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The 2026 Web We Are Weaving

In this episode of Triggers in Spiritual Medicine, Laura reflects on the 12 Omen Days observed at the threshold between years and what they reveal about the energetic, relational, and collective themes unfolding in 2026.

Rather than predictions or bypassing, this episode offers a grounded, embodied reading of the signs, symbols, encounters, and disruptions that appeared day by day. From animal messengers and meaningful human interactions to silence, proximity, disenchantment, and quiet completion, these Omen Days revealed a pattern not of urgency, but of discernment.

This is a year that does not ask us to push, chase, or perform our way forward. It asks us to listen, to notice what approaches organically, and to recognize what has quietly withered and completed its cycle.

Laura weaves together lived experience, ancestral patterning, nervous system wisdom, and spiritual sobriety to explore what kind of web we are actively creating through our choices, relationships, boundaries, and presence.

This episode is an invitation to slow down, release illusion, and consciously participate in what you are weaving — personally, collectively, and ancestrally — as we move through 2026.

In This Episode, We Explore:

  • The meaning of the 12 Omen Days and how they map the months ahead
  • Patterns of proximity, timing, and trust
  • Why stillness preceded movement
  • The role of discernment over expansion
  • What completes quietly versus what demands attention
  • How to live 2026 without forcing clarity or bypassing complexity

About the Podcast

Triggers in Spiritual Medicine is a podcast exploring the intersections of trauma, healing, spirituality, and embodied wisdom. Hosted by Laura Bonetzky-Gaffney (formerly Laura Joseph), Jikiden Reiki Shihan, spiritual guide, and sacred activist, each episode invites listeners into deeper awareness of how triggers, patterns, and challenges can become portals for healing, truth, and transformation.

This podcast is rooted in lived experience, ancestral remembering, and spiritual practices that honor the body, nervous system, and sovereignty of the individual

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2025 Year in Review: Shedding, Presence and Winter Solstice Prep for 2026

Welcome to the next episode of Triggers in Spiritual Medicine podcast and this one is BIG, with host, Laura Bonetzky-Gaffney.

In this month’s episode, I walk us through a powerful 2025 Year in Review through the lens of spiritual medicine, the bridge into 2026, and the thresholds between Samhain season and Winter Solstice.

This one feels like a transmission for anyone navigating big shifts, ancestral stirrings, or the call to step into their next becoming.

Weaving together:

🔥 What’s closing, what’s cracking open, and what 2025 is asking of us

🌬️ The liminal space between Samhain and Winter Solstice

🌱 The medicine of slowing down, listening deeper, and honoring the unseen

💛 How to stay rooted and resourced in uncertain times

🌀 Spiritual, energetic, and collective themes rising for the year ahead

The episode drops December 1st, and you can find it on YouTube and your favorite streaming platforms or go to

🔗https://triggersandspiritualmedicine.buzzsprout.com/

If you feel called to walk deeper into this work with me

• 1:1

• in community or groups

• or through ceremony

Here’s what’s coming:

Full calendar of events on our website or go to

🔗 www.LauraHealingWithSpirit.com/events

🌕 Medicine of the Wise Woman. — January 25

A collaboration with Christel on A living remembrance of the ancestors within.

🪘 Buffalo Medicine Drum Making with Janee King — March 8th

Only 3 spaces left. A ceremonial creation of your own healing drum.

🙏 Living Life as a Walking Prayer — March 28th

A collaboration w/ Roseanne of Four Winds One Breath

If your soul is tugging, I’m here.

If you’re ready to reclaim what’s been lost, forgotten, or taken, I’m here. And if you’re seeking guidance for the road ahead, I walk with you.

May you shed what no longer serves.

May your discernment sharpen.

May your presence anchor you.

And may you walk rooted in truth, guided by the wisdom of your body & your ancestors.

📚 Secrets to Healing can be found on Amazon or at our studio in Hingham MA

🔗 https://www.amazon.com/Secrets-Healing-Invitation-Chronic-Japanese-ebook/dp/B0BHLKGL74

#SpiritualMedicine #TriggersInSpiritualMedicine #Mediumship #EnergyHealing #AncestralHealing

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A Sacred Homecoming: Making Peace with Every Woman You’ve Been

Make peace with all the women you once were

The one who doubted her power.

