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Healing Her Story with Riva Jean-Paul
Are you feeling overwhelmed, disconnected from your body, or stuck in cycles of stress and trauma? Healing Her Story is here to guide you from feeling lost, isolated, and exhausted to feeling empowered, grounded, and deeply connected to yourself.
This transformative podcast dives into trauma recovery, somatic healing, creativity, and the profound wisdom of trauma-informed menstrual cycle awareness. Each episode offers practical tools, inspiring stories of resilience, and insightful…
Episodes
- Healing Her Story with Riva Jean-Paul
Why Calm Beats Butterflies in Dating: Intuition, Safety & Choosing the Right Partner with Anna Cordin
In this episode, Riva sits down with Anna Cordin, a professional ballroom dancer, electric violinist, author, and relationship seminar leader, for an honest…
- Healing Her Story with Riva Jean-Paul
Moon Phases & Feminine Power: Your Weekly Cycle Sync | The Premenstrual Shadow: What’s Really Behind PMS, Anxiety & the Inner Critic
If the premenstrual phase feels like the hardest part of your cycle - the part where everything feels heavier, the inner critic gets louder, and slowing down…
- Healing Her Story with Riva Jean-Paul
The Therapy Approach Trauma Survivors Need (That Most Therapists Skip)
Have you ever left a therapy session feeling unseen or unheard? For trauma survivors, that dynamic can end up repeating the very pattern that caused the harm…
- Healing Her Story with Riva Jean-Paul
Moon Phases & Feminine Power: Your Weekly Cycle Sync | Follicular Phase Anxiety Is Real! Here’s Why It Happens & What Actually Helps
If you’ve ever finished your bleed and expected to feel that fresh, energized, ready-to-go feeling and instead found yourself anxious, tender, restless, or…
- Healing Her Story with Riva Jean-Paul
Moon Phases & Feminine Power: Your Weekly Cycle Sync | New Moon in Libra Season: Why You’re So Tired Right Now (And What to Do About It)
If you’ve been feeling unusually tired, a little flat, or like you just can’t seem to generate the energy you normally have, you are not imagining it. In this…
- Healing Her Story with Riva Jean-Paul
Moon Phases & Feminine Power: Your Weekly Cycle Sync | How to Create Balance During the Waning Moon & Premenstrual Phase This Autumn
The waning moon is here, and so is autumn, here in the Northern Hemisphere. And if you've been feeling the pull to slow down, let go, and move a little…
- Healing Her Story with Riva Jean-Paul
Safety Is the Special Sauce of Healing: EFT & Self-Love with Veronica Kelly
This week's Healing Her Story episode welcomes a guest whose work sits right at the intersection of nervous system science, energy medicine, and radical…
- Healing Her Story with Riva Jean-Paul
Moon Phases & Feminine Power: Your Weekly Cycle Sync | Four Ways to Find Balance After the Full Moon (Including One You Probably Haven't Tried)
We are just on the tail end of the full moon, and with Libra season officially here and fall arriving at the same time, there is a lot of shifting happening…
- Healing Her Story with Riva Jean-Paul
Why Do I Fight With My Partner Before My Period? The Hormone Shift Behind It
This week's Healing Her Story episode answers one of the most searched questions about relationships and the menstrual cycle. Why do I always fight with my…
- Healing Her Story with Riva Jean-Paul
(BONUS EPISODE) Autumn Equinox Attunement: A Somatic Practice for Balance and Center
This one is different. Less information, less teaching, more feeling. This bonus episode is an experiential somatic attunement practice for the Autumn Equinox…
- Healing Her Story with Riva Jean-Paul
Moon Phases & Feminine Power: Your Weekly Cycle Sync | Pre-Ovulation & the Waxing Gibbous Moon: Three Ways to Create Balance Before the Full Moon
This week's Healing Her Story episode explores a phase that doesn't often get its own episode. The waxing gibbous moon. That last stretch between the first…
- Healing Her Story with Riva Jean-Paul
Feng Shui, Grief & Sacred Containers: How Your Home Holds Your Healing with Paula Agudelo
This week's Healing Her Story episode arrives at a perfect bridge moment, between Virgo season's energy of clearing and Libra season's invitation into beauty…
- Healing Her Story with Riva Jean-Paul
Moon Phases & Feminine Power: Your Weekly Cycle Sync | Libra Season & the Waxing Moon: What Balance Actually Means & How to Bring More Harmony Into Your Life
Libra season is here, and with it comes one of the most meaningful invitations of the year. As we step into the waxing moon and welcome the energy of Libra…
- Healing Her Story with Riva Jean-Paul
Why the Helper Never Gets Held: Healing Hyper-Independence
