Healing Her Story with Riva Jean-Paul

Riva Jean-Paul
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  • Alternative Health
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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.

  1. 3d ago

    Moon Phases & Feminine Power: Your Weekly Cycle Sync | Libra Season & the Waxing Moon: What Balance Actually Means & How to Bring More Harmony Into Your Life

    Libra season is here, and with it comes one of the most meaningful invitations of the year. As we step into the waxing moon and welcome the energy of Libra, this week's Cycle Sync episode explores what balance actually means, not as a fixed point we're meant to hold perfectly, but as a constant, gentle recalibration as we move through our lives. If this year has felt intense, fast-moving, or just a little too much, this episode is for you. In this episode, you'll explore: ⚖️ Why balance is not a fixed point and the beautiful walking metaphor that reframes everything ⚖️ How the waxing moon and follicular phase call for tenderness and intentionality, not hustle, and the science behind why pushing through doesn't always get us there faster ⚖️ Why building pause into your day is one of the most productive things you can do for your nervous system and your creativity ⚖️ How play, real, agenda-free play, is essential for creativity, resilience, and emotional regulation according to research ⚖️ What co-creation actually looks like in practice and how to stop trying to do it all alone And more. Enjoying the show?  🌹🤲🏼 We are approaching our two-year point with Healing Her Story, and this show is truly a labor of love. If these episodes have been supporting you in any way, one of the most meaningful things you can do is leave a rating and review or share this episode with a friend. That is how this show grows, and growing this show means reaching more women who need it. Thank you so much for being here. It truly means everything.  Send us Fan Mail 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 HereFree Trauma Recovery Mini-Course: A self-guided intro to trauma recovery and nervous system care. Download Here1:1 and Group Support: Virtual and in-person offerings. Learn MoreMeditations on Insight Timer: Guided practices for nervous system regulation. Listen HereWatch Reclamation: A music video and expressive arts project. Watch HereFollow on Instagram: @healingherstorypodcast Subscribe so you never miss an episode. Email riva@windsofchangesac.com or DM @healingherstorypodcast on Instagram.

  2. 6d ago

    Why the Helper Never Gets Held: Healing Hyper-Independence

    This week's Healing Her Story episode touches on something that doesn't get talked about enough on the healing journey. How much are you allowing yourself to be supported? As Riva continues through Virgo season, the season of the helper, this solo episode explores what happens when service to others becomes a way of avoiding our own needs. And why so many women, especially those in caregiving roles, have never learned how to truly receive. In this episode Riva explores hyper-independence not as a personality trait but as a trauma response, one that forms when early bids for connection were met with inconsistency or unavailability. She shares her own memory of being told to brush off her feelings as a child, and how that small moment shaped the way she related to her own needs for years. She covers why we build our worth around how much we give, the research on co-regulation and why healing in relationship shifts the nervous system in seconds, why our relationships naturally begin to change as we heal, and why women especially need reciprocal connection to thrive. This episode is for every woman who gives endlessly and quietly wonders why no one ever asks how she is doing. Resources to Support You This Week: Fighting for Our Friendships by Danielle Barrard Jackson — the book anchoring Riva's women's circle, The Spiral Learn More About The Spiral — Riva's women's group in Sacramento, closing September 22nd Book Your Complimentary Get-To-Know-You Call Send us Fan Mail 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 HereFree Trauma Recovery Mini-Course: A self-guided intro to trauma recovery and nervous system care. Download Here1:1 and Group Support: Virtual and in-person offerings. Learn MoreMeditations on Insight Timer: Guided practices for nervous system regulation. Listen HereWatch Reclamation: A music video and expressive arts project. Watch HereFollow on Instagram: @healingherstorypodcast Subscribe so you never miss an episode. Email riva@windsofchangesac.com or DM @healingherstorypodcast on Instagram.

  3. Sep 7

    Moon Phases & Feminine Power: Your Weekly Cycle Sync | Three New Moon & Bleeding Rituals to Close Out Your Cycle (Including One Nobody Talks About)

    This week's Healing Her Story episode arrives at a potent moment. Eclipse season is ending. A new cycle is beginning. And whatever the past several weeks stirred up in you is now ready to be honored and released. As Riva closes out Virgo season's ritual series, this episode offers three new moon practices to help you reset, restore, and prepare for the cycle ahead. Setting intentions — not just from the mind, but from the body and the heart. Riva shares the research on the default mode network and why the new moon is scientifically the perfect condition for deeper knowing to emerge. Smoke cleansing — and an honest conversation about cultural appropriation, why sourcing consciously matters, and how to honor the indigenous roots of this practice rather than bypassing them. Working with your menstrual blood — the one nobody talks about. Riva shares what emerging research is revealing about menstrual blood, why our conditioning to hide it runs so deep, and simple ways to begin coming into relationship with it if you feel called. This episode is an invitation to begin again. Slowly. With intention. Resources to Support You This Week: New Moon Somatic Breathwork Meditation — a meditation to support you in slowing down and dropping into deeper layers of yourself. Ethically Sourced Smudge Bundles — consciously sourced smoke cleansing herbs to support your ritual practice Cycle Support Map — a $4.95 PDF guide breaking down the four phases of the cycle, their connection to the seasons, and weekly somatic meditations for one full cycle Send us Fan Mail 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 HereFree Trauma Recovery Mini-Course: A self-guided intro to trauma recovery and nervous system care. Download Here1:1 and Group Support: Virtual and in-person offerings. Learn MoreMeditations on Insight Timer: Guided practices for nervous system regulation. Listen HereWatch Reclamation: A music video and expressive arts project. Watch HereFollow on Instagram: @healingherstorypodcast Subscribe so you never miss an episode. Email riva@windsofchangesac.com or DM @healingherstorypodcast on Instagram.

