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
Moon Phases & Feminine Power: Your Weekly Cycle Sync | The Duality of the Full Moon: Celebration, Intensity, and Healing
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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 holding both.
But this carries profound wisdom about what the full moon is actually illuminating -- and why we move past the sweetest part too quickly.
In this episode, Riva explores the duality of the full moon through the lens of Gemini season. The fullness of this phase can spotlight the places in your life that are genuinely coming together. Projects completing. Intentions manifesting. Growth that has been quietly happening for months suddenly visible.
And it can also bring into sharp focus the things that are not working. The patterns. The relationships. The ways of being that can no longer be ignored.
In this episode Riva explores:
Why the full moon is a time of celebration and culmination not just release
How to hold intensity and joy at the same time without making one side wrong
Why allowing both experiences to coexist actually softens the nervous system and creates more space for beauty
The connection between the full moon, the heart, and inner summer in the menstrual cycle
What emotional flexibility actually looks like and how it reduces friction in daily life
If life has felt very full lately, this episode will help you understand why. And how to move through it with more grace.
Donation-Based Somatic Meditations to Support You This Week 🤲🏼🌹
Two practices this week. One to tend to the intensity. One to honor the celebration.
Softening Meditation For Tension Relief & Grounding
Somatic Meditation for Feeling More Confident
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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