#40: Rebecca Spitaleri
“If I am conscious of changing my habits and thought forms fundamentally, then I am back at zero point: to serve.”
Rebecca Spitaleri (@seeri_koko) is an artist, postpartum doula, and maternal educator. I first found her work soon after talking with a friend about our desire to read an earnest ‘mommy blog’ — less focused on product recommendations or maternity style, more on motherhood’s profound initiations. After reading some of her writings, I knew I had to invite her on.
#40: Rebecca Spitaleri
Aries/Cancer/Virgo
Black Mountain, NC
What does health, or being healthy, mean to you?
Health is a form of wealth to me. Being healthy dictates how well I can move throughout the (sometimes) chaotic moments of my day-to-day and in turn, years to come. How I can better hold onto this moment or simply let it go is reflected in my capacity to feel in tune with my body vessel...my health reflects this mission. I’ve alway been fascinated by the intelligence of the body, and for that I am constantly crediting this life.
How would you describe your current lifestyle?
Non-traditional, I guess. However, I do prioritize slow living and purposefully moved to a rural part of Western North Carolina when I was 21 years old to drink spring water running off the mountain, heat my home with wood, and keep chickens on a dirt road. I adore the country, the simplicity of primitive ways, and truly hold value in nourishing my family through this lens. My lifestyle isn’t that off-brand from a postcard you see of that “way back when” scene, although I am guilty of romanticizing a time when traditional values held up a higher purpose matched with full integrity and the experience of time. I very much enjoy minimalism with a hint of structure.
Today, my lifestyle is a bit more streamlined as I enter a new phase of mothering a pre-teen. I have been called ‘easy going’ and I think that reflects my lifestyle. I am very fluid natured and often use my feeling sense first, trusting in the alignment of opportunities that present themselves instead of aggressively forcing an outcome because I want it to be that way.
“Learning to regulate and cope with the impermanence of beauty and the fragility of living through the age of information has been a process for me in relating and therefore, responding.”
How do you start and end your days?
Always with water. I wake up with my beloved and drink to my health, stretch my neck, move with the Big 6 lymph work and breathe out my sleeping breath in front of my red light device, especially in the winter months.
All movement is followed by a hearty breakfast (my favorite meal of the day) which ushers in the actual flow of my day at best, for how I tend to the morning is how I deal with the rest of the day.