Welcome to Belonging, a podcast that explores being alive in the age of loneliness.

Becca Piastrelli is your host and guide on a journey of courageous reconnection as we explore topics like ancestral wisdom, cultivating meaningful community, living with the seasons and cycles of the earth and your body, and what it means to be a good ancestor.

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Episode #108: Calling in & Building Meaningful Community

Episode #108: Calling in & Building Meaningful Community

In today’s episode, I reflect on the role community plays in our lives and the stories we share with each other about our yearnings for connection. Tune to hear me reflect on what community looks like in my life right now and my dreams for how community might gather...

Past Episodes:

Episode #107: Feeding & Healing Ourselves Amidst Collapse with Carmen Spagnola

Episode #107: Feeding & Healing Ourselves Amidst Collapse with Carmen Spagnola

Carmen Spagnola is a wilderness guide, podcast host, Le Cordon Bleu-trained Chef, rose and vegetable gardener, collapse-aware coach, and witch of no...

Episode #106: Autumn is the Season of Ancestors

Episode #106: Autumn is the Season of Ancestors

In today’s episode, I invite us fireside to connect with our ancestors — the humans, plants, animals, and stardust we come from. Tune to hear me...

Episode #105: Human Design for Parents and Partners with Erin Claire Jones

Episode #105: Human Design for Parents and Partners with Erin Claire Jones

Erin Claire Jones uses Human Design to help thousands of individuals and companies step into their work and their lives as their truest selves and...

Episode #104: Madness as Initiation to Transformation with Clare Foale

Episode #104: Madness as Initiation to Transformation with Clare Foale

Clare Foale is a Mum, a creator, a space holder, a brink walker and an ocean lover, living on Garigal Country in Australia. Together, Clare and I...

Episode #103: From a tech-paced career to an earth-paced life with my husband Tim Piastrelli

Episode #103: From a tech-paced career to an earth-paced life with my husband Tim Piastrelli

So much has changed since I last had my husband Tim on the podcast. We became parents. We decided to leave California. We bought a house in...

Episode #102: Returning the Bones of the Earth with Marysia Miernowska

Episode #102: Returning the Bones of the Earth with Marysia Miernowska

Marysia Miernowska is a teacher, author, Earth activist, green witch, folk herbalist and healer rooted in the Wise Woman Tradition of Healing. She...

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Some words on the art of the invitation from personal experience...

Remember - this is about facilitating a deep and lasting *connection* with another being - as adults - in a busy and hectic world. Stay the course and harvest the bounty.

✨ I talk about cultivating meaningful community in my bi-weekly email newsletter, called Slow & Seasonal. If you’d like to receive it, check out the link in my bio ✨

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I loved chatting with @heywaverlydavis about incorporating ritual into motherhood and what she does with her twins. This little story felt so useful!

To listen to our entire conversation, search “Belonging” wherever you listen to podcasts (or click the link in my bio) ✨

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Having recently been officially diagnosed with tech neck and seen the X-ray showing my skull pushed nearly 2 inches forward of my spine, I’m getting real serious about less time on devices and relieving the pressure they put on my neck and spine.

If you’ve got a foam roller (also: get one) lay on it lengthwise everyday with your arms out and massage the muscles of your upper neck on the edge of the roller. It also helps new mamas who are curled in around babies during feedings and contact naps. It’s really really helping me.

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Some thoughts on cuffing season ❄️🔗

You are not alone in your desire to be near another during the winter months. Follow the natural pull and rhythms of the seasons as the earth intended you to. 💞

✨ I talk about seasonal living in my bi-weekly email newsletter, called Slow & Seasonal. If you’d like to receive it, check out the link in my bio ✨

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Join us for The Rooted Magic Retreat - Jan 5-8 in Northern California 🔥

✨2 spots left✨

All the info can be found at the link in my bio or at beccapiastrelli.com/rooted-magic-2023 🕯️

Video by @sophiastudio.co
Music by @beautifulchorus

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Channeling the seasonal wisdom of my ancestors with this batch of fire cider 🔥🧄✨

Fire cider is full of health benefits from medicinal plants and herbs that are infused into raw apple cider vinegar and sweetened with raw honey. Just a couple of spoonfuls a day will help support your immune system and overall health throughout the year but especially during cold and flu season.

This batch includes:
- 1 orange
- 3 habaneros
- grated fresh horseradish
- half an onion
- 2 garlic cloves
- fresh ginger
- fresh turmeric
- dried nettle leaf

Chop it up, cover it in apple cider vinegar in a clean jar and let sit for a moonth (28ish days). Then strain the infused vinegar and add a touch of honey if you need it. Sip sip sip!

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We know it’s not a healthy mindset and yet….we sometimes find ourselves thinking it. Or justifying our internalized urge to keep going, keep working, keep pushing, keep up with the unreasonable expectations of what? Of machines?

We are not machines. We are living, breathing human animals with ebbs and flows and a range of capacities. As we head into winter here in the northern hemisphere, I beg you to remember this. 🔥

✨ I talk about seasonal living in my bi-weekly email newsletter, called Slow & Seasonal. If you’d like to receive it, check out the link in my bio ✨

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I’ve learned to embrace my forgetfulness as a natural byproduct of both becoming a mother and living in times where there are too many demands of my time and energy. After fighting it and getting too dang tired of feeling like I was failing life, I followed the advice of my fellow wise mamas and dropped my sword. I surrender to being imperfect in an unreasonable system! I reclaim my brain’s limited capacity. I honor my sacred body’s desire to slow the F down and limit what I can respond to. Liberate yourself with me!

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The problem may not be your partner. The problem may be the fact that we’re told to do life alone with just one other person. We are designed to be supported by many. Compassion for the ways we aren’t getting that and courage for figuring out how to get it.

#bringbackthevillage
#communitycare
#revillage

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Happy Halloween from a gaggle of Jedis and apparently a Sith Lord, but Tim can break it down much better than I can. #starwarsthings

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🎧 on learning collapse skills with @carmenspagnola 🫙

I loved my interview with Carmen so much - the way she maps ancestral skills like canning, gardening, first aid, and growing her giant pumpkin to what’s needed of all of us to meet the coming times feels helpful and even enjoyable. If you are feeling the call to gaining more ancestral skills and/or curious about approaching collapse from a more grounded, supportive place in your body, check out this fabulous interview.

Search “Belonging” wherever you listen or click the link in my bio ⬆️

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🍩 Donuts are an Ancestral Food for me. Here me out 👂

Though my grandmothers never taught me how to mix together the ingredients and place the batter in a donut pan, I feel a warm comfort from making them. It’s like a hug from a most beloved grandparent, and the act of baking slows me down in the hustle and bustle of the day. To make these donuts is to make an offering to all the grandmothers who found themselves in front of an over or hearth at this waning time of year. Sprinkle on some marigolds, and you’ve got a true autumn treat.

{The recipe is for “Apple Cinnamon Baked Doughnuts with Brown Butter Glaze” on Joy the Baker’s website. Give it a search and I’m sure you’ll find it.}

**Want to dive deeper into connections with your ancestors - including food? Join me for Tending the Flame: Lineage live cohort this November (we begin Oct 31st!). More info at tendingtheflamepractice.com or head to the link in my bio**