Conscious Parenting

Martha Vivian Sears (McMenamy) January 24, 1945 - June 28, 2025 Martha Sears, RN, a compassionate and tireless advocate for nurturing family bonds and…

Kindred's nonprofit partner, Local Futures, has launched The Bristol Conversations – a podcast and video series featuring Helena Norberg Hodge in deep, soulful…

Thomas Aquinas defined sin as the violation of human wellbeing.  Erich Fromm (1973) calls such behavior irrational: “I propose to call rational any thought,…

It wasn’t hard to become a Nazi. From my short lifetime of experience, I pulled together unresolved bitterness, feelings of unjust treatment and social slights,…

People sometimes ask or wonder about how to be respectful of Native Peoples while desiring to adopt Indigenous ways. I find it helpful to approach the term…

Although in the USA today, many residents are ego-wilding (see prior post), this is not humanity’s heritage. Eco-wilding is our heritage. Eco-wilding deeply…

The term, wilding, emerged as a description of random youth violence. A sign of failed socialization. But in recent decades, this kind of wilding has been…

“We are stuck in the wrong story.” — Riane Eisler “The Evolved Nest helps us remember what being human really means.” — Darcia Narvaez (from the recorded…

Corporations sell us hedonic pleasures (tobacco, alcohol, processed “food”) and behavior triggers (guns, cars, energy) by using advanced science about how to…

Watch the video tribute below. From Darcia Narvaez, PhD Dr. James Prescott is one of my founding mentors for the work I do today. His papers were an…