Apr 9 • Sally Burns

Reconnecting with the Sacred: A Conversation with Lisa Bengs of Becoming Home

Today, we’re thrilled to introduce a very special guest on the blog: Lisa Bengs, the creator of Becoming Home. Lisa describes it as “a supportive community for witchy-curious humans to reconnect with their innate spirituality and the sacred web of life.” Her work is a beautiful example of what community building can look like when it’s rooted in care, connection, and a deep respect for nature.

From Burnout to Belonging

Before founding Becoming Home, Lisa worked as an art director in the fast-paced world of advertising.

But after burning out at just 22, she left it behind in search of something more meaningful. That search led her, quite literally, to the door of a spiritual healer.

It was there that her journey back to herself truly began.

“I had been very much a non-believer for most of my life,” Lisa shares, “but the full body experience of actually physically FEELING better made me curious.”

That curiosity became a calling, and she’s now been practicing energy work since 2014.

Why Becoming Home Matters

Lisa sees her work as part of a broader movement, one that’s urgently needed. 
“Today, I know that the colonial capitalistic patriarchy, with all the isms, are the cause of humanity having lost their connection to themselves, to Earth, to Spirit, and each other.”

But it doesn’t have to stay that way. Lisa believes that reconnecting with nature and spirituality is how we reclaim our power — and each other. “Only being in alignment with ourselves, Spirit, Earth and Life will make any work we do truly sustainable.”

This commitment to connecting with nature and building authentic community is exactly what led her to create on The Portal Collective.

A Natural Home for Her Work

“The Portal is doing everything others are not,” Lisa explains. “Collaboration over competition, community over individualism, care over profits. This is so in line with everything I want life to be like, so the choice was easy.”

Rather than another noisy platform pushing performance and content churn, The Portal offered the fertile ground Lisa needed — a place where her community could grow organically, in rhythm with the seasons of life and learning.

Community Building as a Spiritual Practice

For Lisa, community building is inseparable from her spiritual path. But she acknowledges how much we have to unlearn.
“We ‘Westerners’ have no idea how community really works,” she says. “We’ve been raised by hyper-individualism. Just like with re-learning how to connect with ourselves and spirituality, reconnecting with nature will take some practice.”

Spiritual growth, for Lisa, is a full-body experience — one that requires safe spaces to witness one another and affirm each other’s inner knowing. That’s why building a supportive, grounded, and non-judgemental community is essential to her work.

Dismantling Oppression Starts with Reconnection

Lisa wishes more people were talking about how connecting with nature and each other is itself a form of resistance.

“The more we feel at home in the world, in our bodies, in our lives, in our communities, the less we feel like we need to consume things to fill this void that so many of us are feeling.”

To her, this is not just healing — it’s radical. “A life of true sovereignty and wholeness for every single living being is what Life on Earth is supposed to be.”

A Future Rooted in Love and Life

When asked to imagine the world she’s working toward, Lisa doesn’t hesitate:

“That Life on Earth is paradise and can be for everyone — to me, that is a divine truth. So ending all ways of oppression isn’t a question of if, but a question of when. I don’t know if I’ll see it in my lifetime, but I know in my Soul, humanity will return to a life centred around Love and Life.”
At The Portal Collective, we believe that learning, growth, and transformation don’t need to happen in isolation. Like Lisa, we’re planting something different — a digital ecosystem where wisdom flows freely, rooted in connection and care.

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