{"version":"1.0.0","segments":[{"startTime":0.0,"endTime":8.4,"body":"Music."},{"startTime":8.348,"endTime":18.658,"body":"This is belonging a podcast that explores being alive in the age of loneliness I'm your host Becca piastrelli,"},{"startTime":18.736,"endTime":24.636,"body":"a writer mother and Community tender currently living on the ancestral lands"},{"startTime":24.516,"endTime":29.317,"body":"the coastal walk people and present day Marin County California."},{"startTime":30.574,"endTime":36.555,"body":"In this show we explore topics like Rites of Passage cultivating meaningful community."},{"startTime":36.768,"endTime":42.046,"body":"Seasonal and cyclical living and what it means to be a good ancestor in these times."},{"startTime":42.79,"endTime":53.776,"body":"I have thought-provoking conversations with friends teachers elders and ancestral medicine Keepers to help support you in bringing more meaning and connection to your life."},{"startTime":54.52,"endTime":60.222,"body":"I also pop in here and there to share updates and learnings from my own story because we were meant to do this."},{"startTime":60.08,"endTime":65.2,"body":"Music."},{"startTime":65.125,"endTime":79.261,"body":"You can expect to be challenged by New or Old ideas face your beliefs and what systems informed them get curious and brave to tell the truth about the deeper harder things and feel comforted and then knowing that you don't."},{"startTime":79.12,"endTime":87.92,"body":"Music."},{"startTime":87.766,"endTime":89.434,"body":"I'm back,"},{"startTime":89.593,"endTime":103.162,"body":"Becca piastrelli here back after my Winters hibernation if you're listening in order my last episode was about winter rituals and at the end I said"},{"startTime":103.141,"endTime":109.608,"body":"I got to go hibernate I don't know how long I know I'll be back I don't know when."},{"startTime":110.1,"endTime":123.67,"body":"And here I am on the other side"},{"startTime":110.1,"endTime":123.67,"body":"it's March it's springtime here in my bio region Coast me while gland."},{"startTime":123.991,"endTime":126.55,"body":"Present day Marin County California."},{"startTime":127.484,"endTime":134.931,"body":"The sun is out flowers are blooming in my yard and."},{"startTime":135.163,"endTime":139.946,"body":"The Big Oak Tree I always talk about in my episodes that I stare at"},{"startTime":139.862,"endTime":153.206,"body":"out my office window is starting to sprout it's little leads in the squirrels are running around eating them and what I know about spring greens which is a foreshadowing for the rest of this episode,"},{"startTime":153.374,"endTime":157.95,"body":"is that tender young greens have a sweeter higher sugar content."},{"startTime":158.271,"endTime":167.475,"body":"They get more bitter as they grow and so I just feel like these squirrels after a."},{"startTime":167.796,"endTime":180.519,"body":"Hard winter question mark are feasting on these little Sprouts that will become large oak leaves on this tree as spring came."},{"startTime":181.101,"endTime":187.262,"body":"Where you're listening they're listening this in real time or anytime spring may not have come,"},{"startTime":187.475,"endTime":195.184,"body":"or it's not spring maybe you're in the Southern Hemisphere and it is most definitely not spring but this is an episode that celebrates spring."},{"startTime":195.784,"endTime":203.862,"body":"We are Vernal worshipping here and that is because I feel in my body and internal spring coming."},{"startTime":204.156,"endTime":213.323,"body":"So I talked about seasonal living as in accordance with the season of the Earth or the season of the hemisphere that you're on but we also have internal seasons."},{"startTime":213.581,"endTime":227.88,"body":"And I have been pretty vocal about being an internal winter for quite a while and then feeling like I had to come out and I had to Market and share my book which was a joy and took a lot out of me,"},{"startTime":228.057,"endTime":236.675,"body":"and so after the fall Harvest of the book launch I went back into my hibernation cave and really really,"},{"startTime":236.816,"endTime":239.979,"body":"let winter take me like full-on."},{"startTime":240.426,"endTime":247.622,"body":"I went to the darkness the fertile void underground Frozen lots of metaphors there,"},{"startTime":247.835,"endTime":258.56,"body":"I think I've realized how vital wintering is for those of us in particular that are burned out or mothering or grieving or with fragile immune systems which is a lot of us a lot of us."},{"startTime":259.322,"endTime":269.236,"body":"So what did I do in my wintering I have a little bit of like what just happened a little bit of I have no idea a fog I think that,"},{"startTime":269.26,"endTime":277.221,"body":"that's a little bit of a trauma response to what I'm realizing is the last two years of my life getting pregnant,"},{"startTime":277.326,"endTime":279.643,"body":"having a lockdown,"},{"startTime":279.829,"endTime":289.473,"body":"giving birth in a time when the fires were burning really bad here in Northern California feeling really isolated and then having to go right into a book stuff."