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.
Healing Her Story with Riva Jean-Paul
(REPLAY) Yoga Nidra & The Creative Brain: Why Deep Rest Unlocks Vision with Jill Weston, "The Stress Whisperer"
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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 the brain states that allow insight, healing, and creativity to emerge naturally.
Most of us spend our days in beta brainwave activity — focused, thinking, planning.
Useful? Absolutely.
But creative breakthroughs, metaphysical insight, and deep nervous system repair don’t arise from mental effort alone.
They emerge in slower brainwave states — particularly alpha and theta — where the mind softens and the body leads.
If you feel creatively blocked…
If your intuition feels distant…
If you’re craving a more embodied spiritual experience…
You may not need more information.
You may need access to a different state of consciousness.
Yoga Nidra reminds us that vision doesn’t come from pushing harder.
It comes from entering the quiet space where life is already moving
Connect with Jill on Instagram
Practice Yoga Nidra with Jill on Insight Timer
Our intro and outro song, Reclamation (Reborn), is an anthem of remembering.
This song was created as a companion for the healing journey, especially for women reclaiming their voices, their rhythms, and their belonging in a world shaped by patriarchy.
You’re invited to listen, feel, and let the music meet you wherever you are.
Looking for support? Here's how to go deeper:
- Book a Somatic Assessment: Your 75-min 1:1 virtual session to explore what your body is holding and shape a personalized care plan. Book Here
- Free Trauma Recovery Mini-Course: A self-guided intro to trauma recovery and nervous system care. Download Here
- 1:1 and Group Support: Virtual and in-person offerings. Learn More
- Meditations on Insight Timer: Guided practices for nervous system regulation. Listen Here
- Watch Reclamation: A music video and expressive arts project. Watch Here
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