Seed Capital: the world we leave behind is built from what we steward now

In today’s episode, I reflect on the role community plays in our lives and the stories we share with each other about our yearnings for connection.

Tune to hear me reflect on what community looks like in my life right now and my dreams for how community might gather on my new farm home in the years to come.

I also explore the challenges of reaching out for support and connection when our energy is low, the art of a nervous system soothing invitation, and the practical and sacred sides of community tending.

Resources:

• Watch my video, Manifesting My Dream Community: Exactly What I Did
• Listen to Episode #107: Feeding & Healing Ourselves Amidst Collapse with Carmen Spagnola
• Listen to Episode #81: Natural Rhythms & Regeneration for Breaking the Collective Trauma Spell with Rachael Maddox
• Listen to Episode #96: Friendship deserts, creativity floods, and ancestral mothering with Megan McGuire and Ariella Daly
• Join my home practice, Tending the Flame
• Buy my book, Root and Ritual: Timeless Ways to Connect to Land, Lineage, Community, and the Self

Do you crave deeper connection with your ancestors?

If your spirit says yes, I invite you to join me for the month of November in devotion to LINEAGE.

Starting October 31st, I’m hosting Tending the Flame: Lineage — a month-long journey where I’ll guide you through rituals and practices to reweave the threads of connection you have to all that came before you.

We’ll move from creating your own ancestral artifact to stepping into mythic time to smoke cleansing and creating a new legacy for the descendants to come. And each week, we’ll come together on zoom for live ritual, connection, and Q&A.

Registration closes on October 31st. Learn more & sign up today.

Carmen Spagnola is a wilderness guide, podcast host, Le Cordon Bleu-trained Chef, rose and vegetable gardener, collapse-aware coach, and witch of no particular affiliation.

In this episode, we discuss the ongoing saga of her 300+ lb. TikTok-famous pumpkin and explore the term “collapse” as it relates to being collapse aware as an individual and as a collective.

We wind through her journey from being a latchkey kid to attending Le Cordon Bleu in France to working on mega yachts — learning the depths of hospitality and writing her new cookbook, Spirited Kitchen. We also explore the practice of feeding memory as a way to connect with and honor our ancestors, even if they weren’t always the most honorable.

Together, Carmen and I look at the large, societal problems that inevitably cause grief. And Carmen shares ways to soothe ourselves and move out of a freeze state in the face of such big issues and feelings.

More from Carmen

• The Spirited Kitchen Cookbook
• The Numinous Network
• Yuletide Workshop
• Carmen’s Instagram @carmenspagnola
• Carmen’s TikTok @itscarmenspagnola

In today’s episode, I invite us fireside to connect with our ancestors — the humans, plants, animals, and stardust we come from.

Tune to hear me reflect on how wild and perfect it is that we’re all here. And how profoundly we’re connected by our shared planet.

I also explore our chosen and affinity ancestors. And I share my journey of connecting with my lineage and a few specific ways that you can connect with yours.

I hope you’ll listen and then join me for the live cohort of Tending the Flame: Lineage, beginning on October 31st.

More resources:

• Join my home practice, Tending the Flame
• Buy my book, Root and Ritual: Timeless Ways to Connect to Land, Lineage, Community, and the Self
• Listen to Episode #25: Shaking the Amnesia with Lyla June
• Listen to Episode #41: The Season of Samhain and the Wild Hunt

Erin Claire Jones uses Human Design to help thousands of individuals and companies step into their work and their lives as their truest selves and to their highest potential.

In this episode, we have conversation about how Human Design can give us permission to be ourselves and help us live with greater ease and authenticity every day.

We discuss Human Design basics including types (generator, manifestor, manifesting generator projector & reflector) and authorities (sacral, emotional, splenic, and more). Then we go deeper to explore how we incorporate Human Design into parenting and partnership, so we can affirm our partners’ and our children’s experiences of the world, especially when they’re different than our own.

More from Erin

• Look up your design
• Use the code BELONGING to get 10% off your Blueprint, a personalized guide to your unique design
• Follow Erin on Instagram @erinclairejones and @humandesignblueprint
• Join Erin’s next free webinar & her next course

💫 Join me on December 11 for Basking in Your Glow: Rituals from the Ancestral Hearth Fire with Seagrape Apothecary. Learn more here & use the code BELONGING for a discount on registration.

