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Healing Her Story with Riva Jean-Paul
Riva Jean-Paul
80 episodes
2 days ago
This week, we’re attuning to the energy of the waning moon—the sacred descent into stillness, clarity, and recalibration after the powerful illumination of the full moon. In this episode, we explore: 🌖 Why women often struggle to “downshift” into rest (yes, there’s research!) 🌖 The cultural friction between winter’s yin energy and holiday busyness 🌖 Rituals and practices to support transitions—seasonal, lunar, and menstrual 🌖 Why tending to the small transitions in your day reshapes the big t...
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This week, we’re attuning to the energy of the waning moon—the sacred descent into stillness, clarity, and recalibration after the powerful illumination of the full moon. In this episode, we explore: 🌖 Why women often struggle to “downshift” into rest (yes, there’s research!) 🌖 The cultural friction between winter’s yin energy and holiday busyness 🌖 Rituals and practices to support transitions—seasonal, lunar, and menstrual 🌖 Why tending to the small transitions in your day reshapes the big t...
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Healing Her Story with Riva Jean-Paul
Moon Phases & Feminine Power: Your Weekly Cycle Sync | Full Moon Check-In: Why You Don’t Need to Rush the New Year
This week, we’re attuning to the energy of the first Full Moon of the calendar year—a powerful moment of illumination, reflection, and honest self-check-in. If you’re feeling pressure to have everything figured out already… If the “new year, new me” energy feels overwhelming or out of alignment… If you’re exhausted from trying to force change that never seems to stick… This episode is for you. Rather than rushing into resolutions or pushing your body and nervous system into overdrive, this Fu...
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4 days ago
20 minutes

Healing Her Story with Riva Jean-Paul
Moon Phases & Feminine Power: Your Weekly Cycle Sync | Navigating the Void: When You’re Between Who You Were and Who You’re Becoming
This week, we’re entering the space between endings and beginnings — the void. Not only through the lunar cycle, but through the new calendar year and the approach of the winter solstice, a time when nature itself slows, quiets, and turns inward. In this episode, we explore: 🌑 Why the void feels so uncomfortable from a trauma-informed + neuroscience perspective 🌑 How predictability calms the nervous system and why uncertainty activates old fear responses 🌑 The deeper layers of trust — not as ...
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3 weeks ago
27 minutes

Healing Her Story with Riva Jean-Paul
Moon Phases & Feminine Power: Your Weekly Cycle Sync — How to Transition Out of Go-Mode and Into Rest
This week, we’re attuning to the energy of the waning moon—the sacred descent into stillness, clarity, and recalibration after the powerful illumination of the full moon. In this episode, we explore: 🌖 Why women often struggle to “downshift” into rest (yes, there’s research!) 🌖 The cultural friction between winter’s yin energy and holiday busyness 🌖 Rituals and practices to support transitions—seasonal, lunar, and menstrual 🌖 Why tending to the small transitions in your day reshapes the big t...
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1 month ago
22 minutes

Healing Her Story with Riva Jean-Paul
Moon Phases & Feminine Power - Your Weekly Cycle Sync: Let This Full Moon Show You How Far You've Come
In this week’s episode, we’re attuning to the last Full Moon of the calendar year—a moment of illumination, culmination, and deep inner truth. While nature is slowing down, shedding, and turning inward, our Western culture is ramping up with holidays, pressure, and end-of-year expectations. If you’ve been feeling that tension in your body, your energy, or your emotions… you’re not alone. And you’re not “off.” You’re actually in rhythm with something far wiser. In this episode, we explore: 🌕 W...
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1 month ago
21 minutes

Healing Her Story with Riva Jean-Paul
**BONUS EPISODE** How to Survive the Holidays When You’re Breaking Generational Cycles
The holidays are marketed as a season of joy, gratitude, and togetherness—but for cycle breakers, sensitive souls, and anyone healing their lineage, this time of year can feel deeply activating. In this episode, Riva offers trauma-informed wisdom for navigating the holidays with clarity, nervous system safety, and emotional sovereignty. If you’re the one in your family doing things differently, healing old patterns, or reshaping your values, this episode will help you feel grounded and suppor...
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1 month ago
23 minutes

Healing Her Story with Riva Jean-Paul
Moon Phases & Feminine Power: Your Weekly Cycle Sync - How to Pace Yourself with the Waxing Moon
In this week’s episode, we attune to the Waxing Moon — the phase associated with the follicular phase of the menstrual cycle, the season of spring, and the wood element. With the start of the holiday season adding pressure, urgency, and overwhelm, this is the perfect moment to explore the art of pacing. As a recovering workaholic and chronic do-er, Riva shares how the speed of modern life impacts women’s healing, and why slowing down is essential for nervous system regulation, trauma recovery...
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1 month ago
25 minutes

