Episode #16: A Spiritual Teacher's Multicultural Guide To Un***k Yourself Back To Self

Triggers and Spiritual Medicine In this episode, Laura sits down with Sayra Pinto, founder of A Loving Future and creator of Poetic Futurism, for a raw, wide-ranging conversation about truth-telling as medicine. They start with the triggers: the emotional weight of recent headlines, the ways race gets weaponized in political discourse, and the isolation that comes from speaking hard truths in activist and healing spaces. From there, we move into the medicine Sayra's framework of Poetic Futur...

Lindsay Clancy's trial is unfolding in a Massachusetts courtroom right now, and most of the public conversation is stuck on guilt or innocence. This episode goes underneath that question, into the conversation nobody's having: what happens when a woman's postpartum hormonal crisis gets treated as a psychiatric illness instead of a physical one, and what "she had support" actually means in a culture that dismantled real community care for mothers generations ago. With Saturn newly retrograde i...

Many women are carrying exhaustion, grief, anger, and a feeling that they somehow need to heal, fix, or transform themselves into someone better. But what if you are not broken? In this episode of Triggers And Spiritual Medicine, I sit with Tatiana Berindei, a teacher of ancestral wisdom, body connection, and sacred feminine healing, to explore what happens when we stop fighting ourselves and begin listening to the wisdom already within us. We talk about: 🔥 Sacred rage vs destructive anger 🔥 ...

This episode of "Triggers and Spiritual Medicine" featured Laura Bonetzky-Gaffney discussing the current collective transition and energy update for mid-year. Laura Bonetzky-Gaffney addressed feelings of exhaustion, uncertainty, and nervous system fatigue many people are experiencing, describing a sense of being "suspended between old identities and emergence of new self." She emphasized that the discomfort of transition often feels messy rather than mystical due to attempts to control...

In this episode of Triggers and Spiritual Medicine, host Laura Bonetzky-Gaffney and guest Ukumbwa Sauti come together for a grounded and honest conversation about rape culture, accountability, and the role men can play in creating real change. This episode invites listeners into a deeper understanding of how harm shows up in everyday life not just in extreme cases, but in language, silence, dismissal, and the normalization of harm toward women and girls. Rather than staying at the level of aw...