7 Ways To Live Regeneratively (That Have Nothing To Do With Farming)

The way home is back into ourselves—into our inner work that creates our ability to express the outward solutions necessary and co-create together. Finding our sacred sexuality, reconnecting to our true power, maintaining healthy boundaries, and communicating honestly is the way to heal our planet in time.

I offer the following as a gentle review to take step by step. Here are some simple ways to live a regenerative life:

Get plentiful, restful sleep. Not receiving the gift of this fundamental nourishment is a huge red flag that we are not in alignment. Western culture is famous for sleep-shaming because it runs against the notion of endless productivity and the habit of mining ourselves in the same way we've mined the earth. Replenishing sleep is an act of revolution.

Imagine the billions of miraculous interactions in nature that result in the single apple, potato, or leaf of lettuce! The sun shining down with all its infinite love. The poetry and flowing wisdom of the water cycle. How could we believe for a moment that the universe is not benevolent? Like sex, our relationship to food is actually about pleasure, expression, love, and the divine.

This can absolutely mean self-pleasure, sensuality practices, and consensual, enthusiastic sex with whomever. Sex is sacred. One more time: Sex is sacred. Our creative energy is ours. We belong to ourselves and get to share this, as it serves the highest good of all. Sexual healing is real. So much damage has been enacted and passed along the lines of humanity. Some gentle, sweet, loving healing is in order.

The goddess speaks from inside out. The drumbeat—the pulse of our internal heartbeats—is a pathway home to the soul. The more we can integrate music into our lives, the more powerful the healing we'll encounter.

Apparently, even the humble human appendix (mine ruptured and I had it removed as a small child), which was believed to do "nothing" for the longest time, is in fact involved in repopulating gut microbes. Ha. When we give from a truly loving place, we activate our fundamental purpose—we incarnate to serve. Once we can accept our baseline safety on this earth, we have more than enough to give. Little warms the human heart as much as giving.

Just like resting, sleeping, eating with peace, and enjoying sex, the yin is here waiting for us to remember the art of receptivity. Our human bodies process a lot. And in order to show up for service, we must be willing to receive in balance.

Adapted from an excerpt of Grounded: A Fierce, Feminine Guide to Connecting With the Soil and Healing From the Ground Up (2021) by Erin Yu-Juin McMorrow with permission from the publisher.