},{"startTime":290.2,"endTime":299.088,"body":"And of course wanting to show up for that and did the best I could having the death of a friend in my community."},{"startTime":299.463,"endTime":304.831,"body":"All through a pandemic I'm realizing and bringing words to the fact that that was."},{"startTime":305.179,"endTime":317.749,"body":"Really hard and in the moment I was just getting through it but now when I look back there some parts I don't remember and I'm like oh it's trauma response so a lot of my winter was contending with,"},{"startTime":317.855,"endTime":322.755,"body":"my emotions with my grief and my sadness and my anger,"},{"startTime":322.833,"endTime":328.777,"body":"and I ended up being diagnosed with delayed postpartum depression which was."},{"startTime":329.17,"endTime":338.563,"body":"Relief and devastating because I tried so hard not to get it and."},{"startTime":339.298,"endTime":354.155,"body":"You know if you've listened to past episodes of talked something about Michelle Garcia silly God I think of Amber Magnolia Hill and I'm thinking of Megan McGuire and all these mothers came before me sharing and me just being like I'm listening and I will do better"},{"startTime":354.089,"endTime":362.482,"body":"and now noticing me judging judging it and so I've really what helps me release the shame and the judgment is to share."},{"startTime":363.217,"endTime":373.681,"body":"And this feels like a nice place to share no one's going to jump out at me and give me their judgment or advice and if you are I can't hear you so it's better this way."},{"startTime":374.038,"endTime":385.266,"body":"But yeah so in the realization and relief of being diagnosed with postpartum Delhi postpartum depression really needing to take deeper action for that so,"},{"startTime":385.471,"endTime":392.657,"body":"people ask what are you doing what are you doing for that so definitely less social media I was off of it for a solid month."},{"startTime":393.15,"endTime":402.155,"body":"I actually made a personal Instagram account just for friends and loved ones to share more deeply and that felt really safe and good,"},{"startTime":402.359,"endTime":403.451,"body":"Finster"},{"startTime":403.412,"endTime":417.675,"body":"that felt really important to me so I could stay connected without having that sort of public Miss I'm back out in the public but I was just so tender so so tender I needed to make my life small I've been talking about so I still made my life small."},{"startTime":418.266,"endTime":426.632,"body":"I learn I need to move every day which is actually really hard really hard so making a commitment to move every day."},{"startTime":427.052,"endTime":433.843,"body":"Therapy couples therapy having some really important in hard talks of my partner."},{"startTime":434.254,"endTime":442.863,"body":"I got away for my first solo non-baby trip probably got covid recovered from covid-19."},{"startTime":443.625,"endTime":451.244,"body":"Tim and I got away just the two of us that was made pretty major my baby turn 18 months and I could feel."},{"startTime":451.457,"endTime":459.589,"body":"All of a sudden major shift in both of us a real individuation that happens in the mommy baby dyad that leads to the age of two I felt it."},{"startTime":459.919,"endTime":470.221,"body":"So sad so wonderful and yeah I created a wheel of self-care I posted on Instagram we go on my Instagram backup easterlies you look for my winter self-care wheel,"},{"startTime":470.362,"endTime":480.51,"body":"inspired by Marisha Mirren houska I'm in her school the sacred wilds and this really got me through December January February where I on the self-care wheel,"},{"startTime":480.679,"endTime":483.733,"body":"it's a wheel divided into eight like pie pieces."},{"startTime":484.027,"endTime":491.043,"body":"And in each of them I put something that would actually nourish me and I made a rule it couldn't be media"},{"startTime":491.022,"endTime":502.116,"body":"even though like I feel nourished in ways by screen time that was important to me to not because I noticed in my real like winter depression that that would always make me feel worse."},{"startTime":502.392,"endTime":515.133,"body":"And Mauritius as one of the pie pieces has to say do nothing so my winter self-care we all said do nothing walk outside so wildflower seeds in the rain."},{"startTime":515.643,"endTime":523.145,"body":"And I caught the last rains so grateful I thought more rains would come but they haven't it looks like it'll be another dry year."},{"startTime":523.673,"endTime":530.689,"body":"Make a tree and Blended soup mushy things for my body to digest infrared sauna and soak,"},{"startTime":530.812,"endTime":542.752,"body":"there's like a local Little Hippie Spa near where I live where they have an infrared sauna and the private hot tubs outside under redwood trees make sure I go there this winter practice of Sona and Heat."