This week's Healing Her Story episode touches on something that doesn't get talked about enough on the healing journey. How much are you allowing yourself to…
- Healing Her Story with Riva Jean-Paul
Moon Phases & Feminine Power: Your Weekly Cycle Sync | Three New Moon & Bleeding Rituals to Close Out Your Cycle (Including One Nobody Talks About)
This week's Healing Her Story episode arrives at a potent moment. Eclipse season is ending. A new cycle is beginning. And whatever the past several weeks…
- Healing Her Story with Riva Jean-Paul
Inner Systems, Outer Ripples: Listening to Your System to Create Systemic Change with Ana Uribe
This week's Healing Her Story episode welcomes a guest whose work carries a quality Riva noticed the moment she found her online. Spaciousness. Gentleness…
- Healing Her Story with Riva Jean-Paul
Moon Phases & Feminine Power: Your Weekly Cycle Sync | Why the Waning Moon Is Your Most Underrated Phase: Three Rituals to Honor the Slow Down
This week's Healing Her Story episode attunes to one of Riva's favorite phases of the entire cycle. The waning moon. And one of the biggest missed…
- Healing Her Story with Riva Jean-Paul
Your Body Isn't A Problem to Be Optimized
This week's Healing Her Story episode arrives with a phrase worth sitting with. Your body isn't a problem to optimize. Notice where that lands. Notice if…
- Healing Her Story with Riva Jean-Paul
Moon Phases & Feminine Power: Your Weekly Cycle Sync | Full Moon & Ovulation Rituals: Four Ways to Work With Peak Cycle Energy
This is not just any full moon. As a full moon partial eclipse, this week carries an amplified quality of culmination, illumination, and completion. And…
- Healing Her Story with Riva Jean-Paul
Indigenous Wisdom & Doula Care for Feminine Leadership with Madison Murphy Barney, Author of Our Ancestors Want Us to Be Mushrooms
In this episode, Riva sits down with Madison Murphy Barney, an Indigenous woman, sister, author, doula, and story-driven strategist, for a conversation that…
- Healing Her Story with Riva Jean-Paul
Moon Phases & Feminine Power: Your Weekly Cycle Sync | How to Embody Your Cycle Through Ritual: A Virgo Season Guide
Virgo season is almost here and with it comes one of the most grounding and practical invitations of the entire year. In this episode, Riva introduces the…
- Healing Her Story with Riva Jean-Paul
Moon Phases & Feminine Power: Your Weekly Cycle Sync | The Dark Moon vs the New Moon: What No One Talks About & Why It Matters
Most people have heard of the new moon, but the dark moon? That's a different invitation entirely. In this episode, Riva draws an important distinction between…
- Healing Her Story with Riva Jean-Paul
Moon Phases & Feminine Power: Your Weekly Cycle Sync | Premenstrual Phase & the Waning Moon: The Science of Refinement & Creative Completion
The waning moon is here, and with it comes one of the most underrated invitations of the entire cycle. As we come off the Aquarius full moon and close out our…
- Healing Her Story with Riva Jean-Paul
(REPLAY) Creativity as Medicine: What Happens When We Finally Share Our Truth with Leah Morris
This week's Healing Her Story episode is a replay, and it is arriving at exactly the right time. As Riva has been moving through Leo season exploring themes of…
- Healing Her Story with Riva Jean-Paul
Moon Phases & Feminine Power: Your Weekly Cycle Sync | Full Moon in Leo: Your Creative & Menstrual Cycle Peak — Here's How to Work With It
This week's Healing Her Story episode tunes into the energy of the full moon in Leo -- and the timing could not be more perfect. The sun just entered Leo. The…
- Healing Her Story with Riva Jean-Paul
The Fear of Being Seen: Why Your Nervous System Was Wired to Hide
This week's Healing Her Story episode steps into one of the most charged threads of Leo season. Being seen. Not just on a stage or in a spotlight. But in the…
- Healing Her Story with Riva Jean-Paul
Moon Phases & Feminine Power: Your Weekly Cycle Sync | How to Work With Waxing Moon Energy for Your Creative Practice & Menstrual Cycle
This week's Healing Her Story episode continues the Leo season mini series on creativity -- exploring how the lunar and menstrual cycle can inform the way we…
- Healing Her Story with Riva Jean-Paul
Somatic Healing & Conscious Breathing: How Breathwork Rewires Trauma with Dr. Colleen Quinn, Author of Essence Merging
This week's Healing Her Story episode welcomes a guest whose healing journey took her from traditional psychology into the depths of breathwork, somatic…
- Healing Her Story with Riva Jean-Paul
Moon Phases & Feminine Power: Your Weekly Cycle Sync | Leo Season & the New Moon: Aligning Creativity With Your Menstrual Cycle
The new moon is here, and so is a new focus. As we slowly close out Cancer season and welcome the energy of Leo next week, this week's Cycle Sync episode marks…
