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The Prenatal Shadow: Healing the Traumas Before and at Birth
Editor’s Note: This post is a part of the forthcoming Special Issue of Kindred Magazine celebrating the Mother of Medicine for Mother’s Day 2025. Kindred…
The Embodied Relationship: The Protective Function of Nurturing…
Editor's Note: This post is a part of the forthcoming Special Issue of Kindred Magazine celebrating the Mother of Medicine on Mother's Day 2025. Kindred…
Darcia Narvaez, Kindred World’s President, to Receive APA Div. 24…
Kindred World is proud to announce that Darcia Narvaez, PhD, our president and co-founder of the Evolved Nest Initiative, is the recipient of the 2024…
Never Doubt the Power of Your Advocacy
This morning, I heard an interview with a journalist who advocated for mothers who used drugs during pregnancy but who later gave up their addictions to parent…
How Deep Nested Communities Foster Cooperative Companionship instead of…
What can we learn from deep nestedness?
Our species-typical existence was one of deep nestedness. Deep nestedness has three elements:
(1) ongoing communal…
Moral Shrinkage: How did we fall so far?
Our 6-minute film, Breaking the Cycle, gives the overview of how the dominant culture lost its way. We are in a cycle of competitive detachment, an unnested…
Reimagining Our Humanity
For nearly all of human species existence across the world, child raising was rooted in the maternal gift economy as denoted by the evolved nest. Basic needs…
Grounded Expansion: What The Mother Tree “Ent” Said
Letter from the Editor
Kindred's November 2024 Issue
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“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
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10 Ways to Be an Exceptional Listener
Are you a good listener? If you ask any person, they will likely tell you they are good listeners. But if you ask the people in their life, you may get another…
Virtue and Vice, Individual and Cultural
Philosophers have long discussed how one develops goodness. Whereas Lawrence Kohlberg’s theory, rooted in Enlightenment philosophy, emphasized reasoning…