Belonging: Conversations about rites of passage, meaningful community, and seasonal living
135 episodes - English - Latest episode: 15 days ago - ★★★★★ - 127 ratingsWelcome 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 rites of passage, cultivating meaningful community, seasonal and cyclical living, and what it means to be a good ancestor in these times. She has thought provoking conversations with friends, teachers, elders, and ancestral medicine keepers to help support you in bringing more meaning and connection to your life. She also pops in here and there to share updates and learnings from her own story because we were meant to do this together - cosmically holding hands as we walk the spiral of life. You can expect to be challenged by new (or old) ideas, face your beliefs and what systems informed them, get curious and brave to tell the truth about the deeper, harder things, and feel comforted in the knowing that you don’t have to navigate it all alone.
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Ending friendships, circle is a weird word, and monetizing your hobbies (listener Q&A!)
April 11, 2024 10:00 - 27 minutes - 19.1 MBIn today’s episode, I am answering listener questions. Topics range from sharing my personal viewpoint on religion and spirituality, navigating different roles and jobs during my day and in my life and dive deep into circle-related questions too. Tune in to hear more from me on: The role religion and spirituality played during my upbringing and today The journey from my old-school DIY blogging days to my online work now, and how working with my hands was the pathway to exploring community...
Social Media for the Anxiously Attached With Amelia Hruby
March 27, 2024 10:00 - 59 minutes - 40.8 MBIn today’s episode, I am joined by my friend Amelia Hruby. Amelia is a feminist author, educator, podcaster and founder of Softer Sounds podcast studio (who used to edit this podcast too!). I brought her onto the podcast today specifically because of her amazing podcast ‘Off the Grid’, which is a podcast for small business owners who want to leave social media without losing their clients. Even if you don’t identify as a small business owner - there’s something about what Amelia shares abou...
Living In The Bottomless Pit Of Need
March 13, 2024 09:00 - 24 minutes - 16.6 MBIt takes a deep initiation of need for care to get you to shed the layers of hyper individualism and show up as the village. In today’s episode, I get fired up about why the ones who are showing up and arriving on the doorstep with the soup are often the caregivers with a limited capacity themselves. I talk about my own journey with asking for and receiving support, experiencing the power of circle and council and navigating anger and cynicism along the way. Tune in to hear more from me on:...
Turning Circle Conflict Into Deeper Intimacy With Ginny Muir
February 28, 2024 11:00 - 1 hour - 41.4 MBIn today’s episode, I am joined by my dear friend Ginny Muir to talk about the longing for deep intimacy, the importance of healing in relationships, navigating rupture and repair in community and circle specifically. Ginny is an incredible spaceholder, medicine woman, witch, tantrika and so much more. Specifically, she has an incredible way of supporting relational conflict. Rupture and repair is an innate way of being in community, and yet to so many of us this is absolutely terrifying. I...
What Kept Me From Completely Giving Up
February 22, 2024 11:00 - 19 minutes - 13.5 MBA year ago, I almost completely gave up on my work. Emerging from the early years of motherhood and feeling my creative spark again, I felt motivated to get back into the deeper aspects of my sacred work. So, in a flash of creative impulse, I announced a new program to the world in the place we announce things these days: on Instagram. It was received mostly with a good deal of excitement and interest, and…it was also received with some intense criticism - primarily in the form of snarky co...
The Meaning of Time With Becca Rich
February 14, 2024 11:00 - 53 minutes - 37 MBIn today’s episode, I am joined by Becca Rich - a trauma-sensitive, certified holistic coach with a background in engineering and mindfulness, who teaches Holistic Time Management. In today’s episode, she shares with us her wisdom on the meaning of time, the role of control, how we can honor the cyclical nature of our bodies within our digital calendars and so much more. She also coaches me on the part that grief plays in experiencing loss of time and freedom, especially with having a child....
You Can Do Anything, but You Can’t Do Everything
February 07, 2024 11:00 - 34 minutes - 23.7 MBA lot has occurred for me in 2023 - as I think is true for every year, but perhaps this time around it is a little more visible and this is probably why I received the beautiful question of the lessons I’ve learned this past year. So, I am using the reflective energy of the outer and inner season of Winter I’m currently finding myself in and sharing with you, in this episode, the three lessons I have learned over the course of 2023. Tune in to hear more from me on the three lessons I’ve lea...