Healing Her Story with Riva Jean-Paul
Moon Phases & Feminine Power: Your Weekly Cycle Sync – New Moon & Inner Winter: How to Support Your Body During Menstruation
In today’s episode, we close out our menstrual cycle mini-series with Inner Winter — the menstruation phase. 🩸🩸 Most people talk about menstruation as the beginning of the cycle, but today, Riva shares why she experiences it as an ending as well — a time of release, reflection, and deep intuitive clarity. We explore: 🩸 The science of menstruation (what’s happening with your hormones and brain during your bleed) 🩸 Why your energy drops and why rest is biologically necessary 🩸 Why so many women...
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1 month ago
34 minutes

Healing Her Story with Riva Jean-Paul
How Do I Heal at the Root, Not the Surface?
If you’ve ever thought: “Why am I still anxious / overwhelmed/exhausted even though I’m doing all the right things?” This episode is going to feel like exhaling. Today, we explore why so many women try to “get rid of” anxiety, depression, emotional dysregulation, or burnout — and why those symptoms keep returning… even after therapy, mindset work, journaling, or medication. We’ll explore: ❤️‍🩹 The science of the nervous system + trauma storage ❤️‍🩹 Why talk therapy and mindset alone don’t hea...
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1 month ago
18 minutes

Healing Her Story with Riva Jean-Paul
Moon Phases & Feminine Power - Your Weekly Cycle Sync: What’s Really Going On Before Your Period | Hormones, Trauma, and the Waning Moon
This week we honour the depth of the 🌓 waning moon and its mirror in our bodies — the premenstrual phase, also known as “inner autumn”. As the light of the moon decreases and energy begins to recede, our bodies move into a phase of release, introspection, and recalibration. During Scorpio season — as we focus on the powerful and transforming reproductive energy — I guide you through the science, the somatic truth, and the gentle practices that support you during this phase. You’ll learn: 🥀 W...
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2 months ago
36 minutes

Healing Her Story with Riva Jean-Paul
Moon Phases & Feminine Power: Your Weekly Cycle Sync – How can I tell if I’m ovulating — and what does it mean for my energy?
If you’ve ever felt confused by your energy, emotions, or productivity throughout the month, this episode is for you. This week, we’re syncing with the energy of the Full Moon and exploring one of the most powerful — and misunderstood — phases of the menstrual cycle: ovulation, also known as your Inner Summer. You’ve probably heard that this is the time when women “feel their best” — more social, magnetic, and confident. And while that can be true, it’s not everyone’s experience. Many women f...
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2 months ago
25 minutes

Healing Her Story with Riva Jean-Paul
**BONUS** What Does It Mean When the Veil Is Thin? The Deeper Meaning of Samhain and Ancestral Healing
This weekend, we’re attuning to the energy of Samhain, the sacred midpoint between fall and winter when the veil between worlds is thin. If you’ve been feeling extra sensitive, emotional, or introspective lately, you’re not alone. This time of year naturally draws us inward — inviting us to slow down, reflect, and reconnect with our roots. In this special bonus episode, I share how the energy of Samhain can be a powerful ally on your healing journey — especially if you’ve been feeling disconn...
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2 months ago
16 minutes

Healing Her Story with Riva Jean-Paul
Moon Phases & Feminine Power: Your Weekly Cycle Sync - Why Do I Feel So Inspired (and a little anxious) After My Period?
This week on Healing Her Story, we’re attuning to the waxing moon and the follicular phase of the menstrual cycle — the season of renewal, growth, and creative possibility. If you’ve been feeling stuck, low on energy, or unsure how to move forward after a time of rest or release, this episode will help you reconnect with your natural rhythm and start building momentum without burning out. We’ll explore: 🌷 The energetic and hormonal shifts of the follicular phase — what’s actually happening in...
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2 months ago
26 minutes

Healing Her Story with Riva Jean-Paul
How Can I Support My Menstrual Cycle Naturally to Boost Fertility? with Kirsten Karchmer, Founder of Conceivable
If you’ve ever wondered why your body feels off around your cycle, or why getting pregnant — or simply feeling balanced — can feel so complicated, this episode will bring a wave of clarity and empowerment. This week, I’m joined by Kirsten Karchmer, founder of Conceivable — an acupuncturist, reproductive medicine expert, and the visionary behind the Halo Smart Ring, a powerful tool designed to help women track their temperature, stress, and recovery in real-time. Kirsten brings over two decad...
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2 months ago
1 hour 17 minutes

