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Moon Phases & Feminine Power: Your Weekly Cycle Sync - The Waxing Moon, Follicular Phase, & Spring · Healing Her Story with Riva Jean-Paul

• 0:13
  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.
• 0:22
  SPEAKER_01: I'm a trauma-informed somatic practitioner, coach for women, and host for your show.
• 0:29
  SPEAKER_01: Today we are going to be diving into this week's lunar energy.
• 0:36
  SPEAKER_01: And this is a wonderful way for you to begin practice harnessing your feminine power and syncing to your cycle, whether that cycle is the one that's biologically happening inside of you, the menstrual cycle, if you're in a female body, or perhaps it's this larger cycle that we are moving through collectively.
• 1:08
  SPEAKER_01: And that may shift a little bit depending on where in the world you are, whether you're in the northern hemisphere or the southern hemisphere.
• 1:18
  SPEAKER_01: And I myself am in the northern hemisphere, so that is the larger cycle that we will be aligning with.
• 1:28
  SPEAKER_01: And really, no matter where you are in your cycle or in the larger collective cycle, the information shared here is truly timeless.
• 1:42
  SPEAKER_01: And however you're tuning in, whenever you're tuning in, the insights that I share here in these episodes are yours to take and to keep in your toolbox or your toolkit and to remember these things as you become more attuned to living in alignment with your natural, or rather, as I like to say, with the unique rhythm and expression of your cycle.
• 2:19
  SPEAKER_01: This week we are talking about the week of April 7th, and we are currently in the waxing gibbous moon phase.
• 2:30
  SPEAKER_01: This is associated with the season of spring, a bit of a late spring.
• 2:37
  SPEAKER_01: In the lens of traditional Chinese medicine, this is associated with the element of wood.
• 2:45
  SPEAKER_01: In the menstrual cycle, this is associated with the follicular phase or the pre-ovulatory phase.
• 2:55
  SPEAKER_01: And adding in a new cycle this week, the life cycle that a woman moves through.
• 3:04
  SPEAKER_01: This time is associated with the maiden.
• 3:09
  SPEAKER_01: And with all of that, there is a sense of newness, there's a sense of freshness, and whatever it is that we're creating here, or wherever we may be focusing our energy and our awareness in regards to our healing process and in the life that we're creating for ourselves.
• 3:37
  SPEAKER_01: There can be this sense of things feeling quite young.
• 3:43
  SPEAKER_01: And maybe even in the early stages.
• 3:51
  SPEAKER_01: So there might be new ideas that have begun to percolate with this last new moon, which was a new moon solar eclipse, so it was a super new moon.
• 4:04
  SPEAKER_01: And that kind of came along with the start of the astrological new year, and also the start of spring.
• 4:16
  SPEAKER_01: And so there is a lot of this new, fresh energy moving through collectively.
• 4:24
  SPEAKER_01: And perhaps that is something that you are experiencing in your life.
• 4:30
  SPEAKER_01: And I've talked about this before in one of the previous episodes.
• 4:34
  SPEAKER_01: I think it was the first waxing moon episode.
• 4:39
  SPEAKER_01: There's this sense of urgency that we can sometimes sense during this time to just get up and get going and get on with things.
• 4:49
  SPEAKER_01: And we all love the bloom.
• 4:54
  SPEAKER_01: And we get really excited, at least I know I can get really excited to experience and see that full bloom.
• 5:04
  SPEAKER_01: And as we make our way towards that, there can be this sense of not quite wanting to wait, or maybe even feeling a little bit uncomfortable in the waiting.
• 5:22
  SPEAKER_01: And we live in a very fast-paced, busy world, which is always telling us to do more and to work harder and to push more and etc.
• 5:41
  SPEAKER_01: And so sometimes that sense of urgency can come from inside of ourselves.
• 5:47
  SPEAKER_01: I know I certainly find myself creating this sense of urgency with my anxious thoughts about what's coming next and how it's all going to work out.
• 6:00
  SPEAKER_01: And sometimes this sense of urgency can come from the outside.
• 6:05
  SPEAKER_01: It can come from the systems and the messages that we're receiving from social media, through our workplaces, through the news, through any shows we might be consuming.
• 6:24
  SPEAKER_01: And it can honestly feel like a lot.
• 7:24
  SPEAKER_01: So that I can continue to show up in the way that I like to show up.