- Healing Her Story with Riva Jean-Paul
Why We're Starving for Community and Why the Village We're Missing Is the Cure with Laura Ambrosio, founder of Aspen & Elder
In this episode, Riva sits down with Laura Ambrosio, founder of Aspen & Elder, to talk about what it really takes to build community in a culture that often…
- Healing Her Story with Riva Jean-Paul
Moon Phases & Feminine Power: Your Weekly Cycle Sync | Premenstrual Self-Care: How to Work With the Waning Moon & Your Nervous System
The waning moon is here, and your body already knows it. In this final episode of our Cancer season self-care mini series, Riva explores the premenstrual phase…
- Healing Her Story with Riva Jean-Paul
Breaking Family Cycles: How Childhood Shapes Our Adult Relationships with Amanda Hill, LMHC
This week's Healing Her Story episode welcomes a guest whose work lives at the intersection of attachment, parenting, and generational healing. Amanda Hill is…
- Healing Her Story with Riva Jean-Paul
Moon Phases & Feminine Power: Your Weekly Cycle Sync | Full Moon & Ovulation: How to Care for Yourself at Peak Energy
This week's Healing Her Story episode tunes into the energy of the full moon, landing on the rare day when the episode airs right alongside the actual peak. As…
- Healing Her Story with Riva Jean-Paul
Why Women Are Exhausted: The Price of Carrying Care in a World That Doesn't Value It
This week's Healing Her Story episode opens a new cycle with a focus on care. What it costs. Who provides it. And why so many women are running on empty. Riva…
- Healing Her Story with Riva Jean-Paul
Moon Phases & Feminine Power: Your Weekly Cycle Sync | Stop Pushing Too Hard Too Fast: Waxing Moon Self-Care for a Sustainable Cycle
This week's Healing Her Story episode tunes into the energy of the waxing moon and the follicular phase, one of the most tender and misunderstood windows of…
- Healing Her Story with Riva Jean-Paul
Living Beyond the Box: Creativity, Multiplicity & Self-Expression with Dr. Tavina Lynn
This week's Healing Her Story episode welcomes a guest whose life refuses to fit inside a single box. Dr. Tavina Lynn holds a PhD in Chemistry and teaches at…
- Healing Her Story with Riva Jean-Paul
Moon Phases & Feminine Power: Your Weekly Cycle Sync | How to Actually Care for Yourself at the New Moon
The new moon is here — and so is a new focus for our Cycle Sync episodes. This week, Riva introduces the themes of Cancer season as a guiding lens for the…
- Healing Her Story with Riva Jean-Paul
Between Worlds: Biracial Identity, Immigrant Guilt, and Self-Worth with Serena Arora, Author of UNBOUND
What happens when you spend your life navigating between worlds? In this Gemini season conversation, I sit down with bestselling author, yoga therapist, and…
- Healing Her Story with Riva Jean-Paul
Moon Phases & Feminine Power: Your Weekly Cycle Sync | The Duality of the Waning Moon: Rest, Momentum, and Healing
This week's Healing Her Story episode attunes to the energy of the waning moon --- one of the most misunderstood transitions in the lunar cycle. Because this…
- Healing Her Story with Riva Jean-Paul
Why Your Nervous System Responds Better to Curiosity Than Criticism
This week's Healing Her Story episode explores something that doesn't get talked about enough in healing spaces. Curiosity. Not as a personality trait. As a…
- Healing Her Story with Riva Jean-Paul
Moon Phases & Feminine Power: Your Weekly Cycle Sync | The Duality of the Full Moon: Celebration, Intensity, and Healing
This week's Healing Her Story episode explores one of the most complex and beautiful phases of the lunar cycle: the Full Moon. And the conversation today is…
- Healing Her Story with Riva Jean-Paul
Rewire Your Brain: Neuroplasticity, Breathwork & the Power of New Pathways
This week's Healing Her Story episode dives deep into one of the most empowering truths in healing: Your brain can change. If you have ever felt stuck in the…
- Healing Her Story with Riva Jean-Paul
Moon Phases & Feminine Power: Your Weekly Cycle Sync | Push & Pause: Finding Balance in The Waxing Moon & Your Inner Spring
This week's Healing Her Story episode explores one of the most misunderstood phases of the lunar and menstrual cycle: the waxing moon and inner spring. Online…
- Healing Her Story with Riva Jean-Paul
**BONUS EPISODE** Low-Tox Living, Fertility, and the Hidden Impact of Plastics with Alisha Lee, Co-Founder of Nudge Eco Store
What if the products we use every single day are quietly impacting our hormones, fertility, nervous systems, and the health of our planet? In this grounded and…
- Healing Her Story with Riva Jean-Paul
