We Belong to What We Long For: Reclaiming Lost Lifeways in the Age of Loneliness - Becca Piastrelli

It is through land that we find ourselves. It is through lineage that we return to ourselves. It is through community that we expand ourselves. In this age of disorienting change and fracture, let us wander within our daydreams of another way of being.

TOPICS:

• A Western suburban childhood- television, processed food, malls, and fear of nature’s dangers

• Evolutionary Mismatch Theory: our human bodies were not made for these times

• We are living in the Eremocene: The Age of Loneliness

• The medicine of women’s circles and the two questions that should be central to each gathering

• The collective yearning for ritual and embracing the awkwardness of not knowing what you’re doing

• Repercussions of the Burning Times

• We do this reclaiming work for our descendents, knowing we may not reap the fruit of our labors in this lifetime

• Listening to what the soul of your home wants

• Connecting to lineage with food and folklore

• How an offering of food from a stranger saved Becca’s ancestors’ lives

• Connecting with our ancestors in Mythic Time: what stories from your lineage are ever happening?

• The echoes of the electroshock therapy Becca’s grandmother underwent & how writing Root and Ritual completed an ancestral storyline

• Musings on women in the 1960s, twilight births, the rise of consumerism and isolated living

• The world we were born into is gone: the end of the Pax Americana and the unraveling of culture and collapse of institutions

• We need to grieve as a culture so that we can be responsive to what’s next

• Your body is sacred land

• Parenthood and postpartum in the modern age

• Mothering as ancestral reverence

• Calling in energy from unexpected sources

RESOURCES:

• RootandRitualBook.com

• BeccaPiastrelli.com

• Becca’s Instagram

• Medicine Stories Patreon (podcast bonuses!)

• My website MythicMedicine.love 

• Take our fun quiz Which Healing Herb Matches Your Energy?

• Medicine Stories Facebook group

• Mythic Medicine on Instagram

• Music by Mariee Siou (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes)

• A Hunter Gatherer’s Guide to the 21st Century: Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life by Heather Heying and Bret Weinstein

• The Millionth Circle: How to Change Ourselves and The World: The Essential Guide to Women’s Circles by Jean Shinoda Bolen

• My interview with Toko-Pa Turner, The Dreaming Channel and Remembering Ourselves Home

• My blog post Ancestral Voices, Women’s Weariness, and the Illusion of Linear TimeFamily Constellations

• Becca’s interview with Megan McGuire on the Belonging Podcast: Mothering as Ancestral Reverence

• Becca’s interview with me on the Belonging Podcast: Motherhood, Grief, and the Grandmother Hypothesis