• 7:28
  SPEAKER_01: So I carved some time out of my schedule, even though it felt like I had a lot of other things to do, to do this breath work session.
• 7:36
  SPEAKER_01: And I had, oh, just such an amazing and beautiful, powerful, powerful, excuse me, breath work session where I was really able to truly see myself and the evolution of my journey from moving to Sacramento, California, to leaving what felt known and comfortable, and following my heart and taking these big giant leaps into the unknown.
• 8:08
  SPEAKER_01: And just really seeing all of the ups and the downs and the challenges and the relationships and the friendships that didn't work out, and all of the pain and parts of myself that I met through that process to be where I am right now.
• 8:25
  SPEAKER_01: Wow.
• 8:27
  SPEAKER_01: I was really feeling the gratitude and the just awe and the appreciation for the chance to live and create the life, the beautiful, creative, expansive life that I get to live each day.
• 8:48
  SPEAKER_01: And it's not to say it's perfect and sunshine and rainbows every day, because it's not, it's not the human experience.
• 8:59
  SPEAKER_01: And I was just really able to feel all of the love, really, the love and the devotion that I've had to this path and to myself and to following my heart and to really reclaiming who I am as a woman, as a creative woman in this world.
• 9:21
  SPEAKER_01: And I was moved to tears and had so many emotions moving through me as I was just really processing this 20-year journey, it feels like.
• 9:35
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, 20 years.
• 9:38
  SPEAKER_01: And at the end of the session, I expressed my gratitude for the facilitator who was holding space during this class.
• 9:48
  SPEAKER_01: And I got off and was taking some time to eat some lunch and ground and digest the experience.
• 10:00
  SPEAKER_01: And I noticed right after I had this beautiful moment of love and connection and appreciation, I noticed this sense of urgency come in.
• 10:12
  SPEAKER_01: And I felt the the pressure to to hurry up and move on with my day so I could get to the next thing on my to-do list.
• 10:24
  SPEAKER_01: And I had to really check in with where that sense of urgency was coming from.
• 10:30
  SPEAKER_01: Is this coming from me or is this coming from the outside?
• 10:36
  SPEAKER_01: And that day I realized it was a little bit of both, mostly the outside, but a little bit of my own pressure that I was putting on myself.
• 10:47
  SPEAKER_01: And so with a gentle invitation, the pressure began to soften, and I allowed myself to slow down.
• 10:59
  SPEAKER_01: And that felt much better on my nervous system to release that extra pressure that I was putting on myself to hurry up and be somewhere different than where I was in that moment.
• 11:17
  SPEAKER_01: And so, as you may be feeling this sense of urgency creep in, the invitation here this week is really to invite in patience.
• 11:33
  SPEAKER_01: Patience can be a tricky thing in a world where we've become so accustomed to things being delivered to our doorstep within a couple hours.
• 11:51
  SPEAKER_01: In our healing process, we can sometimes just want to hurry up and and get over it already.
• 12:00
  SPEAKER_01: And it doesn't always work that way.
• 12:04
  SPEAKER_01: Life unfolds and it's perfect, right timing and way.
• 12:09
  SPEAKER_01: If you think of the flowers that are beginning to bud and bloom right now, it's really beautiful to watch that process as I go on my walks and as I look at my plants.
• 12:24
  SPEAKER_01: I like to watch the process of these buds because they start off so small.
• 12:34
  SPEAKER_01: And slowly as the days go by, they begin to grow, and then they slowly begin to open.
• 12:46
  SPEAKER_01: And all of this happens in its perfect right timing and way.
• 13:18
  SPEAKER_01: Without the pressure, without the need to rush and be somewhere else than where you are right now.
• 13:30
  SPEAKER_01: As the light is building in the moon, we see this mirror of estrogen building in the female body during the follicular phase.
• 13:57
  SPEAKER_01: The truth is, when we are in the process of healing from societal expectations and things from our early childhood that have really hurt us and shaped us, when we are unraveling from the patriarchal conditioning of our world and of our society, one of the most important things that we can do is to slow it down.
• 14:30
  SPEAKER_01: Trauma happens when it's too much and when it's too fast.
• 14:39
  SPEAKER_01: Our capitalist patriarchal society feels like too much because it's too fast, in my opinion.
