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.
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- Update frequency
- every 12 days
- Average duration
- 49 minutes
- Episodes
- 145
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
24. End of a Lineage with Darla Antoine
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 …
00:54:46 |
Mon 06 May 2019
23. Moon Gardening with Erin Duffy Osswald
The moon and I have a relationship, but there is still so much she has yet to share with me. And my garden? Each year, there are lessons to be harvested from the great losses, unexpected surprises, a…
00:49:32 |
Mon 29 Apr 2019
22. Discover Your Genealogy with Jaclyn Wallach
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 …
01:08:44 |
Mon 15 Apr 2019
21. Opting Out of Linear Time with Stephanie Burg
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 of…
01:27:12 |
Mon 08 Apr 2019
20. Rites of Passage with Lara Veleda Vesta
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 …
01:21:30 |
Tue 02 Apr 2019
19. The Bright and Well Ones with Ash Johns
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 excite…
01:03:02 |
Mon 11 Mar 2019
18. How to Work with the Phases of the Moon
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…
00:27:58 |
Mon 04 Mar 2019
17. The Dark Side of Sisterhood
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, b…
00:27:37 |
Mon 25 Feb 2019
16. Belonging to Your Body
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 t…
00:27:09 |
Mon 11 Feb 2019
15. Making a Sacred Home
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 fin…
00:26:49 |
Mon 21 Jan 2019
14. My journey to Avalon
I recently took pilgrimages to Ireland and Glastonbury (mythical Avalon) to connect with the lands of my ancestors. So in this episode, I want to tell you about my experiences, how the calling to the…
00:33:46 |
Tue 08 Jan 2019
13. Miscarriage & Grief with Jenni Heffernan Brown
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 tal…
01:22:51 |
Mon 17 Dec 2018
12. The Wisdom of Evergreens and the Cailleach in Winter Folklore
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 a…
00:37:12 |
Mon 03 Dec 2018
11. Cultivate a Meaningful Holiday Season
The holidays are upon us, so in this episode of Belonging, I’m talking about cultivating a more meaningful relationship with the winter holidays. This is the time of year when seasonally and energeti…
00:36:12 |
Mon 19 Nov 2018
10. Ancestral Connection through Folkways
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 …
00:38:48 |
Mon 29 Oct 2018
9. Choosing the Journey of Decolonization
Today's topic might feel a little heavy and make you a little bit uncomfortable, 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 i…
00:34:40 |
Mon 22 Oct 2018
8. Ancestral connection beyond the DNA test
When it comes to connecting with our ancestors, it's a lot deeper than mapping our genealogy or taking a DNA test. In this episode of Belonging, I'm digging into the why being able to map genealogy c…
00:29:54 |
Mon 08 Oct 2018
7. Embracing Ancestral Time
Let's take a moment to drop out of linear time and explore spiralic, ancestor time. In this episode, I'm digging into our connection to our ancestors through this concept of ancestral time and how in…
00:28:08 |
Mon 24 Sep 2018
6. The Importance of Intergenerational Sisterhood
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.…
00:10:29 |
Mon 10 Sep 2018
5. Seasonal Self-Care
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…
00:11:08 |
Mon 03 Sep 2018
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