Healing Her Story with Riva Jean-Paul
Are you feeling overwhelmed, disconnected from your body, or stuck in cycles of stress and trauma? Healing Her Story is here to guide you from feeling lost, isolated, and exhausted to feeling empowered, grounded, and deeply connected to yourself.
This transformative podcast dives into trauma recovery, somatic healing, creativity, and the profound wisdom of trauma-informed menstrual cycle awareness. Each episode offers practical tools, inspiring stories of resilience, and insightful conversations to help you reconnect with your body, break free from societal expectations, and align with your natural rhythms.
If you're ready to shift from surviving to thriving, join us as we illuminate the path toward healing, empowerment, and wholeness. It’s time to rewrite your story and embrace the life you deserve.
Start your healing journey today with Healing Her Story—a podcast created for women, by women, who are reclaiming their power.
Episodes
118 episodes
Moon Phases & Feminine Power: Your Weekly Cycle Sync | The Duality of the Waning Moon: Rest, Momentum, and Healing
This week's Healing Her Story episode attunes to the energy of the waning moon --- one of the most misunderstood transitions in the lunar cycle.Because this phase is not just about slowing down.But this carries profound wis...
Why Your Nervous System Responds Better to Curiosity Than Criticism
This week's Healing Her Story episode explores something that doesn't get talked about enough in healing spaces.Curiosity.Not as a personality trait. As a biological necessity.In this solo episode, Riva shares one of...
Moon Phases & Feminine Power: Your Weekly Cycle Sync | The Duality of the Full Moon: Celebration, Intensity, and Healing
This week's Healing Her Story episode explores one of the most complex and beautiful phases of the lunar cycle: the Full Moon.And the conversation today is not just about releasing what no longer serves you.It is about hold...
Rewire Your Brain: Neuroplasticity, Breathwork & the Power of New Pathways
This week's Healing Her Story episode dives deep into one of the most empowering truths in healing:Your brain can change.If you have ever felt stuck in the same thought patterns, the same ways of being, the same old stories...
Moon Phases & Feminine Power: Your Weekly Cycle Sync | Push & Pause: Finding Balance in The Waxing Moon & Your Inner Spring
This week's Healing Her Story episode explores one of the most misunderstood phases of the lunar and menstrual cycle: the waxing moon and inner spring.Online, this phase gets painted as go-go-go. Maximum productivity. Intense work...
**BONUS EPISODE** Low-Tox Living, Fertility, and the Hidden Impact of Plastics with Alisha Lee, Co-Founder of Nudge Eco Store
What if the products we use every single day are quietly impacting our hormones, fertility, nervous systems, and the health of our planet?In this grounded and eye-opening conversation, Riva sits down with Alisha, founder of Sacramento-ba...
Moon Phases & Feminine Power: Your Weekly Cycle Sync | The Both/And of the New Moon: Where Endings Meet Beginnings
In this week's Cycle Sync, Riva guides you into the tender, layered energy of the new moon in Taurus as we close the chapter of Taurus season and cross the threshold into Gemini season. Drawing on cyclical wisdom, menstrual cycle awareness, and...
Moon Phases & Feminine Power: Your Weekly Cycle Sync | Waning Moon, Metal Element, PMS Wisdom
The waning moon is here, and with it comes the medicine of the metal element — the energy of refining, releasing, and returning to what truly matters. In this final episode of the elements miniseries, we explore the premenstrual or luteal phase...
Religious Trauma & the Body: Reclaiming Sensuality and Self-Trust with Wren Morrow, Boudoir Photographer
This week's Healing Her Story episode welcomes a guest whose work lives at the intersection of the body, pleasure, and reclamation.Wren Morrow is a boudoir and erotic adventure photographer based in the Pacific Northwest. And her path to...
Moon Phases & Feminine Power: Your Weekly Cycle Sync | Grounding, Stability, & The Earth Element
This week we're attuning to the Earth element — the brief, easy-to-miss phase that arrives just after the full moon and just after ovulation. Its medicine is grounding. In this episode, I explore the science of earthing, how grounding may help ...
Moon Phases & Feminine Power | Full Moon & Fire Element | Passion, Anger & Heart-Led Expression
This week's Healing Her Story episode is a bonus episode, arriving at just the right moment.The full moon lands on a Friday. Aries energy is still moving through the collective. And before we step into the quieter, more hidden phase ahea...
