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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 conversations to help you reconnect with your body, break free from societal expectations, and align with your natural rhythms. If you're ready to shift from surviving to thriving, join us as we illuminate the path toward healing, empowerment, and wholeness . It’s time to rewrite your story and embrace the life you deserve. Start your healing journey today with Healing Her Story —a podcast created for women, by women, who are reclaiming their power.
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This one is different. Less information, less teaching, more feeling. This bonus episode is an experiential somatic attunement practice for the Autumn Equinox, that perfect point of balance between light and dark, expansion and contraction, summer and the slowdown ahead. It is designed to be practiced along with, not just listened to. Find a comfortable place, close your eyes if that feels right, and let yourself drop in. Through breath, bilateral stimulation, and centering, this practice gently attunes you to autumn's slower pace, not by forcing, but by softening into what already knows. Most of the friction we experience in the cycle comes from our resistance to what is. Join the Monthly Attunement Call 🌹 A new monthly live Zoom space, less insight, more embodied experience. More nervous system. More body. First gathering: Thursday, September 24th at 6 PM PT 🔗 Click here to register Send us Fan Mail 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 support? Here's how to go deeper: Book a Somatic Assessment: Your 75-min 1:1 virtual session to explore what your body is holding and shape a personalized care plan. Book Here Free Trauma Recovery Mini-Course: A self-guided intro to trauma recovery and nervous system care. Download Here 1:1 and Group Support: Virtual and in-person offerings. Learn More Meditations on Insight Timer: Guided practices for nervous system regulation. Listen Here Watch Reclamation: A music video and expressive arts project. Watch Here Follow on Instagram: @healingherstorypodcast Subscribe so you never miss an episode. Email riva@windsofchangesac.com or DM @healingherstorypodcast on Instagram.
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 quarter moon and the full moon. The anticipatory energy right before the peak. And as we move through Libra season , this phase carries a really specific invitation, to create more balance and harmony before the bloom. In this episode Riva shares three ways to work with this energy, drawing from her own very real and personal experience navigating hormonal symptoms, GI issues, headaches, and the choice to meet it all with curiosity instead of spiraling. Notice — what keeps coming up in your body, your inner world, and the world around you. Research on serendipity shows that people who are more present are significantly more likely to act on meaningful coincidences and unexpected pathways. Take it in as good information — nothing is inherently good or bad. It simply is what it is. Studies show that when we interpret challenge as information rather than threat, cortisol levels drop and our capacity for problem solving stays intact. Calibrate — this is the week to make refinements before the full bloom arrives. Readjust a routine, shift a dynamic, change how you show up somewhere. The flower is right on the edge of opening. Resources to Support You This Week 🌹🤲🏼 Somatic Breathing to Hear Your Body's Wisdom — this week's donation-based somatic meditation on Insight Timer. Send us Fan Mail 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 support? Here's how to go deeper: Book a Somatic Assessment: Your 75-min 1:1 virtual session to explore what your body is holding and shape a personalized care plan. Book Here Free Trauma Recovery Mini-Course: A self-guided intro to trauma recovery and nervous system care. Download Here 1:1 and Group Support: Virtual and in-person offerings. Learn More Meditations on Insight Timer: Guided practices for nervous system regulation. Listen Here Watch Reclamation: A music video and expressive arts project. Watch Here Follow on Instagram: @healingherstorypodcast Subscribe so you never miss an episode. Email riva@windsofchangesac.com or DM @healingherstorypodcast on Instagram.
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 and balance. And today's guest has spent her life living at that exact intersection. Paula Agudelo is an interior designer behind Sacred Interiors, helping women transform their homes into sanctuaries through intentional design and ritual. With 14 years in luxury interiors and two decades of metaphysical, psychological, and spiritual study, her work blends Feng Shui, the Bagua, ritual, and somatic awareness to help women create homes that mirror their truth and support who they're becoming. Her path to this work came through loss. Her father was murdered when she was nine. And somehow, in the grief that followed, she turned to art, flowers, and rearranging furniture. Beauty became her first healing practice. In this episode Riva and Paula explore: What sacred actually means and why it has nothing to do with religion Why your home is not just where your life happens but where your life is being created The nine areas of the Bagua map and how each one connects to a different area of your life Why clutter affects cortisol levels in women and what the science says about our environments and nervous system regulation Creating containers for grief including a 20-minute timer practice that changed everything for Paula Why systems are not the opposite of spirituality but the container that allows flow to happen Practical rituals for busy women that have nothing to do with Pinterest perfection, fresh flowers, a clean stove, coffee in peace This episode is for every woman who has ever felt like her home was holding her back instead of holding her up. Connect with Paula Agudelo: Website: sacredinteriors.design Personal site: paulaagudelo.com Book: House of Becoming — a poetry collection exploring the soul of the home and how to create sacred space for yourself Instagram: @sacredinteriors Resource: The Feng Shui Bagua Map Send us Fan Mail 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 support? Here's how to go deeper: Book a Somatic Assessment: Your 75-min 1:1 virtual session to explore what your body is holding and shape a personalized care plan. Book Here Free Trauma Recovery Mini-Course: A self-guided intro to trauma recovery and nervous system care. Download Here 1:1 and Group Support: Virtual and in-person offerings. Learn More Meditations on Insight Timer: Guided practices for nervous system regulation. Listen Here Watch Reclamation: A music video and expressive arts project. Watch Here Follow on Instagram: @healingherstorypodcast Subscribe so you never miss an episode. Email riva@windsofchangesac.com or DM @healingherstorypodcast on Instagram.
