Healing Trauma Through Spirit

01/20/2026

01/19/2026

There are moments in life when we know quietly and unmistakably that something is asking to be lived more fully.

Embodied & Liberated is a 9 month immersion for women who are no longer interested in spiritual concepts, quick fixes, or performative healing but are ready to live inside their bodies with sovereignty, presence, and truth.

This is a slow, initiatory journey into embodiment, liberation, and ancestral remembering.

Not a program you consume.
A threshold you cross.

✨️Over 9-months, we will gather in intentional community, weaving together✨️
• Embodiment practices that honor the nervous system
• Ancestral healing rooted in lived history, not romanticized lineage
• Trauma sensitive spiritual medicine
• Ritual, reflection, and integration
• Wisdom from guest teachers and elders from around the world, each bringing grounded, embodied perspectives shaped by culture, lineage, and lived experience

✨️This immersion is for women who✨️
• Feel the weight of their lineage in their bodies
• Are ready to reclaim sovereignty without bypassing grief
• Want depth over aesthetics
• Are done outsourcing their authority
• Trust slow medicine and meaningful integration
It is not for those seeking fast transformation, constant activation, or spiritual entertainment.

✨️Why apply now?✨️
Because this work requires time, discernment, and relational integrity.

Applications are opening well in advance so that
• The container can be formed intentionally
• The community can be curated with care
• Each participant enters with clarity and consent
• This journey unfolds at the pace it deserves

This is not built on urgency. It is built on readiness.

✨️Why this immersion is different✨️

Because we do not bypass the body.
We do not bypass history.
We do not bypass grief.
And we do not bypass responsibility.

✨️This work honors✨️
• The intelligence of the body
• The wisdom of ancestry both light and shadow
• The reality of trauma and the possibility of integration
• Liberation as something that is lived, not declared

✨️Why do this work with me?✨️
Because I do not teach from theory.

I bring decades of lived experience in
• Spiritual medicine
• Trauma sensitive healing
• Reiki and energy medicine rooted in lineage
• Ancestral and matriarchal reclamation
• Community held healing spaces

I do not position myself as a savior or a guru.
I stand at the threshold and walk alongside you.

This is for women who are ready to embody what they know, reclaim what was fragmented or taken, and live with greater wholeness in their relationships, their work, their bodies, and their lives.

Embodied & Liberated
A 9 Month Immersion
Coming Fall 2026

If you feel the pull, trust it.

➡️ To Apply, PM me or drop "Liberated" in the comments and I will send you the information

01/18/2026

Your “no more” becomes someone else’s breakthrough.
Even when the pain is still real. Even when you’re still working through it.
Because choosing yourself in the middle of it, that’s the part that changes things.
It becomes proof for the next woman.

We rise together, not “perfect,” just present.

If you're in the middle of it, you belong here too. 🫂🩵

🪷 Annie

"A single woman has the power to make a difference, but a group of women have an impact beyond measure." ~Shelly Kapoor Collins

01/18/2026

01/18/2026

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For 400 years, male translators changed one Greek word in history's most famous epic—and it erased the truth about enslaved women who were murdered for being r***d.
2017 shattered literary history.
Emily Wilson became the first woman ever to translate Homer's Odyssey into English. Four centuries. Dozens of translations. Every single one written by men.
And readers immediately noticed something shocking: the story they thought they knew had been quietly rewritten.
Start with the very first word Homer uses to describe Odysseus: "polytropos."
Every male translator made it heroic:

"Resourceful"
"Versatile"
"Of many ways"

