In this episode, I'm joined by the incredible Dr. Maura Moynihan — a mother of four, a seasoned practitioner, and a soul-centered healer who has spent over 17 years walking beside women on their healing journeys through chiropractic, craniosacral therapy, breathwork, spiritual psychology, and now deep soul work rooted in the Divine Feminine.

Together, we dive into one of the most tender and essential topics of our time: the Mother Wound — what it is, how it shows up in the body, in our society, and why it’s absolutely vital to acknowledge and mend this wound in order to truly heal.

If you’re someone who:

❤️‍🩹 Struggles with anxiety, chronic pain, or dysregulation that seems to come from "nowhere"
❤️‍🩹 Feels overwhelmed in relationships, parenting, or your day-to-day responsibilities
❤️‍🩹 Is navigating the question of motherhood (or your relationship with your own mother)
❤️‍🩹 Is on a journey of breaking cycles and embodying the woman you never had growing up...

This episode is for you.

Maura shares her personal story of motherhood, healing, and spiritual transformation — including what it was like to earn her Master’s in Spiritual Psychology while raising three young boys, and how she now integrates the wisdom of the Divine Feminine into her life and work.

We talk about:

🌹 What the mother wound is and how it shows up in your body, nervous system, and relationships
🌹 How the mother wound relates to our relationship with the Earth
🌹 What it means to live the spiral path of feminine healing
🌹 Why every symptom — even pain — carries a love note
🌹 The importance of modeling sacred feminine values to our sons and future generations

This conversation is tender, empowering, and deeply validating — especially if you’ve ever felt like you’re “too much,” “too sensitive,” or not sure how to show up for yourself the way you wish someone had.

You’ll walk away with a deeper understanding of how the mother wound may be impacting your life — and how to begin meeting yourself with love, curiosity, and devotion.

Connect with Dr. Maura:

Instagram

Website

Substack

Ready to dive deeper?
Join us at the upcoming FREE Mending the Mother Wound weekend Virtual Immersion August 22nd - August 4th

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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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Hey love, welcome back to Moon Phases & Feminine Power: Your Weekly Cycle Sync. This week, we're tuning into the powerful energy of the Capricorn Full Moon — and exploring how to listen to your body’s wisdom through the lens of sensation, somatic awareness, and emotional balance.

If you’re on the healing path, you might already know the frustration of doing all the things — the therapy, the journaling, the mindset work — only to still feel overwhelmed, anxious, or like you’re “regressing” every month. Maybe your body feels like a mystery, or your emotions keep catching you off guard.

In this episode, we’ll explore how the full moon acts as a spotlight, illuminating not just what’s out of balance in your life… but what’s ready to be heard in your body.

You'll learn:

🌕 Why certain symptoms (like fatigue, anxiety, or tightness) are actually messages from your nervous system

🌕 How to work with the wisdom of your body — especially as you move through the menstrual cycle

🌕 Why this week is a powerful time to slow down, feel more, and honor what’s surfacing

🌕 What it means to shift from “fixing” to curious listening in your healing process

If you’re actively working to reconnect with your body, regulate your nervous system, or stop overriding your needs, this episode will give you insight, relief, and a whole new way of thinking about your symptoms — not as problems, but as guides.

Need support this week?

🌹🤲🏼

Explore these free somatic meditations on Insight Timer to help you feel, heal, and come home to your body:

• Somatic Breathing Meditation to Hear Your Body’s Wisdom
  https://insig.ht/IAIG3gQeIUb
• Somatic Body Scan for Self-Love & Body Appreciation
  https://insig.ht/9ujwsZQeIUb
• Sit and Be With It – 15 Minute Daily Somatic Practice
  https://insig.ht/rH4upeOeIUb

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.

• 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

If you’ve been doing “all the healing things” — therapy, inner child work, mindset shifts — but still find yourself overwhelmed, burnt out, or spinning in the same emotional loops month after month... this episode is for you.

This week, we’re diving into a truth that’s often overlooked in the wellness world:
Your nervous system is cyclical — just like you.
And healing isn’t just about what you do. It’s about when and how you do it.

Inspired by a powerful masterclass with Veronika of Waking Womb, I’m exploring the biological differences in the female nervous system and how our capacity for stress, emotions, and healing shifts across the menstrual cycle. We’ll talk about the science, the spiritual implications, and why breathwork is one of the most effective tools for trauma recovery when used in alignment with your body’s natural rhythm.

