Rewilding the Human Spirit: Remembering How to Be Human Again
- Sally Richards
- 5 days ago
- 4 min read

There comes a moment on the path of awakening when you realise that embodiment, plant medicine, healing modalities, and spiritual practices are not separate threads. They are all expressions of one deeper truth: We are nature, and we have forgotten.
My work has grown from embodiment practices and cannabis education, but my vision is expanding beyond any single modality. What truly calls me is something more foundational and far more urgent: re-educating ourselves back into naturalistic humans. Humans who trust their intuition, honour the Earth, and live in relationship with the natural world rather than domination over it.
The Cost of Disconnection
We live in a world shaped by conditioning. From a young age we are taught to outsource our knowing: to experts, systems, institutions, and screens. We are rewarded for compliance, productivity, and disembodiment, while intuition, instinct, and embodied wisdom are dismissed or even pathologised.
This disconnection has consequences. When we sever ourselves from our inner guidance, we also sever our relationship with the Earth. The same mindset that teaches us not to trust ourselves teaches us to extract, consume, and control nature rather than listen to it.
The result is visible everywhere: burnout, chronic illness, ecological collapse, and a deep sense of existential grief many people feel but cannot name.
Intuition Is Not Woo, It Is Intelligence
Through my own lived experience, healing journey, and years of listening deeply, I have learned this truth again and again: intuition is real, precise, and powerful. It is not mystical fluff. It is biological intelligence. Nervous system intelligence. Earth-based intelligence.
Long before modern systems existed, humans survived and thrived through attunement. We read the land, the seasons, our bodies, and each other. Intuition kept us alive. It told us when something was off, when a plant was medicine, when to rest, and when to move.
Reclaiming intuition is not about rejecting science. It is about remembering that science itself was born from observation of nature, not separation from it.
Becoming Naturalistic Humans Again
To be a naturalistic human is to live in relationship.
Relationship with your body. Relationship with plants. Relationship with cycles, rhythms, and seasons. Relationship with truth.
This means slowing down enough to feel. It means questioning what you have been told when it does not align with your inner knowing. It means choosing practices that reconnect you to the Earth rather than pull you further from yourself.
Cannabis, when approached with respect and education, can be one doorway into this remembering. So can breath, touch, embodiment, time in nature, ritual, and honest conversation. None of these are the destination. They are invitations.
Why This Matters Now
This is not just personal work. It is collective and planetary.
Our nervous systems are overwhelmed because we are living against our nature. Our ecosystems are collapsing because we treat Earth as a resource instead of a living being.
If we want a future where humans and Earth survive together, we must relearn how to listen. To ourselves. To each other. To the land.
Rewilding humanity does not mean abandoning modern life. It means weaving ancient wisdom and intuitive truth back into it.
An Invitation
This space, this work, this evolving brand, is an invitation.
To remember. To question. To feel. To reconnect.
To become, once again, a human who belongs to the Earth.
Because our planet does not need more domination or disconnection. It needs humans who are awake, embodied, intuitive, and willing to live in truth.
The Living Pillars of My Work
Rewilding the human spirit is not a single practice or belief system. It is a way of seeing, living, and relating. The work I share lives across nine interconnected pillars, each one reflecting an aspect of what it means to remember how to be human again.
1. The Body as Intelligence
The body is not a machine to override, but an intelligent ecosystem. Through understanding systems like the Endocannabinoid System, nervous system regulation, and embodiment, we begin to see symptoms as messages and the body as an ally rather than an enemy.
2. Reconnection to Nature
Humans evolved in relationship with the Earth. Seasonal rhythms, sunlight, fresh air, water, and contact with the land are not luxuries. They are biological requirements. Rewilding asks us to remember our place within nature, not above it.
3. Nutrition as Communication
Food is information. What we eat speaks directly to our gut, brain, hormones, and ECS. Nourishment is not about restriction or control, but about giving the body what it recognises and needs to function in harmony.
4. Cannabis and Plant Medicine
Cannabis is one teacher among many. When approached with respect, education, and intention, plant medicines can support regulation, insight, and reconnection. They are not escapes, but mirrors that invite deeper listening.
5. Embodied Spirituality
True spirituality is lived through the body. Energy, intuition, and spirit are not separate from biology. Healing happens when we allow spiritual awareness to move through our physical form rather than bypass it.
6. Art as Sustenance
Beauty feeds the nervous system. Art, creativity, and sacred expression are not optional extras. They are ancient human technologies for regulation, meaning-making, and connection to the greater whole.
7. Community, Touch, and Connection
Humans are relational beings. Touch, shared presence, laughter, and community are essential medicines. Regulation and healing occur most naturally in safe relationship with others.
8. Universal Law and Energy
The same patterns that govern the cosmos live within us. Cycles, polarity, resonance, and alignment shape both our inner and outer worlds. Learning to live in accordance with these laws brings coherence and flow.
9. Truth, Intuition, and Deconditioning
At the core of this work is truth. Unlearning conditioning, reclaiming inner authority, and trusting intuition are acts of sovereignty. Remembering who we are beneath the layers of programming is essential for both personal and planetary healing.
This work is not about one plant, one practice, or one modality. It is about remembering our wholeness. About becoming humans who are regulated, connected, creative, intuitive, and in relationship with the Earth and each other.
Rewilding is a return. And it begins within.



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