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, this week's Cycle Sync episode explores what balance actually means, not as a fixed point we're meant to hold perfectly, but as a constant, gentle recalibration as we move through our lives. If this year has felt intense, fast-moving, or just a little too much, this episode is for you. In this episode, you'll explore: ⚖️ Why balance is not a fixed point and the beautiful walking metaphor that reframes everything ⚖️ How the waxing moon and follicular phase call for tenderness and intentionality, not hustle, and the science behind why pushing through doesn't always get us there faster ⚖️ Why building pause into your day is one of the most productive things you can do for your nervous system and your creativity ⚖️ How play, real, agenda-free play, is essential for creativity, resilience, and emotional regulation according to research ⚖️ What co-creation actually looks like in practice and how to stop trying to do it all alone And more. Enjoying the show? 🌹🤲🏼 We are approaching our two-year point with Healing Her Story , and this show is truly a labor of love. If these episodes have been supporting you in any way, one of the most meaningful things you can do is leave a rating and review or share this episode with a friend. That is how this show grows, and growing this show means reaching more women who need it. Thank you so much for being here. It truly means everything. Send us Fan Mail 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 support? Here's how to go deeper: Book a Somatic Assessment: Your 75-min 1:1 virtual session to explore what your body is holding and shape a personalized care plan. Book Here Free Trauma Recovery Mini-Course: A self-guided intro to trauma recovery and nervous system care. Download Here 1:1 and Group Support: Virtual and in-person offerings. Learn More Meditations on Insight Timer: Guided practices for nervous system regulation. Listen Here Watch Reclamation: A music video and expressive arts project. Watch Here Follow on Instagram: @healingherstorypodcast Subscribe so you never miss an episode. Email riva@windsofchangesac.com or DM @healingherstorypodcast on Instagram.
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 be supported? As Riva continues through Virgo season, the season of the helper, this solo episode explores what happens when service to others becomes a way of avoiding our own needs. And why so many women, especially those in caregiving roles, have never learned how to truly receive. In this episode Riva explores hyper-independence not as a personality trait but as a trauma response, one that forms when early bids for connection were met with inconsistency or unavailability. She shares her own memory of being told to brush off her feelings as a child, and how that small moment shaped the way she related to her own needs for years. She covers why we build our worth around how much we give, the research on co-regulation and why healing in relationship shifts the nervous system in seconds, why our relationships naturally begin to change as we heal, and why women especially need reciprocal connection to thrive. This episode is for every woman who gives endlessly and quietly wonders why no one ever asks how she is doing. Resources to Support You This Week: Fighting for Our Friendships by Danielle Barrard Jackson — the book anchoring Riva's women's circle, The Spiral Learn More About The Spiral — Riva's women's group in Sacramento, closing September 22nd Book Your Complimentary Get-To-Know-You Call Send us Fan Mail 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 support? Here's how to go deeper: Book a Somatic Assessment: Your 75-min 1:1 virtual session to explore what your body is holding and shape a personalized care plan. Book Here Free Trauma Recovery Mini-Course: A self-guided intro to trauma recovery and nervous system care. Download Here 1:1 and Group Support: Virtual and in-person offerings. Learn More Meditations on Insight Timer: Guided practices for nervous system regulation. Listen Here Watch Reclamation: A music video and expressive arts project. Watch Here Follow on Instagram: @healingherstorypodcast Subscribe so you never miss an episode. Email riva@windsofchangesac.com or DM @healingherstorypodcast on Instagram.
