• My essay, Was the Village Really Better?
• Subscribe to my newsletter, How We Come Back on Substack
• Join the Winter ‘26 live round of Circle Craft, my women’s circle facilitating training
• My book, Root and Ritual: Timeless Ways to Connect to Land, Lineage, Community, and the Self
• Connect with me on Instagram @beccapiastrelli

• My essay, Gossip was sacred until they made it dangerous
• Subscribe to my newsletter, How We Come Back on Substack
• Join the Winter ‘26 live round of Circle Craft, my women’s circle facilitating training
• My book, Root and Ritual: Timeless Ways to Connect to Land, Lineage, Community, and the Self
• Connect with me on Instagram @beccapiastrelli

• My essay, Loving a Man in a Patriarchal World
• Subscribe to my newsletter, How We Come Back on Substack
• Join the Winter ‘26 live round of Circle Craft, my women’s circle facilitating training
• My book, Root and Ritual: Timeless Ways to Connect to Land, Lineage, Community, and the Self
• Connect with me on Instagram @beccapiastrelli

• My essay What It Means to be Ready Now
• Subscribe to my newsletter, How We Come Back on Substack
• Join the Winter ‘26 live round of Circle Craft, my women’s circle facilitating training
• My book, Root and Ritual: Timeless Ways to Connect to Land, Lineage, Community, and the Self
• Connect with me on Instagram @beccapiastrelli

In this solo episode, I reflect on this past year and look forward at what's ahead through the lens of the seasons. I muse on my experience of the second full year on our farm and how we have expanded, moved through challenges and triumphs throughout the growing season. I also talk about my upcoming winter plans and what I’m generally looking forward to during the darker months. Also…I’m pregnant! Surprise!

Tune in to hear more from me on:

• Hyperlocal and bioregional involvement with the farm stand
• How and why I’ve been refining friendships and connections this year
• Dialing down the people pleasing and rooting into my own values
• Houses as living entities and the sign about my pregnancy
• How winter is the season of gathering and how it impacts community building
• Picking up writing again and considering self publishing after multiple rejections of a book idea
• My passion for women’s circles and gearing up to share my Circle Craft training again this winter

Resources + Links

• Subscribe to my newsletter, How We Come Back on Substack
• My essay The Summer I Got Stung A Lot
• My essay about the loss of our pregnant cow The First Big Loss
• My book, Root and Ritual: Timeless Ways to Connect to Land, Lineage, Community, and the Self
• Connect with me on Instagram @beccapiastrelli

Timestamps

[03:19] How Farm Life is Going

[14:18] An Update on Community-Building

[24:25] What I’m Looking Forward to this Winter

On this episode, I am joined by Béa Victoria Albina, a trained nurse practitioner, master certified life coach, somatic experiencing practitioner and author of “End Emotional Outsourcing: How to Overcome Your Codependent, Perfectionist, People-Pleasing Habits.” Béa coined the term ‘Emotional Outsourcing’, which describes our co-dependent, people pleasing and perfectionistic habits and how these behaviors cost us our joy, authenticity and true connection to self and others. In this episode, we talk about the cost of chronically and habitually outsourcing our sense of safety, belonging and worth. We dive into the root of these behaviours from a cultural and historical perspective and Bea shines a light on how we were trained up to be disconnected from the earth, magic and our own inner wisdom.

Tune in to hear more from us on:

• How emotional outsourcing can influence all aspects of our lives and sense of self
• The true cost of people pleasing, perfectionism and codependency, and its root causes
• How shifting to a place of trust is a liberating experience, and how to do this
• Trad-wife culture and how to explore femininity as a gateway to empowerment
• Emotional outsourcing in a facilitator role and finding acceptance and surrender in the process of facilitation
• How to learn the body’s language through somatic experience and understanding where survival patterns come from
• Managing text message overwhelm as a recovering people pleaser

Resources + Links

• Béa Victoria Albina’s book ‘End Emotional Outsourcing: How to Overcome Your Codependent, Perfectionist, People-Pleasing Habits’
• Béa’s website beatrizalbina.com and Instagram @beatrizvictoriaalbinanp
• Béa’s podcast ‘The Feminist Wellness podcast’
• My book, Root and Ritual: Timeless Ways to Connect to Land, Lineage, Community, and the Self
• Connect with me on Instagram @beccapiastrelli

