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Moon Phases & Feminine Power: Your Weekly Cycle Sync | Why You Feel "Crazy" Around the Full Moon · Healing Her Story with Riva Jean-Paul

• 1:38
  SPEAKER_00: Hello, dear listener.
• 1:40
  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to today's episode of the Healing Her Story Podcast.
• 1:46
  SPEAKER_00: As always, so excited and delighted to be here with you today for another one of our feminine power and moon phases weekly cycle sync episodes.
• 1:58
  SPEAKER_00: If you are new here, welcome.
• 2:00
  SPEAKER_00: I am so happy to have you here.
• 2:03
  SPEAKER_00: And if you are returning, welcome back.
• 2:06
  SPEAKER_00: It's an honor to have you returning to this show to tune in to the natural rhythms and cycles of our world.
• 2:15
  SPEAKER_00: And I really believe when we do that, that it's about so much more.
• 2:20
  SPEAKER_00: I always say this, I'll say it time and time again.
• 2:22
  SPEAKER_00: It's about so much more than just working with a new moon, working with the full moon.
• 2:28
  SPEAKER_00: It's really about attuning to a more rhythmic and sustainable way of being in the world.
• 2:40
  SPEAKER_00: And that really starts with how we relate to ourselves at each of the different phases.
• 2:47
  SPEAKER_00: Because whether you are paying attention or working with it or not, these cycles are happening.
• 2:56
  SPEAKER_00: They are happening.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I believe there is so much growth and healing and remembering and transformation that can unfold when we really learn how to work with these natural rhythms and cycles.
• 3:15
  SPEAKER_00: And that I believe creates a ripple effect out into our conscious collective field as we live in such a fast-paced, busy world.
• 3:26
  SPEAKER_00: And right now it's kind of a scary world to be in with everything that's happening.
• 3:34
  SPEAKER_00: It's a wild time to be human.
• 3:36
  SPEAKER_00: And we're going to talk a little bit more about that today.
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  SPEAKER_00: And before we do, I want to begin with our minute of silence, as we always do in these episodes.
• 3:46
  SPEAKER_00: And in this minute of silence, you are invited to come into a place of more presence with yourself, whatever that looks like.
• 3:53
  SPEAKER_00: Whether you're driving or doing some chores or maybe just working on something in the background, seeing what it would be like to slow down here, even if it's just a little bit.
• 4:08
  SPEAKER_00: And in this place of more presence, beginning to tune in, tuning into where you might be in your own inner rhythm, tuning into how the body is feeling today, tuning into how your heart is feeling today.
• 4:28
  SPEAKER_00: Also, maybe tuning into how your spirit is feeling.
• 4:33
  SPEAKER_00: And also noticing the mind, how the mind is feeling today.
• 4:38
  SPEAKER_00: So taking a minute to do that, starting now.
• 6:14
  SPEAKER_00: In these check-ins, which is why I like to offer them because there's so much power in just taking a moment to pause and notice.
• 6:25
  SPEAKER_00: For me, I am cycle day 16, and I'm in my inner summer phase.
• 6:31
  SPEAKER_00: I'm still feeling, and also feeling it will begin to change soon.
• 6:38
  SPEAKER_00: Been really tracking how I've been feeling very closely this inner summer.
• 6:44
  SPEAKER_00: And this inner summer has been much smoother than the last one.
• 6:50
  SPEAKER_00: There's no eclipse happening this inner summer for me.
• 6:54
  SPEAKER_00: So I think that definitely makes a difference.
• 6:58
  SPEAKER_00: And for me, just being really intentional about the choices I'm making and the motivation behind those choices.
• 7:09
  SPEAKER_00: I really enjoyed our conversation with Jamie a few weeks ago on beauty.
• 7:15
  SPEAKER_00: And we had talked about tracking things that are working as opposed to tracking the things that aren't working.
• 7:22
  SPEAKER_00: So I've been playing with that.
• 7:24
  SPEAKER_00: And I've been noticing that my sleep's been better when I take the few extra minutes to make myself a magnesium mocktail, I call them.
• 7:35
  SPEAKER_00: And I also put some diffuser, um, excuse me, some lavender in my uh diffuser right next to my bed.
• 7:41
  SPEAKER_00: And I find that helps really well too.
• 7:44
  SPEAKER_00: And just little things.
