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 Which Healing Herb is Your Spirit Medicine? Quiz
Medicine Stories Facebook group
Mythic Medicine on Instagram
Music by Mariee Sioux (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, Medicine Stories podcast Episode 41 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
110. Women's Bodies are Metabolically Expensive (Why Things Break So Easily) - Dr. Suuzi Hazen
109. Loving Ourselves Home: Finding Sanctuary in Herbal Medicine - Kami McBride
108. The Mythic Hive & How Bees Heal Us - Ariella Daly
107. Death is the Great Healing: Reclaiming Ancestral Relationship w/ the Dead - Perdita Finn
106. Chronic Illness: Telling Honest Stories, Navigating the Underworld, and Tending the Roots - Sarah Ramey
105. Synchronicity Reveals Our Ecological Niche - Sophie Strand
104. Your Body is Not a Closed System: The Sun, Cell Signaling, & Metabolic Wellness - Sarah Kleiner
103. Midlife Burnout for Women & Why Healing Work Can Make Us Worse - Dr. Suuzi Hazen
102. The Living Matrix of Fascia & the Resonance of the Heart - Lindsay Courcelle
101. Rooting With the Ancient Mothers: Healing Wounded Lineages by Reclaiming Physiologic Birth & Radical Togetherness - Aimee Aroha
100. Returning the Mother to Herself: Our Nourishment Shapes How We Receive Life - Niecia Nelson
99. Holistic Health & Earth Connected Living in Technological Times - Carly Rose
98. Parenting Sensitive/Spirited/Neurodivergent Children, Leaving Schools, and Proudly Engaging in Wrongthink - Teva Johnstone
97. Five Years of Medicine Stories (& more)
96. Apprentice Yourself to the Earth: Plant Wisdom & Embodied Knowing - Kami McBride
95. Exiting the Overculture: Herbalism, Homesteading, & Unschooling My Mind
94. Our Trip to Britain: Ancestral Pilgrimage to Sacred Sites
93. Mirrors in the Earth: Self Remembrance & the Non-Stop Nurturance of the Natural World - Asia Suler
92. Expansion is Our Nature: a Matriarchal Reframe for Money & How I Went From Broke to Flow
91. The Mineral Matrix & the Motherline That Made You - Hamid Jabbar
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