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Moon Phases & Feminine Power: Your Weekly Cycle Sync:Waning Moon Wisdom: Why You’re Feeling Drained, Emotional, and Overwhelmed Right Now · Healing Her Story with Riva Jean-Paul

• 0:14
  SPEAKER_01: Hello and welcome to this week's episode of the Healing Her Story Podcast.
• 0:20
  SPEAKER_01: My name is Reva Jean-Paul.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm a trauma-informed somatic practitioner, menstrual cycle coach, interdisciplinary artist, and host for your show.
• 0:31
  SPEAKER_01: Today we are gathering for our weekly feminine power and moon phase cycle sync episode.
• 0:37
  SPEAKER_01: I know it's a mouthful.
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  SPEAKER_01: Maybe one day I will come up with a better name, but I want you to be able to find this information, whether you're tuned in to this cyclical cyclical wisdom through wanting to explore your feminine energy or whether you're cycle syncing.
• 0:57
  SPEAKER_01: So I hope that you are able to easily find this information.
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  SPEAKER_01: And it seems that you you have because you're here and you're listening.
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  SPEAKER_01: So uh let's get into this week's episode.
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  SPEAKER_01: On these weekly cycle sync episodes, we always take a minute of silence to start the episode.
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  SPEAKER_01: This gives us the opportunity to really check in with ourselves.
• 1:23
  SPEAKER_01: We all live such busy and full lives.
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  SPEAKER_01: I know sometimes, even you know, someone as myself who's a facilitator and therapist in the works and person who is deeply attuned to my own rhythms, even I can find it challenging to take these moments of pause throughout the day to just notice how we're doing and and what we're feeling, and yeah, maybe where we at and are where we're at in our rhythm today.
• 1:54
  SPEAKER_01: And um, I'll share a little bit about mine at the end of the minute, and I'll give you the chance to feel into yours now.
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  SPEAKER_01: So taking this minute of silence to connect with your breath and to tune in and notice where you're at today.
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  SPEAKER_01: I don't know about you, but that was a juicy minute for me.
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  SPEAKER_01: I am finding myself on cycle day twenty six of my menstrual cycle.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I am in what I like to call the void.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's feeling like today.
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  SPEAKER_01: Feeling a little um tired and feeling it harder, um, feeling like it's it's harder to keep up with the demands of life, feeling um just the fatigue, really.
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  SPEAKER_01: That minute of silence and stillness felt so um good to me.
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  SPEAKER_01: It was like, uh a moment to just pause and breathe.
• 4:04
  SPEAKER_01: And as I did that, I noticed myself beginning to take deeper breaths, which was assigned to me.
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  SPEAKER_01: Ah, okay, my nervous system is settling.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then a few minutes later, I took a yawn, which again was my body letting me know, ah, the nervous system is settling.
• 4:21
  SPEAKER_01: So it's nice to connect with you today in this settled way and in this waning um energy.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now that we are past the full moon, that Scorpio full moon that happened last week, maybe it was a doozy for you.
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  SPEAKER_01: The moon is beginning to wane as well, much like I am myself.
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  SPEAKER_01: And this is an important part of the cycle.
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  SPEAKER_01: If you have been tuned in to these rhythms, and maybe even if you haven't been tuned into these rhythms, perhaps you might be noticing a sense of overwhelm around this time.
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  SPEAKER_01: There's this sense that you just can't keep up with everything.
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  SPEAKER_01: The caretaking work, obligations, never mind your own goals and interests and passions.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's a lot, it's a lot, especially when you're on a healing journey and you are really investing time and energy into bettering yourself and bettering your life.
• 5:28
  SPEAKER_01: And you could be feeling all of that because by now maybe you're sensing this drop in your energy levels and in your motivation.
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  SPEAKER_01: Maybe you're feeling a call to hunker down at home more, less of a call to be out and in the world.
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  SPEAKER_01: And as you are spending a little bit more time in your home, perhaps there's also the sense of all the clutter around your home just really starting to drive you a little crazy.
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  SPEAKER_01: When we're thinking specifically about the menstrual cycle, this also might be a time where you might notice a spike in your anxiety or depression.
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  SPEAKER_01: Perhaps your nervous system felt very activated these last couple of days, or perhaps if you are struggling with depression, maybe you felt your depression reach some of the lowest drops that it's reached, maybe in the past couple of weeks.
• 6:29
  SPEAKER_01: There could be this sense of just like feeling just like on edge, and perhaps also being just overwhelmed by emotion out of nowhere.
