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Moon Phases & Feminine Power: Your Weekly Cycle Sync – Eclipse Energy, Course Corrections, & Trusting the Unfolding · Healing Her Story with Riva Jean-Paul

• 1:38
  SPEAKER_00: Hello and welcome to today's episode on the Healing Her Story Podcast.
• 1:45
  SPEAKER_00: I am so honored to be here with you today.
• 1:48
  SPEAKER_00: As I was just beginning to drop into creating today's episode, I took my ritualistic walk that I often take before I record these episodes.
• 2:00
  SPEAKER_00: And I really just had to give myself a moment of celebration, really feeling proud of what I've created here on the show and of the work that we're doing here on the show.
• 2:16
  SPEAKER_00: And while she still may be in her maiden spring years, I trust that she is growing and unfolding in her perfect right timing and way.
• 2:28
  SPEAKER_00: And what I've been loving most have been these guest conversations that we've been releasing on Fridays.
• 2:36
  SPEAKER_00: It's been really special to connect with so many incredible women all over the world doing amazing, amazing work both for themselves and so frequently for others, whether it's their families or their clients or their friends.
• 2:57
  SPEAKER_00: All of the women that have been on the show have truly been creating this beautiful ripple effect out into the world.
• 3:06
  SPEAKER_00: And it's such an honor and a privilege and a joy to be a part of that movement.
• 3:12
  SPEAKER_00: And because you are here tuning in, you are a part of that movement too.
• 3:18
  SPEAKER_00: And I really want to see you in that.
• 3:40
  SPEAKER_00: And I truly hope that you're able to remember a little bit more and a little bit more each time you tune in.
• 3:49
  SPEAKER_00: If this is your first time here, welcome.
• 3:53
  SPEAKER_00: We are so happy to have you here and so grateful that you have found your way to this transformative, powerful work.
• 4:02
  SPEAKER_00: That is cyclical awareness, that is somatic healing, that is trauma-informed care, that is working with the rhythms and cycles, that is so many things that we discuss on this show.
• 4:16
  SPEAKER_00: If you haven't shared this show with a friend or a family member or a loved one yet, I lovingly and gently invite you to consider who you think might benefit from the work that we're doing here on the show.
• 4:34
  SPEAKER_00: I have to tell you, I am a one-woman show.
• 4:38
  SPEAKER_00: I create all the episodes.
• 4:40
  SPEAKER_00: I created the intro and the outro.
• 4:43
  SPEAKER_00: I do all of the editing and I create the show notes and I upload everything on various mediums.
• 4:51
  SPEAKER_00: And it truly is a labor of love.
• 4:54
  SPEAKER_00: And it brings me so much joy to do it.
• 4:57
  SPEAKER_00: And I do many other things as well.
• 4:59
  SPEAKER_00: I serve clients, I serve students, I'm a wife, I'm working towards being a mother one day.
• 5:08
  SPEAKER_00: And there are so many things that I do show up for and take care of.
• 5:13
  SPEAKER_00: And so it would be so helpful for me.
• 5:16
  SPEAKER_00: And I would be oh so grateful if you could help me by spreading the word so that I'm not um yeah, spreading the word alone.
• 5:27
  SPEAKER_00: Not that I feel I am doing it alone.
• 5:29
  SPEAKER_00: I I feel I've been very supported by the guests and by those of you who have been tuning in and listening.
• 5:36
  SPEAKER_00: So thank you, and thank you in advance for any inspiration that you might have to share with others and to continue creating this beautiful ripple effect out in the world.
• 5:49
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 5:50
  SPEAKER_00: Well, I just had to say that today.
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  SPEAKER_00: That was something that was really wanting to come through and be expressed through me.
• 5:58
  SPEAKER_00: And I wanted to give it a voice.
• 6:02
  SPEAKER_00: Let's begin to attune, shall we?
• 6:06
  SPEAKER_00: And I have to say, today's episode will be a little different because we're going to be focusing specifically on eclipse energy.
• 6:18
  SPEAKER_00: And this might be a little different than other episodes where we incorporate more of the menstrual cycle.
• 6:26
  SPEAKER_00: So I won't be speaking to that as much today because there's just a lot of juicy stuff here in this eclipse energy.
