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, she saw reflected back to her the luminous beauty of belonging to this particular tribe. 

Her story speaks to the sacred power of community, of being fully met. It speaks to the gifts we and our children have to give, and receive, when allowed our fullest expression. And in a number of ways, for Nicole, this marks the completion of a circle. 

So much in this time is simultaneously crescendoing, and falling away, being remembered, and being reborn. As you move through your own circles and thresholds, we send you so much love. And we hope you enjoy listening! 

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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 and grow, but for many other paths of inner transformation, such as the less defined path she’s mostly traveled, it feels off center and not quite right. Nicole brings her own perspective here, with notes of harmony and contrast, which then brings us into what she wanted to add to our original conversation, on wholeness, and what is richly alive for her right now: moving from healing in fragmentation to healing in wholeness; with wholeness as a psycho-spiritual nervous system field that that speaks to our capacity to hold all the things, together. We were glad to return to these ideas of wholeness and transformation once more—albeit again imperfectly. :) We hope you enjoy listening!

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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 container of community that changed his life. Andrew’s wisdom weaves through his presence, his poetry—some of which he shares here—and his work in the world. It was lovely for us to speak with him, and we hope you enjoy listening. 

You can learn more about Andrew's books, retreat offerings, and spiritual companionship work at https://resentmentville.com.

And you can read the poem he references in this episode—The Journey by Mary Oliver—here: https://static.oprah.com/images/201104/omag/the-journey.pdf

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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 blessings. We hope you enjoy listening. 

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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 the full zodiac wheel. It was a gift to share this space with Leah, and we hope you enjoy listening!

You can connect with Leah and learn more about her offerings at her home on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/leahray.rupp/

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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 loss. No longer tied up in a well-processed bow, this reimagined book shifted heartbeat, which reflected Nicole’s own opening into another kind of journey—this time not the more linear Hero’s Journey she was so familiar with as an individual and a therapist, but the wild labyrinth of something new: the Heroine’s Journey. 

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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 of who we are. We hope you enjoy it as much as we did.  

You can learn more about John and his therapeutic practice at https://www.johnberadino.com/.

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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 feel, that brings its own transmutation. These paths—which at least in part embody various energies of the hero’s journey and the heroine’s journey—share many notes and overlap too. And they all belong. 

Because we each later felt there was more to express, more clearly, we’re going to return to these ideas in a part 2 conversation, soon. 

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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 and connect with her on Instagram here. 

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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.

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