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!
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.
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
Welcome to Episode 37 of “Triggers and Spiritual Medicine” with your host Laura Bonetzky-Joseph of Healing With Spirit and Healing Trauma Through Spirit.
In this episode Laura dives into addressing, getting into the roots and shares:
a few metaphor examples of what these roots can look like,
how they represent the foundation of everything—whether it’s physical health, emotional well-being, personal growth, or problem-solving.
Understanding the Roots
What “getting to the roots” means in different contexts (e.g., mental health, physical health, spiritual well-being)
Why addressing surface-level symptoms isn’t enough such as addressing the root cause of stress rather than just managing stress symptoms.
Address common misconceptions such as thinking short-term solutions will solve deep-seated issues.
Addressing cultural conditioning, toxic capitalist structures as a root
Getting to the roots in healing physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually
The importance of identifying and processing deep-seated emotions
Exploring spiritual and soul roots and the role of spiritual beliefs and practices in addressing underlying issues.
Getting to the roots in growth personally & professionally
Understanding your core beliefs and values as the foundation for personal growth.
The importance of deepening connections and understanding the root of conflicts or misunderstandings in relationships.
Discuss how to identify the underlying causes of recurring challenges in life.
In the end Laura offers practical strategies for addressing and overcoming obstacles at their root with at least 3 actionable steps you can employ today to begin “getting to the roots” in their own lives.
About Laura:
Since 2006, Laura has helped thousands of people heal and reclaim aspects of themselves lost, stolen or forgotten by addressing and healing root issues, transform pain, bridge science, research and the practical magic of sacred, ancient traditions… with honor and integrity. She is an experienced multi-generational multi-discipline healer & intuitive, psychic medium, Jikiden Reiki Teacher, best-selling author, speaker, award-winning advocate, spiritual teacher, sacred activist, former college educator, and survivor of domestic violence and sexual assault.
She’s apprenticed with an Osteopathic Physician for more than 20 years learning holistic health and preventative care and has also studied with indigenous teachers and lineage holders based in Japan, Ireland, and the Americas servicing a clientele who are diverse and inclusive from various ethnic cultures, skin color, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, and socio-economic backgrounds.
In 2022, Laura published two books. She’s the co-author of “Feisty: Dangerously Amazing Women Using Their Voices to Make an Impact”. Her chapter, “#MeTooFamilyCourts”, highlights what it takes to leave a domestic violence relationship in a broken system that punishes you.
Her first solo book published in October 2022, “The Secrets To Healing: An Invitation To Healing Trauma And Other Root Causes of Chronic Illness Using the Japanese Reiki Gokai” weaves her personal story, her work, the science, and the teachings with nine client case studies.
Laura currently sits on the Massachusetts domestic violence task force addressing legislation and policy for survivors of abuse. Through her decades of advocacy & policy work, she puts difficult – sometimes unpopular – ideas into words that communicate well, yielding to possibilities, healing, change and growth.
As a guest speaker, she addresses intersectionality and root systems, provides proven practical ways to elevate and emPOWER others quickly… in a way bringing an authentic unique view with a unique talent and skill sets uncommon today.
Laura’s podcast, “Triggers and Spiritual Medicine,” can be found on YouTube, her website, and most podcast streaming platforms.
In 2025, Laura will be offering a 6 month journey including an 8 day all inclusive pilgrimage to Ireland in May/June that starts in February.
Additional Resources:
“The Secrets To Healing” by Laura Bonetzky-Joseph, (https://www.amazon.com/stores/Laura-Bonetzky-Joseph/author/B09QMVSW7Y?ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true)
Dr. Jessica Taylor (https://www.drjessicataylor.com/)
This is an episode you don’t want to miss where Laura and Victoria engage in a difficult topic surrounding the energies leading up to the upcoming election. Using tarot, psychic, numerology and astrology, they will help us to understand these wild transformative misunderstood energetic aspects leading up to the election in the United States.
