Send us a text As we stand at the threshold between 2025 and 2026, host Andrea Atherton offers this solo episode as an invitation to slow down and meet the New Year as a sacred cycle rather than a rushed reset. Instead of resolutions driven by pressure or self-improvement, Andrea explores the spiritual meaning of endings and beginnings—honoring what is complete, releasing what no longer serves, and recognizing this moment as a powerful pause for reflection and renewal. This episode centers cy...
Send us a text Step into the celestial flow of 2026 as Andrea Atherton is joined once again by renowned astrologer David Hauser for a timely and illuminating conversation on the astrological forces shaping the year ahead. Together, they reflect on how 2025 served as a pivotal threshold year, one that asked us to dismantle outdated identities, confront systemic fatigue, and prepare our nervous systems for profound collective change. This episode offers listeners a grounded yet visionary lens o...
Send us a text In this episode, host Andrea Atherton is joined by Elizabeth Makepeace for a reflective and expansive conversation on the Cycle of Nine, a universal rhythm of growth, integration, and completion. Together, they explore what it means to arrive at nine as a sacred threshold, where lived experience matures into wisdom. With 2025 carrying the energetic imprint of a nine-year cycle, this episode invites listeners to slow down, listen inward, and recognize that endings are not failur...
Send us a text In this powerful solo episode, Andrea Atherton invites listeners into the heart of conscious love through the transformative framework of 8 Dates by Drs. John and Julie Gottman. With her signature blend of warmth, depth, and clinical wisdom, Andrea unpacks the research behind the book and reveals why these eight core conversations are essential for creating a relationship anchored in trust, intimacy, and emotional truth. This episode is an invitation to step into intentional lo...
Send us a text In Episode 230, host Andrea Atherton opens a powerful exploration into internal resistance, that mysterious inner force that stops us even when our desire for change is bright, clear, and deeply motivating. We step into the truth that our wants and our resistance don’t come from the same place in the brain; they operate as two distinct systems, each with its own purpose. One urges us forward into new possibilities, while the other keeps us grounded in safety and familiarity. Ye...
Send us a text Host Andrea Atherton is joined by Danielle Young, founder of Inspired Action Wellness, whose lived experience and professional expertise illuminate the healing journey from trauma and domestic violence to emotional sovereignty and self-respect. Nicole’s transformation began with one brave decision: to finally trust the voice inside that whispered she deserved more. Her healing journey, marked by nervous system recovery, deep self-reflection, and rebuilding her sense of self, op...
Send us a text In Episode 228, host Andrea Atherton welcomes Martine Cohn for a conversation that speaks directly to the hearts of those who learned early in life to dim their brilliance to feel safe, loved, or accepted. Together, they explore the tender and often unspoken ways childhood messages shape our adult identities, messages that teach us to stay small, quiet our intuition, or silence our dreams so we don’t disrupt the very systems meant to care for us. This dialogue invites lis...
Send us a text In this powerful conclusion to the Shadow Into Light series, host Andrea Atherton takes you deep into the sacred process of healing your shadow through the lens of Internal Family Systems (IFS) and Jungian psychology. Discover how the parts of yourself you once rejected, the jealous one, the controller, the avoider, are not your enemies but wounded protectors longing for compassion. Andrea explores how IFS provides a roadmap for integrating these parts into conscious wholeness,...
Send us a text In this illuminating episode, host Andrea Atherton welcomes Carolina Bakker, The Rat Race Release Coach, for a conversation about the powerful ways Spirit guides us — even when we resist. Carolina helps women reconnect with their intuition, higher power, and spirit guides so they can create lives and businesses that truly align with their soul’s calling. Together, Andrea and Carolina explore what it really means to trust your inner guidance, especially when logic, fear, or timi...
Send us a text In Ep. 225, host Andrea Atherton sits down with Dr. Ashley Hudson, a therapist, speaker, and educator whose work bridges the sacred connection between mental, spiritual, and sexual health. With grace and grounded wisdom, Ashley opens up about her PhD research on the impact of the Purity Culture Movement on postpartum women, a topic that reveals how deeply cultural conditioning around sexuality can shape our sense of identity, body image, and self-worth after childbirth. T...
