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Hosted and guided by Becca Piastrelli, Belonging is a podcast and journey of courageous reconnection where we explore what it means to belong to the earth, to your self, to who and what you come from, and in community.

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Episode #92: Winter Rituals & Practices

Episode #92: Winter Rituals & Practices

I've gotten several audience questions about seasonal rituals, so in this episode of Belonging, I thought I would address seasonal rituals for the time that I'm currently in: rituals around winter. First, I invite you to notice what winter looks and feels like where...

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Episode #91: Making & Keeping Adult Friendships

Episode #91: Making & Keeping Adult Friendships

This Belonging Podcast episode is about adult friendships — how to cultivate them and why they're so dang hard to create and maintain. I dedicate a...

Episode #90: Rites of Passage for All of Us

Episode #90: Rites of Passage for All of Us

I've gotten some questions from Belonging podcast listeners about rites of passage, especially if you've left a religion that previously offered a...

Episode #89: How I don’t find balance in my daily life

Episode #89: How I don’t find balance in my daily life

In this episode of Belonging, I'm sharing what my life looks like now on the other side of birth for any of you who are wondering what life looks...

Episode #88: Returning to a relationship with the living world

Episode #88: Returning to a relationship with the living world

So many of us are desiring tools and methods to connect with the land we live on. In this episode of the Belonging podcast, I share ways that I'm...

Episode #87: On Mothering & Eco-Grief

Episode #87: On Mothering & Eco-Grief

In this episode of Belonging, I'm sharing the complicated thoughts and feelings I'm experiencing being a mother — choosing to bring a child into...

Episode #86: How I Pitched & Wrote a Book (+ had a baby at the same time)

Episode #86: How I Pitched & Wrote a Book (+ had a baby at the same time)

I've had many questions and curiosities about my book, the book writing process, and how I got my book published, so this episode of the Belonging...

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To LA and back in 48 hours - a story in 10 slides of my first trip away from the babe. As I tend to myself in this new phase of my life, I’m realizing it’s gonna feel like a scary anxious stretch to do a lot of the things I want or need to do to care for me. This was one of those big stretches. For the first 24 hours, I was a wild woman on the loose. It felt incredible. And the last day, I felt a magnetic pull back to my child. I could not get home fast enough (and then pulled in to find out they’d gone in a walk to give me space to arrive home and I burst into tears at the thought of waiting any longer). This push/pull mad motherhood love is quite the thing.

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The Root & Ritual virtual book tour is making its next stop on instagram live with @katenorthrup tomorrow, Nan 13th at 10am PT/1pm ET. Join us as we talk all things Root and Ritual 🌛

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We spend so much of our days consuming information through our heads - we are listening to podcasts, talking on the phone, reading on computers and devices. And if we are doing anything with our hands, it's probably typing, tapping, and swiping. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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When I talk about working with your hands, I'm talking about engaging a primal part of ourselves that is somatically activating. It is a way to integrate what we've heard or read or discussed with our head holes. It is a way to regulate and calm our nervous systems. It is a way to clear the anxiety and fatigue and emotional upheaval of these times. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Lately, I've been working with my hands in the kitchen - making soup, chopping vegetables, pouring infusions, sprinkling spices. I've also been mending clothes and writing in my journal. Tim has been building with legos and taking apart electronics that have ceased working in hopes of fixing them. Atlas literally works with her hands all day long - lately by taking the plastic cap off of the amber spray bottle of sleep spray next to my bed and placing it back on victoriously and with much applause.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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photo credit: @sophiastudio.co

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The Root & Ritual virtual book tour continues! Join the brilliant community space creator @grace.hivery and I in conversation with @copperfieldsbooks the evening of this Thursday, Jan 13th at 7pm PT. Go to my book page (RootandRitualBook.com) to register!