Emily Wilson translated the identical Greek word as: "complicated."
One word. The entire hero transforms.
Suddenly Odysseus isn't just clever—he's morally murky. He manipulates. Lies when truth would work better. Survives by any means necessary and sleeps soundly afterward.
That's what Homer actually wrote 2,800 years ago. English translators just kept softening it.
Wilson asked the question no one had dared: What else have they been editing?
The answer devastated: almost everything involving women.
Consider the enslaved women in Odysseus's household.
He leaves for 20 years. Suitors invade his home. These enslaved women—property with zero rights—are forced into sexual relationships with the invaders occupying the house.
When Odysseus finally returns, he and his son execute all twelve women. They hang them together in a mass killing.
Homer used the Greek word "dmôai." It means enslaved women. Human property who couldn't refuse anything.
But English translators couldn't stomach writing "slaves."
George Chapman (1614): "maids disloyal"
Alexander Pope (1725): "guilty maids"
Robert Fitzgerald (1961): "women who made love with suitors"
See what happened? They made it sound like choice. Like betrayal. Like these women deserved death.
Emily Wilson translated Homer's actual Greek word: "slaves."
The entire scene inverts. This isn't justice for disloyalty. This is a powerful man massacring enslaved women who were r***d by invaders—women who had zero power to consent or refuse.
That's what Homer wrote. English readers just never knew.
Or take Penelope, waiting 20 years for Odysseus.
Earlier translators emphasized her faithfulness, purity, passive devotion. The perfect Victorian wife pining by the window.
Homer's Greek describes her as "periphron"—strategic, prudent, calculating.
Wilson's Penelope isn't passively waiting. She's scheming. Manipulating suitors. Stalling for time. Gathering intelligence. Playing sophisticated political games with her life as the stakes.
When Odysseus finally reveals himself, Wilson's Penelope doesn't dissolve in grateful tears. She tests him. Demands proof. Refuses to believe until he proves he knows secrets only her husband would know.
Because she's brilliant. Homer explicitly said so. Translators just kept making her passive because intelligent, calculating women made Victorian readers deeply uncomfortable.
Then there's Calypso, the goddess who keeps Odysseus on her island for seven years.
Countless translators wrote that Calypso "loved" him. That they had a "relationship."
Wilson translates the Greek word "katechein" with precision: Calypso "kept him captive." She "owned" him.
It's not romance. It's imprisonment. Sexual coercion—just with reversed genders from what audiences expected.
Homer wrote that explicitly. Translators softened it because it complicated the heroic narrative they wanted to tell.
When Wilson's translation published, it exploded into a bestseller. Critics called it revelatory, essential, transformative.
But some classical scholars accused her of "modernizing" Homer—imposing contemporary feminist ideology onto ancient text.
Wilson's response was elegant and devastating: Read the Greek yourself.
Every single choice she made came directly from Homer's original language. She wasn't adding feminism. She was removing four centuries of anti-feminist bias that previous translators had systematically inserted.
There's a scene where Odysseus's men eat the Sun God's sacred cattle despite explicit warnings.
Earlier translations called them "foolish" or "reckless"—stupid men who deserved their fate.
Homer's Greek says they were "starving"—desperate men at sea so long they couldn't think rationally anymore.
Wilson translates it accurately. And suddenly Odysseus's leadership looks questionable. Why did he let his crew reach that breaking point?
That's in Homer's original text. Translators just kept editing it out to protect the hero.
Or the climactic moment when Odysseus slaughters all the suitors.
Earlier translations made it sound like righteous justice—the hero reclaiming what's his.
Homer's Greek is far more ambiguous. The suitors are butchered like animals. Blood pools across floors. Bodies pile grotesquely. The violence is graphic, brutal, almost nauseating in its detail.
Wilson doesn't flinch. She translates violence as violence—not as heroic triumph.
And you're forced to confront something uncomfortable: Is this justice? Or is this a powerful man with superior weapons massacring younger, weaker men who technically broke no laws?
Homer doesn't answer. He just shows you the blood pooling on the floor.
Think about what this means.
For 400 years, English-speaking readers believed they were reading Homer's Odyssey. But they were reading Homer filtered through Victorian morality, mid-20th-century heroic ideals, and translators' unconscious assumptions about gender.
They were reading translations that judged women more harshly than men. That excused male violence while condemning female survival. That romanticized slavery, softened r**e, turned captivity into romance.
Not because that's what Homer wrote 2,800 years ago—but because that's what translators assumed modern audiences wanted to read.
Emily Wilson didn't modernize The Odyssey. She de-Victorianized it.
She removed 400 years of accumulated editorial bias and let Homer's ancient Greek speak in its own voice.
The result? An Odyssey that's sharper, stranger, more morally unsettling—and more honest.
Odysseus isn't a noble hero on a sacred quest. He's complicated—doing terrible things and good things, not always distinguishing between them.
Penelope isn't passive. She's strategic, brilliant, navigating impossible circumstances with her life on the line.
The enslaved women aren't guilty traitors. They're slaves murdered by their owner for being r***d.
Calypso isn't a lover waiting faithfully. She's a captor who sexually coerces her prisoner.
That's what Homer actually wrote in ancient Greek. We just didn't know because for 400 years, no translator was willing to write it in English.
Now, because one woman finally got the opportunity, we can read what Homer actually created.
And it turns out The Odyssey is better—more interesting, more morally complex, more honest about power and gender and violence—than we ever knew.
Not because Emily Wilson added modern perspectives.
But because she stopped letting centuries of male translators quietly edit the women out of their own stories.
Sometimes the most radical act isn't changing the story.
It's finally telling the story that was always there.

01/18/2026

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

01/16/2026

Women who have dealt with abusive men know this story well. We won't stop addressing this til women are free from targeted male violence.

01/15/2026

this is egregious

This man admitted to beating a 17-month-old to death.. and will spend NO TIME IN PRISON.

Christian Moniz Rabino entered an Alford plea to one count of voluntary manslaughter in connection with the death of Kai Tesoro in November 2025, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal. Under an Alford plea, a defendant does not admit guilt but acknowledges that prosecutors have sufficient evidence for a conviction.

The incident began on June 1, 2024, when Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department officers responded to a 911 call reporting that the toddler was not breathing, as detailed in reports from FOX5 Vegas. Rabino, who was caring for the child at the time, allegedly became frustrated with Kai's inability to walk independently and forced the boy's feet onto the floor, breaking both legs. He also allegedly shook the child violently on at least one occasion due to crying.

Kai was transported to Summerlin Hospital Pediatrics Emergency Room, where medical staff noted injuries inconsistent with the initial explanation of a fall from a bed provided by the child's mother. Doctors found bruising to the head, multiple brain bleeds from non-accidental trauma, and fractures requiring significant force, describing it as one of the most severe abuse cases they had encountered.

The toddler was placed on life support but succumbed to his injuries and was pronounced dead on June 6, 2024. His organs were donated following his death.
Kai's mother initially told authorities the injuries resulted from a seizure and fall but later admitted to witnessing Rabino's abuse and being convinced by him not to seek immediate medical help.

Rabino was initially charged with first-degree murder and child abuse but accepted the plea deal due to prosecutorial concerns. Chief Deputy District Attorney Dena Rinetti stated that the case relied heavily on caregiver accounts with no eyewitnesses, and the mother's changing statements posed risks at trial. "There is, for both sides, a huge risk of going to trial — for the defendant, who could spend the rest of his life in prison, but also for the state that an individual who we believe killed a child walks out with no ramifications whatsoever," Rinetti said.

On January 13, 2026, Nevada 8th District Judge Jacqueline Bluth sentenced Rabino to a suspended prison term with probation conditions, including a six-week anger management course, community service, a 10 p.m. curfew, and no contact with minors except his own son. Bluth expressed dissatisfaction, stating, "I do not like this deal," and warned Rabino that any violation would result in the maximum sentence.