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Adverse Childhood Experiences, Dysfunctional Households, and Circumcision
Abstract: Children from dysfunctional households experience a proportionally greater number of adverse experiences than other children. One such common event is…
Nurturing Starts Before Birth
The lifeway of a child is first shaped in the womb.
Your Attention Matters: Narrowly Focused or Broad and Receptive?
How you attend affects what you perceive.
How Play Supports Our Autonomic Regulation: New Research & Podcast
Listen to Darcia Narvaez and Mary Tarsha discuss the benefits of one of our nine Evolved Nest components: PLAY. These new insights are based on recent research…
Discovering & Using Kindred’s Worldview Chart by Four Arrows…
About the Video
Four Arrows and Darcia Narvaez introduce Kindred readers to the illuminating Worldview Chart they explore in their current book, Restoring…
The Maternal Gift Economy: Sharing, Morality and Human Nature
The following presentation is from Darcia Narvaez's presentation at the Maternal Gift Economy Conference on November 25, 2022. The conference video is below.…
How A Weight Loss Clinic “Mistake” And A Shipboard Explosion…
What if I told you you’re probably reading this post in this blog because of a mistake in a weight loss clinic in 1985, and a horrific shipboard explosion in…
Myths of Intelligence and Race
When I was growing up, my dad was caught up in the nature and labels of intelligence. When he was being socialized, eugenicists and clinicians…
Comparing the Kinship (Indigenous Worldview) To Wong’s Dual-Systems…
"The idea that self-actualization is a long term process that few ever meet stands in contrast to an Indigenous worldview that sees…
The Wellness-Promoting Pathway Starts With Humanity’s Evolved Nest
To not receive the EDN in early life can be perceived as an injustice to a child, with serious ramifications for the child’s future. If brain and body…