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Moon Phases & Feminine Power: Your Weekly Cycle Sync – Small Steps, Big Shifts: What the Crescent Moon Can Teach Us About Healing & Growth · Healing Her Story with Riva Jean-Paul

• 1:38
  SPEAKER_00: Hello and welcome to today's episode of the Healing Her Story Podcast.
• 1:44
  SPEAKER_00: Today we are gathering for our weekly feminine power and moon phases episode, where we do a weekly cycle sync with the moon.
• 1:56
  SPEAKER_00: If this is your first time here, welcome.
• 1:58
  SPEAKER_00: I am so grateful to be able to share this feminine wisdom with you.
• 2:04
  SPEAKER_00: And if this is not your first time here, if you are joining us again, welcome back and thanks so much for returning.
• 2:12
  SPEAKER_00: And whether you are here for the first time or maybe you're here for the 50th time, I want you to really know how much I deeply appreciate you being here, tuning in to this exact wisdom.
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  SPEAKER_00: And to me, it really lives in my body as a frequency, as an energy.
• 2:38
  SPEAKER_00: And I hope that that's something that you can feel in these episodes.
• 2:44
  SPEAKER_00: And as this emanates from my body and emanates from this show, I believe that it emanates out into you.
• 2:56
  SPEAKER_00: And it is ultimately it's not so much of a teaching so much as it is a remembering.
• 3:05
  SPEAKER_00: Because all of this wisdom lives inside of you.
• 3:11
  SPEAKER_00: And that's what we do here on the show.
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  SPEAKER_00: We gently guide you back to the wisdom and to the healing intelligence that is already there.
• 3:22
  SPEAKER_00: I truly believe that you have all the answers.
• 3:26
  SPEAKER_00: Sometimes it's just a matter of clearing all the other stuff out of the way that can sometimes block us from getting to those answers.
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  SPEAKER_00: Before we attune to this week's energy, we will begin with a minute of silence.
• 3:45
  SPEAKER_00: And again, if you are new here, this is something that we do every week in these weekly Cycle Sync episodes.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it's really an invitation for you to come into more presence with yourself, whatever that looks like today, whether you're driving or doing some chores, or maybe you've just got something going on in the background.
• 4:10
  SPEAKER_00: I invite you to maybe slow your breath down and notice what's it like to be in your body, if that's possible for you, even if it's just a little bit.
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  SPEAKER_00: Also, maybe noticing what's happening in the mind.
• 4:29
  SPEAKER_00: And also sensing into your energy level, noticing whether you're feeling tired or inspired.
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  SPEAKER_00: And as you gather all of this information, you can then use it to help guide you.
• 4:47
  SPEAKER_00: Because it's really easy to get caught up in the pace of the mind.
• 4:52
  SPEAKER_00: The pace of the mind is so fast, so fast.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the pace of the body, the language of the body is so slow.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so, how can we move forward with these two areas and all of the other areas of ourselves moving as one as opposed to being pushed and forced ahead by the ego, by the stories, by the conditions in our mind, which we'll talk a little bit more about in our episode today.
• 5:32
  SPEAKER_00: Our one minute of silence will begin now.
• 6:49
  SPEAKER_00: I found that minute of silence so nourishing to my nervous system.
• 6:56
  SPEAKER_00: I sometimes forget how much my body really enjoys the silence, the quiet and the stillness.
• 7:07
  SPEAKER_00: I am cycle day five, and so that quiet and that stillness felt uh especially nice as I'm still in my inner winter, still in my bleeding time.
• 7:21
  SPEAKER_00: And it's interesting, this topic that we'll be focusing on today, it's of course something that is very alive for me and something that I have to navigate over and over again.
• 7:32
  SPEAKER_00: And I found myself having to navigate it again this morning as I woke up and my estrogen is slowly starting to build again.
• 7:41
  SPEAKER_00: I can get waves of inspiration mostly.
• 7:46
  SPEAKER_00: And it's really easy for me to get swept away in this inspiration, and maybe it's also a little bit of the pressure from the outside world to kind of get up and get going.
• 8:00
  SPEAKER_00: And then when I really tune into my body, I notice that my body is not quite feeling that same invigoration, that same energy.
