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Discernment & Liberation: Healing Through the Fire of July

Part 1: Energetic Forecast & Sovereignty

Part 2: The Healer & Caregiver Burnout

In this powerful July episode of Triggers And Spiritual Medicine, host Laura Bonetzky-Joseph offers an intimate and timely exploration of sovereignty, discernment, and ancestral healing. Rooted in her recent spiritual journey through sacred sites in Ireland, Laura reflects on the profound messages she received — including a series of unusual animal encounters — and how they relate to the global energetic climate we are all moving through.

 

As the United States celebrates independence, this episode invites a deeper look at the illusion of freedom, and what it truly means to reclaim your soul’s sovereignty. Laura also speaks candidly about her personal healing path, including her recent marriage, and the ancestral and spiritual practices that continue to guide her work.

 

Key topics include:

 

* July’s energetic forecast and the call for deeper spiritual discernment

* The importance of preserving ancient traditions in modern practice

* Messages from the land and spirit world during her 10-day ceremony in Ireland

* Listening to the body’s wisdom as a guide for truth and soul alignment

* Reclaiming personal and collective freedom through ancestral healing

 

Plus, Laura offers 3 practical tips to help support your own spiritual journey — grounded insights you can begin applying right away.

 

This is a community-driven podcast with no advertising dollars or paid sponsors. Just real, raw, and soul-centered conversations meant to empower your healing and transformation.

 

Listen now on most major streaming platforms, YouTube, or visit:

 

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If this episode resonates, please share it with your community, and don’t forget to follow, like, and leave a review to support the podcast.

 

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Stage 4 Cancer to Triplet Mom—A Story of Miracles

In the latest episode of *Triggers And Spiritual Medicine*, host Laura Bonetzky-Joseph connects with Courtney Carey, a remarkable woman who has navigated life’s toughest challenges—from surviving stage 4 breast cancer at the age of 29 to becoming a mother of triplets through IVF.

 

Courtney opens up about her incredible healing journey, sharing the profound lessons she learned along the way. She discusses how mindfulness, setting boundaries, and trusting her body’s wisdom were instrumental in her recovery. Courtney also reflects on her experiences with Reiki, the personal transformation she underwent during her battle with cancer, and how these life changes led to her becoming a mother through IVF after being told it might not be possible.

 

Key Highlights from This Episode:

 

* Overcoming the shock and fear of a stage 4 cancer diagnosis

* The importance of trusting your intuition and listening to your body during the healing process

* The journey to motherhood through IVF and the miracle of having triplets

* Mindfulness practices and how they helped Courtney navigate her life-changing experiences

* Courtney’s 3 essential tips for embracing resilience and healing in the face of adversity

 

Courtney’s story is one of profound strength, resilience, and hope. Through her TikTok channel and podcast, she aims to inspire and uplift others who are on their own journeys of healing and personal growth.

 

This episode is part of our community-driven podcast with no paid sponsors or advertising dollars—just authentic conversations designed to inspire, heal, and connect.

 

Listen now on most streaming platforms, YouTube, or visit: [Triggers and Spiritual Medicine on Buzzsprout](https://triggersandspiritualmedicine.buzzsprout.com/).

 

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Feel free to share your thoughts or feedback in the comments, and don’t forget to follow, like, and share this episode to spread the wisdom!

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TSM: Discernment And Rebirth – Walking Through the Fire of 2025

Triggers and Spiritual Medicine Podcast with Host Laura Bonetzky-Joseph

We’ve entered a powerful chapter in 2025—one that demands clarity, courage, and deep inner listening. In the latest episode of Triggers and Spiritual Medicine, Laura Bonetzky-Joseph explores the theme of discernment as both a spiritual tool and survival skill in today’s world as she weaves in the collective energies of May 2025.

This episode touches on the emotional, astrological, and ancestral layers of our collective evolution. Laura shares her insights on how to distinguish truth from illusion, why it’s time to reclaim ancestral wisdom, and how shedding old identities is essential for rebirth.

Key themes include:

  • Trusting your intuition and navigating spiritual truth vs. societal illusion
  • Facing karmic debts and embracing transformation
  • Upcoming astrological transits and their impact on political and personal shifts
  • Grounding in times of chaos through emotional regulation and nervous system care
  • Reclaiming soul-led leadership and moving beyond fear-based decision-making

Laura also offers 3 practical tips to help you ground, pause, and connect as you move through these intense energetic shifts.

