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Medicine Stories

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

Medicine Stories

Amber Magnolia Hill

Alternative Health, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2021

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

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

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the act of choosing that is, I'd say, radical in the system we live in that really

0:06.9

asks us to, like, surrender to this way that is nothing but oppressive, you know,

0:12.7

like the expectations of us by this system are unrealistic. They're that of

0:18.4

machines, truly, like, that of machines. And so to choose to belong yourself to

0:27.0

that which you long for is the healing work is the medicine, really.

0:35.8

Hey, friends. Welcome to the medicine stories podcast where we are remembering

0:40.3

what it is to be human upon the earth. I'm Amber Magnolia Hill. This is episode

0:46.3

81, which is making me smile because that's my birth year. Today, I'm sharing my

0:52.5

interview with Becca P. Astrali. I'm super stoked because I love her new book.

0:58.7

And if you love this podcast, you will love this book. It's called Root and

1:05.9

Ritual, timeless ways to connect with land lineage community and the self.

1:12.6

It's gorgeously illustrated. It is so evocative of so many of the feelings

1:20.2

and subjects that we've touched on on this podcast. Becca interviewed me for her

1:27.6

podcast called Belongin a couple of years ago, that episode is titled on

1:34.6

motherhood grief and the grandmother hypothesis. I'll link to it in show notes.

1:41.8

It was just a lovely conversation and I'm so excited to extend it here and to

1:48.3

go so much deeper into this sense of disconnection that so many of us feel

1:56.2

and the longing for what we remember in our bones to be true for the human

2:02.0

species for any animal living upon planet earth.

2:08.2

Becca P. Astrali writes about her life experiences, facilitates women's

2:12.9

gatherings both virtually and in person and is the host of the Belongin

2:17.7

podcast. She is the author of Root and Ritual, timeless ways to connect to

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