• 7:46
  SPEAKER_00: Like I really enjoy this lipstick color that I have on right now.
• 7:49
  SPEAKER_00: I'm loving my hair right now.
• 7:51
  SPEAKER_00: It's getting so long.
• 7:53
  SPEAKER_00: And yeah, just tracking the things that are feeling good, that are working for me.
• 8:00
  SPEAKER_00: And that's been really nice.
• 8:02
  SPEAKER_00: I can definitely feel myself settling into this fall season as well here in the northern hemisphere and been feeling moved to do a bit more reading and to start pulling my back my pulling back my energy from social media again, which I may do another episode about.
• 8:24
  SPEAKER_00: So yeah, I'm I'm in a great place.
• 8:26
  SPEAKER_00: It's feeling like I've got a lot of projects, um, a few small projects at the schools that I work at starting, and a couple of bigger projects moving into their next stages.
• 8:39
  SPEAKER_00: And yeah, just kind of enjoying things, getting ready for my birthday here in a few weeks.
• 8:47
  SPEAKER_00: So again, as I shared in last week's uh cycle check-in, sometimes there's um less things to to complain about or less things that stick out during these times.
• 8:58
  SPEAKER_00: So that's that's nice, especially since I've had trouble around um these these early stages of the cycle, this inner spring and inner summer.
• 9:07
  SPEAKER_00: I'm feeling like a lot of the challenges I was having in the last few months or like in the first half of the year have begun to settle.
• 9:16
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm I'm in a good season.
• 9:18
  SPEAKER_00: So that's a little bit about me today.
• 9:22
  SPEAKER_00: I hope that's helpful for you.
• 9:23
  SPEAKER_00: I always like to share just so you can have a little bit of insight into my own personal experience with menstrual cycle awareness as it's always ebbing and flowing and changing and evolving, and I'm sure I'll have more things to share about my cyclical experience next week when we meet again.
• 9:43
  SPEAKER_00: As far as today, this week we are tuning to the energy of the full moon, and it is the week of October 6th.
• 9:52
  SPEAKER_00: Wow.
• 9:53
  SPEAKER_00: We are in the home stretch of the Gregorian calendar year.
• 9:58
  SPEAKER_00: And today it's interesting.
• 10:02
  SPEAKER_00: This episode aligned perfectly with the full moon.
• 10:07
  SPEAKER_00: The full moon is actually today on October 6th.
• 10:10
  SPEAKER_00: It depends on where you are in the world as far as what time the full moon is peaking, but it is happening right now.
• 10:18
  SPEAKER_00: And I am recording about four days ahead.
• 10:22
  SPEAKER_00: And honestly, I can already start to feel the intensity, the intensity building a bit.
• 10:30
  SPEAKER_00: The full moon can feel like a lot, and especially with this full moon happening at the time that you are listening to this, or around the time you were listening to this.
• 10:41
  SPEAKER_00: The full moon is an Aries, and Aries is a fiery sign.
• 10:45
  SPEAKER_00: And it's not just any full moon, it's also a super full moon.
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  SPEAKER_00: So everything is amplified, and with this more fiery energy, there can be a lot more, a lot more emotions and a lot more frustration and tension that can sometimes build up in our systems.
• 11:09
  SPEAKER_00: You might notice the big shifts happening in the lives of people around you.
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  SPEAKER_00: You also might notice things happening in the world.
• 11:19
  SPEAKER_00: Maybe the world feels especially charged right now, which I would say that it does, at least here in the United States.
• 11:27
  SPEAKER_00: Or perhaps maybe your own inner landscape is full of emotion.
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  SPEAKER_00: And today I want to talk about why that happens and why you might feel a little crazy, air quotes, around this time.
• 11:44
  SPEAKER_00: First off, chances are if you're here listening, you believe in some kind of higher power, greater intelligence, or divine order.
• 11:54
  SPEAKER_00: Whatever name you want to call it, God, source, divine, spirit.
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  SPEAKER_00: I believe it's all the same intelligence.
• 12:02
  SPEAKER_00: And this is the same intelligence that makes the grass grow, that makes the season change, that allows the moon to move through her phases.
• 12:12
  SPEAKER_00: And I also believe this is the same energy that allows your heart to beat and your lungs to breathe without you even trying.
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  SPEAKER_00: How magical and amazing is that.