Belonging: Conversations about rites of passage, meaningful community, and seasonal living
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 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.
- Update frequency
- every 12 days
- Average duration
- 49 minutes
- Episodes
- 145
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
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 upstate New York.
It feels like almost everything is differe…
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 has spent her life traveling, learning and sharing d…
Lessons from my journey with delayed postpartum depression
While 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…
The Women’s Circle with Anoushka Florence
Anoushka 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 bas…
Keeping Grief Weird with Tracy Benjamin
Tracy 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 h…
Being Alone in Nature with Nicole Antoinette
Nicole 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 spiritua…
Writing as Pregnancy & Publishing as Postpartum with Asha Frost
Asha 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 “…
You have a right to feel good in your clothing with Dacy Gillespie
Dacy 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 explor…
Re-writing the story on motherhood with Lisa Olivera
Lisa 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, …
Slow Emergence from Winter into Ancestral Rituals for Spring
Belonging 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…
92. Winter Rituals & Practices
91. Making & Keeping Adult Friendships
90. Rites of Passage for All of Us
89. How I don't find balance in my daily life
88. Returning to a relationship with the living world
87. On Mothering & Eco-Grief
86. How I Pitched & Wrote a Book (+ had a baby at the same time)
85. Why I Took a Mama Sabbatical
84. Layers of Liberation in the Web of Being with Kathryn Fink