},{"startTime":543.28,"endTime":551.097,"body":"Stretch body and sweat Morning Sun and my body and read a book and I've been reading fiction."},{"startTime":551.418,"endTime":559.064,"body":"And it's been real nice so I wanted to share that because I think it doesn't have to be a winter self-care wheel it could just be a self-care wheel."},{"startTime":559.295,"endTime":563.484,"body":"And again I have an example on my Instagram if you wanted to check that out."},{"startTime":563.851,"endTime":574.341,"body":"And the other big news is as a novice chicken farmer not farmer chicken tender but not a chicken tender chicken person who tends chickens."},{"startTime":574.743,"endTime":588.124,"body":"We got rats now I shared this on my Instagram stories and apparently rats are quite triggering to a lot of people which I can technically understand but I had a pet rat as a child her name was Mindy,"},{"startTime":588.292,"endTime":597.801,"body":"I loved her she won the longest tail at the Marin County Fair five dollar prize she slept the whole time but I was to this day."},{"startTime":598.086,"endTime":607.037,"body":"I am so proud of her and I loved her so Tim and I are just like such animal lovers and so we saw few rats and we thought this is not,"},{"startTime":607.106,"endTime":614.563,"body":"and we also notice that the chicken feed was just like going quickly really well it's chickens are so hungry and also we are both so burned out,"},{"startTime":614.74,"endTime":622.863,"body":"mildly depressed and he has anxiety and we have a small child and we just really let it go and that was a bad decision because."},{"startTime":623.149,"endTime":632.478,"body":"The rats took over which is a parent one of the most common things with backyard chickens if you're a chicken person you're nodding your head right now and we thought it was one rat."},{"startTime":632.916,"endTime":645.054,"body":"And then Tim put a camera inside the run which is like the Caged off place the outside part and the next morning we checked the footage."},{"startTime":645.636,"endTime":650.167,"body":"It's not one rat"},{"startTime":645.636,"endTime":650.167,"body":"it's a rat City."},{"startTime":651.191,"endTime":657.207,"body":"Tim thinks 30 I think 100 million holy shit."},{"startTime":657.582,"endTime":668.586,"body":"It was actually really stressful because the chicken stop laying and they were starting to like pick off their feathers it was and they were getting mites anyways it's kind of this is maybe getting gross,"},{"startTime":668.601,"endTime":674.167,"body":"and then our neighbors go on the other side of the fence got really upset rightfully so."},{"startTime":674.623,"endTime":681.0,"body":"And a neighbor relationship is just so important to preserve it's just so important to preserve and so,"},{"startTime":681.132,"endTime":690.911,"body":"this chicken coop that Tim spent the whole first year of the pandemic building it's like a chicken mansion and it's split sweat and tears and he."},{"startTime":691.161,"endTime":700.85,"body":"Just put so much into it it was his project"},{"startTime":691.161,"endTime":700.85,"body":"we have had to break it down we had to buy a coupe on the internet,"},{"startTime":701.0,"endTime":715.56,"body":"shipped in like two days and we had to put it on the other side we live on a hill at the top of the hill and we had to get this fancy new chicken food feeder that they have to step on a step and it opens the chicken food they have figured it out it was a little bit awkward."},{"startTime":715.863,"endTime":723.473,"body":"And we have to completely break down Tim's beautiful chicken Mansion Coop so why am I sharing this with you."},{"startTime":723.776,"endTime":734.6,"body":"It was really stressful as us who feel in Devotion to these against Esther ways that we are very awkwardly trying to sustainably teach ourselves it just felt,"},{"startTime":734.633,"endTime":741.144,"body":"really hard to navigate that neighbor Dynamics and we did not want to poison or kill these rats because,"},{"startTime":741.168,"endTime":749.129,"body":"especially poison because of the owls eat that you know it's just the ecosystem but also wanting to honor the people really freaked out and,"},{"startTime":749.288,"endTime":759.086,"body":"realizing we had fed an army of rats for six months and our poor chickens anyways and then grieving our vision in favor of what is simpler."},{"startTime":759.398,"endTime":764.982,"body":"That really was it like Tim was just so sad and yet we've we simplified things in there working better."},{"startTime":765.483,"endTime":769.852,"body":"And they're getting more sun and they're laying eggs again and they're okay and we're okay."},{"startTime":770.498,"endTime":780.088,"body":"And I just think that has just been a lesson from you over and over in this winter time is making things smaller making things simpler letting things go."