• 6:35
  SPEAKER_00: And because it's just starting to come in this week, I really wanted to share some insights and wisdom with you that you can hopefully keep close to your heart as eclipse season unfolds over the next, I think, month or so.
• 6:52
  SPEAKER_00: As always, let's begin with our minute of silence.
• 6:57
  SPEAKER_00: And you are invited to come into a place of more presence with yourself, whatever that looks like today, whether you're driving or maybe you're on a walk, or perhaps you're doing some cleaning in the background.
• 7:14
  SPEAKER_00: So maybe you don't have to stop what you're doing, but can you come into this more mindful way of being, noticing what's happening in the mind, what's happening in the body, what's in the heart.
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  SPEAKER_00: And you can use your breath to support you with that.
• 7:34
  SPEAKER_00: You can also use touch.
• 7:35
  SPEAKER_00: I think I'm going to use some touch myself today.
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  SPEAKER_00: I've already got my hand on my heart.
• 7:42
  SPEAKER_00: And yeah, be curious about what might be here for you.
• 7:48
  SPEAKER_00: As I've already kind of named, we're we're coming into a season of potentially a lotness.
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  SPEAKER_00: So noticing if any of that is already starting to come in.
• 8:02
  SPEAKER_00: And we'll reconnect here in a minute.
• 9:22
  SPEAKER_00: That went by really quickly for me today.
• 9:26
  SPEAKER_00: I felt like I was just beginning to settle in when the timer went off.
• 9:32
  SPEAKER_00: I am cycle day 13 today.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm in my late-ish spring, beginning to transition into my inner summer.
• 9:43
  SPEAKER_00: And one way that I track this is by tracking cervical mucus.
• 9:48
  SPEAKER_00: And this is something a sister and I had a conversation about briefly a month ago or so.
• 9:54
  SPEAKER_00: And she had never had that broken down to her.
• 9:57
  SPEAKER_00: And as I've mentioned many times here on the show before, it's fascinating to and heartbreaking to hear and learn about the things that that women aren't taught about their bodies.
• 10:11
  SPEAKER_00: And I am one of those women as well.
• 10:13
  SPEAKER_00: And it's only because I have started doing this work that I have come to deeply understand what is happening in my body and when.
• 10:22
  SPEAKER_00: And a certain kind of cervical mucus, a more sticky egg white, like cervical mucus, lets me know that my body is getting ready for ovulation.
• 10:38
  SPEAKER_00: And that's what marks that transition into inner summer for me.
• 10:42
  SPEAKER_00: So that's where I am today.
• 10:44
  SPEAKER_00: That is a tricky time for me where I can sometimes feel tired and bogged down by the allotness of the hormones beginning to rise and circulate in my body.
• 11:00
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm not quite there.
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  SPEAKER_00: So that's feeling good.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's a little different than how I've felt on my past few cycles when I was working my summit programs full-time.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I'm in a different season now and settling into a new rhythm.
• 11:19
  SPEAKER_00: And it does feel like there is more space in this rhythm, more room to breathe.
• 11:26
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm back to part-time, and I've got yeah, a lot of support in that position specifically.
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  SPEAKER_00: So things are really feeling good and falling into place for me.
• 11:39
  SPEAKER_00: So just trying to slow down a bit more and enjoy it.
• 11:45
  SPEAKER_00: So that'll be my uh what I like to call my home play this week as I'm entering my inner summer.
• 11:52
  SPEAKER_00: How can I slow down and enjoy the fruits of my labor, if you will?
• 11:59
  SPEAKER_00: So that's me.
• 12:00
  SPEAKER_00: Again, I always like to share because I feel I've learned a lot from learning about other people's cyclical experience.
• 12:10
  SPEAKER_00: It's helped me to come understand mine more deeply.
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  SPEAKER_00: So that is my intention with those shares when I do share them.
• 12:18
  SPEAKER_00: This week, specifically the week of August 29th.
• 12:23
  SPEAKER_00: Perhaps it is the first when, yes, it will be the first when this episode comes out September 1st.
• 12:30
  SPEAKER_00: Wow.
• 12:32
  SPEAKER_00: Wow.
• 12:32
  SPEAKER_00: Hello, September.
