I’m so honored to have Lyla June joining me on the Belonging Podcast. Lyla is an internationally renowned public speaker, poet, hip hop artist, and acoustic songwriter of Diné (Navajo) and Tsétsêhéstâhese (Cheyenne) lineages. Her music and poetry focuses on intergenerational and interethnic healing. In this episode, Lyla shares her journey with connecting to her […]

This episode of the Belonging podcast is another throwback. Darla Antoine had come to me a few months before, identifying as both a First Nations Okanagan Tribal Member and as a descendant of Celtic ancestors, offering up her expertise in ancestral healing work through food and a sense of place. Being a woman of European […]

Grandmother moon and the plants—these are a few of my favorite things. I consider myself to be a seeker on the path who respects the great mystery held in the cycles of the moon and the spirits of the plants. I know it’ll be a lifetime of dancing with their magic and integrating their wisdom […]

I talk a lot about connecting with and working with the ancestors, and many people have come to me confused as to what that actually means—thinking perhaps I’m some sort of genealogist. So I decided to welcome my friend, Jaclyn Wallach, who is a genealogical researcher on the show to really dig into the topic […]

You know I’ve been doing a lot of work in examining my relationship with my calendar and linear time, so I thought I’d invite one of my best friends on the show—who has these conversations with me often and who is healing many of these things in her own life as well—Stephanie Burg. Stephanie is […]

Lara Veleda Vesta, storyteller weaving with myth, initiation, ritual practice, folk magic, and ancestral connection, shares the story of a long and debilitating bout of illness that she now views as a rite of passage for many things including her connection with her ancestors. We talk about how experiencing illness or loss can cause relationships to […]

I’ve been feeling the call to invite more voices on the Belonging Podcast to help me paint in perspectives of this journey of Belonging that are different from my own. In this episode, I am so excited to welcome Ash Johns who is a trans-cultural ancestral healing guide, psycho-spiritual coach, ceremonial priestess, strategist, speaker, and author. […]

The moon is the ancient timekeeper of the year, and it mirrors the cyclical nature that we as humans move through—energetically, emotionally, hormonally, seasonally. It’s so powerful to tune into the cycle of the moon. So I’m sharing how I work with the moon—both how she works in folk magic, but also how I see […]

I use this word, “sisterhood,” frequently in my work and practice. It’s one of the most powerful tools I’ve found for healing, feeling a sense of belonging, and deepening your relationship to self, but it’s a practice and there are a lot of unhealthy models of sisterhood in media and popular culture. The best way […]

Today I’m talking about the importance of finding a sense of belonging in your body in a society that may not love and support the type of body you have in the way it deserves to be seen. This is a tender episode about how sometimes we can engage in unhealthy or harmful treatment of […]

I’ve recently moved and am deep in the process of settling into this new home and infusing my magic and a feeling of sacred into it. So in this episode, I want to talk about that sacred hygge and finding belonging in the place where you live. This episode isn’t just for people who are moving […]

In this episode of Belonging, I’m welcoming my first guest, Jenni Heffernan Brown, to talk with me about a subject that we’ve both experienced and supported each other through: miscarriage. We’re talking about the multifaceted layers of grief, experiencing grief with a partner, allowing family and friends to (imperfectly) hold you when you’re going through difficult […]

As we enter the winter season, let’s take a moment to tap into the Ancestral folklore perspective of this time of year. As the days get colder and darker, it’s important to lean into both community and rest. In this episode of Belonging, we’re looking at some of the winter folklore associated with this season […]

In this episode of the Belonging Podcast, I’m talking about cultivating a more meaningful relationship with the winter holidays. This is the time of year when seasonally and energetically we really want to go within. But often we feel pressured, frenzied, and can cross boundaries in preparing for the season and getting caught up in […]

We’ve talked about tracing ancestry through DNA, we’ve talked about non-linear ancestral time, and we’ve talked about ways to connect to your ancestry through pilgrimage and exploring the lands they came from or settled on. Now in this episode, let’s explore the ways we can connect to our ancestry through folkways—song, dance, story, and food […]

Today’s topic is an important one and may bring up feelings of discomfort, but I’m asking you to trust me. We’re going to dig into what decolonization is and how you can examine your own part in the story of colonization, the part your ancestors may have played in colonization, and how to move forward to […]

When it comes to connecting with your ancestors, you can do a lot deeper than mapping your genealogy or taking a DNA test. In this episode of Belonging, I’m digging into the why being able to map genealogy comes from an immense place of privilege, the beauty of making pilgrimages to the lands (both indigenous and otherwise) […]

Let’s take a moment to step aside from our linear lives and explore the spiralic, healing nature of ancestral time. In this episode, I’m digging into our timeless connection to our ancestors and how in doing so, our lives are very much still entwined with those who have come before us through the cycles we […]

When it comes to belonging and creating circles of sisterhood, we tend to gravitate toward spaces of sameness, so in today’s Belonging episode, let’s talk about creating intergenerational sisterhood. It’s important to diversify your circles to get different and new perspectives on the life you’re living. There are so many ways to find diversity in sisterhood, […]

Let’s talk about seasonal self-care and living seasonally! Life for our ancestors was dictated by the seasons, so aligning ourselves with the seasons now might feel familiar in our bones. Today we’re honing in on this transition point between Summer and Autumn and how this might be affecting our energy, creativity, and desire for rest. […]

We are living in the most distracting of times, so let’s talk about productivity and focus. But first, let’s go back to the Industrial Revolution where we learned the mindset that quantity is better than quality, and where our value of how much we can output in a short of time was born. Productivity is important, […]

Let’s talk about self-care. It seems like a buzzword these days, but it’s so important because this is the key to knowing ourselves and coming home to ourselves. Self-care is your birthright, so today we’re talking about self-care—not as a fancy spa-like image you might see on Instagram, but as a way to give yourself the […]

Today we’re examining failure and our aversion to failure as a way to dismantle capitalism and patriarchy in our society. Failure helps us learn, but we’re so afraid of failing that it’s created a system of lying. So instead, we’re looking at how we can create cooperation, collaboration, and community. “The more we resist looking […]