},{"startTime":782.453,"endTime":794.753,"body":"So how about we talk about spring because when this comes out it'll be around the Spring Equinox in the northern hemisphere so southern hemisphere folks save this for 6 months from now."},{"startTime":795.344,"endTime":807.788,"body":"So I remember when I learned about this concept of mud season so if you live in Lino the Northeast in the States but I wonder if there are other places that do this there's like winter,"},{"startTime":807.803,"endTime":812.262,"body":"and there's spring like flowers but in between there something called mud season,"},{"startTime":812.448,"endTime":818.006,"body":"which is when all the snow melts into the Earth and,"},{"startTime":818.201,"endTime":826.612,"body":"before the greens and the blooms come s just really messy it's messy muddiness and."},{"startTime":826.852,"endTime":832.013,"body":"That doesn't happen here in California because we have less moisture but I really like that metaphor."},{"startTime":832.46,"endTime":841.808,"body":"For that stop-start energy that is spring like refer to your own bio region here in California and Northern California it's like,"},{"startTime":841.85,"endTime":855.761,"body":"I've seen this meme on Instagram I'm sure you've seen it where it's like winter fall spring one winter again fall spring to stupid winter one more time that's actually not how it goes but that's how it feels actual spring."},{"startTime":856.145,"endTime":866.213,"body":"And so right now we are just coming out of false bring to up here we'll see how many Falls Springs there are or if we're in Real Spring but that's stop-start energy."},{"startTime":866.714,"endTime":874.531,"body":"I think is important for us to remember in like our natural wild ways and like the nature of renewal that it's not"},{"startTime":874.393,"endTime":884.73,"body":"linear it's not always just like a straight line to Renewal and blooming and blossoming that it can feel herky-jerky couple steps for a couple steps back,"},{"startTime":884.763,"endTime":889.763,"body":"and what if we can bring Grace to that so like what is Muddy."},{"startTime":890.498,"endTime":898.648,"body":"What is the mud the mud is the melting of the snow or the water everywhere so what is melting and creating mud."},{"startTime":899.185,"endTime":903.248,"body":"Making way for"},{"startTime":899.185,"endTime":903.248,"body":"the flowers to bloom."},{"startTime":904.019,"endTime":917.418,"body":"So yes it's a time of renewal I just think about particularly those of you that live in places with like really intense cold snowy Winters how much every year you feel that ancestral desperation for spring,"},{"startTime":917.541,"endTime":924.394,"body":"I do not have that experience where I live now but I have been I have lived in places with that experience where it's just,"},{"startTime":924.49,"endTime":930.588,"body":"desperate and then a March snow comes and you're just like I could die and then."},{"startTime":932.169,"endTime":940.751,"body":"The light Returns the energy quickens it's really true what you're feeling and spring arrives and it is euphoria"},{"startTime":940.685,"endTime":950.087,"body":"and I think that's why there's like connections with Christian holidays around just like Jesus and rebirth and Easter it's all connected"},{"startTime":950.021,"endTime":959.08,"body":"universally to the seasonal Pagan earth-based thinks that all of our ancestors and we feel to be able to begin again."},{"startTime":960.373,"endTime":967.623,"body":"The hope the newness I don't know about you but I really like that feeling I'd say I'm addicted to that feeling."},{"startTime":968.241,"endTime":979.704,"body":"Any of you raise your hand if you love to start but it's hard to finish"},{"startTime":968.241,"endTime":979.704,"body":"I know I have struggled with that for years and I've been really focusing on like okay spring is feels so good,"},{"startTime":979.863,"endTime":983.485,"body":"but whatever I begin I want to complete I want to take to harvest."},{"startTime":984.337,"endTime":992.451,"body":"And I want to put it to bed with completion and reflection and so that's how I look at my projects that's how I look at my work,"},{"startTime":992.53,"endTime":997.187,"body":"that's how I look at my goals so there was no like January first gold"},{"startTime":997.121,"endTime":1005.163,"body":"crushing situation for me there is visioning Tim and I actually did a beautiful ritual on the."},{"startTime":1005.952,"endTime":1013.733,"body":"Video on the winter solstice no we Worth community on which is whilst we were releasing on the winter solstice from the last year but yeah I think it was New Year's."},{"startTime":1014.0,"endTime":1027.308,"body":"We used to just like right our goals down and then it became intentions because goals felt too heavy and then I was like why don't we just vision and so we let a candle and we did a little spell because we're calling in the land we want to build a home on"},{"startTime":1027.215,"endTime":1030.81,"body":"and we just visualize meditated on what we saw"},{"startTime":1030.789,"endTime":1040.965,"body":"and then just talked about it and this is you know the dream before the seed so now I'm feeling seed planting time so I think this is a great time to set goals."