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 stirred up in you is now ready to be honored and released. As Riva closes out Virgo season's ritual series , this episode offers three new moon practices to help you reset, restore, and prepare for the cycle ahead. Setting intentions — not just from the mind, but from the body and the heart. Riva shares the research on the default mode network and why the new moon is scientifically the perfect condition for deeper knowing to emerge. Smoke cleansing — and an honest conversation about cultural appropriation, why sourcing consciously matters, and how to honor the indigenous roots of this practice rather than bypassing them. Working with your menstrual blood — the one nobody talks about. Riva shares what emerging research is revealing about menstrual blood, why our conditioning to hide it runs so deep, and simple ways to begin coming into relationship with it if you feel called. This episode is an invitation to begin again. Slowly. With intention. Resources to Support You This Week: New Moon Somatic Breathwork Meditation — a meditation to support you in slowing down and dropping into deeper layers of yourself. Ethically Sourced Smudge Bundles — consciously sourced smoke cleansing herbs to support your ritual practice Cycle Support Map — a $4.95 PDF guide breaking down the four phases of the cycle, their connection to the seasons, and weekly somatic meditations for one full cycle Send us Fan Mail 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 support? Here's how to go deeper: Book a Somatic Assessment: Your 75-min 1:1 virtual session to explore what your body is holding and shape a personalized care plan. Book Here Free Trauma Recovery Mini-Course: A self-guided intro to trauma recovery and nervous system care. Download Here 1:1 and Group Support: Virtual and in-person offerings. Learn More Meditations on Insight Timer: Guided practices for nervous system regulation. Listen Here Watch Reclamation: A music video and expressive arts project. Watch Here Follow on Instagram: @healingherstorypodcast Subscribe so you never miss an episode. Email riva@windsofchangesac.com or DM @healingherstorypodcast on Instagram.
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. Softness. Ana Uribe is a trauma therapist, compassionate inquiry practitioner, trauma-informed embodiment facilitator, and passionate advocate for plant medicine integration. Her work centers on helping people find inner safety in their bodies and nervous systems so they can heal and live with more connection, joy, and freedom. As Riva moves through Virgo season, the season of systems, this conversation arrives at exactly the right time. In this episode they explore why listening is the system , how to build structures that create flow rather than rigidity, and what it looks like to shift from systems built for survival to systems built for nourishment. They also explore why focusing on your closer concentric rings, yourself, your people, your community, may create more ripple than trying to change everything at once. This episode is a slow, spacious breath for anyone ready to build something new from the inside out. Connect with Ana Uribe: Website: ana-uribe.com Instagram: @ana_uribe_embodiment Send us Fan Mail 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 support? Here's how to go deeper: Book a Somatic Assessment: Your 75-min 1:1 virtual session to explore what your body is holding and shape a personalized care plan. Book Here Free Trauma Recovery Mini-Course: A self-guided intro to trauma recovery and nervous system care. Download Here 1:1 and Group Support: Virtual and in-person offerings. Learn More Meditations on Insight Timer: Guided practices for nervous system regulation. Listen Here Watch Reclamation: A music video and expressive arts project. Watch Here Follow on Instagram: @healingherstorypodcast Subscribe so you never miss an episode. Email riva@windsofchangesac.com or DM @healingherstorypodcast on Instagram.
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 opportunities we have as women. We live in a culture that rewards producing, pushing, and performing. But the female body was never designed to operate that way all the time. During the premenstrual and waning moon phase, progesterone and estrogen decline, serotonin shifts, and the nervous system's capacity for stress significantly decreases. That is not a flaw. That is female physiology. In this episode Riva shares three rituals to honor this quieter, slower, more inward time, and the research that shows why honoring it actually matters. Honoring dying flowers — why placing wilting blooms on display during the waning moon reflects something profound back to us about our own worth in the slow seasons Yoni steaming — an ancient practice Riva has been exploring for three years, how she uses it in the days before her bleed, and the unexpected emotional releases it has supported Nesting — why the desire to declutter and tend to your space during this phase is not just in your head, backed by research showing cluttered environments elevate cortisol throughout the day This episode is a reminder that the waning moon deserves to be honored. Not just the bloom. Resources to Support You This Week: Yoni Steaming — Bajo Ritual — learn more about the practice Riva shares in this episode Best Herbs for Yoni Steaming — a guide to choosing the right herbal blend for your needs Trauma-Informed Somatic Meditation for Rest and Restoration — this week's donation-based meditation on Insight Timer to support you in slowing down. Send us Fan Mail 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 support? Here's how to go deeper: Book a Somatic Assessment: Your 75-min 1:1 virtual session to explore what your body is holding and shape a personalized care plan. Book Here Free Trauma Recovery Mini-Course: A self-guided intro to trauma recovery and nervous system care. Download Here 1:1 and Group Support: Virtual and in-person offerings. Learn More Meditations on Insight Timer: Guided practices for nervous system regulation. Listen Here Watch Reclamation: A music video and expressive arts project. Watch Here Follow on Instagram: @healingherstorypodcast Subscribe so you never miss an episode. Email riva@windsofchangesac.com or DM @healingherstorypodcast on Instagram.