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Hi. For a lot of us, it's winter right now. Holidays have passed, January's productivity-infused mania has hit, and so many have this feeling of hitting a wall. Our modern expectations and pace are directly conflicting with what our ancestral bodies know to be true: we need to rest deeply, nourish our bodies, and try to do as little as possible. And for most of us, sitting in a ray of run staring out the window for hours with a cup of tea in our hands isn't something we can easily do in our daily lives (but if you can, pleasseeee do).
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In @marysia_miernowska's School of the Sacred Wild, she has guided us to create our wheel of self care for the winter. It is a pie divided into 8 equal slices and one of them *must* say "do nothing" to deepen our ability to exist in non-linear realms and experience deep time. The rest of the slices are ours to fill in with things that really truly nourish you. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Here are mine. Notice that media isn't anywhere on the wheel. I'm a gal who loves her television and instagram, but I'm working this winter to give my brain and nervous system a break from those a bit more and remember how to nourish myself in other ways. These are the ways my body and spirit are calling for.

What are yours?

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One whole year. High highs and low lows in this human experience. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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I've been seeing annual recaps, reports on crushing goals, and sweet lookbacks and reflections on 2021 'round these parts lately. Felt like I should add my own.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Here's what my second slide says:⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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19 podcast episodes published 🎤 ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
80k podcasts episode downloads 📻 ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
1 revamped website 💻 ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
55 souls supported in Hearthfire 💓⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
2,920 ounces of coffee imbibed ☕️ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
1 book published 📕 ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
23 book interviews 🎙 ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
2 book signings ✍🏼⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
8 inches of hair chopped off ✂️ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
1 garden tended to 🪴 ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
8 books started but never finished 📚 ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
730 hours of breastfeeding 🤱🏻⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
1 sleep-deprivation related breakdown 🌀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
300 hours of therapy 🕯⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
2 mama sabbaticals 🍄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
Another year of radical life transition journeyed and survived 🔥

Photo credit: @sophiastudio.co

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"The craving to be surrounded and supported by “the⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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hearts today. We are longing for a rewilding of our communities. Within that shared presence, we can be seen and accepted as our messy and authentic selves. We are able to call on support when it’s needed and show up for each other with ease and trust. But in order to create those safe bonds, we have to be honest about our experiences with friendship in the past."⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Excerpt From “Root & Ritual: Timeless Ways to Connect with Land, Lineage, Community, and the Self” by Becca Piastrelli (rootandritualbook.com)⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Illustration by Amy Grimes @hellogrimes

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The salmon are spawning. The mamas to be have gotten nice and plump in the ocean and, now that the rains have come, they feel the call to return to the creeks and rivers of their birth. There they will find their nests and lay their baby’s eggs to complete their lifecycle. The sheer amount of strength it takes for them to swim upstream, over fallen trees and rocks, brings me to my knees in awe. Resilience, devotion, motherhood.

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"By accepting the naturalness of death, we might begin to view it as just as important as birth and create practices within our communities that honor it as such. While these practices can often be as simple as setting up a meal train for a friend in mourning or planting a tree in a loved one’s memory, I encourage you to think beyond single acts of thoughtfulness and into consistent acts of presence. Grief is forever. Being present for periods of mourning, checking in long past our culture’s perceived “expiration date” on grief, regular visits with the heartbroken, and rituals that honor death can infuse our lives with a stronger sense of belonging with one another, in and out of every season."⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Illustration by Amy Grimes @hellogrimes

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Sweet solstice + yuletide greetings from our little family to yours. May you find comfort in the slow and rest well this winter season. Keep the fires lit and let’s dream in a more woven world together. ✨⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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photo by @rosadelgado

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I've gotten several audience questions about seasonal rituals, so in this episode of Belonging, I thought I would address seasonal rituals for the time that I'm currently in: rituals around winter.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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First, I invite you to notice what winter looks and feels like where you live (not everywhere looks like a Bavarian ski village in December). Then, I invite you to notice what winter is energetically in your body. Reframing winter as the dream time. I also share my rituals of being dreamy and doing less, being with fire or flame, working with pine essence, winter kitchen magic, sauna or bathing magic, tracking the sunlight, and easeful intention setting.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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To give it a listen, search "Belonging" wherever you listen to podcasts, or click the link in my bio.

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"You can feel the pulse of life when you are at a really good dinner party with people you love and admire or when you experience fellowship at a gathering where everyone breaks into song or has a moment of silence together. The experience of gathering stokes a sense of nostalgia in our bones that activates a yearning for more experiences of time together. I encourage all of us to return to this practice of regularly gathering to feed the bonds between us again. We can also commit to sustainable ways of staying engaged in the community we already have while intentionally expanding our circles."⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Illustration by Amy Grimes @hellogrimes