},{"startTime":1041.934,"endTime":1049.463,"body":"I think this is a great time to actualize the seeds of what you want to harvest in the Autumn or whenever."},{"startTime":1049.82,"endTime":1057.511,"body":"Autumn helps me that orient's me a little bit timing wise because I know why I work in in the winter that's just not happening."},{"startTime":1057.895,"endTime":1066.639,"body":"So I want to talk about seeds I think seeds are the most incredible most spiritual most beautiful thing right now I mean seeds at the beginning of it all."},{"startTime":1067.392,"endTime":1073.13,"body":"It's like the esoteric dream of winter leads to the tangible physical seed."},{"startTime":1073.478,"endTime":1080.845,"body":"And the seed is the part of the plant that is about continuation preservation."},{"startTime":1082.102,"endTime":1089.001,"body":"It's remembrance work like it's the beginning but it also is a seed is encoded with the DNA,"},{"startTime":1089.061,"endTime":1100.947,"body":"of every plant before it and the DNA that needs to be activated in order to grow the seeds can sit but it's when you wet them and place them in the damp Dark Earth,"},{"startTime":1101.124,"endTime":1107.392,"body":"that it grows so here's the thing"},{"startTime":1101.124,"endTime":1107.392,"body":"we are the seed too."},{"startTime":1109.262,"endTime":1118.555,"body":"You are the seed I am the seed we are encoded with the DNA of all that came before us we are the heirloom seed."},{"startTime":1119.047,"endTime":1121.94,"body":"And what needs to be activated in us now."},{"startTime":1122.774,"endTime":1131.842,"body":"So that we can start growing even if the growing is the roots down and nothing can be seen above the surface in the muddy mud season."},{"startTime":1132.236,"endTime":1134.093,"body":"But you know that once the seed."},{"startTime":1134.576,"endTime":1144.329,"body":"If you've planted a seed before if you work with seeds you know what happens it does a lot of work underneath the surface and then when it's ready it pushes."},{"startTime":1144.605,"endTime":1148.308,"body":"It's kind of intense think about all the energy it needs to push."},{"startTime":1149.259,"endTime":1156.095,"body":"The soil aside and come above the surface you are the seed my friend."},{"startTime":1157.622,"endTime":1163.306,"body":"So whether you want to talk about gardening or you want to talk about the metaphorical gardening."},{"startTime":1163.582,"endTime":1175.828,"body":"Of your life"},{"startTime":1163.582,"endTime":1175.828,"body":"I want you to think about what is needed for you to continue and preserve all that you come from and grow further."},{"startTime":1176.572,"endTime":1178.132,"body":"He'll further."},{"startTime":1179.975,"endTime":1187.648,"body":"So how can you work with seeds"},{"startTime":1179.975,"endTime":1187.648,"body":"what's like ancestral rituals and practices for concede okay you can plant them."},{"startTime":1188.653,"endTime":1192.023,"body":"I mean you can order seeds from,"},{"startTime":1192.236,"endTime":1206.903,"body":"reputable seed companies this is actually really major that these are non-GMO organic seeds that are ethically harvested and hey hey hey you could work with seeds you harvested yourself."},{"startTime":1207.207,"endTime":1214.573,"body":"And if you don't know how to harvest a seed from a plant literally go to YouTube and go how to harvest seed from explant."},{"startTime":1214.958,"endTime":1223.297,"body":"And someone somewhere will show you I did that for a lemon balm two years ago and I was like oh cool the sighted but also like."},{"startTime":1223.798,"endTime":1233.775,"body":"If you get a tomato at the farmers market you could save those seats if you get a pumpkin you could save those seats just saying how else can you work with seeds."},{"startTime":1233.997,"endTime":1240.059,"body":"You can eat them to support digestion of winters sludge I say winter sludge because"},{"startTime":1239.957,"endTime":1252.347,"body":"we'll talk about that in a bit more we talk about greens but summer spring just like from an ayurvedic perspective which is what I really like to look at even though I am not Indian I really appreciate the ayurvedic"},{"startTime":1252.254,"endTime":1265.256,"body":"philosophy of ogni and digestive fire and seeing all of us has different bodies with these doshas if you do know what I'm talking about you can check it out but to think of spring is the quickening in the soil,"},{"startTime":1265.316,"endTime":1274.718,"body":"and the quickening in our bodies because seeing our bodies the Earth and the Earth is our bodies they're starting to be movement and warmth underneath the surface of."},{"startTime":1275.678,"endTime":1280.452,"body":"The soil and that's what creates new life right so if we are."