This week we're attuning to the Earth element — the brief, easy-to-miss phase that arrives just after the full moon and just after ovulation. Its medicine is grounding. In this episode, I explore the science of earthing, how grounding may help shift your nervous system out of fight-or-flight and into rest and repair, and how to create real stability in your body and your life through grounding practices and daily anchors. In a world that feels increasingly unstable, the Earth element offers us a simple but powerful question: how do we create steadiness within ourselves?

In this episode:

🌏 What the "secret phase" is and where it falls in your cycle

🌏 The Earth element's core invitation: how to find steadiness in instability

🌏 The science of grounding: what earthing is, how it works, and what the research shows

🌏 How grounding may shift your nervous system from fight-or-flight into rest and repair

🌏 Why routine creates real stability — and how to build daily anchors

Research referenced:

• Chevalier et al., research on earthing, inflammation, sleep, and cortisol regulation
• Menigoz et al. (2020), Integrative and lifestyle medicine strategies should include Earthing (grounding)
• Studies on grounding and improvements in heart rate variability, parasympathetic activation, and sleep quality

Resources to Support You This Week

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• Yin Yoga practice inspired by the elements
• Qigong practice inspired by the elements

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Our intro and outro song, Reclamation (Reborn), is an anthem of remembering.

This song was created as a companion for the healing journey, especially for women reclaiming their voices, their rhythms, and their belonging in a world shaped by patriarchy.

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This week's Healing Her Story episode is a bonus episode, arriving at just the right moment.

The full moon lands on a Friday. Aries energy is still moving through the collective. And before we step into the quieter, more hidden phase ahead, this is our moment to honor the fire.

This is the third episode in Riva's mini-series on the elements.

But this carries profound wisdom about what fire really means for women and what happens when we lose access to it.

In this episode, Riva reflects on her own complicated relationship with fire and the moment she realized passion was the very first word that came through when she sat with this element. She explores how fire shows up across the cycle, in the full moon, in summer, in ovulation, and why that aliveness, that radiance, that desire to be felt and seen, is so often misread in women.

Labeled as too much. As bossy. As controlling.

While that same energy in others gets called ambition.

Riva also speaks to the dual nature of fire. How it can be warm, comforting, and life-giving. And how, when left untended, it can become reactive and overwhelming. She shares what she has learned this past year about tending her own fire around ovulation, and why sometimes what the heart needs most is not more output.

It is more space.

This episode is an invitation to notice where your fire feels alive, where it feels like too much, and what your heart might actually be asking for underneath it all.

Donation-Based Trauma-Informed Somatic Meditation to Support You This Weekend 🤲🏼🌹

Somatic Body Scan for Self-Love and Body Appreciation

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Our intro and outro song, Reclamation (Reborn), is an anthem of remembering.

This song was created as a companion for the healing journey, especially for women reclaiming their voices, their rhythms, and their belonging in a world shaped by patriarchy.

You’re invited to listen, feel, and let the music meet you wherever you are.

Looking for support? Here's how to go deeper:

• Book a Somatic Assessment & Care Planning Session: Your 75-minute 1:1 virtual session to explore what your body is holding and shape a personalized care plan. The starting point for working together 1:1 or in a group. Book Here
• Free Trauma Recovery Mini-Course: A self-guided introduction to trauma recovery and nervous system care. Begin here if you're new to this work. Download Here
• Explore 1:1 and Group Support: Learn about our virtual and in-person offerings. Learn Here
• Donation-Based Meditations on Insight Timer: Guided practices to support nervous system regulation and inner calm. Listen Here
• Watch "Reclamation": A music video and expressive arts project standing as a testament to this work. Watch Here
• Follow on Instagram: @healingherstorypodcast

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This week, we are tuning into the waxing moon.
A phase of expansion, momentum, and rising energy.

And while this can feel exciting and motivating…
it’s also where many of us unconsciously override our bodies.

We feel the energy building.
We want to do more, create more, move faster.
And without grounding, we can easily slip out of alignment.

This is also the second episode in our Taurus season mini-series, where we’re exploring the elements connected to each phase of the cycle.

This week, we are working with the wood element—a phase that corresponds with:
🌿 Spring in nature
🌿 The follicular (pre-ovulatory) phase in the body
🌿 The energy of new growth and expansion

But this phase is not just about growth.
It’s about supported, sustainable growth.

Because growth without roots…
without flexibility…
without support…
becomes destabilizing.

In this episode, Riva explores:

🌘 Why waxing moon energy can lead to overextension

🌘 The connection between the wood element, spring, and the follicular phase

🌘 What trees can teach us about grounded expansion

🌘 Why flexibility is a form of nervous system safety

🌘 The science behind adaptability and regulation in the body

🌘 How to recognize when growth is becoming too forceful

🌘 Simple ways to stay rooted while your energy rises

There’s also a reflection on how trees develop strength over time—through both rooting and adaptive structure—and how this mirrors our own nervous system capacity.

Because true regulation isn’t rigidity.
It’s flexible stability—the ability to respond, adjust, and return to center.

🌿 Your invitation this week:
Slow down enough to notice where you are pushing.
And ask yourself what it would feel like to soften, root, and grow with support.

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Our intro and outro song, Reclamation (Reborn), is an anthem of remembering.

This song was created as a companion for the healing journey, especially for women reclaiming their voices, their rhythms, and their belonging in a world shaped by patriarchy.

You’re invited to listen, feel, and let the music meet you wherever you are.

Looking for support? Here's how to go deeper:

• Book a Somatic Assessment & Care Planning Session: Your 75-minute 1:1 virtual session to explore what your body is holding and shape a personalized care plan. The starting point for working together 1:1 or in a group. Book Here
• Free Trauma Recovery Mini-Course: A self-guided introduction to trauma recovery and nervous system care. Begin here if you're new to this work. Download Here
• Explore 1:1 and Group Support: Learn about our virtual and in-person offerings. Learn Here
• Donation-Based Meditations on Insight Timer: Guided practices to support nervous system regulation and inner calm. Listen Here
• Watch "Reclamation": A music video and expressive arts project standing as a testament to this work. Watch Here
• Follow on Instagram: @healingherstorypodcast

Subscribe to Healing Her Story so you never miss an episode. Let's heal, grow, and rise together.

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