Regenerative Business: How to Align Your Business with Nature for More Abundance, Fulfillment, and Impact
Samantha Garciaamazon.com
Regenerative Business: How to Align Your Business with Nature for More Abundance, Fulfillment, and Impact
When you drive in a car and get to your grocery store safely without even remembering driving there, that’s your unconscious mind at work. It’s your body going on autopilot so that it frees up energy. The brain is always trying to be efficient and conserve energy to help us survive.
My absolute favorite shadow work process is existential kink, created by Dr. Carolyn Elliott. She has an entire book on it that is excellent. This is a little different than classic shadow work. In classic shadow work, you’re acknowledging and accepting parts of yourself. Existential kink goes a step beyond that by bringing pleasure into it. So not
... See moreOur fish tank has been filled with the values of the Industrial Revolution. And the patriarchy. And racism. So while we may intellectually learn what’s “right,” or at least things that line up better with our values, our RAS may continue to show us examples of the opposite to reinforce our conditioned beliefs.
the most important indicator in your safety today, and in an unknown future, is your community. And I’m talking your direct in-person neighbors.
From the industrial lens, our business is a way to extract money, not liberate society. Other Side Effects of the Industrial Revolution 1. Objectification: Everything and everyone is a tool to be used. 2. Limited resources: There’s no focus on renewal, so we need to grab up what’s available as quickly as possible (definitely before the next guy), o
... See moreThe Yurok, Karuk, Hupa, Miwok, and Chumash tribes across California, and hundreds of other Indigenous tribes, have been doing controlled burns for millennia, realizing that smaller fires in intentional areas prevent massive fires that would overtake the entire forest. This practice is continued to this day by Indigenous people and park rangers alik
... See moreYour ‘dirty talk’ is kept in the bedroom with open-minded partners. Something so sacred—the fertile soil that sustains us—is described to us as, and manipulated to be, a thing to stay away from, avoid, and wash off. Dirty alchemy is taking back what’s sacred. (And realizing
With a craft, there’s never perfection. With a craft, you’re in constant practice and relationship with it.
Standardization: There’s one right way—a right body, a right way of thinking, a right way of doing—because, efficiency!