},{"startTime":1280.845,"endTime":1294.406,"body":"Wild animal bodies have been in a slow down experience of Life write a season of rest or digestion is slow down and often were drawn to like stews Batiste use fatty Meats to help keep us warm."},{"startTime":1294.646,"endTime":1301.463,"body":"In the winter whether that's needed now or not that's still the way our bodies operate and so what is needed to Quicken,"},{"startTime":1301.559,"endTime":1306.676,"body":"the digestive fire of spring so one of them is seeds"},{"startTime":1306.592,"endTime":1318.487,"body":"my number one is fennel but Anna scare away coriander flax and seeds can be such a supportive digestive tool and way to get protein and omegas in your body,"},{"startTime":1318.556,"endTime":1332.494,"body":"I like to mix them with honey and put on toast or make a digestive sprinkle to put over food like again the internet if you just like look up herbal seed honey or herbal digestive sprinkle on the internet,"},{"startTime":1332.59,"endTime":1333.637,"body":"you can find some."},{"startTime":1333.878,"endTime":1343.639,"body":"And then also seeds can be in sense so if you're working with smoke or you're working with scent which I know I really do so that's why I bring it up if you have a hot charcoal"},{"startTime":1343.456,"endTime":1351.678,"body":"if you're in that practice or want to be in that practice of burning hot charcoal and then sprinkling incense when you can sprinkle seeds and work with their medicine that way."},{"startTime":1352.8,"endTime":1356.791,"body":"So what comes from the seed the tender sprout."},{"startTime":1357.482,"endTime":1366.244,"body":"The spring green the tender Sprout the beginning the beginning of the plant and."},{"startTime":1366.502,"endTime":1378.019,"body":"Where I live here in Northern California with the winter rains come the greens so it's not it's like for us wintergreen's but they stick around for as long as there's moisture in the soil."},{"startTime":1378.511,"endTime":1386.742,"body":"And they just pop up everywhere and so many of them are edible and so many of them want to be eaten by The Animals,"},{"startTime":1386.82,"endTime":1397.166,"body":"including the Human animals to help bring Vitality nutrients vitamins minerals and digestive fire so we can be in movement again,"},{"startTime":1397.353,"endTime":1400.533,"body":"so around here miner's lettuce"},{"startTime":1400.485,"endTime":1415.018,"body":"chickweed strawberry Leaf Cleavers plantain I mean I'm obsessed with miner's lettuce and chickweed and it's everywhere and also I realized like chickweed I have chickens and I give them check when they lose their minds and then it goes into their eggs,"},{"startTime":1415.051,"endTime":1419.105,"body":"and then I eat the eggs and that's all nourishment for all of us,"},{"startTime":1419.174,"endTime":1429.656,"body":"but yeah right like winter diets were fatty stews in green helps digest the fat cleanse the blood bring fresh mineral life into the body nutrients and energy."},{"startTime":1429.905,"endTime":1443.312,"body":"That is so important and I have a former teacher Liz Miller Ellie sister spinster who talked about eating bitter greens and how important it is to eat bitter Foods this time of year greens or even roots,"},{"startTime":1443.408,"endTime":1451.81,"body":"and she said bitter plants dissolve bitter feelings and just like any sort of residual resentment"},{"startTime":1451.672,"endTime":1465.602,"body":"anger anything that's like stagnant from winter in our emotional bodies if we can work with bitter plans to dissolve bitter feelings like bitter plans squeeze the liver to help cleanse it which is just an important seasonal Act"},{"startTime":1465.473,"endTime":1474.433,"body":"which helps to balance hormones so I try to remind myself that when I go to the market of getting bitter greens this time of year."},{"startTime":1474.709,"endTime":1480.077,"body":"And I'll tell you what my favorite thing to eat is all year round but fresh is Nettles."},{"startTime":1480.317,"endTime":1489.854,"body":"And I highly recommend if you can if you grow Nettles are you harvest wild Nettles or you by Nettles fresh that you either make nettle pesto or nettle soup."},{"startTime":1490.13,"endTime":1495.624,"body":"And you can freeze both of them all good linked to a great nettle soup recipe in this show notes,"},{"startTime":1495.81,"endTime":1503.24,"body":"there's so many recipes out there a lot of people have it with potato so it's like thicker but I like to put a bunch of Greens in metals in it and blend it,"},{"startTime":1503.273,"endTime":1516.824,"body":"really thick and just take it in Nettles are just so high in vitamins and nutrients and so so good for your immune system which we're all trying."