”WTF did I just do?” - a conversation on Rewilding with Hillarie Maddox
January 31, 2024 11:00 - 55 minutes - 38.2 MBIn today’s episode, our guest, Hillarie Maddox, interviews me (Becca) to get some personal updates on the journey of rewilding and all that unfolds when we take the steps that brought us from the dream to buying and living on our land. I open up to vulnerably reveal some of the grief, the questioning and the spiral of regret that happened when we initially landed on the farm and how we had to really speak the dream alive again each night so that we could move through that resistance. Both Hi...
Creating Community in a New Place
January 24, 2024 11:00 - 21 minutes - 15.1 MBIn today’s episode, I give you updates from my new life on the farm (here in Hudson Valley, New York) and share both the challenges and joys of renovating an old house. I share the resources and learnings I have gathered in creating and tending community from the perspective of someone who has just moved to a new place. Tune in to hear more from me on: - Living on a farm and renovating an old farmhouse - Why community is an important value and a vital need - How transitions in life, ...
🍂 A wee autumn update from Becca
October 01, 2023 07:00 - 9 minutes - 6.78 MBSweet podcast listeners, I’ve been missing you. I’m not quite ready to be back on the mic yet but wanted to drop in here with a little update from my life (moving across the country is a whole thing) and an opportunity to work with me this autumn if you’ve been curious about holding a circle in your community. The link to join us is beccapiastrelli.com/circle-craft
Ancestral Rituals & Practices for Summer
June 12, 2023 12:00 - 34 minutes - 24 MBSummer feels like a ripe tomato — the peak fullness of the season where so much is revealed as the light of the sun shines down on us all. In this episode, I complete my series of ancestral rituals for each season, with reflections on summer. I share why summer is a season of work and rest, how this time teaches us the lessons of the Mother, ways to honor our inner wild creatures, and the power of garden time. I also offer ideas for summer rituals, including my favorite herbal tinctures, ...
Community Living Wherever You Are with Sarah Wildeman
May 15, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 51.2 MBIf you’re curious about what village life is like beyond the picture-perfect cottage-core images on Instagram, today’s conversation is for you. In this episode, Sarah Wildeman and I delve into a topic near and dear to my heart — revillaging and community-centered living. Sarah is a leadership & relationship dynamics coach, community-builder, and founder of Our Common — a coaching and consulting practice serving community seekers, community builders, and existing communities. Together, we ...
Building the World Yet to Come with Bear Hebert
April 24, 2023 12:00 - 58 minutes - 40.4 MBLiving in capitalism while not being consumed by it can feel overwhelming and confusing. Today, I’m joined by Bear Hebert (they/them), a feminist and anti-capitalist business coach who helps small business people (and other beloved weirdos) figure out how to build the world-yet-to-come inside the world-that-currently-is. Together, we discuss making space for grieving our own and others’ participation in capitalism, the ways we internalize capitalism and exploit ourselves in our own busines...
The Powerful, Matriarchal, Healing Work of Circling
April 10, 2023 07:00 - 32 minutes - 21.9 MBIf you want more powerful, matriarchal-inspired, healing community in your life, this episode is for you. I’ve been circling for over a decade, but it’s been a while since I’ve talked about the practice of Circle on the podcast. So in this episode, I share what it means to practice Circle — including what it is, how it works, some challenging but important historical context, and how it has shaped my own life. I truly believe that Circling has the power to connect us to each other, heal ce...
What It Takes to Move to the Country with Alissa Hessler
March 27, 2023 12:00 - 50 minutes - 34.8 MBIf you daydream about purchasing land and relocating to a tiny town far from city life, this episode is the gentle invitation and reality-check you need before taking the leap. Today I’m joined by Alissa Hessler, an author, podcast host, and former corporate tech employee who left the big city to move to a rural community for love. In this episode, we discuss common reasons people choose to leave cities, the importance of being as prepared as possible before moving, and some things to expe...
