This week on Moon Phases & Feminine Power: Your Weekly Cycle Sync, we’re entering the dark moon—that liminal, tender space between what’s been and what’s yet to come.

If you’ve been feeling low energy, emotionally raw, or deeply fatigued… you’re not broken, love—you’re in rhythm with the cycle.

In this episode, I’ll guide you through the energetic and physiological invitations of this phase, which corresponds to the final days of the menstrual cycle—a time when estrogen dips and the body calls out for true, deep rest.

You’ll learn:

🌑 The difference between the dark moon and the new moon

🌑 Why this phase is essential for trauma recovery and nervous system regulation

🌑 How our fast-paced culture ignores this pause—and how you can reclaim it

🌑 Gentle, practical ways to honor your body in this sacred pause (even if you only have 30 seconds)

This episode is especially for the woman who struggles to slow down, feels guilty when resting, and is used to pushing through, even when her body is begging for space.

It’s a love letter to your in-between moments, to your nervous system, and your healing.

Plus, I’ve included three free trauma-informed somatic meditations in the show notes to help you ease into stillness, regulate your system, and create a felt sense of safety this week.

✨ Trauma-Informed Meditation for Rest & Restoration
https://insig.ht/rPJYtW358Tb

✨ Sensing the Support: A 5-Minute Daily Somatic Practice
https://insig.ht/TI36MS458Tb

✨ Creating Your Felt Sense of Safety
https://insig.ht/OfTD5r958Tb

Take the sacred pause, love. The next cycle will come soon enough. But for now… just be.

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This week on Moon Phases & Feminine Power: Your Weekly Cycle Sync, we’re attuning to the energy of the waning moon—a sacred and often overlooked phase of the menstrual and lunar cycle. Associated with inner autumn and the premenstrual phase, this part of the cycle invites us to release, reflect, and return to ourselves.

But in a culture that rewards productivity over presence, this shift can feel… hard.

If you find yourself feeling overwhelmed, overstimulated, or afraid to slow down—especially as energy begins to wane—you’re not alone. And you're not broken.

In this episode, I share:

🌙 Why the waning moon often triggers resistance, anxiety, and overstimulation

🌙 How trauma and survival conditioning can make slowing down feel unsafe

🌙 Gentle, embodied ways to honor this phase of the cycle—even if you’re short on time

🌙 Practical, lived-in examples of what rest can really look like (hint: it doesn’t have to mean doing nothing)

Whether you're a woman navigating burnout, a cycle-aware being learning to soften, or someone reclaiming safety in rest—this episode is a gentle reminder that your body knows what to do when you listen.

✨ This is a beautiful one to bookmark, revisit, and share.

Free trauma-informed somatic meditations to support you this week

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– Patience & Anxiety Relief
– Tension Relief & Grounding
– Rest & Restoration

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• 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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This week on Healing Her Story, I’m joined by the radiant and revolutionary voice of Mari Candela—a poet, healer, teacher, and traumatic brain injury (TBI) survivor whose words are both balm and battle cry.

Mari’s story is one of radical reclamation. After surviving a traumatic brain injury, she found her way back to herself through poetry—not as performance, but as a deeply embodied act of healing. In this powerful conversation, we explore how writing can become a bridge between brokenness and wholeness, between memory and imagination, between pain and possibility.

If you’ve ever struggled to express your truth...

If you’ve ever felt like your voice didn’t matter, or that your story was too fragmented to be told…

If you’ve been looking for another way to process your past and reconnect with your body…
This episode is for you.

We talk about:

❤️‍🩹 How poetry helps us speak to our inner child, our rage, and our resilience

❤️‍🩹 Why you don’t have to be a writer or poet to use language as medicine

❤️‍🩹 How to move through "writing blocks"

❤️‍🩹 The role of rhythm in reclaiming your voice

and so much more!

Mari also shares the powerful healing practices she uses in her own life—and offers one of two of original poems live on the show (bring tissues).

Whether you’ve always loved writing or you’ve been scared to start, this episode will help you understand how to approach the blank page with compassion, curiosity, and courage.

Connect with Mari on Instagram

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• 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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We’ve reached the full moon —an energetically potent time that can illuminate both the beauty and the overwhelm in your life.

In this week’s episode, recorded from the wide-open landscapes of Colorado, I invite you to pause and reflect. Whether you’re blooming or unraveling right now, this phase offers a powerful opportunity for healing, integration, and self-awareness.

Are you noticing a breakthrough after weeks of showing up for yourself?

Or are you feeling anxious, overstimulated, or like everything is “too much”?

Both experiences are valid—and both carry valuable information for your healing process.

This episode is especially supportive if you:

- Struggle with burnout or anxiety during the full moon

- Tend to skip over your wins instead of letting them resource your nervous system

- Are seeking deeper embodiment in your trauma recovery journey

- Need help understanding how cyclical living supports emotional regulation and energy balance

Inside, I share:

🌕 The science behind why you may feel wired, restless, or depleted during the full moon

🌕 How to recognize resourcing moments that build trust in your body and process

🌕 A nervous system-friendly way to celebrate breakthroughs and be with discomfort without judgment

🌕 A gentle reminder that healing doesn’t have to be forced—it can be embodied

This episode will help you take a compassionate look at where you are in your cycle and your life, and how to work with that energy instead of against it.

Need more support? I’ve included somatic meditations in the show notes to help you ground and integrate.

