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 ever struggled to slow down, let go, or sit in the unknown… this episode will help you understand why.

Through the lens of the nervous system, feminine cycles, and the natural rhythm of life and death, we explore why endings feel so uncomfortable.

This isn’t just about the moon or the menstrual cycle.
This is about your relationship to rest, aging, loss, and change.

And what becomes possible when you stop resisting them?

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This song was created as a companion for the healing journey, especially for women reclaiming their voices, their rhythms, and their belonging in a world shaped by patriarchy.

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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 that stopped her in her tracks. Things said in places that are supposed to be safe. Places where people go to heal.

But this carries profound wisdom about what truly trauma-informed care looks and feels like.

In this episode, Riva shares 5 phrases that have no place in trauma-informed healing, drawing from her own lived experience, her work supporting women, and the research that backs it all up.

She covers:

"You're just sensitive" and why dismissal activates the nervous system's threat response

"You should..." and why prescribing someone's healing path undermines lasting change

"Just let it go" and why the body cannot be forced to release before it feels safe

Interpreting your spiritual or psychedelic experience and why meaning must come from within

Toxic positivity and why rushing past pain is its own form of invalidation

If something has ever felt off in a therapeutic space but you couldn't name why, this episode will give you the language.

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Our intro and outro song, Reclamation (Reborn), is an anthem of remembering.

This song was created as a companion for the healing journey, especially for women reclaiming their voices, their rhythms, and their belonging in a world shaped by patriarchy.

You’re invited to listen, feel, and let the music meet you wherever you are.

Looking for more support or resources?

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• Free Trauma Recovery Mini-Course: Begin your healing journey today.

• Website: Learn more about our services and mission.

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/healingherstorypodcast/

• Book a Free Consultation: Connect with me for personalized support.

• Insight Timer: Join me for free meditations to help you find inner calm.

• Full Video Version: Watch the music video for "Reclamation" featured in the intro and outro podcast.

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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 cyclical living.

The full moon is not a light switch. It doesn't just turn on and off.

It builds. It peaks. It releases gradually. And if you've been feeling the intensity this week, in yourself or in the people around you, that makes complete sense.

But this carries profound wisdom about what the full moon is actually for.

So much of the conversation around the full moon focuses on release and letting go. And while that has its place, Riva believes there is a huge missed opportunity in that framing.

The full moon is first and foremost about illumination. About what comes into the light. And one of the most overlooked invitations of this phase is not release at all, it's celebration.

In this episode, Riva explores why constantly focusing on what needs to be fixed, released, or improved can actually keep us stuck. She draws on trauma-informed practices like pendulation and titration to explain why the nervous system needs both, touching into the pain, and returning to what is already working.

Because healing is not just about what's broken. It's also about honoring what is growing.

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Our intro and outro song, Reclamation (Reborn), is an anthem of remembering.

This song was created as a companion for the healing journey, especially for women reclaiming their voices, their rhythms, and their belonging in a world shaped by patriarchy.

You’re invited to listen, feel, and let the music meet you wherever you are.

Looking for more support or resources?

Check out these links:

• Free Trauma Recovery Mini-Course: Begin your healing journey today.

• Website: Learn more about our services and mission.

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/healingherstorypodcast/

• Book a Free Consultation: Connect with me for personalized support.

• Insight Timer: Join me for free meditations to help you find inner calm.

• Full Video Version: Watch the music video for "Reclamation" featured in the intro and outro podcast.

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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 menopause, and that medicine has largely ignored.

The first signs rarely come with a warning.

Anxiety out of nowhere. Sleep that won't come. Brain fog. Weight changes.

And a healthcare system that responds with dismissal.

But this phase carries profound wisdom, and it deserves real, evidence-based care.

Dana Culp, DNP, founded Thrive Midlife Medicine after visiting four providers and still not getting the care she needed, despite 25 years in healthcare herself. She knew women deserved better.

In this episode, Riva and Dana cover what's really happening hormonally, why estrogen's fluctuations affect everything from mood to libido, and why symptoms in your 30s are valid.

