Episode 72: Reclaiming Belonging in the Age of Loneliness with Becca Piastrelli
“We do actually need to look back in order to move forward as better ancestors. We are the mythmakers of this time. We are living myth… writing this story, together.”
-Becca Piastrelli, The Everything Belongs Podcast
Today on the Everything Belongs Podcast, Madison is once again in conversation with Becca Piastrelli. Becca Piastrelli is the author of Root & Ritual: Timeless Ways to Connect with Land, Lineage, Community, and the Earth and host of the Belonging podcast. She holds space for women to explore ancestral wisdom, connect with the earth, and find meaningful and inclusive community. In the age of loneliness, Becca guides us to understanding true belonging - to each other, to the earth, to a lineage, and to ourselves. She lives in northern California with her husband Tim, daughter Atlas, two cats, and five chickens, where she gardens, cooks, mothers, and gathers with the ebb and flow of the seasons. In this episode, Madison and Becca speak on her new book, Root & Ritual, living and connecting in the age of loneliness, creating circles in your life and communities that challenged our comfort of sameness, and so much more. This conversation is wholesome and truthful in all things belonging, connection and getting back to the root of what we need as humans.
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In this episode, we talk about:
Becca's new book, Root & Ritual
Living in the age of loneliness and our experiences with unbelonging early on in life
Cults, cult-like groups, extremism and our search for belonging
Unbelonging panic and how it motivates us
Separation of the living world, Imperialism and Colonialism
The power that has been created by closing us off from our wildness & intuitive living
Coming back to belonging through land, lineage, community & self
Inter-belonging vs the myth of individualism
Creating community & circle in your own life and devoting yourself to relationships
Diversifying your friends, becoming comfortable with difference and healing from needing sameness to feel safe
Learning that discomfort is not harm and how to grow our adaptability and resilience in belonging
Navigating wellness spaces that advise “boundaries” that push people with differences away in order to thrive
The impact of cell phones, our sense of connection, emotional maturity and being with difference
Seasonal and cyclical connecting inside belonging, community and circles
Rites of passage and their importance and other markers of allowing development over time
Asking and making consensual agreements in your need for belonging and support
