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.
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Healing Her Story with Riva Jean-Paul
Rewire Your Brain: Neuroplasticity, Breathwork & the Power of New Pathways
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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 -- this episode is for you.
In this solo episode, Riva explores how all or nothing thinking creates friction in our lives and bodies, and why the female experience is far too nuanced to fit into a neat little box. She introduces the science of neuroplasticity — the brain's ability to form new pathways — and what it actually takes to create lasting change.
Spoiler: it is not just thinking differently.
She covers:
Why your brain walks the most familiar trail even when that trail causes pain
How breathwork supports neuroplasticity and why consistent practice matters more than one powerful experience
Metaplasticity and psychedelics -- the critical window that opens after a plant medicine experience and why integration is where the real healing happens
Why talk therapy alone often is not enough and what somatic work and altered states offer instead
Awe and wonder as a pathway to new neural connections and simple ways to access that this Gemini season
This episode will change how you think about thinking.
Resources Mentioned:
How to Change Your Mind -- Netflix documentary series exploring the science and lived experience of psychedelics and neuroplasticity.
Learn More About Microdosing -- A deeper dive into microdosing for healing and personal growth.
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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