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Conversations exploring the sacred threads and wholeness of life, within the light and the dark. With hosts Robin Bethel and Dr. Nicole Dolan.
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In this episode, we begin in lightness and move to intensity: talking of how in this moment of time, we’ve come to stand at a precipice, with gathering crescendo, in what feels like last (and beginning) notes of wild and deep stories. Nicole shares pieces of where this multi-year period has ultimately led her, into a new embodied nervous-system-level okayness, that grounds her in herself even through chaos. And also, into a knowing that she’s meant to help others build an inner architec...
In this episode, we speak with Anniston Riekstins, a master numerologist, a transformational mentor to women, and someone who, beautifully, believes we all carry codes of remembrance for each other. Anniston shares how her life has been radically, radiantly defined by following an inner knowing that has, again and again, pushed her beyond the limits of her logical mind into a life she loves—and she brings forward one story in particular, of the life-changing choice that ultimately led her int...
In this episode, we speak with Gwyneth Flack, a warm, wise intuitive guide who dedicates much of her work in the world to helping people connect to their intuitive and creative powers. We talk of sacred stories and thresholds she experienced in her own relationship with energy, intuition, and awareness—including one near-death experience she had at four years old—and we also touch on some of the tools she uses to help others develop these spaces in their lives. Gwyneth brought beautiful groun...
In this episode, we touch on some of what has been meeting us in the last months, with Robin briefly sharing a few broad notes before we turn to a profound gift Nicole has recently experienced: stepping into deep, soulful community with a group of women at a retreat for mothers of kids with autism. This life-changing experience offered a homecoming, allowing Nicole to be seen and held in all her fullness and all her sacred wild. And as she felt her own belonging with these remarkable women, s...
In this episode, we revisit our earlier conversation on wholeness and paths of transformation, to add a few thoughts we felt were initially missing! Robin returns to language we hear so often in psycho-spiritual spaces: “doing the inner work,” a phrase often used to generally describe moving through difficult inner places in ways that lead to transformation. To Robin, this phrase often feels fitting, like when people seek more structured containers or deliberate processes to help them heal an...
In this episode, we speak with Andrew Monroe Rice, a novelist, a poet, and a spiritual mentor. Andrew has moved through addiction and recovery, sacred life passages and descents, and experiences within men’s work that broke him wide open—and through this, he discovered an inner gold he has poured into art and the life around him. In our conversation, he shares notes from his journey, including his time first opening into, and later helping facilitate, men’s rites of passage: a sacred containe...
In this episode, we greet the Solstice with conversation around the energies of the moment. We talk of our lives, and a once-every-twelve-years astrological movement that radiates care: the planet of growth and abundance, Jupiter, entering the nourishing sign of Cancer, where it will remain for the next year. During a time of turbulence, breakdown, and release, we welcome the notes of warmth both this transit and the growing sunshine suggest, and hope you feel them too, in waves of Solstice b...
In this episode, we’re joined by Leah Ray Rupp, a soul-centered astrological coach who helps people learn to connect the movements of the skies to the cycles of energy in their own lives. Our conversation began by looking at Leah’s own journey into astrology and human design, which brought us to how astrology can specifically support parents, and especially parents of neurodivergent kids. We then zoomed out to touch on some energies of this unfolding moment, and take a Leah-guided trip round ...
In this episode, we celebrate Nicole’s completion of the draft for her book, currently titled The Art of Chaos: A Memoir of Motherhood, Trauma, and Transformation. In our conversation, we explore the path she traveled in writing the story—and living it out—as what began as an integrated tale of the Maiden archetype moved into a messy, still-evolving tale of the Mother. In Nicole’s case, a mother of neurodivergent children who was caught in difficult, complex currents of marriage, family, and ...
In this episode, we speak with depth psychologist Dr. John Beradino, who shares a sacred story touching forward and backward in time—from his family and the dreams they lived and ached for, to where he felt called to walk forward on his own, following a call he couldn't yet see. Our conversation moves from here to also explore notes of depth psychology, the container of story, the sacred posture of faith, and our lives as a possibility of homecoming, remembrance, a returning to the fullness o...
In this episode, we look at some of the language and ideas we often center on: notions of wholeness and paths of inner transformation. We share—imperfectly—how we each hold wholeness, which is more shape than definition. And we wind our way through various paths of transformation, which can sometimes involve intentionally seeking containers and guides that invite and support inner alchemy, and can sometimes reflect more a way of being, an opening into life and the depth of feelings we need to...
In this episode, we are joined by June Syndesi Kramer, a United Nations-honored generational trauma researcher, wellness counselor, and doctoral student in somatic psychology, who in addition to helping others heal, lives in rigorous devotion to clearing the blocks within herself to greater love. Our conversation spans this work, this devotion, as well as other sacred calls and threads within June’s life and soul—all of which: are art. Learn more about June and her work at syndesiwellness.com...
In this first episode, we—Nicole and Robin—introduce ourselves and how we move through the world, by each sharing one sacred story from our lives. Robin shares a story from a world ago, sixteen years past, and Nicole shares a story that she's living in now. Yet both hold notes of descent, death, and rebirth; notes of wholeness, gift, and beauty. Thank you for joining us! We hope you follow the podcast, and if you'd like to connect further, you can: Follow Sacred Conversations on Instagram S...
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