The Spiral: An Ancient Model Useful for Contemporary Times
My left shoulder sports a tattoo––a rendering of a petroglyph in the shape of a spiral. In school, while listening to the droning on of teachers, I drew spirals…
Vagus Nerve Development and the Evolved Nest
In the podcast below, you will hear Dr. Darcia Narvaez and Dr. Mary Tarsha discuss their new paper, “Humanity’s Evolved Developmental Niche and its Relation to…
Reimagine Your World in Less Than 30 Minutes…
What do to during the holiday break, and ask our world braces for a pivotal year in human history? Let's reimagine our world in less than 30 minutes with the…
Embodied Cultural Sensitivity, Birth, and Feminism
"We will be saved throgh the articulation of what we have forgotten.”
— Stephanie Mines
Nothing restores embodied cultural sensitivity more than a…
Can We Replace Conquistador Mind in the Nursery?
Parents have a rough go of it. They white-water raft their way through the days and nights of balancing child raising, work, and household management. Often,…
Wikipedia’s First Ever Definition of “Stay-at-Home…
Listen to an interview with the women from Family and Home Network who caught Wikipedia's redirect page to "housewife" and submitted the new entry for…
10th Anniversary Celebration with Darcia Narvaez Of The Book That Birthed…
Lisa Reagan and Darcia Narvaez discuss the significance of and ongoing work inspired by Darcia's award-winning book, Neurobiology and the Development of Human…
The Conquistador Mindset
I was first proud and then disgusted to learn that one of my ancestors was a Spanish conquistador, Pánfilo de Narváez. He is most famous for fighting Hernán…
The Unmentionable Reason Human Wellbeing is on the Rocks
The collapse of wellbeing in the USA continues. The reports year by year show a downward trajectory of wellbeing, especially for those under age 65. In…
The Way of the Wild Soul Woman
From The Mountain Woman Section of The Way of the Wild Soul Woman, by Mary Reynolds Thompson
There is tension at the core of life, beneath the…