This is a community-driven podcast—no ads, no paid sponsors—just heart-led wisdom offered to support collective healing and spiritual growth.

You can listen to the full episode on all major streaming platforms, YouTube, or by visiting:

https://triggersandspiritualmedicine.buzzsprout.com

If this episode resonates, we invite you to follow, like, share, and leave a comment. Your engagement helps us grow this intentional space and stay connected with those doing the deeper inner work

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TSM Episode 44: Sound Healing and Nada Yoga: Preserving Ancient Traditions for Modern Wellness With Guest Vikrant Rana

In the latest episode of Triggers And Spiritual Medicine, host Laura Bonetzky-Joseph sits down with Vikrant Rana, a certified sound therapist and Tantra Kundalini Yoga teacher from Boston Vibrations, to explore the transformative power of sound healing and Nada Yoga. Together, they dive deep into the importance of preserving ancient spiritual traditions and how these practices can guide us on our modern wellness journeys.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode:

  • The connection between sound and spiritual growth through Nada Yoga.
  • The key differences between sound healing and sound baths, and why intentional use of sound is so powerful.
  • Why it’s crucial to honor wisdom keepers and preserve ancient healing practices, especially in the face of modern misconceptions.

Vikrant also shares three practical tips that will help guide you on your own spiritual journey, whether you’re just beginning or deepening your practice.

This episode is part of our community-driven podcast with no paid sponsors or advertising dollars—just real conversations that are meant to inspire and heal.

You can listen to this episode on most streaming platforms, YouTube, or directly on our website at Triggers And Spiritual Medicine Podcast.

About Vikrant:

Originally from Nepal, Vikrant (Vik) is a certified sound therapist specializing in the ancient practice of Nāda Yoga—the yoga of sound and vibration. He is also an initiated practitioner in the Shakta lineage of Tantra and a teacher of classical Tantric Kundalini Yoga. A lifelong student of Advaita Vedanta, Vik follows the path of non-duality as his spiritual foundation. Through his company, Boston Vibration, he offers sound healing, meditation, yoga, Tantric healing, and spiritual discourse on non-duality.

Vik personally crafts high-quality, ritualized metallic singing bowls and other sound healing instruments, which are available for purchase after his sessions or at festivals.

His deep and authentic understanding of these ancient traditions stems from years of study with esteemed teachers in Nepal and India. For over a decade, he has traveled across the USA and Canada, sharing his knowledge and offering practical insights from these timeless teachings—helping individuals integrate them into modern life for personal and spiritual growth.

Once a year, Vik organizes the Sathealing Journey to Nepal, a Tantric healing retreat that offers a profound experience of energy healing in the sacred land of Tantra. The next retreat is scheduled for October 5–16, 2025.

Link: https://linktr.ee/nepalhealing

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TSM Season 3 Episode 42: Pain , Power and Politics

Welcome to Season 3, Episode 43 of *Triggers and Spiritual Medicine* with your host, Laura Bonetzky-Joseph, and special guest, Brighid Murphy, a healing catalyst and wellness practitioner.

In this episode, we explore self-healing, personal empowerment, and overcoming health challenges. We dive into the impact of collective stress, the power of slowing down, and how creating space before reacting can lead to deeper healing and transformation.

Brighid shares insights on body awareness, mindfulness, and reclaiming personal power through natural remedies. She also offers three practical self-healing tips: creating a sanctuary, practicing mindfulness, and using natural remedies for well-being.

Tune in now for a powerful conversation on healing and transformation. If you found this episode helpful, please share, like and subscribe to support our non-commercialized efforts.

Watch the Full Video here https://youtu.be/q8xZVqnYJhQ?si=lx2i3_1UfpvGyPUd

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TSM Season 3 Episode 42: Moving Through Uncertainty

Welcome to Season 3, Episode 42 of Triggers and Spiritual Medicine, with your host, Laura Bonetzky-Joseph, and special guest, Ukumbwa Sauti.

In today’s episode, we dive deep into the pressing social and political issues shaping our world. As we navigate rising tensions, systemic oppression, and the battle over truth, we’ll explore how history informs the present, why awareness is key to survival, and how we can take meaningful action to create change.

Ukumbwa Sauti brings his expertise in anti-patriarchal, sharing three key insights on systemic oppression and social justice. He offers a critical perspective on the structures that shape our society and the paths forward. Together, we’ll discuss the power of education, the role of activism, and the importance of sustainable courage in uncertain times.

So, get comfortable, open your mind, and let’s move through uncertainty—together.

