Grounded - by Erin Yu-Juin McMorrow (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

Align with the cycles of nature by reconnecting with the divine feminine and exploring the inner and outer work necessary to save our planet, beginning with the soul of our soil.

The environment is in trouble--and we're seeing direct effects on human health. Only when we restore our natural connection with the earth can we help to heal it and ourselves. This is the premise of Grounded, a clarion call and revolutionary guide from author Dr. Erin Yu-Juin McMorrow.

Based on current trends, it's estimated that over 90% of the earth's soil could become degraded by 2050, affecting food production, flooding, and clean water supplies. This isn't a doomsday prophecy--it is our realistic future if we don't take action now. In this revised and updated edition, McMorrow provides tools and practices to transform ourselves, our socioeconomic systems, and the environment. McMorrow guides us through:

- How everything from biodiversity loss to ocean acidification has roots in the killing of the microscopic life in our soil
- The interconnection of the destruction of our earth and the feminine
- How our natural cycles parallel the sacred cycles of nature
- Practices, personal reflections, and meditations to help you start making a difference right now and remember that you are of the earth

It's time to ground ourselves, returning to a cyclical, regenerative style of living, eating, loving, and dying. "Being grounded involves rooting within ourselves to expand in the world," explains McMorrow. "It means navigating from a place of power, clarity, creativity, and balance."

Explore the ecological and spiritual basis of our existing climate crises--including what's happening with our soil and carbon cycles--to understand how we've gotten into our current state. Grounded gives us the wisdom and guidance to do the sacred work of reconnecting with the divine feminine and initiating transformation to address our carbon legacy and save our planet and ourselves.

Review Quotes

"There was a time in Western civilization when women were the keepers of a sacred trust: humanity's deep connection to the natural world. They held aloft our sense of divine relationship to the earth, the waters, and the sky. With the destruction of pagan culture, the sacred power of such women all but disappeared. What they represented is reappearing now--not a moment too soon--and Erin McMorrow is a proud and worthy daughter to their ancient legacy. Ageless voices seem to be reaching across the years to speak to her, delivering an eternal passion for reconnecting all of us to the divine, to each other, and to the earth on which we live." --Marianne Williamson, four-time #1 New York Times bestselling author

"How do we face the fierceness of this collective moment with courage and tenacity? How do we restore our own health as a reflection of restoring the Earth's? Grounded, in its revised edition, offers directness and caring hopefulness, valuable insights, necessary information, and clear pathways for us to pursue this matrix of healing. Erin's voice is both artful and wise, a must-read for anyone seeking both restoration and guidance as we face, together, how to renew our relationship to our Earth, ourselves, and one another." --Seleyn DeYarus, founder, RepresentativeRising.org, Co-Founder, Ideaphoria B.V.

"To me, people working on ecosystem science and soil carbon are planetary rock stars in the making! Their work may be critical to people's long-term symbiotic relationship with the earth system--and each other--in more ways than one may initially realize. Humbly, the interconnected and healing world of soil and the carbon cycle that Erin McMorrow gives new insights to couldn't come at a more critical time." --David Addison, founder, Planetary Practitioners

"I have a deep love and surrender to keep learning from soil, and Erin McMorrow's Grounded resonated profoundly with me in my journey within this relationship. It not only gave me permission to embrace my own feminine connection to the Earth, but Erin's ability to intertwine these concepts felt like a deep healing. This book is more than just insightful; it's a powerful remembering and a blueprint for patterning forward our relationship with the Earth in a more actionable, nurturing, and regenerative way." --Karen Rodriguez, founding member and COO, Kiss the Ground

"McMorrow takes us along a personal journey in which her most powerful teachers--and healers--are the often-invisible aspects of nature, down to the microbes in the soil." --Judith D. Schwartz, author of Cows Save the Planet, The Reindeer Chronicles, and Water in Plain Sight
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"This book needs to get into the hands of as many women as possible. I couldn't put it down. It helped awaken a fire deep inside my being--a fire that inspires action, connection, and the creation of an epic future." --Lauren Frances Tucker, co-founder, Kiss the Ground, and founder, reNourish Studio

"A divine masterpiece, one of the true voices of our generation, purpose-aligned with the environment." --Pashon Murray, founder and CEO, Detroit Dirt

"Intelligent, articulate, relatable, and entirely important." --Zoë Bell, actress and director

About the Author

Erin Yu-Juin McMorrow, PhD, holds a doctorate in policy, planning, and development from the University of Southern California, studied political and social thought at the University of Virginia, and served as the director of housing policy with the Los Angeles Coalition to End Hunger and Homelessness. She is also a certified yoga teacher, craniosacral therapist, and entrepreneur. For more, visit erinmcmorrow.com.