This week's Healing Her Story episode welcomes a guest whose life refuses to fit inside a single box.

Dr. Tavina Lynn holds a PhD in Chemistry and teaches at Sacramento City College. She is also a writer, a dancer, a creative visionary. And for years, she believed she had to choose between these parts of herself.

But this carries profound wisdom about what becomes possible when we stop choosing.

Riva and Tavina met at a mural project, and the instant connection that followed set the stage for this conversation. In honor of Gemini season, this episode explores multiplicity, duality, and what it means to be more than one thing.

They cover:

Growing up in chaos and finding structure through learning and how that shaped Tavina's relationship to curiosity

The internal pressure to choose between science and art and the misery that came from forcing herself into chemistry alone

How COVID became an unexpected reset that reconnected her to her multifaceted self

Why rigid, linear systems no longer serve everyone and how the breakdown of those systems creates space for something more fluid

The real cost of suppressing parts of yourself to belong and why true belonging starts with accepting yourself first

Creative life force energy and what it feels like to be danced by the dance instead of controlling it

This episode is an invitation to stop asking which version of you is allowed to show up, and start asking what becomes possible when all of you does.

Connect with Dr. Tavina Lynn:

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Tavina’s Book: STILL in My Mother’s Womb: A Daughter’s Healing Experience

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