthen your mind, soften your heart, and tune into your wisdom.

For Clinical Pastoral Psychotherapy Sessions, book here: https://bit.ly/3DSa0UX My massive transformative purpose is to be a catalyst for holistic and sustainable transformation, one person - one client at a time through integrative wellness, helping individuals reconnect with their authentic self, facilitating their own spiritual awakening, and finding their purpose and meaning.

07/04/2026

Not being accountable sends a loud message.

You don't have to carry it all alone. Imagine a life where you feel centered, clear, and deeply connected to your truth....
31/03/2026

You don't have to carry it all alone.

Imagine a life where you feel centered, clear, and deeply connected to your truth.

Clinical Pastoral Psychotherapy is the spiritual journey back to yourself.

We'll work together on…
✅ Reconnecting with your body (Finding your center)

✅ Strengthening your mind (Gaining clarity)

✅ Softening your heart (Healing old wounds)

✅ Tuning into your wisdom (Trusting your inner guide)

Ready to begin? Your wisdom is waiting.

Book a session now:
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CHOOSING RELATIONSHIP Public theologian Rachel Held Evans (1981–2019) encouraged people who had been shamed by their fam...
26/03/2026

CHOOSING RELATIONSHIP

Public theologian Rachel Held Evans (1981–2019) encouraged people who had been shamed by their families and churches for moving beyond the strict confines of faith, sexuality, or gender norms:

I remember the young woman in Nashville who pulled me aside, tears brimming in her blue eyes, to tell me about how her mother worried about her, argued with her, and was deeply disappointed in her … for going to seminary and becoming a pastor (when “the Bible clearly teaches” women cannot serve in such a way)…. I’ve listened as a whole group of twenty-somethings exchanged stories of awkward interventions and emotional meltdowns and dramatic lines-in-the-sand, all over differences of opinion regarding theology or politics or ecclesiology.

There are parents who refused to attend their grandkids’ baptism (because they didn’t approve of the method), parents who scheduled pastoral counseling sessions on behalf of their kids (because they were afraid Biology 101 had convinced them to accept evolution)…. And of course there is the gut-wrenching story of the young man who worked up the courage to come out to his parents only to be told by his father, “This is worse than if you had died.”

Lord, have mercy.

Held Evans honors her own parents’ commitment to her well-being and inclusion, despite differences in faith and practice:
When I hear these stories, I empathize, but I can’t relate. Because my parents have been wonderful. We don’t always agree on theology or politics … but my parents have always prioritized maintaining our relationship over maintaining ideological uniformity….
They were, and are, proud of me…. When I blustered, and fulminated, and foolishly rocked the boat for the sake of rocking it, they refused to treat me as a problem or an embarrassment or something to fear. They loved me unconditionally.

I’m pretty sure their response helped preserve my faith. I’m certain it preserved our relationship.

One of the most destructive mistakes we Christians make is to prioritize shared beliefs over shared relationship, which is deeply ironic considering we worship a God who would rather die than lose relationship with us.

God does not demand that we all agree.

God only asks that we love one another well.
🌸🌼🪷

Source: Richard Rohr’s Daily Meditations
Center for Action and Contemplation
March 21, 2026
🖼️ San Agustin Church, Intramuros Manila

Systems of Honor and Shame TodayOne of the best ways to study Scripture is to use the lens of cultural anthropology; in ...
19/03/2026

Systems of Honor and Shame Today

One of the best ways to study Scripture is to use the lens of cultural anthropology; in other words, to learn about the social setting in which Jesus lived and the problems with which he was dealing. What we find is that the culture of his time was overwhelmingly dominated by an honor-and-shame system largely based on externals. In truth, we still live that way in the United States and Western Europe, although we pretend we don’t.

Honor and shame are what we would call ego possessions, personal commodities that we can lose or gain. We don’t have them naturally, so we have to work for our honor and then show it off and protect it. We have to deny our shame, which is now what we would call the shadow self. At Jesus’s time in history, and frankly with many today, there is no inherent sense of the self, no sense of natural dignity that comes from within.

Religion at its best and most mature is exactly what is needed for this problem. Without healthy religion and psychology, we will have no internal or inherent source for our own dignity and positive self-image, no “stable core.” Instead, we are driven to find our status and our dignity externally—by what we wear, our job title, by how much money we have, what car we drive, or even by how much “good” we do. That’s a pretty fragile way to live. We are constantly evaluating, “How am I doing? How am I looking?”

A transformed believer knows that their stable core dignity is something that God gratuitously gives from the moment of conception. Each of us is inherently, objectively, totally, and forever a child of God. We cannot gain or lose that by any achievement or failure whatsoever. God doesn’t participate in the honor-and-shame system.