  4. Sep 4

    Inner Systems, Outer Ripples: Listening to Your System to Create Systemic Change with Ana Uribe

    This week's Healing Her Story episode welcomes a guest whose work carries a quality Riva noticed the moment she found her online. Spaciousness. Gentleness. Softness. Ana Uribe is a trauma therapist, compassionate inquiry practitioner, trauma-informed embodiment facilitator, and passionate advocate for plant medicine integration. Her work centers on helping people find inner safety in their bodies and nervous systems so they can heal and live with more connection, joy, and freedom. As Riva moves through Virgo season, the season of systems, this conversation arrives at exactly the right time. In this episode they explore why listening is the system, how to build structures that create flow rather than rigidity, and what it looks like to shift from systems built for survival to systems built for nourishment. They also explore why focusing on your closer concentric rings, yourself, your people, your community, may create more ripple than trying to change everything at once. This episode is a slow, spacious breath for anyone ready to build something new from the inside out. Connect with Ana Uribe: Website: ana-uribe.com Instagram: @ana_uribe_embodiment Send us Fan Mail 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 HereFree Trauma Recovery Mini-Course: A self-guided intro to trauma recovery and nervous system care. Download Here1:1 and Group Support: Virtual and in-person offerings. Learn MoreMeditations on Insight Timer: Guided practices for nervous system regulation. Listen HereWatch Reclamation: A music video and expressive arts project. Watch HereFollow on Instagram: @healingherstorypodcast Subscribe so you never miss an episode. Email riva@windsofchangesac.com or DM @healingherstorypodcast on Instagram.

  5. Aug 31

    Moon Phases & Feminine Power: Your Weekly Cycle Sync | Why the Waning Moon Is Your Most Underrated Phase: Three Rituals to Honor the Slow Down

    This week's Healing Her Story episode attunes to one of Riva's favorite phases of the entire cycle. The waning moon. And one of the biggest missed opportunities we have as women. We live in a culture that rewards producing, pushing, and performing. But the female body was never designed to operate that way all the time. During the premenstrual and waning moon phase, progesterone and estrogen decline, serotonin shifts, and the nervous system's capacity for stress significantly decreases. That is not a flaw. That is female physiology. In this episode Riva shares three rituals to honor this quieter, slower, more inward time, and the research that shows why honoring it actually matters. Honoring dying flowers — why placing wilting blooms on display during the waning moon reflects something profound back to us about our own worth in the slow seasons Yoni steaming — an ancient practice Riva has been exploring for three years, how she uses it in the days before her bleed, and the unexpected emotional releases it has supported Nesting — why the desire to declutter and tend to your space during this phase is not just in your head, backed by research showing cluttered environments elevate cortisol throughout the day This episode is a reminder that the waning moon deserves to be honored. Not just the bloom. Resources to Support You This Week: Yoni Steaming — Bajo Ritual — learn more about the practice Riva shares in this episode Best Herbs for Yoni Steaming — a guide to choosing the right herbal blend for your needs Trauma-Informed Somatic Meditation for Rest and Restoration — this week's donation-based meditation on Insight Timer to support you in slowing down. Send us Fan Mail 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 HereFree Trauma Recovery Mini-Course: A self-guided intro to trauma recovery and nervous system care. Download Here1:1 and Group Support: Virtual and in-person offerings. Learn MoreMeditations on Insight Timer: Guided practices for nervous system regulation. Listen HereWatch Reclamation: A music video and expressive arts project. Watch HereFollow on Instagram: @healingherstorypodcast Subscribe so you never miss an episode. Email riva@windsofchangesac.com or DM @healingherstorypodcast on Instagram.