The one who gave too much, even when it hurt.

The one who was told to shrink, to stay small, to silence her fire.

The one who fought, who rose, who refused to be erased.

Every version of you paved the way for the woman you are today.

On this International Women’s Day, we are called to honor not only the women who inspire us but also the women within us—those past versions who survived, adapted, and did the best they could with what they knew.

Too often, we carry shame, guilt, and unresolved wounds from who we once were. We judge our past selves harshly, forgetting that each chapter of our lives was a necessary part of our becoming.

But what if we approached these past versions with compassion instead of criticism?

What if we saw each past self as a guardian—holding wisdom, strength, and lessons meant to guide us forward?

The Journey of Reclamation

This journey is not about forgetting the past but rather about reclaiming the parts of ourselves we left behind. Through Reiki, ancestral healing, and spiritual guidance, I help women untangle from old stories, heal ancestral wounds, and rewrite their narrative with compassion and power.

Healing isn’t about erasing who we were—it’s about embracing her.

The girl who once dreamed.

The woman who dared to heal.

The wise one rising now.

This is the path of the Sacred Feminine.

This is the power of self-forgiveness

The Medicine of the Wise Woman Retreat – October 5th (click here)

If this resonates, I invite you to join me for the Medicine of the Wise Woman Retreat on Sunday, October 5th—a day dedicated to connecting with the wise, whole, and healed grandmother ancestry of blood and bone.

Through vibrational healing, ceremonial practices, and experiential activities, we will journey together to heal ancestral lineages, reclaim personal power, and embody the wisdom of the women who came before us.

This is for the woman ready to rise.
This is for the woman ready to remember.
This is for the woman ready to make peace with all she has been.

>> Secure your spot now to walk this sacred path with us.
>> Learn more and register at Medicine of The Wise Woman Retreat 
>> Tag a woman who needs this journey.

Share this to spread the energy of self-forgiveness and empowerment.

This International Women’s Day, let’s not just celebrate—we RISE. We HEAL. We REMEMBER.

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Confusing Stimulation With Transformation

 

I read a post reflecting on the idea of just because you went through a spiritual awakening yourself, does not mean one is qualified to facilitate transformation or healing in others. I sat with this a while and it got me thinking about my own experiences—both personal and professional.

I’ve been doing this work for nearly two decades now—walking alongside people in their deepest pain, untangling the roots of trauma, and helping them reclaim their power. And over the years, I’ve watched trends come and go.
The deluge of overnight shamans or priestesses, Instagram healers, and self-proclaimed “masters” who have never sat in the fire of their own reckoning—never faced themselves fully, never allowed their own illusions to burn away, never surrendered to the depths of their own healing before offering to guide others—has been disturbing to witness. And with it, I see a new addiction on the rise.

 

Not to substances, but to the constant high of spiritual spectacle. The rush of the next ceremony, the next activation, the next dopamine hit of being told you’re “ascending.” Chasing peak experiences instead of integration.

Confusing stimulation with transformation.

What does that mean?
It means they’ve never been cracked open by the weight of their own wounds, forced to confront the uncomfortable truths about themselves, their conditioning, their lineage, and the ways they, too, have contributed to harm.
They’ve never had to navigate the raw, humbling process of breaking down everything they thought they knew—sitting in the discomfort long enough to let it transform them, rather than bypassing it with a new title, a quick certification, or a spiritual persona.

Because true healing isn’t a trend or a title—it’s a lifelong initiation.

Real transformation doesn’t come from collecting tools, hopping from one modality to the next, or curating a perfect aesthetic.
It’s NOT a high-ticket program, a hypnotic sales pitch, or an endless cycle of ceremonies.
It’s the slow, unglamorous, and deeply personal work of undoing illusions, sitting with the discomfort, and learning to hold yourself through it before ever holding space for another.
And yet, I see the harm caused when seekers—earnest, vulnerable, and yearning for real healing—end up in the hands of someone who hasn’t done that deeper work to recognize their own blind spots.
I’ve held those left broken by it, who were promised healing but walked away more fractured than before. Some don’t walk away at all. The cost of this irresponsibility is too high.
For those of us who have dedicated decades—if not lifetimes—to this path, witnessing the rise of surface-level spirituality can be disheartening, if not exhausting.