Our Bodies are Ecosystems with Hannah Husband
March 13, 2023 17:00 - 55 minutes - 38.1 MBIf you’ve ever felt disconnected from or unworthy in your body, this episode is for you. Today, I’m joined by Hannah Husband for a discussion on our relationships to our bodies and movement. Together we channel childlike curiosity about the ways we like to move. And we unpack how diet culture and the wellness industry disguise anti-fat bias as concern for “health,” as well as how we often outsource our connection with our bodies. Hannah is a body liberation coach committed to supporting fo...
Unlearning & healing our inherited beliefs
February 26, 2023 23:00 - 42 minutes - 29.2 MBWe’ve all inherited beliefs — those sayings, lessons, and ways of being passed down through the generations and permeate the culture we live in. Often they’re so deeply rooted that we don’t even realize how much they’re affecting us and our ability to weave in with the natural world. In this episode, I delve into some of my own inherited beliefs. And I share my most cherished tools for releasing the ones that don’t serve me. I also explore how the simplest practices like going outside, movi...
Embracing your needs unapologetically with Mara Glatzel
February 20, 2023 13:00 - 1 hour - 43 MBThis week I’m thrilled to have Mara Glatzel back on Belonging to celebrate her upcoming book, Needy: How to Advocate for Your Needs and Claim Your Sovereignty. In this conversation, we discuss how to to connect with our needs, respect our wants, and let go of the fear that having needs makes us undesirable. We also dive deep into attachment styles, parenting, and learning to communicate our needs to our partners and friends. Listening to this episode will help you get one step closer to ac...
Returning to Winter Rituals & Practices
December 26, 2022 13:00 - 30 minutes - 20.7 MBWinter is upon us again in the Northern hemisphere, so this week I’m resharing my episode on rituals for winter. First, I invite you to notice what winter looks and feels like where you live. Because many of us don’t celebrate a “white” Christmas and not everywhere looks like a Bavarian ski village in December. Then, I invite you to notice what winter feels like energetically in your body. Do you feel exhausted and need to hibernate? Or do you experience a deep permission to turn inward an...
Releasing Urgency & Cultivating Local Community with Trevia Woods
December 19, 2022 13:00 - 56 minutes - 38.9 MBIf you crave or cherish brave connection with your community, your ancestors, and yourself, this episode is for you. Trevia Woods is a mixed-race woman with Indigenous ancestors who has two decades of experience in bodywork, education and community-building. She has roots in the Midwest and Colorado, after traveling the world finds herself back in America finding her roots and how she belongs in the world. Trevia supports people in unpacking cultural appropriation, community building, as we...
Slow homesteading & land stewardship with Hillarie Maddox
December 05, 2022 14:00 - 53 minutes - 36.7 MBIf you have a long-held dream (or even the quietest whisper of a thought) that you want to live on and with the land, this episode is for you. Hillarie Maddox is the founder of Black Girl Country Living and creator of Rewilding Workshops. In 2020, she and her family left the city for the country without knowing what they were getting into. Along the way, she fell in love with nature and discovered the healing powers it has for individuals, communities, and the earth. She also believes deepl...
Sharing Rituals with Our Children with Waverly Davis
November 21, 2022 13:00 - 59 minutes - 41.2 MBWaverly Davis a multidimensional twin mama, facilitator of sacred spaces + sounds, artist, and podcaster residing outside of Charlottesville, Virginia in the Blue Ridge Mountains on unceded Monacan territory. In this episode, we discuss how we incorporate the sacred into motherhood by embedding rituals into our daily lives and threshold moments. Waverly also shares her birth story and how a plant ceremony called her to a more sacred life. Then we journey through her rituals & practices for...
Calling in & Building Meaningful Community
November 07, 2022 13:00 - 31 minutes - 21.5 MBIn 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 on my new farm home in the years to come. I also explore the challenges of reaching out for support and connection when our energy is low, the art of a nervous system soothing invitation, and the practical and sacred sides of c...
Feeding & Healing Ourselves Amidst Collapse with Carmen Spagnola
October 24, 2022 13:00 - 1 hour - 45.9 MBCarmen Spagnola is a wilderness guide, podcast host, Le Cordon Bleu-trained Chef, rose and vegetable gardener, collapse-aware coach, and witch of no particular affiliation. In this episode, we discuss the ongoing saga of her 300+ lb. TikTok-famous pumpkin and explore the term “collapse” as it relates to being collapse aware as an individual and as a collective. We wind through her journey from being a latchkey kid to attending Le Cordon Bleu in France to working on mega yachts — learning t...
