Episode #54: Winter Solstice Ritual for Women: Release, Let Go & Reset Your Nervous System

If the holidays have intensified your stress, family triggers, emotional labor, or burnout — this guided Winter Solstice release ritual will help you let go of what no longer serves you, return to your center, and recalibrate your nervous system as the light begins to return.

The Winter Solstice (the shortest day of the year) is a sacred seasonal threshold — a powerful time to turn inward, release old patterns, and create space for the next season of your life. In this ritual, you’ll use a candle flame, journaling prompts, and a symbolic burn practice to surrender what’s been weighing you down and seal a new “normal”: calm, receptive, supported, creative, and sovereign.

What you’ll need:

✔ A candle + matches/lighter

✔ A journal or paper + pen

✔ (Optional) A metal mixing bowl (for safe burning)

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Timestamps:
00:00 Winter Solstice ritual + why this matters during the holidays
02:20 Welcome to The Satisfied Woman Podcast
02:57 Your “star gear,” myth + astronomy, and the seasonal call to turn inward
05:00 Women’s natural rhythms, cyclical wisdom, and the body’s seasonal intelligence
06:59 Nature going dormant + why we need inward time (even in busy December)
07:30 What you’ll need: candle, journal, pen + setting the ritual space
08:34 Solstice meaning: shortest day, return to the light, and why it’s still “active”
11:10 Journaling prompt: “May it be for the highest good…” + “I release / I surrender…”
13:05 The feminine as womb + tomb: sacred release, death, and rebirth
14:19 What you keep around blocks what’s new: making space for next season
17:11 Receptivity requires surrender: naming what is (and isn’t) yours to carry
18:34 Fire as transformation: flame meditation + releasing resistance
21:17 “Clean house” prompts: overgiving, burnout, scarcity, unworthiness into the flame
22:50 Safe burn practice: bowl + sink + letting the words disappear
25:00 Winter as inner growth: what’s “percolating” beneath the surface
27:29 Why releasing matters: the overburdened woman can’t create her next season
28:07 Rooted membership invitation: rewiring the nervous system for a new normal
30:00 Closing the ritual: snuffing (not blowing) out the flame + sealing the shift
31:57 Final blessing + invitation to continue the journey

 

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