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As we approach the Full Moon Eclipse, life may feel extra full—new beginnings, shifting schedules, unexpected changes, and maybe even sudden endings. Eclipse energy is powerful, and with Venus in retrograde and Mercury retrograde approaching, you might be feeling overwhelmed, uncertain, or emotionally heightened. You're not alone, and there is nothing wrong with you.

In this episode, I guide you through this week's Waxing Moon energy and how you can use it to receive and recalibrate instead of forcing or controlling. This is a time to tune it, reflect, and ask yourself:

✨ What small shift can I make inside myself?

✨ What simple practice can help me navigate this season?

✨ Where do I need more support?

If you're feeling the weight of life right now, this episode is here to remind you that you don’t have to do it all alone. Join me for my breathwork session on Insight Timer, "Breathwork to Receive and Recalibrate," where I’ll guide you through a gentle yet powerful practice to help you reset and realign.

Listen now and take a breath—you are exactly where you need to be.

Click here to access the breathwork meditation

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.

• 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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If you’ve ever felt like your own worst critic, you’re not alone. Many of us grew up with critical parents or caregivers, and as a result, we’ve internalized that voice—leading to self-judgment, perfectionism, and never feeling "good enough." But the good news? You can change this.

In this episode of Healing Her Story, I share a personal story that helped me realize just how hard I was being on myself. I also dive into:

✨ Why shaming or ignoring your inner critic doesn’t work—and what to do instead

✨ How to shift from self-judgment to self-compassion

✨ Three powerful modalities that have helped me build a healthier, more loving relationship with myself

✨ How Revelation Breathwork can support deep emotional release and self-acceptance

As a special gift, I’m offering 50% off your first month of Revelation Breathwork!

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If you’re ready to soften your inner critic, trust yourself more, and feel at home in your own skin, this episode is for you.

If you'd like to know more about the Venus retrograde, click here

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.

• 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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Love, have you been feeling the shift in energy this week? As the moon moves from new to full, the waxing moon invites us to step into action—but in a way that is intentional, balanced, and sustainable.

In this Weekly Cycle Check-In, I’m sharing The 3 Ps - a simple yet powerful framework to help you work with this week’s lunar energy instead of pushing against it.

If you find yourself feeling scattered, exhausted, or out of sync with your natural rhythms, this episode is here to guide you back into flow. By tuning into the wisdom of the waxing moon, you’ll learn how to move forward with ease while honoring your energy, creativity, and well-being.

This week, let’s create momentum without burnout—because sustainability isn’t just about business or productivity, it’s about your body, heart, and spirit too.

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.

• 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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In this week's Cycle Check-In on Healing Her Story, we’re stepping into one of the most overlooked yet deeply restorative phases of the lunar cycle—the Dark Moon.

This is the moment in the cycle when the sky goes completely dark, offering us a powerful reminder to slow down, rest, and embrace the in-between. But in a world that glorifies productivity and constant growth, it can feel uncomfortable—or even scary—to pause.

💫 In this episode, we explore:

🌑 What the Dark Moon represents in the cycle and in our lives

🌑 Why rest, stillness, and “not knowing” are essential parts of healing

🌑 How to navigate feelings of discomfort during life’s in-between moments

🌑 Simple ways to honor the Dark Moon and create space for deep restoration

Many of us struggle with slowing down, feeling like we have to do something even when our bodies and hearts are calling for stillness. But the Dark Moon is here to remind us: healing doesn’t always happen in motion—sometimes, it happens in the pause.

If you’ve been feeling exhausted, overwhelmed, or disconnected from yourself, this episode will help you:

✨ Give yourself permission to rest without guilt

✨ Find peace in the unknown, instead of resisting it

✨ Reconnect with your inner wisdom and intuition

To support you in this sacred time, I’m sharing one of my favorite yoga nidra practices on Insight Timer. Click here to listen now.

Make sure to subscribe to the podcast so you never miss an episode, and if this resonated with you, share it with a friend who might need a reminder to slow down.

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.

• 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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Welcome to this week’s check-in on Healing Her Story! As we move into the waning moon phase, we’re invited into a quieter, more introspective space that deeply supports letting go. But here’s the thing: letting go isn’t something we force with the mind. It’s something the body already knows how to do in its own time and way.