If you find this episode helpful, please like, subscribe, and share!

About Ukumbwa Sauti:

Ukumbwa Sauti, M.Ed. is a Consultant, Facilitator, Educator and Program Developer on issues of Anti-Racism, Anti-Patriarchy, Men’s Work, Consent and Culture. He has worked with religious organizations, cultural groups and regional organizations and has taught in higher education for 16 years engaging issues of Race, Gender, Environmental issues, Media and Culture.

Ukumbwa has been a member and supportive of numerous local, national and international organizations and movements advocating for Pan-Africanism, Anti-Racism, Relationship, Sexual and Intimacy safety and education and Men’s Development.

Ukumbwa has presented across New England, USAmerica, California, Toronto and Barbados. He has worked as Social Media Director for Voice Male Magazine and an organizer for the Greater Boston Men’s Network and is currently the moderator for the Men’s Work Initiative.

Learn More about Ukumbwa here

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TSM Season 3 Episode 41, Energies of 2025 Forecast: Discernment & Year of the Snake

Welcome to Season 3, Episode 41 of Triggers and Spiritual Medicine with your host, Laura Bonetzky-Joseph!

Laura takes us on a transformative journey through the energetic landscape of 2025, examining its themes using tarot, numerology, astrology, and insights from the Year of the Snake. We’ll unpack the lessons of 2024, including the concept of simultaneous duality, the surfacing of generational trauma, and the pivotal role of discernment in navigating unresolved issues.

Stay tuned as Laura shares three actionable tips to help you navigate the year’s energies with clarity and purpose.

Don’t forget to subscribe and join us on this incredible journey of healing and empowerment!

About Laura Bonetzky-Joseph

Laura is a multigenerational multidisciplinary healer and intuitive, author of 2 books – Feisty and The Secrets To Healing, psychic medium, spiritual guide & educator, facilitator, Jikiden Reiki Teacher, sacred activist, podcast host of Triggers And Spiritual Medicine and ceremonialist.Laura has been walking a sacred path for over five decades, & every step of the way has been a lesson in reclaiming power, healing, and breaking cycles.

Her journey began as a child with many many stories but nicknamed Dr. Doolittle for her connection with animals in need.

By age 12, she had already been published for my rescue & healing work.

Those early days set the stage for a life filled with service, intuition & a deep bond with the unseen world.

Since 2006, Laura has been offering spiritual based integrative therapies with a specialty in somatic trauma healing through Healing With Spirit and later with Healing Trauma Through Spirit.

But her work isn’t just about addressing symptoms. It’s about diving deep into the roots—whether they stem from chronic illness, end of life, ancestral lines, cultural conditioning, or life’s most challenging moments.

Laura’s approach is multidimensional weaving into a custom journey for each individual.

Starting in February she is leading another 6 month journey including an 8-day pilgrimage to Ireland in May/June to UNpack cultural conditioning, religious indoctrination and persecution to reclaim aspects lost or stolen from us or our ancestors.

What makes Laura different?

She does NOT follow trends.

She does NOT believe healing can be bought through fancy programs because everyone processes and heals differently and at different rates and seasons.

It’s a lifelong commitment, one she has apprenticed under wise elders to fully understand.

Laura’s work isn’t a weekend class; it’s decades of deep learning & devotion to walking my talk—every single day.

She is here to help folks to harness their power by addressing and healing root issues, reclaiming lost parts of themselves, reconnecting with ancestral wisdom, and aligning with Spirit.

With the energy of the Year of the Snake this year in 2025, we’re called to shed old patterns, embrace transformation, and honor the sacred feminine and our own healing.

Side note:
Laura is a divorced grandmother, lover of herbal plants and plant medicines, survivor of sexual assault and domestic violence, and a member of the TRAC Coalition in Massachusetts advocating for policy & legislative change for survivors of abuse.

Due to family court sanctioned abuse, her children were legally trafficked by way of family courts to a documented abuser in 2007 for for to never see again. It’s a mother’s worst nightmare, but she refuses to be a victim of circumstances and BEcome a champion for other women.

Learn more about Laura here

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TSM Season 3, Episode 40: 2025 Astrology & Energy Insights

Welcome to Season 3, Episode 40 of  *Triggers and Spiritual Medicine* with your host, Laura Bonetzky-Joseph, and special guest, Jill Jardine of *Cosmic Scene*.

