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
134 episodes
Moon Phases & Feminine Power: Your Weekly Cycle Sync | Premenstrual Phase & the Waning Moon: The Science of Refinement & Creative Completion
The waning moon is here, and with it comes one of the most underrated invitations of the entire cycle. As we come off the Aquarius full moon and close out our mini-series on creativity and the cycles, this week Riva explores what it actually me...
(REPLAY) Creativity as Medicine: What Happens When We Finally Share Our Truth with Leah Morris
This week's Healing Her Story episode is a replay, and it is arriving at exactly the right time.As Riva has been moving through Leo season exploring themes of courage, creativity, and being seen, this conversation with her dear fr...
Moon Phases & Feminine Power: Your Weekly Cycle Sync | Full Moon in Leo: Your Creative & Menstrual Cycle Peak — Here's How to Work With It
This week's Healing Her Story episode tunes into the energy of the full moon in Leo -- and the timing could not be more perfect.The sun just entered Leo. The full moon is at its peak. And as we have been exploring this cycle, this...
The Fear of Being Seen: Why Your Nervous System Was Wired to Hide
This week's Healing Her Story episode steps into one of the most charged threads of Leo season.Being seen.Not just on a stage or in a spotlight. But in the everyday moments where we hold back our opinions, our photos, our i...
Moon Phases & Feminine Power: Your Weekly Cycle Sync | How to Work With Waxing Moon Energy for Your Creative Practice & Menstrual Cycle
This week's Healing Her Story episode continues the Leo season mini series on creativity -- exploring how the lunar and menstrual cycle can inform the way we create, what we focus on, and the energy we bring to it.This phase ...
Somatic Healing & Conscious Breathing: How Breathwork Rewires Trauma with Dr. Colleen Quinn, Author of Essence Merging
This week's Healing Her Story episode welcomes a guest whose healing journey took her from traditional psychology into the depths of breathwork, somatic healing, and spiritual transformation.Dr. Colleen Quinn is a transpersonal psycholog...
Moon Phases & Feminine Power: Your Weekly Cycle Sync | Leo Season & the New Moon: Aligning Creativity With Your Menstrual Cycle
The new moon is here, and so is a new focus. As we slowly close out Cancer season and welcome the energy of Leo next week, this week's Cycle Sync episode marks the beginning of a brand-new creative arc. Over the coming weeks, we'll be exploring...
Why We're Starving for Community and Why the Village We're Missing Is the Cure with Laura Ambrosio, founder of Aspen & Elder
In this episode, Riva sits down with Laura Ambrosio, founder of Aspen & Elder, to talk about what it really takes to build community in a culture that often rewards isolation. Laura shares the personal story behind her work, including her o...
Moon Phases & Feminine Power: Your Weekly Cycle Sync | Premenstrual Self-Care: How to Work With the Waning Moon & Your Nervous System
The waning moon is here, and your body already knows it. In this final episode of our Cancer season self-care mini series, Riva explores the premenstrual phase through the lens of nervous system science, cyclical wisdom, and honest, practical s...
Breaking Family Cycles: How Childhood Shapes Our Adult Relationships with Amanda Hill, LMHC
This week's Healing Her Story episode welcomes a guest whose work lives at the intersection of attachment, parenting, and generational healing.Amanda Hill is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and founder of Connections of Hope. W...
Moon Phases & Feminine Power: Your Weekly Cycle Sync | Full Moon & Ovulation: How to Care for Yourself at Peak Energy
This week's Healing Her Story episode tunes into the energy of the full moon, landing on the rare day when the episode airs right alongside the actual peak.As Cancer season continues, the focus for these Monday episodes remains on...
Why Women Are Exhausted: The Price of Carrying Care in a World That Doesn't Value It
This week's Healing Her Story episode opens a new cycle with a focus on care. What it costs. Who provides it. And why so many women are running on empty.Riva revisits a conversation she started on the show last year, this time wit...
Moon Phases & Feminine Power: Your Weekly Cycle Sync | Stop Pushing Too Hard Too Fast: Waxing Moon Self-Care for a Sustainable Cycle
This week's Healing Her Story episode tunes into the energy of the waxing moon and the follicular phase, one of the most tender and misunderstood windows of the cycle.This is a transitional energy. Estrogen is rising. The light is...
Living Beyond the Box: Creativity, Multiplicity & Self-Expression with Dr. Tavina Lynn
This week's Healing Her Story episode welcomes a guest whose life refuses to fit inside a single box.Dr. Tavina Lynn holds a PhD in Chemistry and teaches at Sacramento City College. She is also a writer, a dancer, a creative visio...
Moon Phases & Feminine Power: Your Weekly Cycle Sync | How to Actually Care for Yourself at the New Moon
The new moon is here — and so is a new focus for our Cycle Sync episodes. This week, Riva introduces the themes of Cancer season as a guiding lens for the cycles ahead, with one central question at the heart of it all: how do we actually ca...
Between Worlds: Biracial Identity, Immigrant Guilt, and Self-Worth with Serena Arora, Author of UNBOUND
What happens when you spend your life navigating between worlds?In this Gemini season conversation, I sit down with bestselling author, yoga therapist, and Ayurvedic practitioner Serena Arora to explore the complexities of identity, belo...
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...