 

And yet, we don’t do this work for validation, competition, or status. We do it because it’s who we are.

Because truth doesn’t require a spotlight—it simply needs to be embodied.

The depth of this path isn’t measured by popularity but by the integrity with which it’s lived every day.

To those who have been burned, who have handed their power over and are now finding their way back: You are not broken. Your intuition is still intact. The right guides, the right spaces, and the real healing are out there. Slow down enough to feel what is true.
And for those of us who have spent years doing this work, who sometimes wonder if it’s worth it: It is. Because even if the noise is loud, even if the illusion is tempting, truth always finds a way.

If this resonates, please let us see you.

Comment below

Let’s keep standing in what is real.

With Appreciation,
– Laura Bonetzky-Joseph
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Triggers & Spiritual Medicine Episode #11: Reinventing Yourself After Cancer

Welcome to Episode 11 of Triggers and Spiritual Medicine podcast with host, Laura Bonetzky-Joseph. Join us for a fun amazing podcast episode on “Reinventing Yourself After Cancer” with Actor, Producer & Renaissance Man – Eli Hans.

Eli shares his journey from growing up in a conservative home as a “gay boy” to a life of constant go go go to losing his partner to suicide to being diagnosed with a rare form of cancer with a 10% survival rate to 7yrs remission, to falling in love, to the importance of incorporating your intuition into your healing, to the pandemic … to what it took & the journey within in writing his journey of unpacking & healing his life in a rich authentic deep funny musical play that audiences are raving about – “Out of the Blue”

BE SURE TO FOLLOW & SUBSCRIBE FOR FUTURE EPISODES AND SHARE – ENGAGE to help us with visibility

ABOUT ELI:

Eli is a true Renaissance man; an actor, writer, artist, producer, director, singer, and recently, a composer. Eli has reinvented his career many times, from producer and director of TV commercials and large-scale corporate events to interior designer, and now a life and creativity coach. He has always dreamed of being on Broadway, and after surviving a dire cancer diagnosis, he decided to create an autobiographical musical called Out of The Blue, an inspiring story of hope and resilience in which he plays 25 characters. He recently had a sold-out run of his World Premiere in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, and a successful U.S. Premiere at the Hollywood Fringe Theater festival.

Listen to the episode HERE

OR watch the episode here:

Additional Resources:

ABOUT TRIGGERS & SPIRITUAL MEDICINE:

Vision: To break the unrecognized endemic of unresolved unhealed trauma & create sustainable systems for recovery, healing & empowerment.

Mission: To help others rediscover the power that lies within and to find that treasure buried in the depths of the shadows. To help them become their own superhero.

We hope by addressing the intersectionality and connect the dots like a web of many of society’s challenges, we can help others understand the trauma infection that impacts all areas of life – addiction, domestic violence, racism, homelessness, sexual abuse, chronic health issues, cancer, environmental issues, climate change and more. In this NEW collaborative program, we hope by highlighting these infected areas and what they share in common, a new perspective of solutions, healing, and resolutions can be birthed.

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Testimonial With Dr. Adrienne McClain – Shifting Beliefs, Healing Trauma Roots, Dragon Magic

Unsure if working with Laura is right for you?

This recording was NOT planned as you can see in the video. Dr. Adrienne McClain offered to share in the raw what she experienced after 2 sessions working with Laura as she found them to be quite powerful.

In this brief 6-minute video, she shares:

  • Her experience working with Laura.
  • What she didn’t anticipate would happen.
  • What shifted that landed her a job offer and new clients.
  • Why to work with Laura.
  • What separates Laura’s work from others.
  • Why others should work with her.

To learn more about Laura’s work, social justice work, podcast and more scroll through this website or visit: https://linktr.ee/HealingWithSpirit

 

Mid-Winter Psychic Blitz – Fair

Join me for a mid-winter psychic blitz. See flier for all the amazing offerings.

FREE admission

Doors OPEN at 9:30am

Readings are 20 mins for $25 (cash only please).

Due to the mandate of the mayor of Nashua, MASKS ARE REQUIRED.

I am grateful to be one of the readers onsite for this event offering:

  • numerology
  • psychic medium
  • spiritual mediumship
  • tarot
  • spiritual guidance
  • medical intuitive readings

To learn more about the spiritual guidance Laura offers, click here.