Moon Phases & Feminine Power: Your Weekly Cycle Sync | The Both/And of the New Moon: Where Endings Meet Beginnings
In this week's Cycle Sync, Riva guides you into the tender, layered energy of the new moon in Taurus as we close the chapter of Taurus season and cross the…
- Healing Her Story with Riva Jean-Paul
Moon Phases & Feminine Power: Your Weekly Cycle Sync | Waning Moon, Metal Element, PMS Wisdom
The waning moon is here, and with it comes the medicine of the metal element — the energy of refining, releasing, and returning to what truly matters. In this…
- Healing Her Story with Riva Jean-Paul
Religious Trauma & the Body: Reclaiming Sensuality and Self-Trust with Wren Morrow, Boudoir Photographer
This week's Healing Her Story episode welcomes a guest whose work lives at the intersection of the body, pleasure, and reclamation. Wren Morrow is a boudoir…
- Healing Her Story with Riva Jean-Paul
Moon Phases & Feminine Power: Your Weekly Cycle Sync | Grounding, Stability, & The Earth Element
This week we're attuning to the Earth element — the brief, easy-to-miss phase that arrives just after the full moon and just after ovulation. Its medicine is…
- Healing Her Story with Riva Jean-Paul
Moon Phases & Feminine Power | Full Moon & Fire Element | Passion, Anger & Heart-Led Expression
This week's Healing Her Story episode is a bonus episode, arriving at just the right moment. The full moon lands on a Friday. Aries energy is still moving…
- Healing Her Story with Riva Jean-Paul
Moon Phases & Feminine Power | Your Weekly Cycle Sync | Waxing Moon & Wood Element | Rooted & Flexible
This week, we are tuning into the waxing moon. A phase of expansion, momentum, and rising energy. And while this can feel exciting and motivating… it’s also…
- Healing Her Story with Riva Jean-Paul
How to Feel Safe in Your Body (A Somatic Approach Using Your Senses)
If you’ve been trying to think your way into feeling safe in your body… this episode invites you somewhere else. Because safety doesn’t live in thought. It…
- Healing Her Story with Riva Jean-Paul
Moon Phases & Feminine Power: Your Weekly Cycle Sync | New Moon & The Element of Water: Emotional Healing + Nervous System Regulation
If you’ve been trying to think your way into feeling safe in your body… this episode will gently shift something for you. Because safety is not created in the…
- Healing Her Story with Riva Jean-Paul
Moon Phases & Feminine Power: Your Weekly Cycle Sync | Stop Consuming, Start Integrating: The Key to Real Change
If you’ve been doing the work—therapy, coaching, courses, podcasts… and still find yourself repeating the same patterns— this episode is for you. Because the…
- Healing Her Story with Riva Jean-Paul
Moon Phases & Feminine Power | Your Weekly Cycle Sync | The Most Overlooked Phase of the Cycle (And Why It Matters)
This week, we’re tuning into the waning phase of the cycle—one of the most overlooked, yet most powerful phases for healing, reflection, and release. If you’ve…
- Healing Her Story with Riva Jean-Paul
5 Things a Trauma-Informed Therapist Would Never Say
This week's Healing Her Story episode is a fiery one, intentionally timed with Aries season. Over the years, Riva has heard things said in therapeutic spaces…
- Healing Her Story with Riva Jean-Paul
Moon Phases & Feminine Power: Your Weekly Cycle Sync | The Biggest Misunderstanding About Full Moon Energy
This week's Healing Her Story episode tunes into the energy of the Full Moon in Aries season, and gently challenges one of the most common misconceptions in…
- Healing Her Story with Riva Jean-Paul
Why Women Are Dismissed in Perimenopause (And How to Advocate for Yourself) with Dana Culp from Thrive Midlife Medicine
This week's episode steps into one of the most under-discussed chapters of a woman's life: perimenopause, the hormonal shift that arrives long before…
- Healing Her Story with Riva Jean-Paul
Moon Phases & Feminine Power: Your Weekly Cycle Sync | Spring Energy and the Waxing Moon: Moving Forward Without Burnout
This week’s Cycle Sync episode explores the energy of the Waxing Moon, a phase of the lunar cycle associated with momentum, growth, and new beginnings. This…
- Healing Her Story with Riva Jean-Paul
Why Patriarchal Spirituality Teaches Us to Leave the Body (And Why That’s Hurting Us) with Cynthia Abulafia
Many spiritual traditions teach us to transcend the body. To rise above sensation. To witness instead of feel. To go “up and out.” But what if that very move…
- Healing Her Story with Riva Jean-Paul
Moon Phases & Feminine Power: Your Weekly Cycle Sync | The Dark Moon Phase Explained: Why Slowing Down Is Essential for Your Nervous System
This week’s Cycle Sync episode explores one of the most overlooked yet powerful phases of the lunar cycle: the Dark Moon. Just before the New Moon arrives, the…