Send us a text In this profound episode of Love Anarchy, host Andrea Atherton sits down with author David Hauser to explore his extraordinary trilogy, The Soul Kiss, called “an absolutely breathtaking blend of love, sensuality, and spirituality.” More than a love story, this series is a guide for men seeking to understand the sacred journey of awakening through relationship. Through his protagonist’s emotional and spiritual evolution, Hauser illuminates what it means for a man to meet a woman...
Send us a text In this profound solo episode, host and love expert Andrea Atherton explores the quiet epidemic of men’s loneliness — a pain that often hides behind success, humor, or silence. Drawing from her reflections as a therapist for over 30 years, working with hundreds of men, Andrea examines how our culture’s long-standing messages about masculinity have conditioned men to suppress emotion, disconnect from tenderness, and fear vulnerability. The result is a generation of men longing f...
Send us a text Join Andrea Atherton, your guide to conscious love and connection, as she sits down with relationship coach Andre Paradis, a master of NLP and relationships, as well as a former professional dancer who has performed alongside legends like Michael Jackson. In this enlightening episode, they explore the often-misunderstood concept of polarity—the dynamic dance between masculine and feminine energy that fuels attraction, intimacy, and magnetic connection. Through the lens of dance...
Send us a text In this powerful continuation of the Shadow Into Light series, host Andrea Atherton invites listeners into the heart of love’s most hidden terrain — the shadow parts we carry into relationships. Building on the foundation of Episode One, Andrea weaves together the wisdom of Carl Jung’s shadow and Dr. Richard Schwartz’s Internal Family Systems model to illuminate how these disowned parts of ourselves show up in partnership. Far from being simply “bad behaviors,” these parts are ...
Send us a text Love is one of the most powerful forces shaping our lives, yet it is also one of the most misunderstood. In this episode of the Love Anarchy Podcast, host Andrea Atherton welcomes special guest Egan Sanders to explore how the stories we’ve been told about love—through childhood fairy tales, Hollywood romances, and even family and cultural expectations—often leave us chasing illusions. These beliefs about what love “should” look like can feel comforting at first, but in reality,...
Send us a text In this first episode of the Shadow Into Light series, host Andrea Atherton invites you into the world of shadow work and parts healing. Drawing on Carl Jung’s timeless teachings and the transformative model of Internal Family Systems (IFS) developed by Dr. Richard Schwartz, Andrea unpacks what it truly means to explore the hidden aspects of ourselves. These are the parts we often exile — the jealousy, shame, anger, or fear — yet they hold the keys to our wholeness and deeper c...
Send us a text In this heartfelt episode of the Love Anarchy podcast, host Andrea Atherton sits down with fellow podcaster and storyteller Darion Morris — founder of the Decree of Dominion podcast, and author of a dark fantasy series by the same name. Both Andrea and Darion have created platforms rooted in emotional truth, healing, and the power of storytelling. As seasoned hosts, they reflect on what it means to hold space for others, the courage it takes to share our most vulnerable moments...
Send us a text In this illuminating episode, Andrea Atherton welcomes healer and teacher Keith Coley, a practitioner with over 20 years of experience in Chinese medicine and Five Element Theory. Together, they explore what it means to awaken harmony within at a time when the world around us feels fragmented and uncertain. Drawing from his evolution from acupuncture training to the creation of Phoenix Force, Keith shares how the ancient wisdom of chi, yin–yang balance, and the Five Elements ca...
Send us a text In this episode, host Andrea Atherton sits down with healer and teacher Dzou Rubin for a profound conversation about what it means to live as sovereign beings in a rapidly shifting world. Together, they explore how love can be experienced not as an emotion but as a living frequency, and how humanity is being called to clear distortions, heal fragmentation, and awaken to a new era of embodied consciousness. Andrea and Dzou discuss the ways old paradigms—patriarchy, matriarchy, t...
Send us a text This week’s solo episode arrives later than planned, and in a very different way than I expected. On Monday, I recorded a beautiful conversation with a guest, only to have the entire recording lost when my computer ran out of disk space. Then, just a day later, I had surgery—and because of the intubation, I lost my voice. Rather than waiting until things felt polished and back to normal, I decided to show up as I am: softer, tender, and imperfect. In this solo reflection, I sha...