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    Regenerate Your Reality: Your Guide to Regenerative Living, Happiness, Love & Sovereignty
    Regenerate Your Reality: Your Guide to Regenerative Living, Happiness, Love & Sovereignty
    Regenerate Your Reality: Your Guide to Regenerative Living, Happiness, Love & Sovereignty
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    Regenerate Your Reality: Your Guide to Regenerative Living, Happiness, Love & Sovereignty

    By Jean Pullen

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    When we look at the world today, we may feel powerless to change anything. Even in our careers or personal lives, we may feel that we have lost our passion for life-that we're disconnected, disenchanted, and disillusioned in the face of global crises.

    At the age of twenty-eight, Jean Pullen left a successful career to redesign her life and

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPurposely Created Publishing Group
    Release dateApr 6, 2022
    ISBN9781644845295
    Regenerate Your Reality: Your Guide to Regenerative Living, Happiness, Love & Sovereignty

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      Regenerate Your Reality - Jean Pullen

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      REGENERATE YOUR REALITY

      Copyright © 2022 Jean Louise Pullen

      All rights reserved.

      Published by Publish Your Gift®

      An imprint of Purposely Created Publishing Group, LLC

      No part of this book may be reproduced, distributed or transmitted in any form by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, taping, or by any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher, except in the case of reprints in the context of reviews, quotes, or references.

      Printed in the United States of America

      ISBN: 978-1-64484-528-8 (print)

      ISBN: 978-1-64484-529-5 (ebook)

      Special discounts are available on bulk quantity purchases by book clubs, associations and special interest groups. For details email: [email protected] or call (888) 949-6228.

      For information log on to www.PublishYourGift.com

      A portion of the proceeds from this book will benefit the Trees, Training, Trade Program by Jungle Project in partnership with the Kiss the Ground nonprofit organization, whose combined missions are to preserve the quality of our soils and water through regenerative farming and agroforestry. We believe Regenerative Agriculture can reverse climate change, while providing a solution for malnutrition and world hunger. Learn more at

      https://www.regenerateyourreality.com/takeaction

      A seed is a forest inside out.

      —Matshona Dhliwayo

      The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.

      —Albert Einstein

      It’s not the strongest species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the most responsive to change.

      —Charles Darwin

      If you are doing the right thing for the earth, she’s giving you great company.

      —Vandana Shiva

      SPECIAL CONTRIBUTORS

      Ahimsa Ongwenyi

      Alan Cacao

      Astaria Light

      Brett Pullen

      Camille Willemain

      Ciara Lemony

      Danielle Ashé

      Diana Chaves

      Eva Dalak

      Gustavo Angulo

      Lala Palmieri

      Katie McCormick

      Estonia Kersey Otieno

      Paul Zink

      Sarah Marie Wu

      Toby Israel

      Rea Farout

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      INTRODUCTION

      I DREAMS

      Living dreams every day through action.

      II PASSION PATH

      Regenerating in every way with circular economy, regenerative agriculture, and permaculture. Setting your heart on fire.

      III FINANCIAL FREEDOM

      Living simply with diversity, sovereignty, and conscious consumption.

      IV PURIFICATION

      Purifying the body, mind, and earth through meditation, food medicine, and fasting.

      V SEEDS OF LOVE

      Discovering love as a state of being. Seeing seeds as the foundation of life.

      VI THE PLANT MEDICINE QUEENDOM

      Getting to know herbalism, plant allies, cacao, psychedelics, and other healing traditions.

      VII DEATH, BACTERIA, & FUNGI

      Exploring the connections between death, bacteria, and fungi—death and rebirth.

      CONCLUSION:

      Short Writings, Prayers, & Poems

      APPENDIX

      Suggested Reading List

      Recommended Documentaries & Videos

      Ecological Centers to Visit

      About Regenerate Your Reality

      The Gift That Keeps on Giving! Plant Trees.