Join us as Victoria opens up about her experiences as an astrologer offering valuable insights into understanding the Astrology aspects of what’s happening politically in the USA and offers at least three tips on how to navigate these energies.
We hope you find this episode helpful in understanding what is so you know how to align more effectively with greater ease.
Our intention is to trigger folks hopefully in the right direction aligned with soul as a steward not as a human faced with unpacking generations of cultural toxic capitalist neocolonizer patriarchal conditioning and church indoctrination.
As always, please share, like, support if you found this episode helpful
DISCLAIMER: This is for entertainment purposes.
About Victoria:
She is a cheerleader at heart and not afraid to offer straightforward empowering messages. EVERYTHING is about perspective in astrology and interpretations vary from different schools of thought. She is mostly self-taught, but influenced by: Carl Jung, Dane Rudhyar, Jeffrey Wolf Green, Evolutionary Astrology, Alice Bailey, Esoteric Astrology, Melanie Reinhardt, Liz Greene, and many other brilliant cosmically attuned Teachers. She feels one of her great gifts is synthesizing many different streams of information and teachings into messages for the Highest Good without being confined by any one particular system. She primarily uses the Tropical Zodiac and Placidus house system – she feels it is the most accurate.
She has been a student of astrology and all things Metaphysical since she was a teenager, over 30 years ago. She’s always had a voracious appetite for Knowledge and Information.
She founded VICTORY ASTROLOGY in January, 2018. This space is meant to share her love of astrology and help teach others how to empower themselves by learning to understand the language of Astrology, rather than seeing it as a “Belief System” or religion. It is not.
Welcome to Episode 35 of “Triggers and Spiritual Medicine” with your host, Laura Bonetzky Joseph, and our guest, Lolly Be.
This is an episode you don’t want to miss where Lolly helps us understand the intersectionality of healing, mental health and sacred activism.
Join us as Lolly opens up about her experiences and offers three valuable tips on healing, mental health, and sacred activism. Let’s dive into this impactful exploration together.
Welcome to Episode 35 of “Triggers and Spiritual Medicine” with your host, Laura Bonetzky Joseph, and our guest, Lolly Be.
This is an episode you don’t want to miss where Lolly helps us understand the intersectionality of healing, mental health and sacred activism.
Join us as Lolly opens up about her experiences and offers three valuable tips on healing, mental health, and sacred activism. Let’s dive into this impactful exploration together.
About Lolly:
Lolly Be is a psychotherapist, relationship coach, activist and thought leader. She lives between CT and New Mexico with her dog Wakpa.
What if you could unlock the secrets of ancestral wisdom and harness the transformative energies of 2024? Join us on Cosmic Scene as we welcome Laura Bonetsky Joseph, a dedicated healer and intuitive spiritual medium, who shares her compelling journey of connecting with her ancestral roots in Ireland. Laura takes us through her profound pilgrimage experiences and delves into the duality theme that will dominate the cosmic energetics of 2024, revealing how these contrasts can be powerful avenues for personal and collective healing. Learn about the exciting opportunities for transformation at her upcoming retreat in the Boston-Hingham area, and how you can be a part of this healing endeavor.
Laura and Jill discuss the vital importance of respecting nature and sacred sites, emphasizing the need for proper training and boundaries when engaging with these powerful spaces. You’ll hear about Laura’s personal practices of harvesting herbs with integrity and the significance of consent and communication with the natural world. We also tackle the complex issue of cultural appropriation, especially in spiritual ceremonies, and highlight the magic that emerges from building respectful relationships with plants and the land.
The conversation takes a poignant turn as we explore the rise of the divine feminine and the historical suppression of feminine power. Laura shares moving insights from her work in Ireland, including the symbol-rich story of a unique tree embodying both masculine and feminine qualities. We touch upon the persecution of powerful female figures throughout history and underscore the importance of reclaiming feminine power in today’s world. Wrapping up, we look at how modern technology impacts our connection to the Earth’s energies and offer practical tips for maintaining balance. Don’t miss Laura’s invitation to her transformative summer solstice retreat, promising enriching experiences and profound healing. Tune in for an inspiring episode filled with wisdom, respect for the natural world, and a deep dive into the mysteries of the divine feminine.
