A Road Back Home: Healing Spiritual Trauma, Sexual Shame, and the Return to Self - Episode 20
Episode Summary
In this deeply personal continuation of Episode 19, Jeanetta Bodie opens her heart to share the next chapter of her spiritual healing journey. Picking up where she left off—on the topic of spiritual bruising—this episode explores how performance-based faith, sexual shame, and fragmented belonging shaped her early life, her relationship with God, and ultimately her own body.
Jeanetta recounts the collapse of her spiritual community, the confusing silence that followed, and the messages that taught her to associate love with worth, shame with sexuality, and belonging with perfection. With unflinching honesty, she walks us through her unraveling, rebellion, and the slow reconstruction of self—starting in her parents’ basement and culminating in a healing partnership with her husband and a return to embodied spiritual practice.
In this episode, Jeanetta shares:
What it was like growing up as a pastor’s daughter in the South
The moment her spiritual world fell apart—and how that rupture shaped her sexuality
How performance-based faith and purity culture fueled disconnection and shame
The legacy of spiritual trauma and its imprint on the nervous system
A love story grounded in healing, rupture, repair, and choice
The grief of losing her father—and the sacred inheritance he left behind
Why she created Iron Crane Yoga as a space for belonging, spiritual intimacy, and embodied truth
Key themes include:
• Religion vs. relationship
• Reclaiming agency over your body and story
• Healing from shame, spiritual trauma, and performance culture
• Redefining God, love, and union through the lens of yoga
If you’ve ever felt confused by faith, disconnected from your body, or burdened by the weight of past spiritual experiences, this episode offers you a mirror—and a hand to hold.
Mentioned in this episode:
• Empower Your Core — Jeanetta’s self-paced foundational course to help you reconnect with your body, now with live group coaching through June
• Email Jeanetta at jeanetta@somamoonwellness.com for support or questions
You are not alone in your healing.
Come as you are, move at your pace, and know this: the journey home is yours to reclaim.