Moon Phases & Feminine Power | Your Weekly Cycle Sync | Waxing Moon & Wood Element | Rooted & Flexible
This week, we are tuning into the waxing moon. A phase of expansion, momentum, and rising energy.And while this can feel exciting and motivating…it’s also where many of us unconsciously override our bodies.We feel t...
How to Feel Safe in Your Body (A Somatic Approach Using Your Senses)
If you’ve been trying to think your way into feeling safe in your body…this episode invites you somewhere else.Because safety doesn’t live in thought.It lives in the body.Through the senses.Through what you are act...
Moon Phases & Feminine Power: Your Weekly Cycle Sync | New Moon & The Element of Water: Emotional Healing + Nervous System Regulation
If you’ve been trying to think your way into feeling safe in your body… this episode will gently shift something for you.Because safety is not created in the mind. It is created through the senses. Through what yo...
Moon Phases & Feminine Power: Your Weekly Cycle Sync | Stop Consuming, Start Integrating: The Key to Real Change
If you’ve been doing the work—therapy, coaching, courses, podcasts…and still find yourself repeating the same patterns—this episode is for you.Because the issue isn’t that you’re not trying hard enough…it’s that you may be...
Moon Phases & Feminine Power | Your Weekly Cycle Sync | The Most Overlooked Phase of the Cycle (And Why It Matters)
This week, we’re tuning into the waning phase of the cycle—one of the most overlooked, yet most powerful phases for healing, reflection, and release.If you’ve ever struggled to slow down, let go, or sit in the unknown… this episode will ...
5 Things a Trauma-Informed Therapist Would Never Say
This week's Healing Her Story episode is a fiery one, intentionally timed with Aries season.Over the years, Riva has heard things said in therapeutic spaces that stopped her in her tracks. Things said in places that are supposed t...
Moon Phases & Feminine Power: Your Weekly Cycle Sync | The Biggest Misunderstanding About Full Moon Energy
This week's Healing Her Story episode tunes into the energy of the Full Moon in Aries season, and gently challenges one of the most common misconceptions in cyclical living.The full moon is not a light switch. It doesn't just turn...
Why Women Are Dismissed in Perimenopause (And How to Advocate for Yourself) with Dana Culp from Thrive Midlife Medicine
This week's episode steps into one of the most under-discussed chapters of a woman's life: perimenopause, the hormonal shift that arrives long before menopause, and that medicine has largely ignored.The first signs rarely come wit...
Moon Phases & Feminine Power: Your Weekly Cycle Sync | Spring Energy and the Waxing Moon: Moving Forward Without Burnout
This week’s Cycle Sync episode explores the energy of the Waxing Moon, a phase of the lunar cycle associated with momentum, growth, and new beginnings.This particular waxing moon arrives alongside several powerful sh...
Why Patriarchal Spirituality Teaches Us to Leave the Body (And Why That’s Hurting Us) with Cynthia Abulafia
Many spiritual traditions teach us to transcend the body.To rise above sensation.To witness instead of feel.To go “up and out.”But what if that very move is why so many women feel spiritually informed… yet internally disco...
Moon Phases & Feminine Power: Your Weekly Cycle Sync | The Dark Moon Phase Explained: Why Slowing Down Is Essential for Your Nervous System
This week’s Cycle Sync episode explores one of the most overlooked yet powerful phases of the lunar cycle: the Dark Moon.Just before the New Moon arrives, the moon disappears from the night sky for several nights. No light ...
(REPLAY) Yoga Nidra & The Creative Brain: Why Deep Rest Unlocks Vision with Jill Weston, "The Stress Whisperer"
What if the doorway to your next creative vision isn’t effort……but deep rest?In this replay conversation, I sit down with Jill — known as “The Stress Whisperer” — to explore the subtle, powerful practice of Yoga Nidra and t...
Moon Phases & Feminine Power: Your Weekly Cycle Sync | Feeling Drained Lately? The Waning Moon, Eclipse Season & Your Body’s Need for Space
Have you been feeling more tired, emotional, or reflective lately?You’re not alone.This week we’re moving through the waning moon, the phase of the lunar cycle associated with release, reflection, and refinement. But...
Moon Phases & Feminine Power: Your Weekly Cycle Sync | Full Moon Eclipse | How to Regulate Yourself During Intense Seasons”
This week, we attune to a Full Moon eclipse — a time often associated with culmination, acceleration, and unexpected change.If life feels intense right now, you’re not imagining it.Eclipses can bring endings, shifts, and emotional...