Regenerative Activism & Agency for Women, with Kelly Isabelle DeMarco & Jennifer Harvey Sall

Women have a special place in the collective climate awakening. Our unique perspectives, lived experiences, and embodied feminine intelligence and wisdom are deeply powerful assets in changemaking and leading -- especially now, given the holistic and embodied transformation the earth is urgently asking from us.

However, eco-anxiety and overwhelm can keep us disconnected from our inner guidance, from our feminine power and agency, and ultimately from our capacity for becoming an agent of change. Regenerative activism is an antidote: because it is focused on systemic and restorative action, it allows us the mindful space to welcome our full selves. It gives mindful space to our heavy emotions and transmutes them into a strong sense of empowerment and agency. Through deep care for ourselves and a clear vision for who we want to be in the world, it keeps us as focused on our own body, mind and heart, as we are on the external problems to solve. Regenerative activism requires us to choose wisely where we invest our energies, emotions and resources, and helps us plan for actions and contributions in a way that will be sustainable for us.

For many of us women who have been disconnected from parts of our feminine intelligence, power and agency (often as a survival response to hostile environments), discovering regenerative activism is a gift. It shows us a way forward that allows us to reconnect with our full selves, while staying connected to and making meaningful change in the outer world.

In this conversation, I explore these themes with regenerative activist, climate action catalyst & coach Kelly Isabelle DeMarco. Kelly's journey toward regenerative activism and supporting others as a climate coach is deeply inspiring. It required her to anchor into her feminine intuition so that she could find a way to show up in a way that was unique to her, and meaningful and sustainable for her. She shares with us her experiences and perspectives, as well as how she supports her clients in reconnecting to their own inner regenerative activist.

Kelly guides her clients to create a personalized climate action plan, based on their unique values, life experiences, occupational skills, personal passions, needs, resources and inner guidance. Starting January 26th, 2022 she is leading a group of dedicated, climate-concerned women on a 3-month transformation journey to becoming catalysts for change. You can learn more about coaching with her and her upcoming course here: https://www.kellygreencoaching.com

For more reading on Kelly's personal journey, visit: https://slowandsimpleliving.com

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The quote we mentioned by W.H. Murray : "Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favour all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamt would have come his way. I learned a deep respect for one of Goethe's couplets:
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!"
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For more about Jennifer Harvey Sallin's work, visit https://intergifted.com & https://rediscovering-yourself.com. To follow I Heart Earth, go https://facebook.com/iheartearthmeditations.