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Trauma-Informed Body Scan »

Somatic Breathing to Hear Your Body’s Wisdom »

Somatic Meditation for Feeling More Confident »

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• 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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So many women on the healing path struggle with all-or-nothing thinking — the belief that they’re either healed or broken, regulated or dysregulated, worthy or not. Sound familiar?

In this short but potent episode, I invite you to make a powerful shift in how you relate to yourself and your healing journey: “both/and” thinking. Especially during Gemini season — a time of duality, curiosity, and new perspectives — this shift can be a gateway to deeper self-compassion, more regulated energy, and sustainable growth.

You’ll hear:

✨ Common ways all-or-nothing thinking shows up in healing and life

✨ A gentle reframe that honors the complexity of your experience

✨ The science behind cognitive flexibility and why it matters for trauma recovery

✨Metaphors to help you feel this shift in your body, not just your mind

Whether you’re feeling stuck, burnt out, or like you're constantly “starting over,” this episode will remind you: healing isn’t black or white. You’re allowed to hold complexity. You’re allowed to be in progress and in power. You’re allowed to be both.

Listen now and begin softening into the nuance your nervous system is craving.

For more tools like this, download my free Trauma Recovery Mini Course, where I share three more simple, powerful shifts to help you move forward with more clarity and compassion.
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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.

• 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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Are you feeling the nudge to take action—but also the pull to slow down? You’re not alone, love. As we transition from the stillness of the New Moon to the rising energy of the Waxing Moon, your body, mind, and spirit might be navigating a delicate dance between movement and stillness, clarity and confusion, desire and doubt.

In this week’s episode, we explore the waxing moon phase—your inner springtime—and how to work with it instead of against it. If you’ve ever pushed yourself too soon after your period and ended up feeling burnt out, anxious, or unclear, this episode will help you understand why that happens and what to do instead. 🌿

Through the metaphor of a tender rosebud, I offer a fresh, science-informed lens on:

🌷 Why burnout and anxiety often spike during this phase—especially if you’re a trauma survivor

🌷What it really means to embody feminine energy in a masculine world

🌷How to take aligned action without overwhelming your nervous system

🌷And how trauma-informed menstrual cycle awareness can help you bloom at your own pace

Whether you’re working on your healing, your creative expression, or calling in more peace and clarity, this episode will support you in moving forward sustainably, with softness, strength, and soul.

You’ll also get 3 practical tips to support this phase.

If you're ready to stop pushing and start blooming—tenderly, powerfully, and in tune with your natural rhythm—this episode is your gentle invitation back into flow.

To support further exploration this week:

🤲🏼 A grounding somatic meditation

🤲🏼 This week’s embodiment playlist to support the waxing moon

🤲🏼 A special link to try Revelation Breathwork for 30 days for just $19.50
(Select the monthly membership option to join my weekly classes.)

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• 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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Are you overwhelmed by stress, stuck in survival mode, or feeling disconnected from your body and intuition? You’re not alone, love—and this week’s episode offers you a path forward.

In this powerful conversation, I sit down with Jill, affectionately known as “The Stress Whisperer,” to explore the deeply restorative practice of Yoga Nidra. Whether you’re navigating burnout, anxiety, trauma recovery, or simply seeking a gentler way to heal, this episode will give you a fresh perspective on rest, nervous system regulation, and what it really means to reconnect with your body from the inside out.

Jill’s story is not one of hitting rock bottom, but of following a mysterious, heart-led path into a practice that has helped countless people, including those with trauma, regulate, rest, and remember who they really are.

We talk about:

✨ What Yoga Nidra is (and isn’t)

✨ Why slowing down is essential for real healing

✨ How your future self can guide your healing

✨ The science behind brainwave shifts and trauma response

✨ Letting go of limiting beliefs (like “I don’t like my voice”)

If you’ve ever felt like you’ve “tried everything” but are still carrying stress in your body or struggle with slowing down, this episode may just shift something profound within you.

Connect with Jill on Instagram

Learn more about Jill's offering on her website

Practice Yoga Nidra with Jill on Insight Timer

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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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Feeling tired, overwhelmed, or emotionally drained? You’re not alone—and you’re not doing anything wrong. In this week’s episode of Moon Phases & Feminine Power: Your Weekly Cycle Sync, we explore the healing power of the new moon and how aligning with this phase can help you reset your nervous system, reconnect with your body, and move forward with clarity and ease.

Whether you're navigating burnout, healing from trauma, or simply craving more feminine energy in your life, this episode offers gentle guidance to help you pause, reflect, and root back into what matters most.

You’ll learn:

🌚 Why it’s hard to slow down (especially if you’re a trauma survivor or cycle breaker)

🌚 How overstimulation—even from healing tools—can keep your nervous system stuck

🌚 What the new moon and your menstrual bleed have in common (and why honoring this time is essential)

🌚 A metaphor that will shift how you think about emotional digestion

🌚 My personal new moon practice and the surprising synchronicities that followed

🌚 What NOT to do during the new moon—and what to do instead

This episode is for you if you’re:
– Trying to do less but still feeling guilty for resting
– Stuck in go-go-go mode even when your body’s asking you to pause
– Longing for a new kind of rhythm that makes room for softness, visioning, and emotional release
– Curious about how menstrual cycle awareness or new moon rituals can support your healing

Ready to shift from pushing to receiving? Tune in now and give yourself full permission to begin again.

And if this episode resonates, please share it with a sister, friend, or loved one who’s also walking the healing path or reconnecting with her reproductive health.

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Somatic Meditation for Rest & Restoration

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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