They bust the myth that hormone therapy causes cancer and talk about what to actually ask your provider.

This is the conversation women have been waiting for.

Connect with Dana Culp & Thrive Midlife Medicine:

Not sure if what you're experiencing is perimenopause? Start here — Dana's perimenopause quiz takes just a few minutes and gives you real clarity: thrivemidlifemed.com/perimenopausequiz

• Website: thrivemidlifemed.com
• Instagram: instagram.com/thrivemidlifemed
• Facebook: facebook.com/thrivemidlifemed
• LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/thrive-midlife-medicine

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Our intro and outro song, Reclamation (Reborn), is an anthem of remembering.

This song was created as a companion for the healing journey, especially for women reclaiming their voices, their rhythms, and their belonging in a world shaped by patriarchy.

You’re invited to listen, feel, and let the music meet you wherever you are.

Looking for more support or resources?

Check out these links:

• Free Trauma Recovery Mini-Course: Begin your healing journey today.

• Website: Learn more about our services and mission.

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/healingherstorypodcast/

• Book a Free Consultation: Connect with me for personalized support.

• Insight Timer: Join me for free meditations to help you find inner calm.

• Full Video Version: Watch the music video for "Reclamation" featured in the intro and outro podcast.

Subscribe and Stay Connected:
Make sure to subscribe to Healing Her Story so you never miss an episode! Let’s heal, grow, and rise together.


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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 particular waxing moon arrives alongside several powerful shifts:

• Spring in the Northern Hemisphere
• Mercury moving direct
• The beginning of Aries season

Together, these influences bring a noticeable surge of fresh energy and forward momentum. But with that momentum can also come pressure to move too fast, do too much, and push ourselves toward burnout.

In this episode, Riva explores the art of pacing — learning how to build momentum in a way that supports your nervous system, healing journey, and natural rhythms.

Drawing from her own lived experience with workaholism, addiction recovery, trauma-informed somatic healing, and menstrual cycle awareness, Riva shares why this phase of the cycle can feel activating — and how to work with that energy in a way that is sustainable rather than overwhelming.

Instead of rushing ahead, the Waxing Moon invites us to find our “Goldilocks pace” — not too fast, not too slow, but just right.

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Our intro and outro song, Reclamation (Reborn), is an anthem of remembering.

This song was created as a companion for the healing journey, especially for women reclaiming their voices, their rhythms, and their belonging in a world shaped by patriarchy.

You’re invited to listen, feel, and let the music meet you wherever you are.

Looking for more support or resources?

Check out these links:

• Free Trauma Recovery Mini-Course: Begin your healing journey today.

• Website: Learn more about our services and mission.

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/healingherstorypodcast/

• Book a Free Consultation: Connect with me for personalized support.

• Insight Timer: Join me for free meditations to help you find inner calm.

• Full Video Version: Watch the music video for "Reclamation" featured in the intro and outro podcast.

Subscribe and Stay Connected:
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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 is why so many women feel spiritually informed… yet internally disconnected?

In this Aries season conversation, I sit down with Cynthia Abulafia, author of Embodying the Goddess, to explore the cost of spirituality that excludes the body — and the feminine path of returning “down and in.”

Many non-dual or transcendence-based traditions emphasize:

• Rising above the body
• Detaching from emotion
• Escaping identification

These practices can be meaningful.

But what they don't always teach is how to go down and in. And for women especially, that absence matters. Because when spirituality prioritizes ascent without descent, the body becomes secondary — sometimes even suspect.

This isn’t anti-spiritual. It’s a restoration of the feminine current within spirituality, and seeing the body is not an obstacle to awakening, but as the doorway.

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Our intro and outro song, Reclamation (Reborn), is an anthem of remembering.

This song was created as a companion for the healing journey, especially for women reclaiming their voices, their rhythms, and their belonging in a world shaped by patriarchy.

You’re invited to listen, feel, and let the music meet you wherever you are.

Looking for more support or resources?