• 12:34
  SPEAKER_00: When did that happen?
• 12:36
  SPEAKER_00: I do not know.
• 12:37
  SPEAKER_00: This year has gone by incredibly fast.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe you've noticed that too.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this is where we are.
• 12:45
  SPEAKER_00: We are here September 1st.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this week we are tuning to the energy of the late waxing moon.
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  SPEAKER_00: Waxing meaning the energy and the light in the moon is building.
• 12:59
  SPEAKER_00: And by the end of the week, her slow and steady growth reaches its fullness.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this time, as I've mentioned, it's not just any full moon, it's a total eclipse.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's right.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes, we are here.
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  SPEAKER_00: We are stepping into eclipse season.
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  SPEAKER_00: When I set out on my ritualistic walk to attune to this energy, I felt a big in my body.
• 13:27
  SPEAKER_00: And I literally made that sound out loud.
• 13:31
  SPEAKER_00: And to me, it felt like, okay, this week, this season might be a lot.
• 13:38
  SPEAKER_00: I've been experimenting with eclipse energy for the last few years.
• 13:43
  SPEAKER_00: And I'll be honest, it's not something I've mastered.
• 13:45
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know if it becomes anything that anyone necessarily masters.
• 13:50
  SPEAKER_00: And here's what I've learned, or what I've felt or seen in a lot of the women that I work with, a lot of the folks that I work with, is that eclipses are course correctors.
• 14:04
  SPEAKER_00: So if you've been drifting off track from what Atira Tan, who will be coming on the show on Friday, calls the blueprint.
• 14:16
  SPEAKER_00: And she'll be talking more about this blueprint in our episode coming out on Friday.
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  SPEAKER_00: Essentially, your blueprint is like it's the you, it's your mission, it's your purpose, it's your sense of meaning and like why you're here on this earth in this lifetime.
• 14:35
  SPEAKER_00: So if you're away drifting off track of that, then this is a time where what I like to call the greater intelligence of life begins to step in and set things right.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sudden endings, unexpected losses, big changes usually happen around this time.
• 15:03
  SPEAKER_00: Two years ago, during an eclipse season, I had several ruptures in female friendships.
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  SPEAKER_00: And at the time, it felt like chaos.
• 15:14
  SPEAKER_00: But once the dust settled, I realized that the space was really being cleared for truer, healthier connections.
• 15:23
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm also going to be talking a lot more about that.
• 15:27
  SPEAKER_00: So if you've ever struggled with female relationships and friendships, just wait for Libra season.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're going to be going really deep on that topic.
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  SPEAKER_00: This has been something I've been studying for the past year or so after this specific eclipse season.
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  SPEAKER_00: So stay tuned.
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  SPEAKER_00: As I was saying, this period of time was so painful and it was incredibly disorienting.
• 15:56
  SPEAKER_00: I literally felt like I had nothing at the end of this eclipse season.
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  SPEAKER_00: And now on the other side, my life is so much more aligned.
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  SPEAKER_00: So it's interesting how that can happen sometimes.
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  SPEAKER_00: Another thing that I've also learned is that eclipse energy is not necessarily a time to push or force your intentions.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's a time to let the unfolding happen.
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  SPEAKER_00: A time to let the greater intelligence of life do its work.
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  SPEAKER_00: Think about a rose.
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  SPEAKER_00: How it goes from seed to sprout to bud to blossom and bloom.
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  SPEAKER_00: The rose isn't plotting or planning.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, so I'm gonna need exactly fifty-six petals.
• 17:04
  SPEAKER_00: Wait, maybe sixty-five.
• 17:06
  SPEAKER_00: No, maybe fifty-eight.
• 17:08
  SPEAKER_00: Fifty-six, fifty-six.
• 17:10
  SPEAKER_00: And on this day, I must absorb 12 hours of sunlight in order to reach the goal of blooming on this particular day.
• 17:20
  SPEAKER_00: Can you imagine?
• 17:22
  SPEAKER_00: Sounds like an interesting children's book or cartoon.
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  SPEAKER_00: That doesn't happen.
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  SPEAKER_00: The rose simply grows slowly, steadily, trusting this process, this really magical divine process.