Autumn is the season of ancestors
October 17, 2022 12:00 - 37 minutes - 26.1 MBIn 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 reflect on how wild and perfect it is that we’re all here. And how profoundly we’re connected by our shared planet. I also explore our chosen and affinity ancestors. And I share my journey of connecting with my lineage and a few specific ways that you can connect with yours. I hope you’ll listen and then join me for the live cohort of Tending the...
Human Design for Parents and Partners with Erin Claire Jones
October 10, 2022 16:00 - 1 hour - 41.4 MBErin Claire Jones uses Human Design to help thousands of individuals and companies step into their work and their lives as their truest selves and to their highest potential. In this episode, we have conversation about how Human Design can give us permission to be ourselves and help us live with greater ease and authenticity every day. We discuss Human Design basics including types (generator, manifestor, manifesting generator projector & reflector) and authorities (sacral, emotional, sple...
Madness as Initiation to Transformation with Clare Foale
September 26, 2022 12:00 - 51 minutes - 35.5 MBClare 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 have an open and vulnerable conversation about our experiences with delayed postpartum depression. We share the moments beloved practitioners finally helped us see we weren’t okay. The strength it took to acknowledge our pain when so many people dismissed it. The ways our depression was separate from our love of our children. And the power of lett...
From a tech-paced career to an earth-paced life with my husband Tim Piastrelli
September 12, 2022 12:00 - 1 hour - 46.1 MBSo 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 upstate New York. It feels like almost everything is different since that last episode three years ago. So this week I’ve invited Tim to come back to the show for an open conversation about our family and how we navigate change. Together we discuss why having our daughter was a catalyst to slow down, how we handle the tension between his tech-paced car...
Returning the Bones of the Earth with Marysia Miernowska
August 22, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 41 MBMarysia Miernowska is a teacher, author, Earth activist, green witch, folk herbalist and healer rooted in the Wise Woman Tradition of Healing. She has spent her life traveling, learning and sharing different regenerative ways of tending to the Earth, healing land, and healing people. She is the Director of the School of the Sacred Wild and author of The Witch’s Herbal Apothecary. Together, we have conversation about our beloved crystals, particularly how to be with our stones and how to ret...
Lessons from my journey with delayed postpartum depression
July 11, 2022 12:00 - 28 minutes - 19.8 MBWhile I often talk about mothering on the podcast, it’s been a few seasons since I shared a personal reflection on being a mother. So this episode of Belonging is a solo episode where I open up about my journey with delayed postpartum depression. In this episode, I talk about struggling with anxiety and rage, realizing that I was taking out my anger on my partner, being diagnosed with PPD, trying meds that helped and then didn’t help, microdosing psilocybin to support extended breastfeeding...
The Women’s Circle with Anoushka Florence
June 27, 2022 12:00 - 52 minutes - 35.9 MBAnoushka Florence is a teacher, an author, a circle-tender, and a mother. She is the Keeper of the Mama’s Village, the Mama of The Goddess Space, and the author of The Women’s Circle. Her work is based on ancient spiritual feminine practices that are grounded in the belief that the power to heal comes from within. Together, we begin with the question what is circle? and spiral out to the importance of women’s circles, rituals, cleaning as clearing, ancestral lineages and more. We also discu...
Keeping Grief Weird with Tracy Benjamin
June 13, 2022 12:00 - 1 hour - 42.4 MBTracy Benjamin is a food photographer, stylist & blogger based in the San Francisco Bay Area. In this episode, we have a tender conversation about grief, and all the ways she’s experienced it since her mom’s sudden death in 2017. Together we explore how loss can encompass our full range of emotions and impact every area of our life. Tracy shares what it feels like to be the only woman left in her family and the joys and struggles of becoming her family’s keeper — hosting their gatherings, t...
