In this week’s episode, we’re attuning to the last Full Moon of the calendar year—a moment of illumination, culmination, and deep inner truth.

While nature is slowing down, shedding, and turning inward, our Western culture is ramping up with holidays, pressure, and end-of-year expectations. If you’ve been feeling that tension in your body, your energy, or your emotions… you’re not alone. And you’re not “off.” You’re actually in rhythm with something far wiser.

In this episode, we explore:
🌕 Why the end of the year feels like the luteal phase of the menstrual cycle
🌕 What the Full Moon reveals about your growth, healing, and inner evolution
🌕 How to honor the small-but-significant milestones you’ve achieved this year
🌕 A powerful reflection question: Who are you now, after everything you’ve grown through this year?

This episode is your reminder to slow down, reflect, and let your body actually receive the truth of how far you’ve come.

If you want support grounding into that embodied confidence, you’ll find three free somatic meditations linked below.

🤲🏼🌹 Free Somatic Meditations Mentioned in This Episode

Somatic Meditation for Feeling More Confident
https://insig.ht/IG3VWE4SoWb?utm_source=copy_link&utm_medium=content

Somatic Body Scan for Self-Love and Body Appreciation
https://insig.ht/4HVoBndToWb?utm_source=copy_link&utm_medium=content

Somatic Meditation to Find Your Center
https://insig.ht/k4gyDcWaqWb?utm_source=copy_link&utm_medium=content

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The holidays are marketed as a season of joy, gratitude, and togetherness—but for cycle breakers, sensitive souls, and anyone healing their lineage, this time of year can feel deeply activating.

In this episode, Riva offers trauma-informed wisdom for navigating the holidays with clarity, nervous system safety, and emotional sovereignty. If you’re the one in your family doing things differently, healing old patterns, or reshaping your values, this episode will help you feel grounded and supported through the complexity of the season.

You'll explore:

🧡 Why the holidays can be especially triggering for cycle breakers
🧡 How family dynamics, grief, and ancestral patterns show up this time of year
🧡 Why cultural narratives around “gratitude” and “togetherness” often miss the mark
🧡 The importance of land acknowledgment and reclaiming the true history of this day
🧡 How to intentionally choose what this season means for you

Free Meditations on Insight Timer to Support You This Weekend

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Sensing The Support - 5-Minute Daily Somatic Practice

Softening Meditation For Tension Relief & Grounding

Creating Your Felt Sense of Safety

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In this week’s episode, we attune to the Waxing Moon — the phase associated with the follicular phase of the menstrual cycle, the season of spring, and the wood element. With the start of the holiday season adding pressure, urgency, and overwhelm, this is the perfect moment to explore the art of pacing.

As a recovering workaholic and chronic do-er, Riva shares how the speed of modern life impacts women’s healing, and why slowing down is essential for nervous system regulation, trauma recovery, and intentional living. Through nature metaphors, somatic wisdom, and cyclical guidance, she invites you into a gentler rhythm that honors your energy, your timing, and your inner process.

If you’re someone who rushes your healing, pushes through your days, or feels urgency around “becoming the next version” of yourself, this episode will help you breathe deeper, soften your pace, and reconnect with the wisdom of your body.

FREE Meditations on Insight Timer to Support You This Week

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Trauma-Informed Somatic Meditation For Rest & Restoration

Somatic Meditation for Patience & Anxiety Relief

Somatic Meditation on Trust

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In today’s episode, we close out our menstrual cycle mini-series with Inner Winter — the menstruation phase.

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Most people talk about menstruation as the beginning of the cycle, but today, Riva shares why she experiences it as an ending as well — a time of release, reflection, and deep intuitive clarity.

We explore:

🩸 The science of menstruation (what’s happening with your hormones and brain during your bleed)

🩸 Why your energy drops and why rest is biologically necessary

🩸 Why so many women feel resistance to slowing down

🩸 How to support all four bodies during menstruation:

If you’ve ever felt guilty for slowing down, struggled to rest during your period, or wondered “why do I feel like a different person during my bleed?” — this episode will help you understand your body on a whole new level.

