What if your skin could become a mirror for your inner rhythms?

In this powerful conversation, Riva sits down with Jamie to explore how our skin changes throughout the menstrual cycle—and how caring for it can become a practice of self-care and self-connection. From breakouts to sensitivity, Jamie shares what’s really happening beneath the surface, how to support your skin through each phase, and why even the skin “down below” deserves thoughtful care.

Together, they also shine a light on the deeper layers:
🧴 The hidden dangers of beauty standards and the harm they cause to women and girls
🧴 How patriarchal culture tries to erase uniqueness—and why true beauty lives in your warmth, eyes, smile, and heart
🧴 The intimate connection between skin, the nervous system, and healing from within

Jamie doesn’t just leave us with philosophy—she offers education and practical guidance too, including pore-clogging ingredients to avoid, trusted brands, and how to discover what really works for your skin and your beauty.

If you’ve ever struggled with breakouts, shame about your appearance, or the pressure to look “perfect,” this episode is for you. You’ll walk away with both the science and the soul of skin care—tools that help you reclaim your body, honor your cycle, and remember that your uniqueness is your beauty.

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🤲🏼🌹 Download Jamie's Menstrual Cycle Self-Care Wheel

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This week’s episode arrives at a powerful threshold: a New Moon Solar Eclipse aligned with the Fall Equinox, marking the end of Virgo season and our transition into Libra. The air is shifting, the days are shorter (here in the Northern Hemisphere), and there’s a call to slow down, reflect, and recalibrate.

If you’ve been feeling stretched thin, burned out, or like your schedule is running you instead of supporting you, you’re not alone. These energies are here to help us pause and ask:

• Where am I giving more than I’m receiving?
• Which routines or habits truly nourish me—and which drain me?
• How can I bring my life back into balance?

Virgo season invited us into ritual, service, and connection to the earth. But as I share in this episode, the shadow side of service is self-sacrifice—a pattern many women know too well. With the Libra scales now guiding us, we’re being called to restore harmony and create space for our own care, so that we can show up rooted, resilient, and renewed.

I’ll share personal reflections about falling back into old tendencies, how “Spacious Saturdays” changed everything for me, and why prioritizing rest is essential to building a life aligned with your dreams.

If you’ve been searching for clarity, craving a reset, or simply needing permission to slow down, this episode will help you reorient and begin again.

And to support you with this week’s themes, you’ll find a few free somatic meditations linked in the show notes—gentle practices to help you restore balance, reconnect with your body, and move through this eclipse season with more ease.

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Trauma-Informed Somatic Meditation For Rest & Restoration

Softening Meditation For Tension Relief & Grounding

New Moon Somatic Breathwork Meditation

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What if your first period had been met with celebration, education, and emotional support instead of confusion or shame?

In this powerful conversation, Riva sits down with menstrual cycle coach, social worker, and educator Hannah Brown to explore the deeply transformative work of reclaiming menarche—the first menstrual period—as a sacred rite of passage. Together, they explore how storytelling, education, and ritual can reshape the way we approach this pivotal transition, and why our cultural avoidance of these conversations has lasting ripple effects on our nervous systems, relationships, and sense of self.

You’ll hear how menstrual shame takes root, how transitions are intertwined with attachment patterns, and how cultivating menstrual cycle awareness can restore trust in the body and strengthen intergenerational bonds.

If you’ve ever felt disconnected from your cycle, struggled with body shame, or wished you had received more support at the start of menstruation, this episode offers healing insights and practical ways to begin breaking the cycle for yourself—and for the next generation.

Listen if you are…

🤲🏼 Feeling stuck in shame or frustration around your body or cycle

🤲🏼 Supporting young people approaching puberty and want to do it differently

🤲🏼 Longing to reconnect with your own inner rhythms and feminine wisdom

🤲🏼 Curious about how somatic and cyclical awareness can support attachment healing

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