To learn more about the psychic mediumship readings, Laura offers, click here.

About Laura:

Laura comes from a strong family lineage of natural intuitives. Her father used his intuitive gifts as a physician to make life saving diagnosis’s in patients. Her mother used her intuitive gifts as a nurse. Her aunt read palms and her grandmother and great grandmother read tea leaves.

Laura has a private practice near the beach on the south shore of Boston, MA where she has been providing spiritually based integrative holistic health enrichment through programs, services, events, groups, retreats, and classes since 2006.

She considers herself a healer, educator, speaker, a natural born intuitive, metaphysician, trauma survivor, health advocate, mentor, artist, writer & overall spiritual badass.

She has 2 books coming out in 2022.

Coming on January 24, 2022 is “Feisty: Amazingly Dangerous Women Using Their Voices and Making an Impact” – Click here to learn more.

And in the Spring of 2022, “The Secrets to Healing: An Invitation to Healing the Roots to Chronic Illness & Trauma Through The Japanese Reiki Gokai” where she shares how she healed the “Broken Me”

Click here to learn more about Laura.

Click here to learn more about Laura’s spiritual gifts.

 

Harness & Master The Secrets To Your POWER in 2022

Learn the mechanics of HOW and transform your life in this 3 part interactive experiential virtual workshop series

If you clicked on a link and you are reading this, there is a reason. Thank you and thank yourself too (you will be glad you did).

Let’s uncover what’s blocking you from BE-ing in your full power, and harness it with simple easy to learn time tested exercises backed by a facilitator with immense personal & professional experience of almost 20 years.

Heal old stories & trauma (personal, generational, karmic & past life) stealing your joy, purpose, and life. Learn HOW to turn triggers into super powers.

This is a three part interactive experiential virtual workshop series NOT a lecture series that is designed to help you make breakthroughs you have been seeking but maybe never considered THIS as a possibility.

This event is NOT pre-recorded. This event is a LIVE interactive experiential virtual event on Zoom.

We will dive deep in the operating systems of our subconscious minds to reveal what needs upgrading or purging preventing us from BE-ing in the fullness of our power..

This program comes at a time where the craziness of the world perpetuates more divide and harm knowingly or unknowingly avoiding the key root issues.

Are you ready to change and up level yourself?

Join me and learn how to harness & master these three super powers.

We chose these dates with the 1st New Moon of 2022 on January 2, 2022 at the start of our course and the 1st Full Moon of 2022 is on January 17, 2022 at the completion of our course.

This is a GREAT course to kick off the new year with 2 POWERFUL moon cycles to start the year off strong and the timing can not be more perfect with this moon cycle.

This course also makes a GREAT HOLIDAY GIFT to ask for or give as a gift to someone you love this holiday season.

Who This Program Is For:

This program is anyone called to it for whatever reason and/or for those

  • seeking deep guidance, direction and breakthroughs through a series of experientials.
  • who feel like they are doing everything right, but not matter what they “do”, they can’t seem to make the breakthroughs they are seeking. They want to understand what is missing and make a change.
  • for those who want to improve outcomes, results, and manifestations.
  • who want to break cycles, but don’t know how because everything else they tried has not worked or worked effectively enough.
  • who are struggling with triggered responses

Part 1: The POWER of the Word

Tuesday, January 4, 2022

7-9pm (NY-EST)

 (1st New Moon of 2022 on January 2, 2022)

Words have energy do they not?

If you are saying to yourself right now, “yeah yeah yeah. I have heard this. I do this work. I have done affirmations and mantras.” I want to challenge you. Let’s uncover what is unseen buried in the subconscious mind through a series of experientials.

Words have spiritual power is also what makes gaslighting so effective to create harm, but why haven’t we mastered the power of the word to empower us? Learn what is missing and how to harness this simple power to breakthrough imaginary walls and empower our very BEing.

We will use some very simple Japanese concepts rooted in Shinto teachings. There is a reason why Japan did NOT have a written language until Buddhist was imported in 4th century.

Part 2: The POWER of the Pause

Tuesday, January 11, 2022

7-9pm (NY-EST)

The RBG Superpower
This is the most widely known concept, but the most misunderstood. Shift the power of the word and shift the energy driving it by learning not just to pause, but learn how to master the pause.