RESOURCES TO SUPPORT YOU THIS WEEK

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FREE Trauma-Informed Somatic Meditation For Rest & Restoration

FREE Breathwork Meditation: Nuture Your Voice & Womb Connection

FREE New Moon Breathwork Meditation

Moon Cycle Cookbook 

Sacred Cycle Oracle Card Deck

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If you’ve ever thought:

“Why am I still anxious / overwhelmed/exhausted even though I’m doing all the right things?”

This episode is going to feel like exhaling.

Today, we explore why so many women try to “get rid of” anxiety, depression, emotional dysregulation, or burnout — and why those symptoms keep returning… even after therapy, mindset work, journaling, or medication.

We’ll explore:

❤️‍🩹 The science of the nervous system + trauma storage

❤️‍🩹 Why talk therapy and mindset alone don’t heal body-based wounds

❤️‍🩹 The psychology of symptoms through Internal Family Systems (IFS)

❤️‍🩹 What happens when we stop fighting the symptom and start listening to it

❤️‍🩹 How somatic work and breathwork help us access the root

If you feel like you’ve tried everything and nothing has worked, this episode gives you the missing layer.

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This week we honour the depth of the 🌓 waning moon and its mirror in our bodies — the premenstrual phase, also known as “inner autumn”. As the light of the moon decreases and energy begins to recede, our bodies move into a phase of release, introspection, and recalibration. During Scorpio season — as we focus on the powerful and transforming reproductive energy — I guide you through the science, the somatic truth, and the gentle practices that support you during this phase.

You’ll learn:

🥀 What’s really happening hormonally and neurologically when you move from ovulation into the pre-menstrual window.

🥀 Why this phase brings up more than just “PMS” — how trauma imprints, nervous system shifts, and the body’s wisdom converge.

🥀 How to move through the four bodies — physical, mental, spiritual, emotional — with practices that work, not just “wait it out.”

🥀 How to lean into this phase as a powerful time of release, rather than simply endure it.

Whether you’ve felt disconnected from your monthly cycle, overwhelmed by symptoms, or simply curious about what your body is doing each month, this episode is your invitation to step into new consciousness and ease around your cycle

🌹🤲🏼 Recommended Practices & Meditations:
Below are three specially chosen meditations to accompany this phase, support your nervous system, and deepen your connection to the inquiry of this inner autumn time:

• Trauma-Informed Somatic Meditation for Rest & Restoration — Listen here
  
  
• Creating Your Felt Sense of Safety — Listen here
  
  
• Softening Meditation for Tension Relief & Grounding — Listen here
  
  

Feel free to choose one (or all) of these and carve out space for support this week.

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If you’ve ever felt confused by your energy, emotions, or productivity throughout the month, this episode is for you.

This week, we’re syncing with the energy of the Full Moon and exploring one of the most powerful — and misunderstood — phases of the menstrual cycle: ovulation, also known as your Inner Summer.

You’ve probably heard that this is the time when women “feel their best” — more social, magnetic, and confident. And while that can be true, it’s not everyone’s experience. Many women find themselves exhausted, moody, or overwhelmed instead… and start to wonder, “What’s wrong with me?”

In this episode, I unpack what’s actually happening in your body during this phase — and why listening to your body’s cues matters more than following a chart or textbook.

Together, we’ll explore:
 🍑 The science of ovulation — and how hormones like estrogen and LH affect your energy, mood, and motivation
 🍑 What to do if you don’t feel amazing during your ovulatory phase (and how to support your body anyway)
🍑 The connection between fertility, creativity, and emotional openness
 

If you’ve been feeling disconnected from your body, unsure of your rhythms, or frustrated that your energy keeps changing week to week, this episode will help you reconnect with your body’s intelligence and remember that nothing is wrong with you. You’re cyclical by design.

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This weekend, we’re attuning to the energy of Samhain, the sacred midpoint between fall and winter when the veil between worlds is thin.

If you’ve been feeling extra sensitive, emotional, or introspective lately, you’re not alone. This time of year naturally draws us inward — inviting us to slow down, reflect, and reconnect with our roots.