Being Alone in Nature with Nicole Antoinette
May 30, 2022 12:00 - 1 hour - 45.1 MBNicole Antoinette is a writer, podcast host, and community-builder who is super into long-distance hiking. In this conversation, she tells us the story of how long solo hikes have become her spiritual & devotional practice. Together we explore the power of facing fear and discomfort, the lessons gained from embracing loneliness, and the self-trust that comes when there’s no one else to ask for answers. Our conversation is an invitation for the hikers and non-hikers among us to consider how...
Writing as Pregnancy & Publishing as Postpartum with Asha Frost
May 16, 2022 12:00 - 51 minutes - 35.4 MBAsha Frost is an Anishinaabe (Ojibway) Medicine Woman (member of the Chippewas of Nawash First Nation), Healer, and Spiritual Mentor. Last time she was on the podcast we discussed her viral article “Dear White Woman who wants to be like me,” and today she returns to share her new book You Are the Medicine with us. Together we explore the medicine of publishing a book. We discuss why we felt called to write, how books can be like babies, and the ways releasing our books made us more resilien...
Friendship deserts, creativity floods, and ancestral mothering with Megan McGuire and Ariella Daly
May 02, 2022 12:00 - 1 hour - 65.4 MBHave you been craving a deep, expansive conversation about creativity, burnout, postpartum, paying for the village, and raising children in ancestral ways amidst climate crisis? I know I have been. So I invited my friends, fellow mothers, and past guests Ariella Daly and Megan McGuire to join me on the podcast again to commune “in the mammoth bone tent.” Together we have an open and vulnerable conversation about creative surges and depletion postpartum, how motherhood has isolated us from o...
You have a right to feel good in your clothing with Dacy Gillespie
April 18, 2022 12:00 - 51 minutes - 35.3 MBDacy Gillespie is a personal stylist who intuitively guides us to discover the clothes we feel best in — uncovering and releasing what society says we “should” wear in the process. Together we explore the question “what do you want to wear?” and we talk about how pausing before purchasing can help us make more ethical decisions and find clothes we love. Dacy also shares why “flattering” is a fatphobic concept, how to approach your clothes when your body changes, and her advice for online s...
Re-writing the story on motherhood with Lisa Olivera
April 04, 2022 12:00 - 55 minutes - 38.3 MBLisa Olivera is a writer, therapist, and creative who shares work centered around radical acceptance, cultivating compassion, and integrating our stories and full humanity. She is also a new mother, just five months postpartum at the time we recorded this episode. Together we talk about the pressures and expectations of motherhood, the deep joy and grief of becoming a parent, and how having two tiny eyes on you all the time invites you to embody your values and step into your integrity. We ...
Slow Emergence from Winter into Ancestral Rituals for Spring
March 21, 2022 12:00 - 34 minutes - 23.8 MBBelonging is back! After my winter hibernation, I find myself craving a little vernal worship. So this episode is all about ancestral rituals and practices for spring. First, I share lessons I learned while wintering, including my stepping away from social media, making my life small, and my seasonal self-care wheel. Then we dive into the pleasure of seeds, greens, flowers, eggs, honey, and milk. I offer my favorite practices for planting, cooking, nourishing yourself, and connecting with a...
92. Winter Rituals & Practices
December 20, 2021 12:00 - 27 minutes - 19.2 MBI'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 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 ...
91. Making & Keeping Adult Friendships
December 13, 2021 12:00 - 28 minutes - 19.5 MBThen 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 whole chapter to community in my book, Root & Ritual, particularly as it relates to friendships, but it's one of the topics I get asked about most, so I thought I'd bring it here to the podcast as well. I share about the importance of human connection (even if you're an introvert), making meaningful connections, feeling mistrust in building new re...
90. Rites of Passage for All of Us
November 29, 2021 12:00 - 27 minutes - 18.7 MBI've gotten some questions from Belonging podcast listeners about rites of passage, especially if you've left a religion that previously offered a sense of rites of passage and ritual, or how to cultivate rites of passage when we don't have that religious or cultural foundation. This is something I've touched on before on the Belonging podcast, and I'm sharing my thoughts now after going through a major rite of passage myself. I share how I'm fulfilling my need for ritual and community witnes...
