The Becoming Podcast | Season 3; Episode 4 | Becca Piastrelli on belonging to yourself, your community, to the land and your lineage

Today's guest is Becca Piastrelli. Becca is a writer, coach, 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 shows us how to feel like we truly belong - to each other, to the earth, to a lineage, and to ourselves. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her partner, child, two cats, and five chickens, where she gardens, cooks, mothers, and gathers with the ebb and flow of the seasons. Belonging is Becca's jam, and I knew I had to have her on the podcast because so very often, when we traverse radical transformation, we experience a disruption to our sense of belonging. I had the pleasure of connecting with Becca a few months ago when she interviewed me for her podcast, and we've been enjoying connecting about motherhood, earth connection, ritual, and so much more ever since.  In this episode, that's exactly what we dive into:  Becca shares her experience of being a new mom of her eight month old daughter, Atlas, and how even though she had done so much work before having a baby to slow down her life, reconnect with her body and the land, and get comfortable with discomfort and liminality, motherhood taught her so many lessons and allowed her to deepen this often-confronting work.  We talk about what it means to belong to yourself, and how influences like social media and diet culture can so easily pull us away from that sense of rootedness.  Becca shares how her connection with the earth has been a grounding force in the last year, and how simple it can be to develop your own relationship with the earth.  Finally, we explore the topic of Becca's upcoming book, Root and Ritual:  Timeless ways to connect with land, lineage, community and the self, including how to build ritual into your life in the smallest ways, and how we can all be engaged in the act of culture creation through ritual design. I know you'll love this conversation as much as I did, and you'll come away with so many insights and potential new practises!  Enjoy!