• 6:41
  SPEAKER_01: Well, my dear, welcome to the waning moon.
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  SPEAKER_01: This time is also connected with the season of autumn, and it's connected with the pre-menstrum phase of the menstrual cycle.
• 6:57
  SPEAKER_01: And when we're thinking about the life cycles of a woman, which we haven't talked about so much here in these episodes, it's been slowly kind of dropping it in.
• 7:07
  SPEAKER_01: This is more about the archetypes of the maiden, the mother, and the chrome.
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, this time is associated with the perimenopause time.
• 7:25
  SPEAKER_01: Excuse me, I lost my thought there for a moment, which is also something that happens in the waning moon time.
• 7:32
  SPEAKER_01: Words get a little challenging, and so you might notice me stumbling over my words and taking extra long pauses while I gather my thoughts sometimes.
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  SPEAKER_01: So this can be a really interesting time.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know, the full moon might have felt like a lot, but the waning moon can sometimes feel like a lot too, and so can these different phases of the menstrual cycle, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: The pre-menstruum time, and also of the life cycle, that perimenopause time.
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  SPEAKER_01: And it can feel like a lot.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's been my experience because you're working against it.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now imagine if the sun shined 24-7.
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  SPEAKER_01: There was no nighttime, no period of darkness to rest and recharge.
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  SPEAKER_01: The plants, well, they would die because they would have no reprieve from the sun.
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  SPEAKER_01: And the animals would have their rhythms thrown off.
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  SPEAKER_01: And humans, well, we would burn out.
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  SPEAKER_01: This sun-shining energy is the energy of the full moon, it's the energy of ovulation time, it's the energy of our motherhood years, the mother archetype years.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I feel this is an energy that we really value in our society.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's perhaps what people aspire to be like all of the time.
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  SPEAKER_01: But as you've maybe heard from this analogy, we can't really be in our sun shining energy all the time.
• 9:25
  SPEAKER_01: The sun can't shine all the time.
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  SPEAKER_01: In order to have an optimal sense of well-being and stability, especially when we're on a healing journey, we need the darkness as well as the light.
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  SPEAKER_01: The darkness is the yin of the yang.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's the autumn and the winter of the seasons.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's the feminine to the masculine.
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  SPEAKER_01: So as we are meeting this week on the week of May 19th, your invitation, and this information is timeless.
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  SPEAKER_01: So if you remember this by the time the next waning moon comes around, and if it's not May 19th, then maybe save this reflection and this information for the next time the waning moon rolls around because you know she will be coming.
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  SPEAKER_01: The invitation this week, what would it be like to lean into the yin, to the autumn, to the winter, to the feminine energy this week?
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  SPEAKER_01: And to really give yourself the time and space to recharge, to restore, to recover, and maybe to process any of the emotions that might have been coming up, especially around that full moon.
• 10:56
  SPEAKER_01: To support you in this week, you can find some somatic meditations ideal for the waning moon and the pre-menstrum time in the show notes.
• 11:06
  SPEAKER_01: And I myself am going to be probably ending this episode right here today.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's perhaps maybe a bit shorter than usual.
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  SPEAKER_01: And that is because I too am finding myself in my waning moon time.
• 11:20
  SPEAKER_01: I'm at the end of my cycle here.
• 11:23
  SPEAKER_01: And so I'm wrapping up a few things today.
• 11:27
  SPEAKER_01: I've got some big creative projects to close out over the weekend, which I will very much be uh likely working on during my bleed, which is quite ideal for me, actually.
• 11:40
  SPEAKER_01: And then getting ready to close out some really big chapters, and I can share more about that perhaps as I've come on the other side of it.
• 11:51
  SPEAKER_01: And all of that to say is that I could really use the extra rest and um recovery myself.
• 11:58
  SPEAKER_01: So next week there will not be a solo episode, and there will be no guest episode, but I very, very much look forward to joining you the week after, where I will have one more episode uh about the menstrual cycle, and I'm really looking forward to sharing more about that one.
• 12:19
  SPEAKER_01: And then with the new moon, we will begin uh a new focus, and we're gonna be going into I believe Gemini season, if I remember correctly, where I'm really excited to be bringing on some more guests.
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  SPEAKER_01: So stay tuned for that.
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  SPEAKER_01: I very much look forward uh to connecting with you then.
• 12:38
  SPEAKER_01: In the meantime, take care of yourself and take care of each other.