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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• 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 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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• 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, we’re attuning to the energy of the Dark Moon — that mysterious, tender space just before the New Moonbegins.

It’s the moment of total stillness.
No light from the moon. No outward movement. Just quiet.

And yet, this pause is sacred. It’s the fertile soil from which your next chapter will grow.

If you’re someone who’s been doing the work — showing up for therapy, journaling, caring for others, trying to keep everything together — but still feel tired, anxious, or disconnected, this episode will help you understand why stillness is not a setback but an essential part of your healing process.

In this episode, we explore:

🌑 The spiritual and somatic meaning of the Dark Moon — and how it mirrors the “inner winter” of your cycle.
🌑 Why rest, stillness, and non-doing are vital for emotional integration and nervous system repair.
🌑 What research says about how stillness supports healing — activating the parasympathetic nervous system, reducing stress, and even rewiring the brain through neuroplasticity.
🌑 How anxiety, trauma, and societal conditioning make stillness feel unsafe — and how to gently rebuild your capacity to pause.
🌑 Simple ways to create micro-moments of stillness throughout your day, even if you’re busy or overwhelmed.

Somatic Meditations to Support You This Week

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Sit and Be With Meditation

Trauma-Informed Body Scan - 15 Minute Daily Somatic Practice

Trauma-Informed Meditation For Rest & Restoration

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• 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 bonus birthday episode, I’m sharing some heartfelt reflections as I turn 36 — a milestone that feels like both a homecoming and a rebirth.

I take you back to my dark night of the soul — a time when I was struggling with addiction, burnout, and deep emotional pain — and walk you through the journey that brought me here: discovering breathwork, embracing trauma-informed healing, and reconnecting with my creativity as sacred medicine.

This past year has been a renaissance of my inner artist — a time of releasing old grief, awakening new inspiration, and allowing the art of living itself to become an act of healing.

And today, I’m celebrating with something special: the release of “Reclamation Reborn,” a new, refined version of the intro song I shared exactly one year ago. This reimagined track represents my evolution — both as an artist and as a woman reclaiming her voice, her softness, and her feminine power.

✨ Listen to Reclamation Reborn on Spotify:
➡️ https://open.spotify.com/track/0zB5nAngI7eo8DDmAL1PAm?si=f05c20756dbc4db6

As you listen, I invite you to slow down.
Find a quiet place, maybe lay down, place your hands on your womb, and let the sound and intention of this song move through you. Let it touch the parts of you that are ready to be seen, felt, and reclaimed.

May this song ripple through the collective — amplifying the feminine frequency, bringing more balance and beauty to our world, and reminding you of your own innate power to heal and create.

🌹🤲🏼

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• 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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As we move through the waning moon and into the last quarter, the invitation is simple but profound: let go.

Not to give up—but to release pressure, over-efforting, and control, and to let the Universe (and your body) take the wheel for a little while.

If you’ve been journaling, healing, showing up for therapy, raising your kids, or doing all the “right” things—but still feel tired, tense, or stuck—this episode is for you.

Because even in our healing, we can start to overwork ourselves.
We keep striving to “get there,” pushing through fatigue, ignoring the signs to rest.
And that’s how burnout happens.

In this week’s episode, we explore:
🥀 The energetic meaning of the waning and last quarter moon
🥀 How Libra season highlights imbalance and the need for harmony
🥀 How to shift from control to trust, allowing, and receiving
🥀 Practical ways to bring in self-compassion and closure before the next cycle begins

This is your reminder that doing “the work” also means learning to rest.
It’s safe to soften. It’s safe to pause. It’s safe to let go.

Free Somatic Meditations on Insight Timer to Support You This Week:

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Somatic Meditation for Patience & Anxiety Relief

Softening Meditation For Tension Relief & Grounding

Somatic Body Scan For Self-Love And Body Appreciation

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• 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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Female friendships can be some of the deepest and most nourishing relationships in our lives—and also some of the most painful when they rupture.

In this heartfelt continuation of our conversation, Amora and I go deeper into the process of repair—what it looks like to heal after hurt, to hold healthy boundaries, and to stay rooted in self-trust when connection feels fragile.

We talk about the unspoken expectations and projections that often surface in female friendships, and how trauma—especially early attachment wounds—can shape the way we show up with other women. Together, we explore what it means to take responsibility for our own healing, without taking on what isn’t ours to carry.

If you’ve ever found yourself asking…

• Why do I keep attracting the same painful friendship patterns?
• Why do I feel so anxious or guarded in relationships with women?
• How do I know when to repair, and when to let go?
  —This episode will help you see those dynamics through a trauma-informed lens.

You’ll leave this conversation with more compassion for your own story, clarity around boundaries, and the reassurance that it is possible to have safe, supportive, soul-nourishing friendships as you heal

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• 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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Do you ever feel extra emotional, restless, or sensitive around the Full Moon—and wonder if something’s wrong with you?

In this week’s episode, we’re syncing with the energy of the Full Moon (and this time, the episode lands on the exact day of the moon’s peak!). I’ll share why the Full Moon can feel so intense, what science has to say about it, and why those “crazy” feelings you experience are actually completely natural.

We’ll explore:

🌊 How the moon’s pull on the tides mirrors our own emotional waves
😴 Why studies show we get 30% less deep sleep during the Full Moon
💗 The history of labeling women as “hysterical” for valid emotional responses—and how this connects to what you feel today
🌕 How to stop pathologizing your emotions and start honoring them as a human

By the end of this episode, you’ll understand why you feel so much around the Full Moon—and how to soften into it instead of resisting it.

🤲🏼🌹Resources for you:
If you need extra support this week, explore these somatic meditations to help you ground and integrate:

• Trauma-Informed Body Scan – 15 Minute Daily Practice
  
  
• Sit and Be With It – 15 Minute Somatic Practice
  
  
• Somatic Meditation & Welcome Practice
  
  

Send us a text

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.

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/healingherstorypodcast/

• 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.


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Female friendships can be some of the deepest and most life-giving relationships we have—and also some of the hardest to navigate when trust is broken.

In this heartfelt, free-flowing conversation with my dear sister and friend Amora, we explore the quiet, subtle dynamics of female friendships: the beauty, the challenges, and the painful ruptures that can leave lasting wounds.

Amora and I share openly about a conflict in our own friendship and how moving through it actually brought us closer together. We talk about the betrayals we’ve experienced, the grief of losing friendships, and the red flags we’ve learned to look out for along the way. Most importantly, we reflect on the healing lessons—how rupture can eventually lead to something more true, and how discernment and self-trust are essential in choosing who to walk beside.

If you’ve ever felt the sting of female friendship loss, questioned who you can trust, or struggled with the tension between wanting connection and not wanting to abandon yourself just to “keep the peace,” this episode will resonate deeply.

In this episode, we talk about:

❤️‍🩹 Why ruptures in female friendships can be so painful—and what they teach us

❤️‍🩹 The subtle dynamics of competition, betrayal, and unspoken expectations among women

❤️‍🩹 How to recognize red flags without losing faith in connection

❤️‍🩹 The importance of quality over quantity when it comes to friendship

❤️‍🩹How repairing a rupture can lead to a deeper, more aligned bond

This conversation is an invitation to honor the sacredness of female connection—without sacrificing yourself for it.

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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.

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/healingherstorypodcast/

• 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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