In most honor-and-shame systems, which are almost always grounded in culturally male values, a “true man” always seeks the best, the top, and the most in terms of roles, power, status, and possessions. Jesus tried to free us from all these traps. Throughout the Gospels, we find numerous teachings promoting downward mobility. The most familiar of these may be, “The last shall be first, and the first shall be last” (Matthew 20:16), and Jesus’s consistent honoring of the least, the outsider, the sinner, and the physically or mentally challenged.

Some form of the honor-and-shame system is seen in almost all of history. In such a system, there is immense social pressure to follow “the rules.” If a person doesn’t follow the rules, they are not honorable and no longer deserve respect. And anyone who shows such a “shameful” person respect is also considered dishonorable.

Jesus frequently and publicly showed respect to “sinners” (see John 8:10–11) and even ate with them (see Luke 19:2–10; Mark 2:16–17). In doing so, he was openly dismissing the ego-made honor-and-shame system of his time—and ours.
🌼🌸🪷

Source: Richard Rohr, CAC Daily Meditations
(March 19, 2026 from the Subverting the Honor-and-Shame System series)
🖼️ Gemini

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15/03/2026

Find your .

Ready for change? Let's make it happen.

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A teacher once said, “If you think you can wake up without breaking open, you’re mistaken.”Growth is not polite.Truth is...
12/03/2026

A teacher once said, “If you think you can wake up without breaking open, you’re mistaken.”

Growth is not polite.
Truth is not always gentle.
And transformation often hurts.

But it hurts like birth hurts.
Like muscles growing hurt.
Like a heart opening wider than it ever has before.

We don’t heal alone.

Even when we think we must.

Almost every great turning in your life involved another human being—someone who listened, someone who stayed, someone who did not turn away when you were afraid.

We are not meant to carry everything by ourselves.
We are meant to carry one another.

It doesn’t mean we fix each other.
It means we refuse to abandon one another.

When you walk through grief and someone sits beside you, you are changed.
When you face uncertainty and someone lights a candle, you are changed.

This is what community means:
Not agreement.
Not sameness.
But shared courage.

We are not as strong alone as we are together.

That is not sentimental.
That is survival.
That is love.
🌸🌼🪷

~ Jack Kornfield from You Don’t Have to Do It Alone – ‘All In This Together’ Inspired Article Series #5

If your heart is tender this year, you are not broken. You are human. ~ Jack Kornfield Book a Clinical Pastoral Psy...
10/03/2026

If your heart is tender this year, you are not broken. You are human. ~ Jack Kornfield



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04/03/2026

Protect your energy.😉

Tired of feeling stuck? It’s time for a different kind of strength.Real strength isn't just about pushing through. It’s ...
03/03/2026

Tired of feeling stuck?

It’s time for a different kind of strength.

Real strength isn't just about pushing through.

It’s about allowing yourself to heal, feel, and grow.

Through Clinical Pastoral Psychotherapy, I am here to help you:
😌 Reconnect with your body.
🤓 Strengthen your mind.
🥹 Soften your heart.
😇 Tune into your wisdom.

Your capacity for profound change is immense.

Let’s unlock it together.🤝

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The world will always show us reasons not to love.The news headlines will always find reasons for us to fear.Once you be...
03/03/2026

The world will always show us reasons not to love.

The news headlines will always find reasons for us to fear.

Once you begin to see clearly, you can’t help but to notice injustice and betrayal all around.
You notice the ways people hurt one another, and cause separation despite our common humanity.

And you could easily decide to shut down, saying, “No more. I’m done.”

But that’s not freedom.
That’s armor.

The great teachers loved despite it all.
They loved because they recognized who they were, and who you are, and who we all are together.

Loving anyway is not naivety.
It’s fierce trust in what your heart knows.

Honor does not die because it was betrayed.

Compassion does not fade because it was misunderstood.

Kindness does not weaken because it was not returned.

When the world breaks your heart, that does not mean your heart was wrong.

It means it was alive.

And an alive heart will always be more powerful than a protected one.

The work is to not let the burdens of the world close you.

The work is to not let the hardships of the world harden your heart.

The work is to not withdraw your care simply because life is difficult.

The work is to become gentler and more compassionate despite the troubles plaguing the planet.

That is true strength, and that is what begins to turn the tides to love.
🌸🌼🪷
Meditation by Jack Kornfield

You don't have to carry it all alone. 🤝🙏🏻Imagine a life where you feel centered, clear, and deeply connected to your tru...
28/02/2026

You don't have to carry it all alone. 🤝🙏🏻

Imagine a life where you feel centered, clear, and deeply connected to your truth. Psychotherapy is the journey back to yourself.

We'll work together on:
✅ Reconnecting with your body (Finding your center)

✅ Strengthening your mind (Gaining clarity)

✅ Softening your heart (Healing old wounds)

✅ Tuning into your wisdom (Trusting your inner guide)

Ready to begin? YOUR WISDOM IS WAITING.

For Clinical Pastoral Psychotherapy Sessions, book here:
https://bit.ly/3DSa0UX

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