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. 2d ago

    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 the most fundamental shifts she made in her own healing journey -- from relentless self-judgment to genuine curiosity. And why that shift changed everything. Not just emotionally. Biologically. She opens up about the years she spent trying to force change. Meditating more, scrolling less, thinking more positively, losing weight -- all at the same time. And how every time she fell short, the inner critic got louder. The loop got tighter. And the change she so desperately wanted never came. It wasn't until she discovered trauma-informed care that she understood why. Judgment creates unsafety in the nervous system. And an unsafe nervous system cannot change. In this episode she explores: Why everything your system does is a protective strategy and not a personal failing How curiosity literally primes the brain to form new neural pathways and learn The dopamine connection and why curious people tolerate uncertainty and discomfort better Why safety has to come before curiosity and the somatic practices that create that foundation How to begin shifting from "what is wrong with me" to "I wonder why this is happening" -- and what that tiny shift does inside your body If you have ever felt stuck in the loop of trying hard, falling short, and judging yourself for it -- this episode will finally help you understand why. And what to do instead. Resources to Support You This Week: Free Trauma Recovery Mini Course -- Three foundational pillars of trauma recovery with short somatic practices to help your nervous system move toward regulation and safety. 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.

    23 min

  2. 6d ago

    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 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  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.

    24 min

  3. May 29

    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 -- 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. 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.

    25 min

  4. May 25

    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 workouts. Non-stop socializing. But every time Riva pushed hard through her inner spring, she burned out before ovulation. In this episode, she shares what a year of tracking and living in her own body taught her about what this phase is actually asking for. Yes there is action. Yes there is growth. And there is also something most cycle content never talks about. Restoration. She introduces the simple framework she now lives by: push days and pause days. Forward momentum and returning to yourself. Not forcing. Not collapsing. Just staying in rhythm. If you have ever wondered why you feel depleted before ovulation even arrives, this episode is for you. Donation-Based Trauma-Informed Somatic Meditation to Support You, This Week 🤲🏼🌹 Sit and Be With It — A 15-Minute Daily Somatic Practice This simple practice invites you to pause, breathe, and reconnect with your body in a gentle and trauma-informed way. Listen here: Somatic Meditation To Find Your Center 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.

    21 min

  5. May 22

    **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-based Nudge Eco Store, to explore the hidden impact of plastics, the realities of low-tox living, and why sustainable living doesn’t have to mean perfection. Alisha shares the deeply personal story that led her to create Nudge after experiencing pregnancy losses and beginning to question the environmental toxins surrounding everyday life. Together, we explore the connection between plastics and hormonal health, the overwhelm many people feel around sustainability, and how small, intentional changes can create meaningful ripple effects over time. We also discuss: 🌎 The hidden plastics in common household products 🌎 Low-tox swaps that are actually practical 🌎 The connection between environmental toxins and infertility 🌎 Why convenience culture disconnects us from ourselves and the earth and so much more. Whether you’re deeply immersed in sustainability or just beginning to ask questions, this conversation offers compassionate, grounded guidance for living with more intention. Connect with Alisha & Nudge Eco Store 🌹🤲🏼 Instagram: @nudge.eco.store Website: Nudge Eco Store Visit Nudge Eco Store: 2131 K St. Sacramento, CA 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.

    1h 12m

  6. May 18

    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 the both/and philosophy at the heart of Gemini's dual nature, this episode invites you to honor what's beginning and what's ending — at the same time. You'll explore why the new moon isn't only a beginning but also a sacred ending, how to work with the dance between resting and nesting, and practical rituals for closing loops while planting new seeds. Whether you're feeling low energy, called to declutter, or ready to dream into what's next, this episode offers permission to hold it all. In This Episode ✨A recap of Taurus season: the elements miniseries, the senses solo episode, the boudoir conversation with Wren Morrow, and a bonus eco-consciousness episode dropping Friday ✨ The shift from Taurus's grounded, body-based energy into Gemini's ethereal, mental-based energy ✨Why the new moon is both a beginning and an ending — and how cyclical wisdom holds this polarity and more Resources Mentioned 🌹🤲🏼 Cycle Support Map — Your guide to the energies, themes, and self-care practices for each phase of your cycle. Just $4.95.Mira Hormone Tracking Device How to Feel Safe in Your Body (A Somatic Approach Using Your Senses) - In this solo episode, Riva offers a simple yet highly effective practice for creating a felt sense of safety Referenced Research Helfrich-Förster, C. et al. (2021). Women temporarily synchronize their menstrual cycles with the luminance and gravimetric cycles of the Moon. Science Advances. — On the intermittent synchronization of menstrual cycles with lunar phases.Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) — On holding the dialectic and both/and thinking, developed by Dr. Marsha Linehan.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.

    31 min

  7. May 11

    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 of the cycle as a time of sacred clarity, honest reassessment, and yes — grief. If you've ever felt like your premenstrual self wants to "burn it all down," this episode is for you. We reframe PMS symptoms as messages from your body, explore the science behind why your nervous system feels so much more sensitive during this phase, and discover how the metal element teaches us to distill our lives down to the essence — like a pearl. We also sit with grief, the emotion of metal, and explore how to make active space for the losses, disappointments, and unfulfilled visions that this phase often surfaces. In this episode: 🍂 Why the late luteal phase makes us more emotionally sensitive (and the hormonal science behind it) 🍂 The "superpower" of the premenstrual filter — and how to use it wisely 🍂The pearl metaphor: refining your life down to what's most essential 🍂 Grief as the emotion of the metal element 🍂 Honoring the disappointment of an unfulfilled cycle Donation-Based Trauma-Informed Somatic Meditation to Support You This Week 🤲🏼🌹 Somatic Breathing to Hear Your Body's Wisdom 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.

    30 min

  8. May 8

    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 this work is anything but linear. But this carries profound wisdom about what happens when we are taught from a young age that our bodies are the problem. Wren grew up steeped in purity culture and religious dogma in Chattanooga, Tennessee. In that world, desire was dangerous. The body was something to be managed. And self-trust was replaced with a constant question: is this God's will or mine? In this episode, Riva and Wren explore the long journey from that environment to one of radical reclamation. Wren shares how leaving the church, moving across the country, and finding healing in the natural landscape of the Olympic Peninsula slowly began to return her to herself. They explore: The difference between sensuality and sexuality and why Wren's photography invites clients into authentic felt experience rather than performance What purity culture actually does to the nervous system and how those patterns of self-distrust can be unlearned How patriarchal systems create scarcity around gender and sexuality and what it looks like to reclaim your own autonomy from within that This episode is for every woman who has ever been told her desire was too much.  Connect with Wren Morrow: Wren is a boudoir and erotic adventure photographer based in the Pacific Northwest.  Instagram: @wrenmorrow 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.

    1h 6m
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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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