Timestamps

[0:00] What is Emotional Outsourcing

[10:55] The Origin of Codependency and Emotional Outsourcing

[14:39] Weaponized Femininity and Glorified Codependency

[22:04] Facilitating without Emotional Outsourcing

[29:28] Practicing and Embodying Self Trust

[39:38] Navigating Boundaries and Intimacy

[49:00] Managing Text Message Overwhelm as a Recovering People Pleaser

[45:20] Bea’s Book ‘End Emotional Outsourcing: How to Overcome Your Codependent, Perfectionist, People-Pleasing Habits’

How can we add meaning and ritual to growing older? For my 40th birthday, I hosted and experienced a Threshold Crossing: an embodied and community-led ritual that initiated me into my next decade. In today’s episode, I sit down with my dear friend Mara Glatzel, who designed and led part of the ritual with and for me. With her, I share about how my desire to claim this threshold saw me move past feelings of cringe and embarrassment and embrace the process of creating something meaningful, incorporating others in it and feeling witnessed in the process.

Tune in to hear more from me on:

• What it means to ritualize a threshold crossing and the transformational power it holds
• How I designed the celebration and what factors were involved
• The vulnerability I had to lean into throughout the whole experience
• What it looked like and meant to me to leap across the threshold
• How I have been integrating the experience and the importance of the pause of becoming
• The power of being witnessed and witnessing transformation
• How Mara celebrated her own 40s threshold crossing and how it differed to mine
• What it means to us to grow older and different ways we’re embracing that

Resources + Links

• Rooted Magic, my October 2025 retreat at the Kripalu Center
• Previous podcast episode #66 and episode #112 with Mara Glatzel
• Find Mara on Instagram @maraglatzel, her website MaraGlatzel.com and her book, Needy
• My book, Root and Ritual: Timeless Ways to Connect to Land, Lineage, Community, and the Self
• Connect with me on Instagram @beccapiastrelli

Timestamps

[0:00] Introducing Mara and the Threshold Crossing Ritual

[8:21] Claiming and Witnessing the Threshold of Turning 40

[19:20] The Vision and Process of the Ritual

[29:30] Leaping over the Threshold

[44:55] The Transformational Power of Ritual

[48:39] Embodying and Integrating a Threshold Ritual Experience

[52:00] Different Ways of Experiencing the 40s Threshold

[59:27] Experiencing the Joy of Being Alive and Growing Older

In this episode, I reflect on the significance of my roadside honor system farm stand on a personal, communal and environmental level. This small physical, and seasonal, structure is a prayer for community, an altar to trust, and a quiet form of resistance to disconnection and urgency. Join me in this musing on how meaning isn’t created from scale, but from depth.

Tune in to hear more from me on:

• The embodiment of rightsizing and experiencing more tactile, IRL living
• Where my love for farmstands originates
• Reclaiming a sense of enoughness and building resilience
• The farmstand as an altar for people to feel nourished and connected
• Reconnecting with the earth and local community
• The joy of simple, sacred interactions
• The farmstand as a place of reciprocity and regeneration

Resources + Links

• Episode #133 with Stevie Storck on Rightsizing Life and the Sharing Table
• Episode #136 with Carmen Spagnola on Satisfiability as a Collapse Skill
• My Substack piece on ‘The Community Economics of a Roadside Farmstand’
• My book, Root and Ritual: Timeless Ways to Connect to Land, Lineage, Community, and the Self
• Connect with me on Instagram @beccapiastrelli

Timestamps

• [0:00] Introduction to my Farm Stand Journey
• [4:26] The Origin Story of my Love for Farm Stands
• [9:30] Rightsizing: The Intention behind my Own Farm Stand
• [13:52] The Embodiment of Satisfiability
• [20:10] The Farm Stand as a Sacred and Regenerative Tool of Exchange
• [27:15] Community Identity and Neighbourliness
• [30:25] The Farm Stand as a Place of Reciprocity