Check out these links:

• Free Trauma Recovery Mini-Course: Begin your healing journey today.

• Website: Learn more about our services and mission.

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/healingherstorypodcast/

• Book a Free Consultation: Connect with me for personalized support.

• Insight Timer: Join me for free meditations to help you find inner calm.

• Full Video Version: Watch the music video for "Reclamation" featured in the intro and outro podcast.

Subscribe and Stay Connected:
Make sure to subscribe to Healing Her Story so you never miss an episode! Let’s heal, grow, and rise together.


You're also welcome to reach out via email at riva@windsofchangesac.com or send us a DM on Instagram at @healingherstorypodcast

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 moon disappears from the night sky for several nights. No light is reflected back to us. From the outside, it looks like there is no moon at all.

But this quiet phase carries profound wisdom.

The Dark Moon invites us to pause, reflect, and reconnect with ourselves before the next cycle begins. In a culture that constantly pushes productivity, movement, and achievement, this phase reminds us that rest and stillness are not weaknesses — they are essential for nervous system regulation and sustainable living.

In this episode, Riva explores the deeper meaning of the Dark Moon and shares a simple framework for working with this phase using the acronym P.A.U.S.E.

This practice can help you move into the upcoming New Moon and Spring Equinox with greater clarity, alignment, and ease.

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Our intro and outro song, Reclamation (Reborn), is an anthem of remembering.

This song was created as a companion for the healing journey, especially for women reclaiming their voices, their rhythms, and their belonging in a world shaped by patriarchy.

You’re invited to listen, feel, and let the music meet you wherever you are.

Looking for more support or resources?

Check out these links:

• Free Trauma Recovery Mini-Course: Begin your healing journey today.

• Website: Learn more about our services and mission.

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/healingherstorypodcast/

• Book a Free Consultation: Connect with me for personalized support.

• Insight Timer: Join me for free meditations to help you find inner calm.

• Full Video Version: Watch the music video for "Reclamation" featured in the intro and outro podcast.

Subscribe and Stay Connected:
Make sure to subscribe to Healing Her Story so you never miss an episode! Let’s heal, grow, and rise together.


You're also welcome to reach out via email at riva@windsofchangesac.com or send us a DM on Instagram at @healingherstorypodcast

What if the doorway to your next creative vision isn’t effort…

…but deep rest?

In this replay conversation, I sit down with Jill — known as “The Stress Whisperer” — to explore the subtle, powerful practice of Yoga Nidra and the brain states that allow insight, healing, and creativity to emerge naturally.

Most of us spend our days in beta brainwave activity — focused, thinking, planning.

Useful? Absolutely.

But creative breakthroughs, metaphysical insight, and deep nervous system repair don’t arise from mental effort alone.

They emerge in slower brainwave states — particularly alpha and theta — where the mind softens and the body leads.

If you feel creatively blocked…
If your intuition feels distant…
If you’re craving a more embodied spiritual experience…

You may not need more information.

You may need access to a different state of consciousness.

Yoga Nidra reminds us that vision doesn’t come from pushing harder.

It comes from entering the quiet space where life is already moving

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Our intro and outro song, Reclamation (Reborn), is an anthem of remembering.

This song was created as a companion for the healing journey, especially for women reclaiming their voices, their rhythms, and their belonging in a world shaped by patriarchy.

You’re invited to listen, feel, and let the music meet you wherever you are.

Looking for more support or resources?

Check out these links:

• Free Trauma Recovery Mini-Course: Begin your healing journey today.

• Website: Learn more about our services and mission.

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/healingherstorypodcast/

• Book a Free Consultation: Connect with me for personalized support.

• Insight Timer: Join me for free meditations to help you find inner calm.

• Full Video Version: Watch the music video for "Reclamation" featured in the intro and outro podcast.

Subscribe and Stay Connected:
Make sure to subscribe to Healing Her Story so you never miss an episode! Let’s heal, grow, and rise together.


You're also welcome to reach out via email at riva@windsofchangesac.com or send us a DM on Instagram at @healingherstorypodcast