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
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Somatic Body Scan For Self-Love And Body Appreciation

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Sensing The Support - 5-Minute Daily Somatic Practice
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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 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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• 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 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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• 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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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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• 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.

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If you’ve been feeling tired, burned out, or overwhelmed by the constant pressure to do more and be more, this episode is for you.

This week, we’re attuning to the energy of the Crescent Moon—her slow, steady building of light reminds us that healing and transformation don’t happen overnight. It takes time, care, and a willingness to move at the pace of trust rather than urgency.

We explore how this lunar wisdom connects to the trauma-informed principle of less is more—a concept so many women struggle with in a world that glorifies hustle, perfectionism, and productivity over well-being.

You’ll learn:

🌙 Why small, sustainable steps create lasting change in your nervous system and your life.

🌙 How the moon and seasons can guide you to release toxic patterns of overdoing and self-sacrifice.

🌙 What it means to soften into the process of healing instead of forcing yourself forward.

Plus, I share a powerful analogy about “two-degree shifts” that can help you move from survival mode into deeper alignment, one gentle step at a time.

If you’re longing to feel more grounded, more connected to your body, and less controlled by the pressure to get it all right, this episode will meet you exactly where you are.

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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.

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This week, we’re closing out our summer creativity series with a conversation that will leave you inspired to pick up the pen, paintbrush, or microphone—or whatever creative outlet has been calling to you.

I’m joined by Deborah Weed, storyteller, producer, and creator of musicals and movements that ignite self-worth. After a life-altering misdiagnosis left her bedridden for years, Deborah found a new calling: helping others transform pain into creative expression. Through her award-winning children’s books, live performances, and her upcoming Paisley the Musical, she’s showing the world how storytelling can heal, empower, and set us free.

In this episode, we talk about:

❤️‍🩹 How Deborah turns adversity into creativity and meaning

❤️‍🩹 Why expressing your story can be deeply healing—for you and those who witness it

❤️‍🩹 The psychological and somatic shifts that happen when we give voice to our inner worlds

❤️‍🩹 How theater and storytelling help audiences process emotion, build empathy, and reclaim self-worth

❤️‍🩹 The cultural power of movements like Paisley the Musical to change how we see ourselves and one another

If you’ve been feeling stuck, doubting your creativity, or wondering if your story even matters—this conversation is here to remind you that it does.

Resources & Links

• Follow Deborah on Instagram: @deborah.weed
  
  
• Paisley the Musical: Website
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• Casting Call for Paisley the Musical: Website
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• Books:

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Do you ever feel like your energy suddenly drops, like your fire is dimming, or like all you want to do is curl up and rest? Instead of pushing through, what if those feelings weren’t a problem to solve—but a natural rhythm to honor?

In this week’s episode, we’re aligning with the waning moon and exploring the “Rule of Re’s.” This powerful practice offers gentle guidance for navigating the natural contraction phase of cycles—whether that’s the lunar cycle, your menstrual cycle, or simply a season of life.

If you’ve been struggling with:

• burnout and overwhelm from constantly pushing yourself,
• frustration at not being able to sustain the same energy all month long, or
• perfectionism that keeps you from honoring your body’s natural rhythms…

…then this episode will give you the clarity and permission you’ve been craving.

We’ll explore how to lean into practices like rest, reflect, restore, reorganize, and reclaim to not only care for yourself but to set the stage for renewal and growth.

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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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If you’ve ever struggled to finish creative projects, doubted your art, or felt stuck in the middle of your process, this episode is for you.

In Part 2 of Creating in Cycles, I’m sharing the second half of the creative process — Illumination and Maturation — and how understanding these phases has completely transformed the way I make art, run my business, and live my life.

I’ll also take you behind the scenes of my own creative journey over the last year — from pausing my group programs, going deep with breathwork and somatic therapy, to opening my creative channel in ways I never imagined.

Here’s what you’ll learn in this episode:

🖌️ Why your creativity is already built into your biology (and how to work with it instead of against it)
🖌️ How to navigate the vulnerable act of being seen in your art
🖌️ Practical ways to finish creative projects without burnout or self-sabotage
🖌️ How aligning your creativity with the cycles of your body and nature leads to more ease, joy, and authenticity in your work

Whether you consider yourself a professional artist, a hobbyist, or someone longing to reconnect with their creative spark — this episode will help you see that you were born to create.

And when you learn to create in cycles, you not only make more art — you also create a more sustainable, fulfilling, and self-honoring life.

🤲🏼🌹Join the FREE Mending the Motherwound Weekend Immersion (August 22–24) — We’ll be creating together during the opening ceremony. No recordings — join live! Click here to register

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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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