      ABOUT THE AUTHOR

      INTRODUCTION

      MY STORY

      I wrote this book as a gift to myself, a reminder of who I am now and who I am becoming. My wish is that this book might also inspire others to regenerate their reality.

      Today, I am living my dream in paradise on my Costa Rican Fairy Farm (Finca de las Hadas). My partner and I are growing much of our own food on our land with three rivers flowing through it. We live on both the Pacific and Caribbean coasts of Costa Rica, where the jungles host over 6 percent of the world’s total biodiversity.¹ Costa Rica has welcomed me here, and I feel so fortunate. ¡Pura Vida!

      When I was a little girl, I would often find secret gardens in the forest. I swept the pine needles away from the forest floor to create a little space to sit and play, dwelling with the other forest fairies. I still carry this spirit of imagination and childlike play, cherishing the butterflies, hummingbirds, toucans, monkeys, and sloths that cross my path.

      I live with my partner, Alan, with whom I have shared four years of adventures. Alan has been a driving force of our shared dream, teaching permaculture through action for the last thirteen years. We live with our dog,

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      1 Environment: Embajada De Costa Rica En Dc, Environment | Embajada de Costa Rica en DC, accessed November 2, 2021, http://www.costarica-embassy.org/index.php?q=node%2F12

      Pata Blanca (White Paw), and our eleven hens. Together, Alan and I have planted thousands of edible fruit trees, along with annuals, medicinals, and perennial gardens. We produce much of what we consume and strive to walk each step with love and care for ourselves and the earth.

      My favorite aspects of the day revolve around the sun. I cherish the early morning, when the birds and animals are most active and the rays of light shine through the forest canopy. I love watching sunsets as the sky turns to dusk and the insect orchestra sings.

      When I look back into my history, it feels so full of lifetimes and experiences. I grew up in the suburbs of Tacoma, Washington, near Mount Rainier. My family lived in a cul-de-sac in a small neighborhood full of parks and trees. For most of my early childhood, I played outside with my brother and the other neighborhood kids.

      When I was in kindergarten, my teachers started to recognize that the way I wrote and learned was different from the other children. By the second grade, I was labeled as legally blind and in need of special education. I was formally tested in middle school and discovered that I had dyslexia.

      My parents were both entrepreneurs—my father a family physician who started a medical practice in the town nearby, and my mother who ran her own advertising agency out of our home. In our household, we frequently talked sex and money. Nothing was taboo.

      After discovering my dyslexia, I learned how to advocate for myself to my teachers and colleagues. I excelled at the arts and hands-on learning. When I was ten years old, I made the best soccer team in the state, and I continued to play competitive soccer for the next seven years. Other players may have had more talent, but I worked hard, and I have been told that my role supporting team-building and cooperation led to group success in ways that exceeded my physical contributions.

      After two years at the University of Portland in Oregon, I entered the business school after barely passing calculus. I tried marketing first but eventually declared a major in finance and accounting. My college mentor told me, If you know finance, you can do anything in business. It may be the hardest major here, but you can do it!

      During my senior year of college, my mom was diagnosed with stage IV ovarian cancer. I moved home and finished most of my last semester of college remotely. My mother’s illness was a key crisis for my family, a wake-up call to change our lifestyles. I realized I needed to live my life to the fullest.

      I remember pushing back the start date for my first job as an accountant at Ernst & Young due to the economic collapse of 2008. During this forced sabbatical, I traveled the East Cape of Mexico, learning from people who were living off only solar energy. I learned to surf and sail and experienced my first temazcal (a type of sweat lodge) with a group of people indigenous to Mexico City. I remember talking to Jesse Ventura, the professional wrestler and former governor of Minnesota, who lived off the grid in Mexico. I asked him then, Should I even start in the corporate world? Or should I find another way?

      I did start in the corporate world. The education system of labels and grades that I had grown up in had impacted my ability to think for myself and had created self-limiting beliefs. All my life up to this point, I had not been truly making my own decisions. Teachers, grades, my parents, my church, and society had all influenced me.