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 something softens. As Riva moves through Virgo season she is exploring its shadow side, and one of the deepest shadow expressions of Virgo is perfectionism. The constant fixing. The constant managing. The constant reaching toward some idea of optimal that keeps moving further away. In this solo episode Riva explores what becomes possible when we stop treating our bodies like projects to be perfected and begin seeing symptoms and discomfort as messages from an intelligent system rather than problems to solve. She covers why constantly optimizing creates unsafety inside, how somatic psychology sees the body as a whole, why symptoms are actually signs your body is working, and how shifting into curiosity and experimentation can take the pressure off entirely. She closes with four reflection questions to sit with across the rest of Virgo season. This episode is for every woman who has ever felt like she was one more supplement away from finally being okay. Send us Fan Mail 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 support? Here's how to go deeper: Book a Somatic Assessment: Your 75-min 1:1 virtual session to explore what your body is holding and shape a personalized care plan. Book Here Free Trauma Recovery Mini-Course: A self-guided intro to trauma recovery and nervous system care. Download Here 1:1 and Group Support: Virtual and in-person offerings. Learn More Meditations on Insight Timer: Guided practices for nervous system regulation. Listen Here Watch Reclamation: A music video and expressive arts project. Watch Here Follow on Instagram: @healingherstorypodcast Subscribe so you never miss an episode. Email riva@windsofchangesac.com or DM @healingherstorypodcast on Instagram.
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 whatever story is beginning to unfold for you through this eclipse season may not yet be fully clear. With time, it will be. In the meantime, Riva shares four of her most meaningful full moon and ovulation rituals, grounded in menstrual cycle awareness, Traditional Chinese Medicine, manifestation practice, and the ancient art of feng shui, to help you work with this peak energy in a way that is simple, intentional, and deeply supportive. In this episode, you'll explore: 🌕 Why the full moon and ovulation phase are associated with the heart and how to work with that connection somatically 🌕 The tracking practice Riva uses in the three days before and after the full moon to find gratitude, trust, and clarity 🌕 What scripting is, how to do it, and the surprising science behind why writing in cursive makes it a more embodied practice 🌕 How feng shui connects to the full moon and one simple ritual for inviting clarity into your home this week 🌕 Why discernment is always the most important tool, especially during eclipse season And more. Resources to Support You This Week 🌹🤲🏼 📓 The Magic of I Planner — the cycle-aware planner Riva uses religiously for tracking, intention setting, and manifestation practices 🌕 Magic of I Full Moon Blog Post — check back at the full moon for their dedicated full moon post 📩 Book Your Somatic Assessment & Care Planning Session — ready to go deeper with your cycle awareness? This is your next step, and Synchronize pricing goes up at the end of the month 🌹 Learn More About Synchronize , Riva's 4-month Somatic Menstrual Cycle Coaching Program Send us Fan Mail 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 support? Here's how to go deeper: Book a Somatic Assessment: Your 75-min 1:1 virtual session to explore what your body is holding and shape a personalized care plan. Book Here Free Trauma Recovery Mini-Course: A self-guided intro to trauma recovery and nervous system care. Download Here 1:1 and Group Support: Virtual and in-person offerings. Learn More Meditations on Insight Timer: Guided practices for nervous system regulation. Listen Here Watch Reclamation: A music video and expressive arts project. Watch Here Follow on Instagram: @healingherstorypodcast Subscribe so you never miss an episode. Email riva@windsofchangesac.com or DM @healingherstorypodcast on Instagram.
In this episode, Riva sits down with Madison Murphy Barney, an Indigenous woman, sister, author, doula, and story-driven strategist, for a conversation that moves between public health systems, feminine leadership, doula care, and the wisdom mycelium has to offer us about staying in right relationship with ourselves, each other, and the earth. Madison shares a little bit about her new book, Our Ancestors Want Us to Be Mushrooms , and what it means to lead and to heal from a place rooted in ancestral and Indigenous knowledge. In This Episode: 🌹 Madison's personal story and healing journey 🌹 Doula care as witnessing and accompaniment through life's thresholds — 🌹 The balance of generosity and confrontation that effective doula care requires 🌹 How mycelium and mushrooms show up as symbols of symbiotic relationship, mystery, and magic and an invitation to embrace wildness and creativity 🌹 Bringing feminine values and earth-based wisdom into public health systems, and how public health drifted from communal, ancestral practices toward individualized medical care and so much more! Connect with Madison Murphy Barney Instagram Website Substack: TERRACOTTA Resources Mentioned Our Ancestors Want Us to Be Mushrooms by Madison Murphy Barney Send us Fan Mail 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 support? Here's how to go deeper: Book a Somatic Assessment: Your 75-min 1:1 virtual session to explore what your body is holding and shape a personalized care plan. Book Here Free Trauma Recovery Mini-Course: A self-guided intro to trauma recovery and nervous system care. Download Here 1:1 and Group Support: Virtual and in-person offerings. Learn More Meditations on Insight Timer: Guided practices for nervous system regulation. Listen Here Watch Reclamation: A music video and expressive arts project. Watch Here Follow on Instagram: @healingherstorypodcast Subscribe so you never miss an episode. Email riva@windsofchangesac.com or DM @healingherstorypodcast on Instagram.