In this special bonus episode, I share how the energy of Samhain can be a powerful ally on your healing journey — especially if you’ve been feeling disconnected, overwhelmed, or unsupported. When the veil is thin, we can access the wisdom of our ancestors and remember that we’re not doing this work alone.

Together, we’ll explore:
 🎃  What it really means that “the veil is thin”
 🎃 How to honor your ancestors (even if you didn’t know them personally)
 🎃 The difference between inheriting trauma and inheriting gifts — and how both shape your healing path
 🎃 How to use ritual, prayer, or creative expression to reconnect with the unseen support around you

If you’ve been craving more grounding, guidance, or connection to your lineage, this episode will help you remember that your healing doesn’t begin or end with you. You carry generations of strength, resilience, and love within your body.

FREE Somatic Meditation to Support You on Insight Timer This Weekend

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Sensing The Support - Daily Practice & Somatic Meditation

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This week on Healing Her Story, we’re attuning to the waxing moon and the follicular phase of the menstrual cycle — the season of renewal, growth, and creative possibility.

If you’ve been feeling stuck, low on energy, or unsure how to move forward after a time of rest or release, this episode will help you reconnect with your natural rhythm and start building momentum without burning out.

We’ll explore:
🌷 The energetic and hormonal shifts of the follicular phase — what’s actually happening in your body and how it mirrors the waxing moon.
🌷 Why rising estrogen can make you feel more motivated and more scattered — and how to work with that energy instead of against it.
🌷 How to support your four bodies (physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual) through simple, sustainable practices.
🌷 The science of follicle development and how this phase prepares your body for creation — whether that’s a baby, a project, or a new chapter of life.
🌷Somatic and self-care practices to help you feel grounded, joyful, and in flow.

If you’re someone who’s always pushing, trying to do more, or feeling like you can’t keep up — this episode will remind you that your body already holds the map.

 Learn how to:

• Take small, aligned steps toward your intentions
• Harness your natural surge in energy and creativity
• Cultivate rituals that support both productivity and presence

This is your invitation to wax on — to let your light grow, gently and steadily.

FREE Somatic Meditations to Support You This Week

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• Trauma-Informed Body Scan – 15-minute daily somatic practice
  
  
• Sit and Be With It – 15-minute daily somatic practice
  
  
• Creating Your Felt Sense of Safety
  
  

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If you’ve ever wondered why your body feels off around your cycle, or why getting pregnant — or simply feeling balanced — can feel so complicated, this episode will bring a wave of clarity and empowerment.

This week, I’m joined by Kirsten Karchmer, founder of Conceivable
— an acupuncturist, reproductive medicine expert, and the visionary behind the Halo Smart Ring, a powerful tool designed to help women track their temperature, stress, and recovery in real-time.

Kirsten brings over two decades of experience bridging ancient Chinese medicine with modern science to help women understand what’s really happening in their bodies. We talk about what your PMS is actually trying to tell you, the root causes of hormonal imbalance, and how small, consistent habits can create profound change in your menstrual ecosystem — the delicate inner rhythm that governs fertility, mood, energy, and vitality.

If you’ve struggled with…

• Cyclical symptoms that feel like a mystery (PMS, fatigue, bloating, irritability)
• Trying to conceive 
• Feeling disconnected from your body or frustrated with tracking apps that don’t give the full picture
• Stress that you know impacts your hormones but don’t know how to regulate it

…this conversation is for you.

Kirsten shares how the Halo Smart Ring helps women understand their cycles in a completely new way — empowering you with data that actually makes sense, while inviting you back into a relationship with your body’s natural wisdom. We explore how stress management, sleep, and consistency with the basics (hydration, nourishment, and rest) can completely transform your hormonal landscape.

This episode is a beautiful blend of science, compassion, and embodiment — a reminder that fertility and hormonal health aren’t just about “trying harder,” but about listening deeper.

✨ Learn more about the Halo Smart Ring and how it supports women’s reproductive health.

✨ Explore Kirsten’s work at kirstenkarchmer.com

✨ Take the Personalized Fertility Supplement Quiz and use the code SAVE

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