You’ll learn:

🤲🏼 Why the same breathwork or therapy practice can feel amazing one week and overwhelming the next

🤲🏼 What the “window of presence” is — and how it shrinks and expands across your cycle

🤲🏼 How estrogen acts as a buffer for trauma healing (and when to use this to your advantage)

🤲🏼 Why female bodies are more sensitive to abandonment wounds and relational trauma

🤲🏼 How to time your somatic healing practices in a way that supports nervous system safety

🤲🏼 What oxytocin (not dopamine!) has to do with women’s regulation and recovery

🤲🏼And how to stop forcing healing... and start flowing with it instead

This episode will help you understand why your healing hasn’t worked the way you hoped — and give you permission to approach it in a way that feels gentler, wiser, and more effective.

🌹 Want to go deeper?
Join me August 22–24 for Mending the Motherwound, a free weekend immersion to help you regulate your nervous system, reconnect with your inner mother, and tend to the wounds that still live in your body.

Click here to register

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.

• 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

This week on Moon Phases & Feminine Power, we’re attuning to the energy of the waxing moon—a phase that mirrors the follicular phase of your menstrual cycle, the season of spring, and the wood element in Traditional Chinese Medicine. This is a time of renewal, vision, and forward movement. But how can we pursue our desires and goals without burning out in the process?

In this episode, I explore the wisdom of trees as our sacred teachers of sustainable growth. After a physically demanding inner winter (menstrual phase), I found myself at the river asking: How do trees grow so tall, strong, and steady without losing their grounding?

Their answers were beautiful reminders of what it means to grow in alignment with nature.

If you’re feeling the tension between your ambitions and your body’s need for rhythm and rest… if you’re navigating early childhood wounds, healing burnout, or doing the brave work of breaking ancestral cycles… this episode offers grounded, soulful support.

Tune in for practical reflections and somatic insight to help you:

🌳 Prevent burnout while honoring your dreams

🌳 Align your energy with your body's natural rhythm

🌳 Reconnect with the power of slow, steady, supported growth

🤲🏼🌹 Plus, I’ve added free trauma-informed somatic meditations in the show notes to help you integrate this week's lessons:

• Sensing the Support – 5-Minute Daily Somatic Practice
• Somatic Meditation on Trust
• Somatic Meditation for Patience & Anxiety Relief

Take what you need, leave what you don’t, and remember: just like the trees, you are allowed to grow slowly, stretch upward while staying rooted, and protect what matters most.

Ready to join us for the Mending The Motherwound Weekend Immersion?!
Click here to register

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.

• 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

We’re kicking off a new cycle on the Healing Her Story podcast with a deep and timely exploration of care—who gives it, who receives it, and what it costs us all.

Inspired by Cancer season and its nurturing, mothering energy, this episode invites you to reflect on how care lives in your own body and your daily life. Using recent research from the National Partnership for Women & Families, we unpack just how much unpaid care women provide each year—over $1 trillion in value, yet often invisible and unacknowledged.

If you’re a woman who:

• Has felt the pressure to keep giving, even when your cup is empty
• Struggles to rest or put yourself first
• Feels unseen for the emotional labor and caretaking you do at home or work
• Is reckoning with emotional neglect, generational wounds, or your own desire to become a mother…

Then this episode is for you.

We talk about the roots of this imbalance, including how patriarchal systems and gendered stereotypes continue to undervalue care—and the way this shows up in your body, your nervous system, your calendar, and your inner dialogue. This isn’t just about social justice; it’s about your personal healing.

You’ll also hear:

• A story about Riva’s experience working in the care economy
• A powerful reflection on self-integrity and giving yourself the care you offer others
• Thought-provoking journal questions to explore your own relationship to care

🤲🏼 Reflection questions include:

• Do you see the caretaking you do as work? As valuable?
• Do you feel obligated to care for others at the expense of yourself?
• Is it easier to care for others than it is to care for yourself?

This episode is an invitation to pause, reflect, and begin reclaiming care as sacred, vital, and worthy.

🎧 Tune in now and join the movement of women rising to reclaim the value of care—in our homes, in our communities, and in ourselves.

And if you’re ready to go deeper, don’t miss our upcoming free online weekend immersion: Mending the Mother Wound. It’s a powerful space to break generational cycles, heal emotional neglect, and reconnect with your feminine power.

🔗 Sign up for the free immersion here

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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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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.

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.

• 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

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

🤲🏼🌹
– Patience & Anxiety Relief
– Tension Relief & Grounding
– Rest & Restoration

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.

• 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

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

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.

• 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