},{"startTime":1517.47,"endTime":1526.421,"body":"More than ever question mark to fortify but you know you can make pesto from like anything have you realized this,"},{"startTime":1526.553,"endTime":1536.116,"body":"it's like once you figure out how to make pesto with basil you could make it with anything so I'll post a little real of pesto I made last year with chickweed it's so much chickweed now it's"},{"startTime":1535.996,"endTime":1542.877,"body":"miner's lettuce City yeah making a pesto with it and I think maybe you could add seeds in there,"},{"startTime":1543.009,"endTime":1548.882,"body":"you could add in any kind of seed right now I'm feeling like hemp seed or something to just,"},{"startTime":1549.077,"endTime":1559.891,"body":"put on pasta make into a dressing put on toast like you can incorporate this into your life as medicine as nourishment."},{"startTime":1561.185,"endTime":1575.501,"body":"So the flowers then start blooming that's pretty little later on right then the flowers come the orgasm the beauty the Sigh the exhale the song that is flowers"},{"startTime":1575.48,"endTime":1581.425,"body":"so I just want to make a note about flowers and foraging and reciprocity"},{"startTime":1581.341,"endTime":1592.93,"body":"because I love flowers so much I get fresh flowers and Farmers Market I also have a friend named Gina by Monta who runs Bloom generation flowers and she has this"},{"startTime":1592.927,"endTime":1602.31,"body":"offering where she gives you like a flower medicine bouquet where each flower has its own energetic message every new and full moon."},{"startTime":1602.955,"endTime":1608.36,"body":"Shout out to anyone who wants to get that who lives in the San Francisco Bay Area it's incredible incredible offering."},{"startTime":1609.392,"endTime":1613.032,"body":"So I've got cut flowers all up in my home,"},{"startTime":1613.038,"endTime":1628.192,"body":"for sure and I think something I talk about specifically when it comes to Landry connection and feeling kinship with the living world is to think about reciprocity and this desire we have to pick to cut"},{"startTime":1628.027,"endTime":1631.468,"body":"to use a flower for us because of its beauty."},{"startTime":1632.339,"endTime":1641.155,"body":"And what is a wider purpose of a flower besides to a piece you with its beauty well it's there for pollinators"},{"startTime":1641.152,"endTime":1651.958,"body":"right there for pollinators so you know bees are humming birds or butterflies can come and pollinate and keep"},{"startTime":1651.919,"endTime":1661.311,"body":"the flowers blooming and keep the Earth breathing pollinators are pretty important not you know what else are the flowers are for."},{"startTime":1662.163,"endTime":1664.642,"body":"Who else can appreciate their beauty besides us."},{"startTime":1665.089,"endTime":1672.303,"body":"I'm not saying don't cut the flowers but I'm saying think about it before you cut and maybe don't always cut or pick."},{"startTime":1672.759,"endTime":1684.807,"body":"And if you do what are you doing to offer reciprocity what are you doing to think that plant I know it sometimes feels silly but it is an indigenous ancestral practice."},{"startTime":1685.038,"endTime":1693.746,"body":"That we can come back into an are colonized capitalist World a thank you a kiss strand of hair."},{"startTime":1695.193,"endTime":1703.432,"body":"What can you offer"},{"startTime":1695.193,"endTime":1703.432,"body":"and finally sun-worshipping there is an amazing episode"},{"startTime":1703.331,"endTime":1715.811,"body":"of medicine Stories podcast with a magnolia Hill who spent on this podcast called harvesting light the Alchemy of sun and human with Nadine Artemis who started Living Libations which is like a Canadian Beauty brand"},{"startTime":1715.664,"endTime":1724.489,"body":"and this podcast episode blew my mind and I'm really understanding from an ancestral perspective how vital."},{"startTime":1724.792,"endTime":1734.04,"body":"The sun is to our health and it's mildly controversial because we've really been brought up to believe that the sun is dangerous"},{"startTime":1733.875,"endTime":1741.665,"body":"and we have to you know always cover up and I'm going to let you decide on that but there is something important to know about how."},{"startTime":1742.13,"endTime":1747.463,"body":"The Sun keeps us"},{"startTime":1742.13,"endTime":1747.463,"body":"healthy and alive"},{"startTime":1747.388,"endTime":1758.139,"body":"and how we can expose our bodies to sudden I feel this so much because I have a northern facing home and so for at least 6 months or five months of the year"},{"startTime":1757.992,"endTime":1764.432,"body":"the sun doesn't hit our home like we have light but I see it across the valley and then when it happened about,"},{"startTime":1764.636,"endTime":1777.557,"body":"let's say a month ago in the morning I got a sliver I just sit there in the morning Atlas runs around and giggles and brings me books and I just sit with my coffee with the sun on my face and it grows and it grows and it grows."},{"startTime":1777.968,"endTime":1783.562,"body":"You know by the summer it'll be hot but this sun worship."