In this episode, we explore how astrology can guide personal growth, prosperity, and self-care as we prepare for the transformative energy of 2025. Discover insights into Mercury retrograde, healing ancestral patterns, and cultivating compassion, with special guidance for Virgo, Pisces, Aries, and more.

Join us, as Jill Jardine, with over 30 years of expertise as an astrologer, healer, and hypnotherapist, shares three practical tips and cosmic wisdom to help you thrive.

If you find this episode helpful, subscribe to the podcast so you never miss an opportunity to align with the universe’s rhythms and gain empowering insights for your journey. Let’s dive in!

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TSM Season 3 Episode 39: Thriving After Domestic Violence with Demetria Goode

Welcome to Season 3, Episode 39 of “Triggers and Spiritual Medicine” with host Laura Bonetzky Joseph and special guest Demetria Goode.

In this episode, Demetria shares her journey from surviving a violent attack in 2013 to founding The Goode Fight in 2021, an organization dedicated to helping survivors of domestic violence and trauma. Laura and Demetria discuss three essential tips for overcoming trauma, focusing on resilience, finding support, and transformative healing.

Join us as we explore practical insights and encouragement for anyone affected by domestic violence.

If this episode resonates with you, please share, like, and support our mission to spread awareness and inspire healing.


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TSM Season 3 Episode 38: Bridging Cultures, Yoga, Violence Prevention & Healing Of Generations

Welcome to Episode 38, Season 3 of “Triggers and Spiritual Medicine” with your host, Laura Bonetzky Joseph, and our Everlutionary guest, Hawah Kasat.

In this episode, Laura and Hawah engaged in a rich discussion on personal experiences, cultural identities, spiritual practices, and what it takes to be truly “Everlutionary”. They emphasized the importance of creating safe spaces and addressing global challenges with love, empathy, and cooperation.

Hawah shared stories of his upbringing in New Jersey and summers in India, which shaped his views on racism, xenophobia, and the need for healing. He discussed navigating cultural identities, founding the nonprofit One Common Unity, and becoming a UN delegate. Hawah highlighted the importance of expanding perspectives, finding joy in service, and the mental attitude necessary for spiritual growth.

Both Laura and Hawah discussed the challenges of translating spiritual practices like Reiki and yoga across cultures and spoke about the need for fostering belonging and redefining success.

We conclude with Hawah sharing 3 tips that emphasize the importance of creating safe spaces, fostering understanding, and addressing global challenges through love, empathy, and cooperation.

As always, please share, like, and support if you found this episode helpful.

 

About Hawah:

An award-winning author, educator, non-profit leader, TEDx speaker, poet, and yogi. For over 20 years, Hawah has been teaching violence prevention, social-emotional literacy, conflict transformation, the healing arts, trauma-informed care, mindfulness, and yoga to all types of students, from diverse demographics, around the globe.

Since childhood, Hawah has been exposed to the living traditions, culture, philosophy, and practices of his ancestral homeland of India, and offers a rare perspective on Eastern and Western dichotomies.

Hawah is co-founder and former Executive Director of One Common Unity (OCU), an award-winning non-profit organization that has impacted the lives of over 40,000 youth and families.

In 2018, OCU was awarded the National SHIFT Award for its pioneering work in integrating the healing arts with environmental stewardship. In 2019, Hawah was honored to receive Georgetown University’s “Legacy Of A Dream” Award at the Kennedy Center. The University presents the award annually to an inspirational emerging leader whose work embodies the values and spirit of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

In the years prior, Hawah worked as an Americorps community organizer and mentor in Washington, D.C.’s most under-resourced neighborhood.

After graduating from American University, he was awarded a fellowship with the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Foundation to work as a special representative to the United Nations and the World Conference Against Racism.

Hawah has made appearances on XM National Satellite Radio, BBC, Fox News, NBC, ABC, CNN, The Washington Post, NPR, and Al Jazeera.  He has also been a guest speaker at Yale University, George Washington University, U.C.L.A., University of Colorado, Rollins College, University of Maryland, Georgetown University, Brown University, and many others.

Most recently, he helped launch Roots to Sky Sanctuary, a 125-acre BIPOC led regenerative farm and healing arts center situated in northern Appalachia where he serves as a Managing Partner. Over the years he has authored 4 books and produced 3 documentary films, including the widely acclaimed, “Fly By Light.”

Hawah Links

  • www.HawahKasat.com
  • Everlutionary Podcast on Spotify – https://spoti.fi/3yxTpXD
  • https://linktr.ee/everlutionary
  • IG & FB – @hawahkasat