Rerooting and Revillaging in a Capitalist Suburbia with Becca Piastrelli

Mindset
Written By Ember29 (Sophie)

As modern-day women, it can be common to feel disconnected: from ourselves, our past, and our community. This feeling of disconnect can make it even more difficult to see through the heavy, winter seasons of life to the light at the other side. On today’s episode of the It’s All Me podcast, Gervase sits down with Becca Piastrelli, author of Root and Ritual, to discuss how capitalism and instant gratification have severed us from nature and our callings, how we can reconnect to ourselves and our inner knowing, and how we can be the village that many of us long for. If you have been feeling alone, feeling the pull to reroot into your sense of self, or wanting to reconnect with a sense of community, you’ll want to listen in!

 In this episode, G and Becca Discss

  • [2:15] Suburbia, murder, and chickens

  • [7:04] Creating the life you want minus the BS excuses

  • [16:51] The systems that sever us from intuition and remembering ancestral practices

  • [28:08] Slow living and aligning your life with the seasons

  • [37:57] The absence of “the village” and the practice of revillaging and rewilding

  • [41:21] Becca’s advice on reconnecting in the midst of inner resistance

  • [45:30] Gervase’s calling to reroot into her lineage

  • [52:31] The next steps to revillaging

Guest Info

Becca Piastrelli is the author of Root & Ritual: Timeless Ways to Connect to Land, Lineage, Community & the Self and is the host of the Belonging podcast. She teaches and speaks on the nature of belonging and runs retreats to help women reconnect with their rooted sense of self. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area (soon to be Hudson Valley, NY) with her husband, child, two cats, and five chickens, where she gardens, cooks, mothers, and gathers with the ebb and flow of the seasons. 

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