  6. Aug 28

    Your Body Isn't A Problem to Be Optimized

    This week's Healing Her Story episode arrives with a phrase worth sitting with. Your body isn't a problem to optimize. Notice where that lands. Notice if something softens. As Riva moves through Virgo season she is exploring its shadow side, and one of the deepest shadow expressions of Virgo is perfectionism.  The constant fixing.  The constant managing.  The constant reaching toward some idea of optimal that keeps moving further away. In this solo episode Riva explores what becomes possible when we stop treating our bodies like projects to be perfected and begin seeing symptoms and discomfort as messages from an intelligent system rather than problems to solve. She covers why constantly optimizing creates unsafety inside, how somatic psychology sees the body as a whole, why symptoms are actually signs your body is working, and how shifting into curiosity and experimentation can take the pressure off entirely. She closes with four reflection questions to sit with across the rest of Virgo season. This episode is for every woman who has ever felt like she was one more supplement away from finally being okay. Send us Fan Mail 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 HereFree Trauma Recovery Mini-Course: A self-guided intro to trauma recovery and nervous system care. Download Here1:1 and Group Support: Virtual and in-person offerings. Learn MoreMeditations on Insight Timer: Guided practices for nervous system regulation. Listen HereWatch Reclamation: A music video and expressive arts project. Watch HereFollow on Instagram: @healingherstorypodcast Subscribe so you never miss an episode. Email riva@windsofchangesac.com or DM @healingherstorypodcast on Instagram.

  7. Aug 24

    Moon Phases & Feminine Power: Your Weekly Cycle Sync | Full Moon & Ovulation Rituals: Four Ways to Work With Peak Cycle Energy

    This is not just any full moon. As a full moon partial eclipse, this week carries an amplified quality of culmination, illumination, and completion.  And whatever story is beginning to unfold for you through this eclipse season may not yet be fully clear. With time, it will be. In the meantime, Riva shares four of her most meaningful full moon and ovulation rituals, grounded in menstrual cycle awareness, Traditional Chinese Medicine, manifestation practice, and the ancient art of feng shui, to help you work with this peak energy in a way that is simple, intentional, and deeply supportive. In this episode, you'll explore: 🌕 Why the full moon and ovulation phase are associated with the heart and how to work with that connection somatically 🌕 The tracking practice Riva uses in the three days before and after the full moon to find gratitude, trust, and clarity 🌕 What scripting is, how to do it, and the surprising science behind why writing in cursive makes it a more embodied practice 🌕 How feng shui connects to the full moon  and one simple ritual for inviting clarity into your home this week 🌕 Why discernment is always the most important tool, especially during eclipse season And more. Resources to Support You This Week 🌹🤲🏼 📓 The Magic of I Planner — the cycle-aware planner Riva uses religiously for tracking, intention setting, and manifestation practices 🌕 Magic of I Full Moon Blog Post — check back at the full moon for their dedicated full moon post 📩 Book Your Somatic Assessment & Care Planning Session — ready to go deeper with your cycle awareness? This is your next step, and Synchronize pricing goes up at the end of the month 🌹 Learn More About Synchronize, Riva's 4-month Somatic Menstrual Cycle Coaching Program   Send us Fan Mail 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 HereFree Trauma Recovery Mini-Course: A self-guided intro to trauma recovery and nervous system care. Download Here1:1 and Group Support: Virtual and in-person offerings. Learn MoreMeditations on Insight Timer: Guided practices for nervous system regulation. Listen HereWatch Reclamation: A music video and expressive arts project. Watch HereFollow on Instagram: @healingherstorypodcast Subscribe so you never miss an episode. Email riva@windsofchangesac.com or DM @healingherstorypodcast on Instagram.

  8. Aug 21

    Indigenous Wisdom & Doula Care for Feminine Leadership with Madison Murphy Barney, Author of Our Ancestors Want Us to Be Mushrooms

    In this episode, Riva sits down with Madison Murphy Barney, an Indigenous woman, sister, author, doula, and story-driven strategist, for a conversation that moves between public health systems, feminine leadership, doula care, and the wisdom mycelium has to offer us about staying in right relationship with ourselves, each other, and the earth. Madison shares a little bit about her new book, Our Ancestors Want Us to Be Mushrooms, and what it means to lead and to heal from a place rooted in ancestral and Indigenous knowledge. In This Episode: 🌹 Madison's personal story and healing journey 🌹 Doula care as witnessing and accompaniment through life's thresholds — 🌹 The balance of generosity and confrontation that effective doula care requires 🌹 How mycelium and mushrooms show up as symbols of symbiotic relationship, mystery, and magic and an invitation to embrace wildness and creativity 🌹 Bringing feminine values and earth-based wisdom into public health systems, and how public health drifted from communal, ancestral practices toward individualized medical care and so much more! Connect with Madison Murphy Barney InstagramWebsiteSubstack: TERRACOTTAResources Mentioned Our Ancestors Want Us to Be Mushrooms by Madison Murphy BarneySend us Fan Mail 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 HereFree Trauma Recovery Mini-Course: A self-guided intro to trauma recovery and nervous system care. Download Here1:1 and Group Support: Virtual and in-person offerings. Learn MoreMeditations on Insight Timer: Guided practices for nervous system regulation. Listen HereWatch Reclamation: A music video and expressive arts project. Watch HereFollow on Instagram: @healingherstorypodcast Subscribe so you never miss an episode. Email riva@windsofchangesac.com or DM @healingherstorypodcast on Instagram.

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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.

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