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 theme for our new Virgo season mini-series: rituals and embodiment. As we move through eclipse season and step into the waxing moon, this is a moment to ask a deeper question, not just what you know about your cycle, but how you are actually living it. In this episode, you'll explore: 🌿 Why ritual is one of the most powerful tools for embodying your menstrual cycle — and why we've lost touch with it as a culture 🌿 What Virgo season's themes of earth, self-regeneration, and disciplined devotion have to do with your cycle awareness practice 🌿 How coherence — matching what you feel on the inside with how you show up on the outside — can shift the quality of your everyday life 🌿 Three simple rituals Riva uses during her follicular phase and the waxing moon to embody her cycle from the moment she starts her day 🌿 Why simplicity is the secret to rituals that actually stick — and how to make them work for your real life and real capacity And more. Resources to Support You This Week 🌹🤲🏼 🔮 More on Virgo — What It Means to Have Virgo Placements — the CHANI article Riva references in this episode 📱 The CHANI App — a beautiful tool for tracking the moon and staying connected to the astrological cycles 🌸 The Follicular Phase: How to Support Your Body, Mind & Energy After Your Period — a deeper dive into the phase we're working with this week 📩 Book Your Somatic Assessment & Care Planning Session — ready to go deeper with this embodiment work? This is your next step Send us Fan Mail 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 support? Here's how to go deeper: Book a Somatic Assessment: Your 75-min 1:1 virtual session to explore what your body is holding and shape a personalized care plan. Book Here Free Trauma Recovery Mini-Course: A self-guided intro to trauma recovery and nervous system care. Download Here 1:1 and Group Support: Virtual and in-person offerings. Learn More Meditations on Insight Timer: Guided practices for nervous system regulation. Listen Here Watch Reclamation: A music video and expressive arts project. Watch Here Follow on Instagram: @healingherstorypodcast Subscribe so you never miss an episode. Email riva@windsofchangesac.com or DM @healingherstorypodcast on Instagram.
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 these two often-confused phases and makes a case for why the dark moon deserves its own honoring. As we move through eclipse season in Leo, this quiet, liminal space between cycles is asking something simple of us, and something most of us rarely give ourselves permission to do - just be. In this episode, you'll explore: 🌑 The difference between the dark moon and the new moon — and why the distinction matters 🌑 How our culture has lost the skill of presence — and why that's not entirely our fault 🌑 The Harvard research on mind-wandering and why nearly half of our waking hours are spent somewhere other than the present moment 🌑 Why distraction is a wise and beautiful coping strategy, and how to meet yourself with grace around it 🌑 What presence actually felt like on a walk by the river — and what it might feel like for you And so much more. Your invitation this week: Can you give yourself one or two days before the new moon to simply be? Not reflecting on what has passed, not planning for what is ahead, just present with what is here right now. Notice what might come up. Notice what might softens. Resources to Support You This Week 🌹🤲🏼 Trauma-Informed Somatic Meditation for Rest & Restoration — this week's Insight Timer meditation to support you in dropping into presence and stillness during the dark moon Send us Fan Mail 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 support? Here's how to go deeper: Book a Somatic Assessment: Your 75-min 1:1 virtual session to explore what your body is holding and shape a personalized care plan. Book Here Free Trauma Recovery Mini-Course: A self-guided intro to trauma recovery and nervous system care. Download Here 1:1 and Group Support: Virtual and in-person offerings. Learn More Meditations on Insight Timer: Guided practices for nervous system regulation. Listen Here Watch Reclamation: A music video and expressive arts project. Watch Here Follow on Instagram: @healingherstorypodcast Subscribe so you never miss an episode. Email riva@windsofchangesac.com or DM @healingherstorypodcast on Instagram.