Clare Foale is a Mum, a creator, a space holder, a brink walker and an ocean lover, living on Garigal Country in Australia.

Together, Clare and I have an open and vulnerable conversation about our experiences with delayed postpartum depression. We share the moments beloved practitioners finally helped us see we weren’t okay. The strength it took to acknowledge our pain when so many people dismissed it. The ways our depression was separate from our love of our children. And the power of letting your family witness how you take care of yourself.

This conversation is medicine, and I hope you’ll listen to it, especially if you enjoyed my solo episode on postpartum depression.

More from Claire:

• Clare’s website
• Clare on Instagram @clarefoale
• The Spacious Card Deck

Resources

• If Women Rose Rooted by Sharon Blackie

So much has changed since I last had my husband Tim on the podcast. We became parents. We decided to leave California. We bought a house in upstate New York.

It feels like almost everything is different since that last episode three years ago. So this week I’ve invited Tim to come back to the show for an open conversation about our family and how we navigate change.

Together we discuss why having our daughter was a catalyst to slow down, how we handle the tension between his tech-paced career and our earth-paced life, and the many challenges of facing sleep deprivation & postpartum depression together.

Tim also shares about his experience with men’s work and men’s retreats, and how his relationship with Atlas has evolved since she was born. And we both open up about how we return to each other when we feel distant or disconnected.

Resources

• Episode #32: Navigating Marriage, Spiritual Transformation, and Witchy Life with Tim Piastrelli
• Episode #101: Lessons from my journey with delayed postpartum depression

Marysia Miernowska is a teacher, author, Earth activist, green witch, folk herbalist and healer rooted in the Wise Woman Tradition of Healing. She has spent her life traveling, learning and sharing different regenerative ways of tending to the Earth, healing land, and healing people. She is the Director of the School of the Sacred Wild and author of The Witch’s Herbal Apothecary.

Together, we have conversation about our beloved crystals, particularly how to be with our stones and how to return them to the Earth.

We discuss how the mining industry harms the planet, how to make gem essences, and why rituals for embodied Earth healing are always available to us.

This conversation invites us all into deeper relationship with the Earth, not by collecting crystals to keep for ourselves but by returning them to receive earthly wisdom.

More from Marysia:

• Buy Marysia’s book, The Witch’s Herbal Apothecary
• Marysia’s website, School of the Sacred Wild
• Marysia on Instagram @marysia_miernowska

Resources:

• Dori Midnight on Stone Rematriation
• Joanna Macy

🍄 Sign up for Passagecraft — a workshop to help you reclaim the meaningful moments of your life and craft the ritual you crave to honor them — on September 18th.

While I often talk about mothering on the podcast, it’s been a few seasons since I shared a personal reflection on being a mother. So this episode of Belonging is a solo episode where I open up about my journey with delayed postpartum depression.

In this episode, I talk about struggling with anxiety and rage, realizing that I was taking out my anger on my partner, being diagnosed with PPD, trying meds that helped and then didn’t help, microdosing psilocybin to support extended breastfeeding, and finding my way forward with as many questions as answers.

This episode was really vulnerable to record and share. My hope is that it helps mamas in a situation like this feel less alone. Whatever you need to do to feel better, I’m with you.

Resources:

• Episode #96: Friendship deserts, creativity floods, and ancestral mothering with Megan McGuire and Ariella Daly
• Episode #98: Being Alone in Nature with Nicole Antoinette
• Becca Piastrelli: The Baby Bomb on The Pop-Up Pod
• Lindsey Koelman of Marin Acupuncture
• Episode #77: Mothering the Mothers with Rachelle Garcia Seliga

Anoushka Florence is a teacher, an author, a circle-tender, and a mother. She is the Keeper of the Mama’s Village, the Mama of The Goddess Space, and the author of The Women’s Circle. Her work is based on ancient spiritual feminine practices that are grounded in the belief that the power to heal comes from within.

Together, we begin with the question what is circle? and spiral out to the importance of women’s circles, rituals, cleaning as clearing, ancestral lineages and more. We also discuss common questions about circle, such as— how do I find a circle near me? what if I’m an introvert? and what if I feel uncomfortable or unsafe in circle?

At its center, this conversation is about how circles can serve us all well. And it’s an invitation to hear if circle is calling you.

More from Anoushka:

• Buy Anoushka’s book, The Women’s Circle
• Anoushka’s website
• Anoushka’s on Instagram @thegoddessspace