Tune into the podcast here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/958528/15240638
Welcome to Episode 34 of “Triggers and Spiritual Medicine” with your host, Laura Bonetzky Joseph, and our guest, Tina Hines.
In this episode, Tina will share her story of self-discovery and healing. From navigating life’s challenges to embracing self-love, Tina’s journey is sure to inspire and resonate with our listeners.
So, join us as Tina opens up about her experiences and shares three tips with invaluable wisdom for anyone seeking to cultivate a deeper sense of love and acceptance for themselves.
Let’s tune in together on this journey of healing energy!
About Tina,
Tina C. Hines, a fifth-generation empath, intuitive clairvoyant, medium, and healer. She holds certification as a life and international transformation coach, dedicating her life’s purpose to guiding emotionally wounded women on a transformative journey towards self-love, self-care, and self-worth.
With a wealth of experience, Tina has graced numerous podcasts and featured in esteemed media platforms including Good Morning America, The New York Times, The Tamron Hall Show, and Trenton Now. Her influence extends across continents, as she traverses the United States, Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean, hosting healing retreats that empower women to rediscover their own happiness. Tina’s distinctive approach has established her as an authority in transformational coaching. Her vision is
clear and profound: to embolden women to embrace unapologetic abundance, allowing them to craft the lives they truly desire. Before embarking on her journey as a certified life coach, Tina spent an impressive three decades in corporate America, serving as an executive assistant. This extensive background enriches her coaching
with a unique depth of insight and practical wisdom.
Currently, Tina resides in the vibrant city of Marrakech, Morocco, alongside her cherished son.
Welcome to Episode 33 of Triggers And Spiritual Medicine with Laura Bonetzky-Joseph, your host and special guest, Mari Okazaki talking about her Reiki journey.
In this episode, Mari shares her story of how she discovered Reiki in her life. As a Japanese woman living in Canada with a very sick infant, she talks about how Reiki changed her life and how she continues to share her journey and teachings now that she lives in Japan.
So, join us as Mari shares not only her wisdom but also three practical tips for bringing Reiki into your life. Let’s embark together on this journey of transformative healing energy!
About Mari
Mari is a full-time Reiki practitioner who has been offering Reiki sessions in her home studio on a daily basis since 2006. She also regularly teaches Jikiden Reiki® Shoden (Level 1) and Okuden (Level 2) Certification classes, as well as Shihankaku (assistant teacher) classes upon request.
Originally from Nagasaki, Japan, Mari now resides in both Chilliwack, BC, Canada, and Nagasaki, Goto, Japan.
She is one of the office staff at the Jikiden Reiki Institute and has been working as an organizer and translator for the Jikiden Reiki® Vancouver seminar since 2008, traveling to Halifax with Mr. Tadao Yamaguchi, the Co-founder of the Jikiden Reiki Institute. She continues to use Reiki to help her family, friends, and herself.
Since 2023, Mari has been living in Japan and helping to spread the teaching of Reiki in its birthplace.
Welcome to Episode 32 of “Triggers and Spiritual Medicine” with your host, Laura Bonetzky-Joseph, and our guest, L Faunt.
Join us as for a deep conversation about real world happenings and explore the journey of inner and outer healing. We’ll delve into spiritual practices and their transformative impact on our well-being.
L Faunt shares their personal journey and offers three simple tips to start your own healing journey.
About L:
L aka DivinatX Inner and Outer Worlds (they/them) is an experienced performing and visual artist, fitness instructor, intuitive reader and home decluttering specialist. Their eclectic interests bring them to unite people through laughter, witty observations and looking at life unconventionally.