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 mini-series on creativity and the cycles, this week Riva explores what it actually means to refine, complete, and consciously let go, and why this phase of the lunar and menstrual cycle is biologically designed for exactly that. Through the metaphor of metal refinement, the science of the premenstrual brain, and her own real-time experience finishing a painting that had been sitting in the corner of her living room for months, Riva offers a grounded and practical lens for working with this often overlooked phase of the cycle. In this episode, you'll explore: 🌘 Why the waning moon and premenstrual phase are the most powerful time for refinement, editing, and completion in your creative practice 🌘 The metal refinement metaphor and what it teaches us about what our creative work needs to become what it was always meant to be 🌘 The science behind the premenstrual brain: how the drop in progesterone activates the prefrontal cortex, sharpening focus, analysis, and discernment 🌘How completing projects builds deep trust in yourself and your creative process 🌘 What creative chaos is, why it shows up during this phase, and a simple tool to contain it without losing the ideas and so much more. Your invitation this week: Look at what is unfinished. Is there a project that only needs a little more work to be complete? Is there something that has been sitting in the corner, literally or metaphorically, waiting for you to return to it? This is your week. And if there is something that no longer feels alive, give yourself permission to release it. Not everything needs to be finished. Some things need to be composted. Resources to Support You This Week 🌹🤲🏼 🌸 Join Riva's Monthly Women's Circle — Sacramento — three spots remaining in the founding group; next gathering Friday, August 14th, timed perfectly with the new moon in Leo and total solar eclipse 📩 Book Your Somatic Assessment & Care Planning Session — two slots available this week; the first step into working more deeply with Riva Send us Fan Mail 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 support? Here's how to go deeper: Book a Somatic Assessment: Your 75-min 1:1 virtual session to explore what your body is holding and shape a personalized care plan. Book Here Free Trauma Recovery Mini-Course: A self-guided intro to trauma recovery and nervous system care. Download Here 1:1 and Group Support: Virtual and in-person offerings. Learn More Meditations on Insight Timer: Guided practices for nervous system regulation. Listen Here Watch Reclamation: A music video and expressive arts project. Watch Here Follow on Instagram: @healingherstorypodcast Subscribe so you never miss an episode. Email riva@windsofchangesac.com or DM @healingherstorypodcast on Instagram.
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 courage, creativity, and being seen, this conversation with her dear friend and transformational coach Leah Morris felt like it was made for this moment. Leah kept her self-portrait paintings in a closet for nearly twenty years. Not because they were not beautiful. But because she believed she was too much. That her emotional expression was a burden. That her art was too personal to be shared. But this carries profound wisdom about what happens when we finally let our truth be seen. In this episode Riva and Leah explore: How childhood emotional caretaking shaped Leah's relationship with self-expression and why she spent years believing her feelings were too much The moment a stranger saw her hidden paintings and cried and what that revealed about the power of authentic creative expression How two EMDR sessions shifted everything and led to the breakthrough belief that she gets to decide how much space she takes up What happened when she finally shared her art with the people closest to her and how their reactions taught her that other people's responses are not hers to carry Why framing her paintings felt like giving them boundaries and how that mirrors the work of protecting what we create before sending it into the world The connection between secure attachment and creativity and why the ability to take creative risks requires a felt sense of safety first How motherhood has become the ultimate creative act and what her daughter Eden witnessed by being present at the exhibit What Leah would say to every woman afraid to share her voice or her gifts — love yourself harder, and know that the fear was never yours to begin with This episode is a love letter to every woman with something beautiful still hidden in the closet. Connect with Leah Morris: liferemade.com @leahemorris Vlog Leah's Book - The Integrity Sessions Send us Fan Mail 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 support? Here's how to go deeper: Book a Somatic Assessment: Your 75-min 1:1 virtual session to explore what your body is holding and shape a personalized care plan. Book Here Free Trauma Recovery Mini-Course: A self-guided intro to trauma recovery and nervous system care. Download Here 1:1 and Group Support: Virtual and in-person offerings. Learn More Meditations on Insight Timer: Guided practices for nervous system regulation. Listen Here Watch Reclamation: A music video and expressive arts project. Watch Here Follow on Instagram: @healingherstorypodcast Subscribe so you never miss an episode. Email riva@windsofchangesac.com or DM @healingherstorypodcast on Instagram.
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 full moon is at its peak. And as we have been exploring this cycle, this is exactly the moment where everything shifts from intention into expression. But this carries profound wisdom about what the full moon is actually asking of you creatively. If you have been following along since the new moon, you planted a seed. You chose a project, an intention, a creative focus. This is the week it starts to take form. In this episode Riva explores the culminating energy of the full moon and what it means for your creative practice and menstrual cycle. This is no longer about dreaming or planning. This is about showing up and doing your part. She covers: Why the full moon is where the rubber meets the road and how to channel the amplified energy into pure expression How to pick one thread that runs through everything when you have too many creative desires to choose from Sharing and being seen -- why the full moon is an invitation to put what you have been creating out into the world What happened in Dr. Tavina's writing circle and why writing with no agenda for 20 minutes can be surprisingly nourishing and freeing A special invitation for women local to Sacramento — Riva's women's circle is welcoming three new members and the next meeting is Friday August 14th If something has been building in you this cycle, this is your sign to let it move. Resources to Support You This Week 🌹🤲🏼 Learn More About Riva's Monthly Women's Circle Dr. Tavina Lynn's Writing Circle Somatic Meditation for Feeling More Confident Send us Fan Mail 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 support? Here's how to go deeper: Book a Somatic Assessment: Your 75-min 1:1 virtual session to explore what your body is holding and shape a personalized care plan. Book Here Free Trauma Recovery Mini-Course: A self-guided intro to trauma recovery and nervous system care. Download Here 1:1 and Group Support: Virtual and in-person offerings. Learn More Meditations on Insight Timer: Guided practices for nervous system regulation. Listen Here Watch Reclamation: A music video and expressive arts project. Watch Here Follow on Instagram: @healingherstorypodcast Subscribe so you never miss an episode. Email riva@windsofchangesac.com or DM @healingherstorypodcast on Instagram.
