
Sacred Conversations
Conversations exploring the sacred threads and wholeness of life, within the light and the dark. With hosts Robin Bethel and Dr. Nicole Dolan.
Episodes
10 episodes
In Deep, Wild-Hearted Community, with Nicole and Robin
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...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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25:43

"The Inner Work" and Moving from Fragmentation to Wholeness, with Nicole and Robin
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,” ...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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30:26

Initiations and Openings, with Andrew Monroe Rice
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 th...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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1:10:59

Crossing into Summer Light, with Nicole and Robin
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 ...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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49:35

The Practical and Spiritual Support of Astrology, with Leah Ray Rupp
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 ...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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1:09:59

The Art of Chaos, with Nicole and Robin
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 st...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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58:46

Stories of Legacy and Longing, with Dr. John Beradino
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, fo...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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45:07

On Wholeness and Transformation, with Nicole and Robin
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 thr...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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50:41

Clearing the Blocks to Greater Love, with June Syndesi Kramer
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 t...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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1:11:38

Beginnings, with Nicole and Robin
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 l...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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1:05:07