• 8:12
  SPEAKER_00: And so while I thank the mind, and I really have come to see all of my ideas as expressions of love, a personal practice that works for me is writing all of the ideas down and coming back to them later.
• 8:29
  SPEAKER_00: I came into my body and really wanted to honor what she was feeling today.
• 8:37
  SPEAKER_00: So instead of getting on with my to-do list and pushing ahead, because trust me, I have plenty of things to do, I took a bath and I listened to some music and I breathed and I just took some time to just be with myself.
• 9:00
  SPEAKER_00: And it feels really wonderful on my system to be coming to you now with this episode from that place, rather from that place of pushing and forcing.
• 9:15
  SPEAKER_00: And that's exactly what we're tuning to this week with the crescent moon.
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  SPEAKER_00: She is waxing now, her light slowly building day by day.
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  SPEAKER_00: In fact, it takes her 17 full days to reach her peak at the full moon.
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  SPEAKER_00: And there's so much we can learn from this process of slow, steady growth.
• 9:42
  SPEAKER_00: We've officially entered Virgo season.
• 9:45
  SPEAKER_00: So over the next few episodes, we'll be exploring Virgo themes, such as service, health, routines, and connection to the earth.
• 9:56
  SPEAKER_00: This Friday, I'm sharing a special interview with an incredible wise woman and acupuncturist who works deeply with trauma and infertility.
• 10:07
  SPEAKER_00: In our conversation, Nicole talked about the power of small cumulative changes.
• 10:14
  SPEAKER_00: She laughed and said, it's not sexy.
• 10:18
  SPEAKER_00: And I had to agree.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because in this fast-paced, hyper-masculine, patriarchal culture where we're taught to push harder, do more, and keep going no matter what, we're conditioned to believe that success, healing, and transformation all come from constant effort.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe for some people, that works.
• 10:43
  SPEAKER_00: But for those of us who are exhausted, burnt out, or living with chronic hell challenges, or hey, just want to live in a way that really honors what feels good to your body and your nervous system.
• 10:58
  SPEAKER_00: This way is just not sustainable.
• 11:01
  SPEAKER_00: One of the trauma-informed principles I hold in my work is less is more.
• 11:08
  SPEAKER_00: Trust me, I know that it goes against the grain of everything we've been taught.
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  SPEAKER_00: And nature shows us this truth every single day.
• 11:21
  SPEAKER_00: She created this whole beautiful, abundant world, and she didn't do it in a rush.
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  SPEAKER_00: Do you think she forced the seasons to change before their time?
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  SPEAKER_00: Do you think she hustled when winter called her to rest?
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  SPEAKER_00: No.
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  SPEAKER_00: She took her time, her sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet time.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the moon teaches this us this too.
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  SPEAKER_00: She doesn't go from darkness to fullness overnight.
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  SPEAKER_00: She builds her light slowly, steadily, trusting the process.
• 12:02
  SPEAKER_00: And that's what I'm inviting you to explore this week.
• 12:06
  SPEAKER_00: In my own life, I've noticed the most growth, not when I pushed, hustled, or wore myself down, but when I softened, when I let go of the toxic relationships, the old roles that people wanted me to fit in, the patterns that weren't mine to carry anymore.
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  SPEAKER_00: It wasn't easy.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was so uncomfortable.
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  SPEAKER_00: And over time I began to feel the difference in my body, in my energy, and in the way my life unfolded and continues to unfold each day, proving to me that these small, sustainable steps truly add up.
• 12:51
  SPEAKER_00: It's like a boat out at sea.
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  SPEAKER_00: If the captain shifts the course by even two degrees, the destination completely changes.
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  SPEAKER_00: So what's your two degree shift this week?
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  SPEAKER_00: And maybe it's not from a place of pushing or rushing or forcing, but rather from a place of curiosity, from a place of dress.
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  SPEAKER_00: That one small step each day can be enough.
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  SPEAKER_00: One phone call, one meditation, one honest conversation, one small step at a time.
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  SPEAKER_00: I can't wait to continue this conversation on Friday's episode, and I hope that you'll join us then.