89. How I don't find balance in my daily life
November 15, 2021 12:00 - 26 minutes - 18.2 MBIn 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 like as a new parent or who are struggling to find the elusive balance. I share how I (attempt to) balance business, mothering, self-care, and partnership, what motherhood looks like now one year in, how my greatest lesson in this time is patience, my feelings of panic from aging and time passing, and how I deal with feeling incompetent and like I c...
88. Returning to a relationship with the living world
November 01, 2021 11:00 - 31 minutes - 22.1 MBSo 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 building a relationship with the living world after feeling like I've lost it since entering motherhood. I share about the colonial construct of "nature," the history of enclosure and the separation of humans from the natural world, holding an animist view of the world, tuning into the land you're on throughout time, being in relationship with the l...
87. On Mothering & Eco-Grief
October 18, 2021 11:00 - 32 minutes - 22.3 MBIn this episode of Belonging, I'm sharing the complicated thoughts and feelings I'm experiencing being a mother — choosing to bring a child into this world — and living in a time of climate collapse. I share somatic tools for how I'm dealing with the anxiety and grief of these times, questioning if it's ethical to bring a child into this world, building community care and knowing your neighbors, and conjuring curiosity to find out what you need to know rather than catastrophizing.Find show no...
86. How I Pitched & Wrote a Book (+ had a baby at the same time)
October 04, 2021 11:00 - 36 minutes - 25.1 MBI'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 podcast is the full story of what went into the creation and publication of Root & Ritual.I share when I first felt the calling to write a book, being in integrity with the why of writing a book (and not just because I wanted to feel successful and important), the lineage healing story that went into writing a book, finding a book agent, writing (a...
85. Why I Took a Mama Sabbatical
September 20, 2021 11:00 - 29 minutes - 20.5 MBI have slowly emerged from my cocoon here in this outward facing internet space after taking a much-needed and restorative three-month mama sabbatical. My time was spent making my life as small and as energetically boundaried as possible so I could catch my breath, be with my baby as she turned one year old, and orient myself back to center enough to feel in my body again. I am now seeing how moving through this rite of passage of having a child has woven me even more deeply into alignment wi...
84. Layers of Liberation in the Web of Being with Kathryn Fink
May 31, 2021 11:00 - 1 hour - 72.1 MBThis episode of Belonging is a swapcast with Kathryn Fink of The Heart is a Cauldron. Kathryn believes in a world where each of us lives in deep connection — with our wild soul, our purpose, and our place in the wondrous web of being. To magic this world into reality, they sew an untamed array of seeds into the soil of their work as a mentor, podcaster, and queer mystic — weaving together animist ethics and enchantment, trauma-informed Buddhist psychology, transformational coaching, reverence...
83. Wild Soul Runes with Lara Veleda Vesta
May 17, 2021 11:00 - 49 minutes - 33.9 MBLara Veleda Vesta is back on the Belonging podcast, continuing the threads of our conversation from a couple years ago and introduce her new book, Wild Soul Runes: Reawakening the Ancestral Feminine.Lara is an artist, author, storyteller, and educator transforming chronic illness into a path of healing and reclaiming. Her research interests include ancestral connection and disability as initiation. She shares her journey with mythtelling, folk magic, ancestor lore, and ritual practice with he...
82. Mothering as Ancestral Reverence with Megan McGuire
May 03, 2021 11:00 - 1 hour - 44.2 MBMegan McGuire is a mother, partner, permaculture gardener, and ritual weaver living on the lands of the Dakota people near Kaposia. Her ancestors have tended the Mississippi River for many generations, and she continues to steward this river in her day job as a biologist with the federal government. Megan is on a long journey to reclaim the earth-honoring practices of her European ancestors — especially their seasonal rituals and holy days — and to wed these practices to her local bioregion. ...
81. Natural Rhythms & Regeneration for Breaking the Collective Trauma Spell with Rachael Maddox
April 19, 2021 11:00 - 1 hour - 42.4 MBWe are living in a time of collective trauma and that is exactly what I'm talking about with my guest, Rachael Maddox, in this episode of Belonging.Rachael Maddox is a trauma resolution educator, coach, and guide who’s helped hundreds of humans move from sexual, complex or developmental trauma into pleasure, power, and trust-filled relationships. Rachael teaches and mentors other coaches, healers, and therapists who are devoted to trauma-informed, radically inclusive, pleasure-positive approa...