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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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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This week we’re attuning to the waning moon.

The waning phase invites us to slow down, catch our breath, and prepare for the cycle ahead. It’s a time for gratitude, rest, refinement, and discernment—a season of letting go so we can create space for what’s next.

In this episode, I share how the waning moon mirrors the second half of the menstrual cycle and why this phase is just as important as the full moon. Together, we’ll explore how to work with the natural decline of energy instead of resisting it, and how to use this time to restore balance and set yourself up for the next cycle with intention.

If you’re ready to soften into the wisdom of the waning moon, I’ve linked some somatic meditations to support you

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Trauma-Informed Somatic Meditation For Rest & Restoration
Softening Meditation For Tension Relief & Grounding
Somatic Meditation To Find Your Center

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This week, we’re still swimming in the energy of a potent full moon eclipse. 🌑✨

While eclipses often bring sudden shifts and course corrections, this episode explores a lesser-talked-about aspect of the healing journey: celebration.

So often we approach the full moon through the lens of “letting go.” While release is important, constantly focusing on what’s wrong can actually dysregulate the nervous system and keep us stuck in the trauma vortex. True healing, repair, and growth happen when we feel safe, open, and curious—and one of the simplest ways to create that state is to honor and celebrate the progress we’ve made, even in small ways.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

🌕 Why celebrating yourself is an essential healing skill
🌕 How constant self-criticism keeps us in fight mode
🌕 The connection between the full moon, ovulation (inner summer), and self-recognition
🌕 Practical ways to shift from “something is wrong with me” into the healing vortex

Take a breath, reflect on your own growth, and give yourself a big YAY for how far you’ve come.

If you need support with this practice, you can also find my trauma-informed somatic meditations to help you reconnect with yourself and celebrate your progress.

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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

Sensing The Support - 5-Minute Daily Somatic Practice
https://insig.ht/twkJw6jToWb?utm_source=copy_link&utm_medium=content

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In this powerful conversation, Atira Tan shares her deeply personal and transformational journey—from early psychedelic experiences where she first connected with the divine within, to her decades of work creating trauma-informed spaces for healing and empowerment.

We explore the many layers of trauma and why embodiment and aligned action are at the heart of true transformation. Atira opens up about the wisdom of slowing down, the importance of honoring the body’s pace, and how cultural differences shape our relationship with rest and devotion.

Together, we dive into:

• Atira’s early experiences with psychedelics and connecting with the divine
• The key role of embodiment and action in personal transformation
• Lessons from her trauma-informed temple and somatic plant medicine work
• Why honoring the body’s pace and process leads to deeper healing
• How other parts of the world resist the rush of modern life—and what we can learn from them
• The meaning of Karma Yoga, devotion, and connection to the earth
• Red flags to look for in spiritual and plant medicine spaces

This conversation will leave you feeling inspired to slow down, connect to your body, and walk the path of transformation with presence and devotion.

Connect with Atira Tan

• Website: atiratan.com
  
  
• Instagram: @atiratan
  
  
• Art to Healing: @arttohealing
  
  
• Somatic Plant Medicine Integration Mentorship (where I’ll be co-assisting): Learn More Here

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This week on Healing Her Story, we’re attuning to the energy of the late waxing moon—a phase of slow, steady growth as the moon moves toward fullness. But this isn’t just any full moon… it’s a total eclipse.

Eclipse season brings powerful opportunities for course correction—moments when life steps in to realign us with our deepest truth. If you’ve been feeling sudden endings, big changes, or emotional intensity, you’re not alone. This episode explores how to work with eclipse energy instead of against it, and why this is a time to trust the unfolding rather than push or control.

I share my personal experiences navigating eclipse seasons in the past, what I’ve learned about allowing, and how to let these cosmic moments support your healing and transformation.

If you’re craving clarity, balance, and a little cosmic perspective, this episode will help you slow down, listen inward, and open to what life might be trying to show you.

FREE SOMATIC MEDITATIONS:

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• Somatic Meditation on Trust: Listen Here
  
  
• Somatic Meditation for Patience & Anxiety Relief: Listen Here
  
  
• Softening Meditation for Tension Relief & Grounding: Listen Here
  
  

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If you’ve ever felt like your health journey was reduced to checklists, protocols, or lab results—this conversation will feel like a deep exhale.

This week, I’m joined by Nicole Lange, an acupuncturist, holistic educator, and pioneer in women’s reproductive healthcare. With two decades of experience and nearly a thousand embryo transfers supported, Nicole combines Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), Western science, and a trauma-informed approach to help women navigate infertility, IVF, trauma, and life’s biggest transitions with greater care and connection.

Nicole shares how a personal plot twist led her from genetics research into holistic care, why education itself can be medicine, and how acupuncture uniquely helps reset the nervous system in ways few other modalities can. We talk about:

🌿 How TCM views fertility beyond just “getting pregnant”

🌿 The surprising role of slowing down, rituals, and rhythm in healing

🌿 Why less is more when your body is in burnout or trauma recovery

🌿 How to reframe health as a “whole person” experience, not just a diagnosis

If you’ve been feeling curious about traditional Chinese medicine, disconnected from your body, or unsure where to begin with your fertility or healing journey, this episode offers small but powerful steps toward clarity, self-trust, and emotional safety.

Fertility Resources for All

Whole Person Fertility Care

Trauma and Infertility

You Want a Baby TV

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