Biomimicry & the Web of Wellbeing

What if your reluctance to engage with money is like a tree refusing to participate in the forest's nutrient exchange? That your internal narratives might be keeping you from plugging into the ecosystems you want to see flourish?

Money isn't an end in itself—but also not the root of all evil. It's a medium, more like a mycelial network: the invisible web carrying nutrients and information through the forest. Like deep fungal connections sending support where needed to keep the ecosystem thriving, your financial wellbeing isn't about accumulation. It's about circulation to strengthen the whole.

In our economic web, every dollar you earn and spend casts a vote for the world you want to live in. Accept payment for healing work? You vote for a psychologically sane world. Buy from local organic farms? You vote for a cleaner earth. Purchase books, theater tickets, or music? You show that experiencing art gives life meaning. Pay yourself fairly? You signal your work has worth.

This is conscious participation. The question isn't whether to participate (you already are), but how consciously you direct your flow.

Creatives and healers feel especial responsibility. We are edge-dwellers—living in that liminal space where the practical meets the transcendent. In nature, edges are the most diverse and innovative places. Where forest meets meadow, where river meets sea. Places where adaptation happens fastest. Where the most interesting exchanges occur.

Because of this, our financial lives don't look like everyone else's. We don't live in the same ecological niche. Our resources ebb and flow, and that rhythm creates anxiety when we expect constancy. But maybe the problem isn't rhythm, but our expectations.

Designing your financial life around natural patterns grows resilience—showing when to pool reserves during abundance and how diversified streams of income supports stability. Nature doesn't do constant. Rivers flood and trickle. Hearts beat and rest. Why should cash flow be different?

When creatives and healers thrive financially, they model a different way of being: proof that economic participation doesn't require selling our souls—but rather, can extend our souls' work in the world.

P.S. What's your soul's work? I'd love to hear.

In creative connection,

Dawn