Rewilding as an ecological conservation concept is about restoring natural processes and wilderness areas with an emphasis on recreating an area's natural uncultivated state.

Beyond Domestication takes it further by looking at how people live and to use rewilding tenets to provide beneficial effects on their lives.

The main aim for the book is to help people to connect more closely with nature and themselves.

To this end, the book introduces the Seven Practices of Well-Being as a guide to their rewilding journey and looking into how each plays a role in our personal health and well-being as well as the following: food (how important food and food production are to well-being; discussion on diets and the major kingdoms of food; water (a prerequisite for life, this resource influences everything; discussion on drinking water, swimming, and our relationship with bodies of water in nature); air (with discussions on airbathing, active breathing as well as how climate and weather affects ou