About the Butterfly Orbital Phoenix Pathway (BOPP)
“Even when I wanted to die, I still believed in love.”
The Butterfly Orbital Phoenix Pathway (BOPP) was born in the fire of lived experience. It is not a theory—it is a survival mechanism turned into a spiritual-scientific language. It is the framework I built when the world gave me none. And now, it is my offering to anyone who has ever felt discarded, disorganized, dysregulated, or too complex to fit inside systems that weren’t built with us in mind.
My name is KaterinaXophina Salinas-Garcia. I’m an intersex, pansexual, trans woman. I’m also autistic, a trauma survivor, a neurodivergent creator, and a person in active recovery. I am someone who was deeply misunderstood—by medicine, by society, by my own family—and still, I kept going. Why? Because I believed there had to be a better way. BOPP is that better way. It’s my offering of a life raft, a mirror, and a map.
What BOPP Is:
- A trauma-informed healing language, created for people who live at the intersections of neurodivergence, intersex embodiment, addiction, hygiene challenges, systemic harm, and rebirth.
- A set of story-based and body-based tools designed to help people regulate, recover, and reclaim their own narrative in a world that often silences them.
- A business ecosystem (cleaning services, performance healing, holistic care) that employs, empowers, and elevates people through their healing, not just after it.
- A bridge for providers and caregivers who want to understand their clients with greater depth, compassion, and effectiveness.
Where It Came From:
BOPP wasn’t built in a lab. It was built in motel rooms, in bathrooms where I was trying to survive, in hospital beds, on the streets, in moments of isolation and brilliance, when I had to teach myself how to stay alive. When no therapist had the right tools, I made my own. When language didn’t fit, I invented new metaphors. Like:
- _”Structure is safety. Chaos is camouflage.”
- “The body always remembers—and it also knows how to become new.”
- “Recovery isn’t linear, it’s orbital.”
It started with questions: How do I recover when I’m also still surviving? How do I clean my body when shame is in every pore? How do I communicate when I’ve never been mirrored? How do I love myself when I was told my body was wrong?
The answers came in rituals, in frameworks like:
- Orbital Thinking: instead of forward motion, we heal in orbits—spirals that revisit, reframe, and reparent.
- Phoenix Moments: daily practices of death and rebirth, when even getting out of bed is a victory.
- Butterfly Messaging: a method of gentle, symbolic communication used when trauma makes direct words feel impossible.
Who It’s For:
BOPP is for everyone who’s ever felt unseen. But especially for:
- Intersex and trans folks navigating systems not built for our bodies.
- Neurodivergent minds who need rhythm, not rigidity.
- Addicted and recovering souls building new patterns of self-worth.
- People with hygiene shame who need care, not judgment.
- Providers, teachers, and healers who want to show up better for their people.
It’s also for every queer kid who’s had to parent themselves. Every survivor who built a whole world out of their own intuition. Every person who thought, “If I don’t create a system, I might not make it.”
Why It Matters:
Because no one should have to wait until they’re “better” to be seen as worthy. Because healing shouldn’t mean hiding. Because BOPP isn’t just mine anymore—it’s yours if you need it.
And if no one ever told you before: You don’t have to earn your place. You are already the miracle.
“Systems don’t change unless someone shows them how.” Let BOPP be the bridge. Let it be your mirror. Let it be the language you didn’t know you were allowed to speak.
I’m still here. And if you’re reading this, so are you. Let’s grow in our orbits, together.
— KaterinaXophina