},{"startTime":1783.91,"endTime":1791.286,"body":"Is so so important in also preparing our bodies for the fullness of sun in the summer and how,"},{"startTime":1791.418,"endTime":1800.351,"body":"exposure to Sun a little bit over time in the spring is so important for replenishing our vitamin D"},{"startTime":1800.213,"endTime":1813.323,"body":"and supporting us particularly those of us who stare at Blue Light a lot of the time I mean even to get it needing talks about getting it on your eyeballs taking off your sunglasses and getting some sun on your eyeballs because your eyeballs"},{"startTime":1813.149,"endTime":1816.627,"body":"taken son in a really important way so,"},{"startTime":1816.633,"endTime":1823.883,"body":"check that out if you're interested in more of this but just from like an incest real practice of sun worship is in the morning"},{"startTime":1823.817,"endTime":1833.884,"body":"morning is often the safest also there's a connection to burning and diet and animal-based Diet also potentially controversial that I find,"},{"startTime":1833.972,"endTime":1839.853,"body":"interesting but in the morning to get some sun on your skin."},{"startTime":1840.444,"endTime":1854.23,"body":"So what I do and what Tim does is now I have to take turns because I had the baby but it's just sit outside on our like patio furniture and like it at least 5 to 10 minutes of that morning sun on our body"},{"startTime":1854.173,"endTime":1862.035,"body":"to start the day drinking it in as much as you drink your water your coffee or your teas still drink it in."},{"startTime":1863.535,"endTime":1870.749,"body":"There's so much more to be said about spring including egg magic and honey magic and milk Magic."},{"startTime":1871.025,"endTime":1884.747,"body":"Okay long story short eggs are a sign of fertility to write and you think about like the whole Easter egg thing but it's really reverence for life you know for Life beginning again."},{"startTime":1885.068,"endTime":1894.317,"body":"For the hens laying eggs and so for a lot of us had ancestors who would regret Aryan and were farmers which is a lot of us probably most of us"},{"startTime":1894.215,"endTime":1906.452,"body":"there's some folklore out of Old Europe of farmers hiding eggs in their pockets or around the farm for like the kids to discover we can easter egg hunt and that was all like a good omen and like basically"},{"startTime":1906.314,"endTime":1910.395,"body":"Superstition to try to protect and set intentions for."},{"startTime":1910.716,"endTime":1920.477,"body":"A good harvest so many things in rap to a good harvest growing enough food so that everyone can eat and that everyone is okay and thriving."},{"startTime":1921.393,"endTime":1922.359,"body":"Honey."},{"startTime":1922.752,"endTime":1937.203,"body":"Oh my gosh honey from the bees Springtime and the flowers bloom and Honey comes Honey that's sweetness to be savored and treasured and when the Honey comes how can you work with honey."},{"startTime":1937.498,"endTime":1940.381,"body":"On your body in your belly."},{"startTime":1940.612,"endTime":1949.78,"body":"In a bath as a mask how can you work with honey to really feel that's more of like to me like a sexuality expression."},{"startTime":1950.101,"endTime":1959.727,"body":"Which is what flowers are like the sex organs of a plant and what is spring about new life and creating more."},{"startTime":1960.534,"endTime":1967.127,"body":"So honey is a really beautiful way to work in that energy and then milk milk from the mothers."},{"startTime":1967.673,"endTime":1980.774,"body":"Milk from the cows and the goats and the humans milk being a sign of New Life of fertility of birth so there's like an old Ambrosia folk recipe of milk,"},{"startTime":1980.979,"endTime":1990.047,"body":"honey and red wine to be drunk as a celebration that spring is here and we're alive."},{"startTime":1991.79,"endTime":1997.33,"body":"I'll stop there those are some ideas I have and what I've learned."},{"startTime":1997.786,"endTime":2002.488,"body":"And some things I practice or have practice so I wish you."},{"startTime":2003.241,"endTime":2010.446,"body":"Whatever season you're in when spring comes next I wish you a spring filled with."},{"startTime":2011.28,"endTime":2021.006,"body":"The sense that you are the seed and I hope you're eating greens and making pesto and getting some sun on your skin."},{"startTime":2021.795,"endTime":2025.345,"body":"It's great to be back really happy to be back."},{"startTime":2025.666,"endTime":2039.019,"body":"And we've got more coming for you soon just getting back on my legs here so I'll see you soon with the next episode and lots of love bye,"},{"startTime":2039.16,"endTime":2044.997,"body":"thank you so much for listening,"},{"startTime":2045.165,"endTime":2052.306,"body":"and at a time when our attention is being pulled in so many directions I feel honored you chose to devote some of yours here."},{"startTime":2053.123,"endTime":2065.144,"body":"If you want to check out show notes or listen to past episodes go to belonging podcast.com and if you like what we talked about here and want to know more you can subscribe to my 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