• 14:58
  SPEAKER_01: Our breath is moving too fast.
• 15:04
  SPEAKER_01: So, what would it look like to allow things to slow down and to settle into what feels like your natural pace or this time?
• 15:21
  SPEAKER_01: And that is an inside job that takes time, and that's why we're here every week, week after week, checking in and being reminded of these things.
• 15:37
  SPEAKER_01: And to support you with that this week, I'm gonna offer the rule of peas.
• 15:44
  SPEAKER_01: If you've been here for a while and you've listened to some of our previous episodes on the waxing moon and the follicular phase, then you might have heard a few of these.
• 15:57
  SPEAKER_01: And as the weeks go by, there may be some more, as the months go by, there may be some more P words that come in.
• 16:05
  SPEAKER_01: And here are the ones that you can play with this week to align with the waxing Gibbus moon phase and to align with your follicular or your pre-ovulatory phase.
• 16:24
  SPEAKER_01: This is also a wonderful exploration for the season of spring that we're currently in here in the northern hemisphere.
• 16:34
  SPEAKER_01: And we still have, at the time that this is being released, we still have about a month and a half or so.
• 16:42
  SPEAKER_01: If you'd like, you can write these down or maybe take them down in your phone on a notes app and keep them close by or in a place where you can easily access them the next time the waxing gibbous moon phase, or the next time your follicular moon, uh, excuse me, your follicular phase comes, or also as you're moving through spring, you can come back to these as well.
• 17:13
  SPEAKER_01: Your P words are planet, ponder, prepare, play, and patience.
• 17:39
  SPEAKER_01: And again, your invitation for this week.
• 17:43
  SPEAKER_01: What would it be like to allow your unfolding?
• 17:51
  SPEAKER_01: And that's our weekly episode here for syncing with the larger cycles of our collective being expressed through the moon, your chance to sync with your inner cycle, that is your menstrual cycle, your chance to align with this even larger cycle of the seasons as we're moving through spring here in the northern hemisphere, and the ways that you can begin to access your feminine power, a power that ebbs and flows, and yet this is the same power that literally creates worlds, and literally has created the entire world and every person in it, every being in it.
• 18:52
  SPEAKER_01: That same power lives inside you.
• 18:59
  SPEAKER_01: I hope that you found today's episode helpful and insightful.
• 19:07
  SPEAKER_01: If you found value in today's episode and you have a friend who you know would like to begin the process of working with the moon or harnessing the feminine power inside her or them, or a friend who you've talked to cycle sync talked to about cycle syncing with, and you would maybe like to talk to them a little bit more about it, please share this episode with them.
• 19:40
  SPEAKER_01: This is a wonderful way to support this work, and this is a wonderful way to create space for the rise of the feminine, which I truly believe is here.
• 20:02
  SPEAKER_01: If you would like to explore your feminine power and working with your cycle in a deeper way, right now I am currently looking for new clients to begin menstrual cycle coaching.
• 20:24
  SPEAKER_01: I am just about done with my certification process, and I am really excited and delighted to support women with this modality that has been so life-changing for me and so healing for me on so many levels, and I truly believe it is an essential piece of this work of reclaiming our feminine power and bringing harmony and balance to our patriarchal world.
• 21:01
  SPEAKER_01: If that's you and you're interested, you can find a link to book a free consultation in the show notes.
• 21:10
  SPEAKER_01: And during that free consultation, you can ask any questions you might have, and I can share a little bit more about the new program that I'm going to be working on, which I'm very excited about.
• 21:22
  SPEAKER_01: This week we've also got in a meditation, a somatic meditation over on Insight Timer.
• 21:30
  SPEAKER_01: And this meditation is a way for you to begin exploring the experience of patient in your body because this work is deeply connected to the body.
• 21:47
  SPEAKER_01: And if you're not on Insight Timer yet, this is one of the top, this is the top meditation app.
• 21:55
  SPEAKER_01: And it's a wonderful way to begin building consistency and accountability with your meditation practice, and specifically if you're wanting to connect more with the body, with your body, having a somatic practice daily or even a couple times a week can be a really beautiful way to begin deepening in that relationship.
• 22:24
  SPEAKER_01: You'll find the link for that meditation in the show notes, as well as some other resources that can support you along your healing journey.
• 22:35
  SPEAKER_00: In the meantime, take care of yourself and take care of it.