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 everyday moments where we hold back our opinions, our photos, our ideas, our truest selves. But this carries profound wisdom about why so many women find it so hard to show up and what the research actually says about it. In this solo episode, Riva opens with data that stops you in your tracks. Forty four percent of women report fear of public speaking. Fifty nine percent say fear of online backlash makes them less likely to share their opinions. Fifty four percent are less likely to share photos of themselves online. Over half of women are hiding. And it is not a mindset problem. Riva explores the evolutionary and biological roots of this fear, including why the same brain regions that activate during physical pain also light up during social rejection. She unpacks why the nervous system was literally designed to keep us hidden, and why that once kept us alive. She covers: The statistics on women and visibility and why the gap between men and women is significant Why being seen triggers a survival response rooted in the oldest parts of the nervous system Polyvagal theory and why women freeze, fawn, or go quiet in the exact moment they are invited to show up Imposter syndrome and why it shows up more in women than in men Riva's personal journey with being seen from performance art and numbing, to studio art critiques and wearing a menstrual cycle dress in front of her class Three practical tools to begin building capacity for the discomfort of visibility This episode is not about pushing through the fear. It is about understanding where it lives in your body and slowly, gently learning to stay with it. Resources to Support You This Week:🌹🤲🏼 Somatic Meditation for Feeling More Confident What is Somatic Breathwork? Sources: Public Speaking Statistics — Teleprompter.com — public speaking anxiety gender gap (44% women vs. 37% men), sourced from NIH data 30+ Revealing Fear of Public Speaking Statistics — Crown Counseling — glossophobia/specific phobia rates by gender (12.2% women vs. 5.8% men) Gendered Inequalities in Online Harms: Fear, Safety Work, and Online Participation — ScienceDirect — online expression gap (23% of women vs. 40% of men comfortable expressing political views online) Gendered Inequalities in Online Harms (preprint) — arXiv — fear of backlash reducing sharing (59% less likely to share opinions, 54% less likely to share photos); origins of that fear (37% of women cite a female friend's experience) Nearly Half of Gen Z and Millennial Women Fear Being Judged — Principal Foundation via PR Newswire — fear of judgment silencing disclosure (45% of women vs. 33% of men) Send us Fan Mail 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 support? Here's how to go deeper: Book a Somatic Assessment: Your 75-min 1:1 virtual session to explore what your body is holding and shape a personalized care plan. Book Here Free Trauma Recovery Mini-Course: A self-guided intro to trauma recovery and nervous system care. Download Here 1:1 and Group Support: Virtual and in-person offerings. Learn More Meditations on Insight Timer: Guided practices for nervous system regulation. Listen Here Watch Reclamation: A music video and expressive arts project. Watch Here Follow on Instagram: @healingherstorypodcast Subscribe so you never miss an episode. Email riva@windsofchangesac.com or DM @healingherstorypodcast on Instagram.
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 create, what we focus on, and the energy we bring to it. This phase is associated with the season of spring. Rebirth. Fresh starts. New beginnings. And there is so much creative potential available right now. But this carries profound wisdom about what this tender, emerging energy actually needs from us. In this episode Riva introduces the three P's for your creative practice during the waxing moon and follicular phase. Planning -- blocking time, gathering supplies, mapping out the month, and getting clear on what you actually want to create Protecting -- why sharing your creative work too soon can invite the inner critic in before the idea has had a chance to take root, and how to be intentional about who you share with and when Pacing -- why doing too much too soon during this rising energy phase leads to burnout before you even reach ovulation, and how to nourish yourself back to center before pushing forward Riva also shares her own personal creative recommitment this cycle, including her dance practice, a painting waiting on big canvases, a song in progress, and the childlike pull toward possibility that spring always brings. If you tend to surge forward and crash before the full moon, this episode is for you. Resources to Support You This Week 🤲🏼🌹 🧘 Somatic Meditation for Patience & Anxiety Relief — this week's trauma-informed somatic meditation on Insight Timer to support you in pacing yourself through the waxing moon ✍️ Dr. Tavina Lynn's Writing Circle — a free community writing circle meeting every second Sunday, a beautiful way to create accountability in your creative practice 🌀 Synchronize — Menstrual Cycle Coaching — Riva's four-month menstrual cycle coaching program for women ready to go deeper with their cycle awareness and reclaim every phase Send us Fan Mail 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 support? Here's how to go deeper: Book a Somatic Assessment: Your 75-min 1:1 virtual session to explore what your body is holding and shape a personalized care plan. Book Here Free Trauma Recovery Mini-Course: A self-guided intro to trauma recovery and nervous system care. Download Here 1:1 and Group Support: Virtual and in-person offerings. Learn More Meditations on Insight Timer: Guided practices for nervous system regulation. Listen Here Watch Reclamation: A music video and expressive arts project. Watch Here Follow on Instagram: @healingherstorypodcast Subscribe so you never miss an episode. Email riva@windsofchangesac.com or DM @healingherstorypodcast on Instagram.