      When I entered the working world, I set a goal for myself to learn from it—and then to become financially free before my thirties. I was called hauditor (hot auditor) by clients as I moved from one company to the next, learning the ins and outs. In all my jobs, I traveled all over the United States.

      I met another accountant, and we dated for a few years. He proposed to me under the Eiffel Tower. In 2015, forty-five days before our wedding, we broke up. Afterwards, I decided to make major changes and essentially dismantled my life. I studied happiness and prepared to quit my job, saving money and researching future travels. I switched my honeymoon trip to Nicaragua and had a solo adventure in Central America.

      At the beginning of 2016, I quit my job to pursue my solo travel dream. I traveled to Ireland to learn about my ancestors’ traditions, see ancient sites, and experience the culture. Later that year, I visited France—another place of family heritage—and went wine-tasting through farms and villages. I frolicked in lavender fields and snorkeled in the South of France.

      I then returned home to Washington and decided to hike as many mountains as possible, heading off on backpacking trips and discovering mystical lakes. I went to a ten-day Vipassana meditation center near Mount Saint Helens. I stopped making any decisions that were based on anything other than my intuition and heart.

      At the end of 2016, I flew back to Mexico and started traveling through Central America, volunteering at different permaculture farms. Living as a volunteer, I had the opportunity to exchange my time for room and board. I studied Mayan culture and regenerative lifestyles with women-led food forests and cooperatives.

      I met my partner, Alan, in Guatemala during Cosmic Convergence Festival in 2016. Together, we moved to Costa Rica in September of 2017 to follow our passion for regenerative living through action. We purchased a small piece of paradise with an old-growth food forest near Puerto Viejo in Limón. We set up a small office cabin and an edible botanical garden. We started teaching regenerative permaculture workshops. Then I met a dream community project, Jungle Project, which is all about trees, training, and trade through breadfruit-based community supply chain networks.

      Additionally, I became a soil advocate for Kiss the Ground and got involved in local volunteer committees.

      In 2019, Alan and I purchased a hectare (2.5 acres) in southern Costa Rica, setting up a full permaculture farm. We moved into this jungle paradise to develop our food sovereignty and live simply and holistically. The land already had an established home and many mature edible fruit trees growing on former pastureland. In 2020, lockdowns and border closures helped us stay focused on our mission, releasing us from normal distractions such as traveling, watching the news, or going out frequently.

      I can count many, many experiences and lifetimes in the first thirty-four years of my life. I feel beyond blessed and grateful for all the perspectives and lessons along the way. Today, I am happy to be working for myself. Alongside Alan, I am on my way to sovereignty in water, food, and solar energy.

      I couldn’t be more proud to be who I am in the present: a holistic being and a lover of life. I still consider myself a forest fairy, too, just like I did when I was a little girl.

      It is when I live my passions, work for myself, and embody love that I truly live to my fullest potential. Over the past years, I have shifted my perspective from survival mode to thrival mode.

      THRIVAL MODE

      When we live our dreams every day—satisfying our basic needs, cultivating self-love, and taking care of the earth and each other—we live with purpose. We paint each brushstroke with beautiful moments and cherish the simple pleasures.

      This book is a memoir and a guide based on the tools that helped me regenerate my reality. It is my hope that it plants a seed of regeneration in your path, too.

      REGENERATE YOUR REALITY: THE BOOK

      We are all full of magic. We are all forces of nature.

      I have felt the call of environmentalism throughout my life. I want to leave the planet better than I found it—to leave it thriving for the generations to come.

      Mantra for Regeneration

      Action speaks.

      Words must be impeccable.

      Do the best you can.

      Don’t take anything personally.

      FLY (First Love Yourself).

      Serve others how you want to be treated.

      Receive and give.

      Listen to intuition.

      Empower farmers.

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