Healing Her Story with Riva Jean-Paul
Moon Phases & Feminine Power - Your Weekly Cycle Sync: How to Be Still with the Dark Moon
This week, we’re attuning to the energy of the Dark Moon — that mysterious, tender space just before the New Moonbegins. It’s the moment of total stillness. No light from the moon. No outward movement. Just quiet. And yet, this pause is sacred. It’s the fertile soil from which your next chapter will grow. If you’re someone who’s been doing the work — showing up for therapy, journaling, caring for others, trying to keep everything together — but still feel tired, anxious, or disconnected, this...
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2 months ago
18 minutes

Healing Her Story with Riva Jean-Paul
**BONUS EPISODE** Birthday Reflections & the Rebirth of “Reclamation”
In this bonus birthday episode, I’m sharing some heartfelt reflections as I turn 36 — a milestone that feels like both a homecoming and a rebirth. I take you back to my dark night of the soul — a time when I was struggling with addiction, burnout, and deep emotional pain — and walk you through the journey that brought me here: discovering breathwork, embracing trauma-informed healing, and reconnecting with my creativity as sacred medicine. This past year has been a renaissance of my inner art...
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2 months ago
9 minutes

Healing Her Story with Riva Jean-Paul
Moon Phases & Feminine Power - Your Weekly Cycle Sync: How to Let Go of Control with the Last Quarter Moon
As we move through the waning moon and into the last quarter, the invitation is simple but profound: let go. Not to give up—but to release pressure, over-efforting, and control, and to let the Universe (and your body) take the wheel for a little while. If you’ve been journaling, healing, showing up for therapy, raising your kids, or doing all the “right” things—but still feel tired, tense, or stuck—this episode is for you. Because even in our healing, we can start to overwork ourselves. We ke...
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2 months ago
21 minutes

Healing Her Story with Riva Jean-Paul
Is My Friend Actually Toxic — or Am I Overreacting? | Healing Female Friendship Ruptures, Boundaries, and Self-Trust with Amora Randall (Part II)
Female friendships can be some of the deepest and most nourishing relationships in our lives—and also some of the most painful when they rupture. In this heartfelt continuation of our conversation, Amora and I go deeper into the process of repair—what it looks like to heal after hurt, to hold healthy boundaries, and to stay rooted in self-trust when connection feels fragile. We talk about the unspoken expectations and projections that often surface in female friendships, and how trauma—especi...
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3 months ago
1 hour 3 minutes

Healing Her Story with Riva Jean-Paul
Moon Phases & Feminine Power: Your Weekly Cycle Sync | Why You Feel "Crazy" Around the Full Moon
Do you ever feel extra emotional, restless, or sensitive around the Full Moon—and wonder if something’s wrong with you? In this week’s episode, we’re syncing with the energy of the Full Moon (and this time, the episode lands on the exact day of the moon’s peak!). I’ll share why the Full Moon can feel so intense, what science has to say about it, and why those “crazy” feelings you experience are actually completely natural. We’ll explore: 🌊 How the moon’s pull on the tides mirrors our own emo...
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3 months ago
18 minutes

Healing Her Story with Riva Jean-Paul
Is My Friend Toxic or Am I Overreacting? | Friendship Fall Outs & Healing | A Heart to Heart With Amora Randall (Part I)
Female friendships can be some of the deepest and most life-giving relationships we have—and also some of the hardest to navigate when trust is broken. In this heartfelt, free-flowing conversation with my dear sister and friend Amora, we explore the quiet, subtle dynamics of female friendships: the beauty, the challenges, and the painful ruptures that can leave lasting wounds. Amora and I share openly about a conflict in our own friendship and how moving through it actually brought us closer ...
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3 months ago
52 minutes

Healing Her Story with Riva Jean-Paul
Moon Phases & Feminine Power: Your Weekly Cycle Sync | 🌗 First Quarter Moon: Clarity Comes From Action
The First Quarter Moon is here—a brief but powerful moment when the moon is perfectly split, half in shadow and half illuminated. This phase is an invitation to choose and then to act. So many women on their healing journeys get stuck at this very point. Instead of taking the step they already know they need to take, they overthink, search for the perfect solution, or wait for clarity to arrive. But the truth is this: clarity doesn’t come from thinking—it comes from action. In this episode, w...
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3 months ago
18 minutes

Healing Her Story with Riva Jean-Paul
This week, we’re attuning to the energy of the waning moon—the sacred descent into stillness, clarity, and recalibration after the powerful illumination of the full moon. In this episode, we explore: 🌖 Why women often struggle to “downshift” into rest (yes, there’s research!) 🌖 The cultural friction between winter’s yin energy and holiday busyness 🌖 Rituals and practices to support transitions—seasonal, lunar, and menstrual 🌖 Why tending to the small transitions in your day reshapes the big t...