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, and spiritual transformation. Dr. Colleen Quinn is a transpersonal psychologist, breathwork practitioner, and author of Essence Merging -- a book that traces her path from health crisis to profound awakening and the discovery that love is the primary healer. But this carries profound wisdom about what becomes possible when we stop trying to think our way through trauma and start breathing our way through it. Riva opens up about her own synchronicities while reading Colleen's book, including deep connections to her breathwork practice and her recent studies on in utero wounds. This conversation felt destined. In this episode Riva and Colleen explore: How a health crisis became a doorway into breathwork and energetic healing after traditional psychology reached its limits The difference between fast paced and slow paced breathwork and why slower circular integrated breathing creates a safer, deeper healing environment for trauma How breathwork activates DMT in the pineal gland lighting up the brain in ways similar to plant medicine experiences Why the body stores emotional energy for decades and how conscious breathing creates the conditions to finally release it The concept of essence merging and surrender and why true surrender means detaching from the ego to fully merge with the present moment Collective awakening and what we are moving through right now and why love is the only true healer for physical, mental, and emotional pain Practical ways to begin exploring conscious breathing even outside of a formal breathwork session This episode is for anyone who has done the talk therapy, read the books, and is ready to go somewhere deeper. Connect with Dr. Colleen Quinn: Website Self Therapy Book Colleen’s YouTube Colleen’s Book: Essence Merging Send us Fan Mail 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 support? Here's how to go deeper: Book a Somatic Assessment: Your 75-min 1:1 virtual session to explore what your body is holding and shape a personalized care plan. Book Here Free Trauma Recovery Mini-Course: A self-guided intro to trauma recovery and nervous system care. Download Here 1:1 and Group Support: Virtual and in-person offerings. Learn More Meditations on Insight Timer: Guided practices for nervous system regulation. Listen Here Watch Reclamation: A music video and expressive arts project. Watch Here Follow on Instagram: @healingherstorypodcast Subscribe so you never miss an episode. Email riva@windsofchangesac.com or DM @healingherstorypodcast on Instagram.
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 the beginning of a brand-new creative arc. Over the coming weeks, we'll be exploring how to work with each phase of the lunar and menstrual cycle to support and deepen your creative practice. In this episode, Riva shares real-time reflections from her own bleeding time, including a spontaneous visit to a contemporary art museum, what she discovered reading Her Blood Is Gold , and how indigenous perspectives on the menstrual cycle reframe the bleeding time not as a period of fragility, but as a time of profound psychic power and creative potency. In this episode, you'll explore: How the new moon and bleeding time are a powerful entry point for your creative practice What indigenous traditions understood about women's psychic power during menstruation Why the bleeding time is a time of retreating and potency, not just rest How to begin (or recommit to) a creative practice in alignment with your cycle Three practical ways to work with new moon and bleeding time energy for creativity this week Resources to Support You This Week 🌹🤲🏼 📖 Her Blood Is Gold — the book Riva references in this episode on menstrual cycle wisdom and the psychic potency of the bleeding time 🎙️ The Menstrual Cycle & the Moon — Healing Her Story Podcast — a deeper dive into the connection between your cycle and the lunar cycle 🗺️ The Cycle Support Map — Riva's $4.95 PDF guide to working with every phase of your menstrual cycle, plus weekly trauma-informed somatic meditations delivered to your inbox for one full cycle Send us Fan Mail 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 support? Here's how to go deeper: Book a Somatic Assessment: Your 75-min 1:1 virtual session to explore what your body is holding and shape a personalized care plan. Book Here Free Trauma Recovery Mini-Course: A self-guided intro to trauma recovery and nervous system care. Download Here 1:1 and Group Support: Virtual and in-person offerings. Learn More Meditations on Insight Timer: Guided practices for nervous system regulation. Listen Here Watch Reclamation: A music video and expressive arts project. Watch Here Follow on Instagram: @healingherstorypodcast Subscribe so you never miss an episode. Email riva@windsofchangesac.com or DM @healingherstorypodcast on Instagram.
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