Bring clarity into the problem and identify HOW you can move towards an effective solution.

Learn what is missing and how to harness this simple power. THIS was the power that Ruth Bader Ginsburg (RBG) mastered that enabled her to win five our of six supreme court cases. Are you ready?

Part 3: The POWER of Processing

Tuesday, January 18th

7-9pm (NY-EST)

(1st Full Moon of 2022 is January 17th)

Feel. Understand. Let Go.
How many times have you heard “just let go and move on” Well if we knew HOW to do this effectively, we would, right?

Emotions are energy in motion.  This is a step I witness most folks wanting to avoid, escape from, or numb ourselves from.  Learn why this is a crucial step that is needed and why processing our junk effectively matters.

By Learning HOW to effectively process our “stuff”, we gain clarity. We gain understanding. We make sense of things. We deal with our “stuff” in a healthier way so it is NOT running like a toxic operating system running in the background of our minds sabotaging our efforts.

How we process starts with our own tool box.

Join us an learn HOW.

Are you ready?

About Your Facilitator:

Laura Joseph is New England native located just south of Boston. She goes by the pronouns she/her. She is a seasoned multi-generational healer, speaker, intuitive, holistic health practitioner, educator, truth seeker, social justice junkie, trauma survivor, trauma recovery specialist, seer, & earth based medicine woman.

Laura is currently working on getting certified in addictions counseling and is learning every day through various teachers on the topics of privilege, anti-racism, diversity, inclusion and decolonizing the mindset.

What started out as trying to learn how to fix the broken me after succession of various form of abuse Laura endured culminated by domestic violence, let to her career practicing spiritually based integrative holistic health enrichment since 2006.

This program is born out of the accumulation of teachings, personal growth, healing & recovery and her professional experience helping thousands of others in their path.

What is NEXT?

Investment: Special Limited Time Offering $199 (Savings of $50)

Patreon Member? Get up to 40% off. Click here to learn how to become a member today

To Register go to Eventbrite here.

Limited scholarships available. To qualify, please write a one page paper as why you need the scholarship, your commitment to self development, Why you feel this workshop could help you and what you hope to gain, and attach any supporting documentation or reference. Click here to inquire

Not sure if you are ready?

Timing bad?

Want to do this NEXT time?

Stay in the loop and click here.

 

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The Dark Night of the Soul

This year has kicked our rears to no end. Many of us feel like we are about to break wondering when will all this end? Are you feeling this?

Various folks in the spiritual communities are saying we are experiencing what is called the “dark night of the soul”, but do we really know what this means?

If you are wondering what the heck is going on in the air????

Have you read any of my 2020 energy forecast yet? Click here for initial 2020 forecast with end of January karmic update here, 4/4/20 COVID Energy update here, Facing the shadows May update here, and my June spiritual medicine during times of unrest update here.

Please post your comments and feedback so I know if these posts resonate with you or not.

In this video:

  • I define what the phrase “dark night of the soul” means
  • What is it?
  • How does it relate to what is happening NOW
  • What does it mean?
  • How can we become empowered through it?

Virtual Mornings’s With Laura: Support, Spiritual Medicine & Meditation

I am here for you & to support you through these changes.

Many of us mystics have been warning & preparing us for these times building up until now and there have been many prophecies foretold over the years.

We have a choice on how we navigate and evolve.  Let me help you navigate these changes TOGETHER.

I am here for you.

I am holding space.

I’m offering *FREE* support, spiritual guidance, energy updates, meditation and more in the FB group Reiki & Spiritual Enrichment With Laura Healing With Spirit

Join us VIRTUALLY in the comforts of your home for some

  • virtual love,
  • extra support,
  • spiritual medicine – spirit animals, earth based wisdom, psychic medium, and more.
  • Gokai (Japanese precepts for mind and body)
  • energy updates
  • & meditation
  • with closing movements to process energy as we navigate these shifts together.

Meditation portion can vary:
— with the Tibetan Singing Bowls,
— with drum
— walking meditation in nature
— or guided meditation.

DONATIONS:

Funds are running low to keep these events operating for FREE.

Help  support our initiative, by making a donation to help us keep offering these events for FREE by making a donation via VENMO to Laura-Joseph-88