Grounded: A Fierce, Feminine Guide to Connecting with the Soil and Healing from the Ground Up

by Erin Yu-Juin McMorrow

Taking our food system back is an act of revolution. Restoring the feminine is an act of sacred responsibility. Returning to the cycles of nature is an act of love. Grounding into the soil is an act of hope.

The soil, the fertile ground beneath us, holds the key to the future of our planet and our species―yet few people are aware of the critical role soil health plays in reversing climate change. With Grounded, Dr. Erin Yu Juin McMorrow takes us on a journey to explore the sacred interconnectedness between our soil and ourselves, seamlessly weaving the science of our broken carbon cycle and the oppression of the divine feminine into a powerful tapestry of hope and resilience.

McMorrow is the voice of a generation that carries the future of our planet on their shoulders. “There’s no other group of people to pass this on to,” she writes. “If we want to create a world that we can keep living in, it’s time, and it’s us.” In Grounded, McMorrow guides us through the inner and outer work needed to restore the divine feminine and save our planet. Highlights

- The “brass tacks” of climate change―how everything from biodiversity loss to ocean acidification has roots in the killing of the microscopic life in our soil
- The fertile soil is feminine―and the destruction of our earth and the feminine go hand in hand
- Sex, birth, life, and death―how our natural cycles parallel the sacred cycles of nature
- How to create truly regenerative systems that celebrate the natural world’s infinite diversity, resilience, and abundance
- Practices to help you start making a difference right now―from personal reflections and meditations to seed saving and composting
- Finding hope in the sacred nature of this work―when we do our part, just as with all of nature, spirit fills in the rest
- Becoming grounded ―root within to remember that you are of the earth, awaken your divine power, and expand in the world

Grounded is both a clarion call and a revolutionary guide for restoring the sacred cycles that sustain all life. “With every step we take toward a more regenerative and abundant future,” McMorrow writes, “we engage in the important work of saving our soil―and our souls.”

Genres: Nonfiction

200 pages, Hardcover

Published March 9, 2021

Reviews

[Makayla · Rating 2 out of 5]

"Grounded" is a short, easy to approach read detailing how the qualities our lives affect the soil.
I was hoping the book would be more detailed about the devastation to our soil and how we can personally go out there and make a difference in the LOCAL soil itself. The book takes a tone of self help, based in surface level yogic philosophy. I felt soil regeneration was sprinkled throughout, but it was mostly based in getting back In touch with the feminine and self. I believe the intention was good but felt it was extremely vague on the topic at hand, SOIL.
I also felt the writer took current mainstream wellness advice and lumped it into 200 pages with small connections to how this is effects soil. (Specifically - a very brief mention of a ayahuasca retreat like THAT has anything to do with soil regeneration.... or that's what's needed to get back in touch with the earth/feminine, felt that was extremely irresponsible)
This book should have been set up as "getting back in touch with our own mother nature" or something.

[Angelina · Rating 4 out of 5]

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for giving me this ARC in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own. Going into this book, my knowledge of climate change and environmentalism was on a surface level. This was very eye-opening and I'm in awe of McMorrow's insight. I enjoyed her speaking truth to power. I didn't know I needed a feminist take on environmentalism but I did! Let's face it this is a very terrifying subject. Climate change and the destruction of humans and all life on earth is bone-chilling. I am ashamed to admit that I have avoided learning more about climate change because my brain kept blocking it out. Denial, check! Things are bleak but not impossible to fix in our lifetime. Everyone should read this book. We can all band together to save ourselves and our planet!

[Eric Hannemann · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is such a special book. By learning to care more for our planet, we can learn to rebirth ourselves in a way that matters most to our authentic selves. In Grounded by Erin Yu0Juin McMorrow, the author provides great detail of the troubles of climate change and what we, as humans, are going about our days with no respect to Mother Earth. Not only does this book shed light on challenges on our Earth, but offers way to show more reverence to the world and people around us. It's worth a read and this voice is needed, but not a book I would recommend wholeheartedly.

[Jazmin · Rating 4 out of 5]

Read this for my book club, and I’m SO GLAD I joined up and got to explore this. I loved hearing about her journey, and I enjoyed learning more from her, but I do also note that it does take a certain amount of privilege to be on that journey in her particular path. This doesn’t take away from how much I learned from her and connected with her book. I honestly did not know about ocean acidification - this was truly shocking. When I think about the oceans, I lean into plastic and microplastic and healing coral but this not only makes sense but is concerning.

Some quotes I loved:
- “We unwittingly kill the stuff that makes the system work, and then spend money to replace what we’ve lost with synthetic replacements that don’t work anywhere near as well.”
- “a regenerative world is not merely abiding collapse but is designed like nature to be abundant beyond our basic needs. A regenerative system includes replenishing what we take and inviting nature to blossom…”
- “we can’t truly connect with ourselves without understanding how we’re connected with each other and everything around us…”
- “Finding happier, more mellow, more fulfilled spaces sighing ourselves also attracts like/hearted souls and helps us create a more balanced and connected outer world.”
- “our wellness is our revolution”
- “the snake has been a symbol of the divine feminine…”

[Eric Hannemann · Rating 4 out of 5]

[Book Recommendation 📖] < Grounded > By Erin Yu-Juin McMorrow was, let’s just say, an experience to read. We all have an underlying sense and super basic knowledge of climate change and global warming. But, have we ever stopped to ponder and research what’s really going on, and how do we stop it?

“With every step we take toward a more regenerative and abundant future,” McMorrow writes, “we engage in the important work of saving our soil—and our souls.”

This book is a call to action to heal our planet, but more so to start with ourselves. Being so out of touch with our inner nature has wreaked havoc on nature all around us. I skipped over a couple chapters, but the discussions in doing the real work starts in the later half of the book. These suggestions and explorations are so crucial to start getting grounded within ourselves and within the world.

“Grounded” offers us a solution to fix our broken planet, channel our inner warrior by working with the soil, and through it, find the divine interconnectedness of the climate and ourselves.

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[Nancy Houser-Bluhm · Rating 5 out of 5]

I recently read a guide to rating a book a 4 or 5. 4 might be when when one thing resonates deeply enough to influence your life or thinking. 5 is when you know it will influence for time to come. McMorrow’s book is certainly a 5.

I knew a bit about the impact of our soil but pairing it with the creative source within in all of us was a new perspective. We are soil and soil is us. This book is a call to action for us to take small and large steps toward regenerating our soil. Sequestering carbon can be the single most impactful act in slowing the climate change freight train. McMorrow purports healing ourselves and our rat race of a culture that is on a screaming course to disaster, is a key parallel act we must undertake if we are to make true and lasting changes.

As a nonfiction book Grounded does a superb job of engaging the reader’s interest while offering fresh ideas

[Soraya Rady · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is extremely integrative. Perhaps it does not provide as many scientific facts, but it opens the doorways to understand climate change in a more spiritual manner.

What I understood from this book is how patriarchal ways of economising the world have exploited our resources destructively, and that the future to regenerate our world lies through more feminine ways of being— through honouring life cycles, death, seasons and acting with reverence towards all the life forms that exist within the soil.

Thank you so much for this wonderful book.

[Jaslin · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book mixes the divine feminine journey with the healing properties of Mother Nature and what we can do to heal everyone on the planet. Women are the soil for our children, our men, and our masculine energetic selves. Mother Earths soil is asking us to rise up and ground ourselves within her. I have heard and I am answering the call! Will you?