• 17:47
  SPEAKER_00: And that's what we're invited to being to do right now, to trust the unfolding of our own lives, of our own healing, of our own change and transformation.
• 18:02
  SPEAKER_00: And that can be easier said than done.
• 18:06
  SPEAKER_00: I know.
• 18:07
  SPEAKER_00: This has been my work for the past year or so.
• 18:12
  SPEAKER_00: I've really been experimenting with this idea of unfolding.
• 18:17
  SPEAKER_00: And it's been interesting this year to see things come together so effortlessly and so beautifully without me trying to make it all happen.
• 18:30
  SPEAKER_00: Now, don't get me wrong, I'm still showing up and taking action and putting in work and sometimes working long days.
• 18:39
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm I'm doing my part, and there's so much more that I could have never imagined happening at the start of this year because I just showed up and did my part and stayed open to whatever it might look like.
• 18:58
  SPEAKER_00: This greater intelligence goes far beyond what the mind could ever comprehend.
• 19:08
  SPEAKER_00: And so, what would it be like to explore that, to maybe trust in that over the next few weeks or months?
• 19:19
  SPEAKER_00: One thing to watch for, because we are reaching a culmination point, but the moon is making its way towards its peak by the end of the week.
• 19:30
  SPEAKER_00: And there is this air of darkness with the eclipse coming in, and this idea of things starting to take shape.
• 19:43
  SPEAKER_00: And so you may begin to notice certain relationships, inner clarity, projects slowly beginning to come into a more tangible form.
• 19:58
  SPEAKER_00: And I know this is happening for me in my career.
• 20:04
  SPEAKER_00: It's happening for me in my family.
• 20:08
  SPEAKER_00: It's also happening for me in my relationships and my art.
• 20:16
  SPEAKER_00: So take note and notice, and maybe consider acknowledging or naming the things that are slowly beginning to take shape, whether it's just kind of a mental note, or maybe you've got a journaling practice and you might want to begin tracking the things that you are noticing.
• 20:38
  SPEAKER_00: Because this truly is the beautiful start of a new beginning.
• 20:45
  SPEAKER_00: And if you are experiencing endings around this time, may you see that each ending is a new beginning.
• 20:59
  SPEAKER_00: And it doesn't mean that we won't be sad or it it may not be comfortable.
• 21:08
  SPEAKER_00: And because life is cyclical, there's always a new beginning.
• 21:14
  SPEAKER_00: There's always a time to begin again.
• 21:20
  SPEAKER_00: We're also still in Virgo season exploring the themes of health and service, ritual and structure.
• 21:30
  SPEAKER_00: We've been exploring those in our Friday episodes.
• 21:33
  SPEAKER_00: And last week we had the incredible Nicole Lang on the podcast talking about traditional Chinese medicine.
• 21:39
  SPEAKER_00: So if you missed that, I encourage you to go check that out.
• 21:44
  SPEAKER_00: And this Friday, whoa, we have one of my biggest teachers joining us, Atira Tian, will be on our next guest episode.
• 21:54
  SPEAKER_00: I am so excited.
• 21:56
  SPEAKER_00: She has shared so much of her story and her wisdom, specifically around trauma-informed care, plant medicine, and psychedelics.
• 22:05
  SPEAKER_00: And I'll tell you, I have learned so much from this woman.
• 22:09
  SPEAKER_00: Her work has truly changed my life.
• 22:12
  SPEAKER_00: And it's honestly just an honor and a joy to be able to sit down with her in this way.
• 22:19
  SPEAKER_00: So I hope you'll tune in for that conversation on Friday.
• 22:24
  SPEAKER_00: For this week, I encourage you to lay low, lay low, and to explore what building your inner and outer resources might look like.
• 22:36
  SPEAKER_00: These are the things that give us that sense of feeling okay, that give us a sense of strength and courage and resilience.
• 22:46
  SPEAKER_00: And if you're not sure how to do that, or maybe you need some support with that, or perhaps you know somatic work is a resource for you, then I've got some somatic meditations for you in the show notes this week to support you with this eclipse season and this new chapter.
• 23:08
  SPEAKER_00: Thanks so much for being here.
• 23:10
  SPEAKER_00: I look forward to connecting with you in our next episode.