131 | Reclaiming Motherhood as a Rite of Passage with Becca Piastrelli
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It’s an honor to have Becca Piastrelli back on Rising Women Leaders. It’s been a few years (and a lot of transformation) since our last conversation (episode 10!).
We’ve both transitioned from maiden to mother, and our lives and businesses have transformed along with us. In this conversation we share the real, the raw, and the beautiful of being initiated into this new phase of life.
Becca shares of her journey of the last 2.5 years after birthing her daughter, her journey with delayed postpartum depression (and rage) at 18 months, how she has done her best to recreate the village we all long for, what it looks like to untangle from patriarchy and let go the need to always do more…
Listen to today’s show to learn more about how we can honor and ritualize this powerful rite of passage of shifting from maiden to mother.
In this episode we discussed:
The first two years postpartum
Letting go and surrender
Postpartum depression / anxiety
Loneliness in new motherhood
Longing for community - where to start with how to create deep & authentic connection with other women
Untangling patriarchy and “doing” mentality & how to slow down in such a fast paced world
Ritual in new motherhood
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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.