In this episode, we’ll explore:

🌘 Why now is the time to let go—not at the full moon

🌘 How to release with the body instead of the mind

🌘The wisdom of your nervous system & the intelligence that already knows how to let go

🌘 Why we can’t control healing—but we can create space for it to unfold

🌘 How increased sensitivity during this phase can support deeper healing

🌘 Simple somatic practices to help you surrender & release

This episode is for you if:
🌘 You feel stuck in old emotions or patterns and don’t know how to let go
🌘 You tend to overthink your healing and want a more embodied approach
🌘 You’re craving more ease and trust in your healing process
🌘 You want to move through this lunar phase with intention and self-compassion

🤲🏼 Take Your Healing Deeper
To support you this week, I’ve created a Somatic Breathing Meditation for Letting Go on Insight Timer. This practice will help you gently release tension, emotions, and anything that no longer serves—without forcing or pushing.

Listen ➡️ [here]

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.

• 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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Is your mind always racing, trying to “figure out” why you feel anxious or overwhelmed? Do you find yourself constantly searching for the next mindset shift or affirmation, hoping it will help you feel safe? If so, this episode is for you.

In today’s episode, we’re busting the myth that you can think your way into safety. True safety isn’t just an idea—it’s a felt experience in your body. If you’ve been stuck in cycles of overanalyzing, overthinking, or feeling disconnected, I’m sharing what to do instead.

🔍 In This Episode, We Explore:

🌹 What does it even mean to feel safe? A reflection to help you explore this for yourself

🌹 How to know if your body is actually experiencing safety (hint: it’s not just about feeling “calm”)

🌹 What the rest and digest state is and why spending time here is essential for deep healing

🌹 The biological shifts that happen when your nervous system is in a true state of safety

🌹 Why we need others for healing—co-regulation and the power of safe connection

🌹Simple, effective tools to help your body access safety in everyday life

If you’ve been stuck in survival mode, feeling like you constantly need to fix or change yourself, this episode will help you step into a new way of being—one that supports true healing, sustainability, and self-trust.

Ready to begin? Start with my free guided meditation, Creating Your Felt Sense of Safety, on Insight Timer. This meditation will gently guide you into a state of embodied safety, helping you reconnect with your body in a nurturing way.

🤲🏼 Listen here

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.

• 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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Welcome back to Healing Her Story! This week’s cycle check-in is all about busting a huge myth about the full moon phase—one that might be keeping you stuck in cycles of always needing to fix or change something about yourself. If you’ve been feeling like you constantly have to do more, be more, or heal more, this episode is for you.

If you're ovulating right now, this will be an extra juicy listen, but no matter where you are in your cycle, these insights will help you shift into a more sustainable and supportive approach to your healing journey.

Inside this episode, we’ll explore:

🌕 The truth about the full moon phase (hint: it’s not just about releasing!)

🌕How to stop exhausting yourself with constant self-improvement and embrace The Cs

🌕 A new way to work with your cycle that nurtures rather than drains you

🌕 A free meditation on Insight Timer that I recommend using this week to integrate these shifts

If you’ve been caught in a loop of feeling like you’re never quite “there” yet, this episode will help you release that pressure and align with a more nourishing rhythm.

✨ Listen now & reclaim your healing journey with more ease. ✨

🎧 Plus, don’t forget to check out this week’s recommended meditation on Insight Timer: Click here

Let me know what resonates with you—I love hearing from you!

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.

• 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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Welcome to this week’s episode of the Healing Her Story Podcast. Today, I’m joined by Kim Stevens, a holistic licensed psychotherapist specializing in somatic therapy, mindfulness-based modalities, dance and movement therapy, and trauma healing.

We’ve all heard the phrase, “You have to feel it to heal it.” But what does that actually mean? And how can you begin to reconnect with your body, especially if feeling has never felt safe?

Many women struggle with feeling disconnected, overwhelmed, or stuck in cycles of burnout, people-pleasing, or emotional suppression. If you’ve ever found yourself avoiding emotions, ignoring your body’s signals, or struggling with trust in yourself, this conversation is for you.

In this episode, we explore:

🌹 Kim’s personal journey into somatic trauma therapy and what led her to this work

🌹 Why trauma often disconnects us from our emotions and sensations

🌹 How somatic therapy differs from traditional talk therapy (and why it can be so effective)

🌹 Signs that trauma is stored in the body and how to recognize them

🌹The first steps to rebuilding a sense of safety and trust within your body

🌹How somatic healing can support those who feel stuck in cycles of burnout, overgiving, or self-abandonment

🌹Practical, everyday tools to reconnect with your body and emotions—without feeling overwhelmed

If you’ve been longing for deeper connection, more ease, and true healing—this episode is your invitation to begin.

Connect with Kim Stevens:

🔗 Watch Kim’s TEDx Talk: How Somatic Therapy Can Change the Way We Heal
🔗 Visit Kim’s Website: kimstevenstherapy.com
🔗 Follow Kim on Instagram: @kimchristinetherapy
🔗 Try Riva's “Welcome Practice” on Insight Timer: Listen Here

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.

• 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