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Read more about this interview here: https://kindredmedia.org/2024/05/wikipedias-first-ever-definition-of-stay-at-home-mother-presents-economic-cultural-reality-of-caregiving/ Last year, Family and Home Network (FAHN) discovered the Wikipedia page for “Stay-at-Home mother” redirected readers to the pejorative term “Housewife.” Supported by forty years of advocacy for parents who wish to stay home...

Read more: https://kindredmedia.org/2024/05/10th-anniversary-celebration-with-darcia-narvaezs-book-that-birth-the-evolved-nest-a-video-discussion/ Lisa Reagan, Kindred’s editor, and Darcia Narvaez, Kindred World’s president, discuss the book that started it all, Neurobiology and the Development of Human Morality: Evolution, Culture, and Wisdom. First published in 2014, the book received the 2015 W...

Kindred World Publishing House is proud to announce the release of The Great Physician: Medicinal Poetry for the Anthropocene, the first major collection of poetry by the renowned neuroscientist, healer, and climate activist, Stephanie Mines, PhD. In The Great Physician, Dr. Mines unflinchingly and soulfully moves us beyond transgenerational trauma, war, oppression, and planetary collapse, toward...

Kindred is honored to feature the award-winning, short documentary, Ministry of Surf, in recognition of National Autism Month. Ministry of Surf shares the "story of one perfect day" with world champion surfers and ocean waves "bringing the stoke" to children with autism and their heroic families. The short film illustrates the healing power of nature connection, which is a main focus of Kindred Wo...

Join the Earth Day Celebration Launch for The Great Physician on April 22 at 3 p.m. ET. Read the press release and register for the event here: kindredmedia.org/2024/03/the-grea…aunch-announced/ Poetry Reading: Who Are You? Timemark 15:30 American Waiting Room, Timemark 21:30 The Texture of Oppression, Timemark 34:40 Kindred World Publishing House is proud to announce the release of The Great Phys...

Lisa Reagan, Kindred's editor, talks with the authors of the book, Attached at the Heart. Lysa Parker and Barbara Nicholson share their insights from the third editor of their beloved and classic parenting book. Read more about the interview and watch the video version here: https://kindredmedia.org/2024/01/normalizing-nurturing-a-discussion-with-the-authors-of-attached-at-the-heart/ Read the fore...

We can all become self-protective when we feel threatened and downshift to our survival systems which affect our perceptions and actions. This is part one of a two part podcast: 1. What Is Downshifting? 2. The Scope of Healing Our Evolved Nest is our Evolutionary Pathway to Wellbeing and Thriving Learn more about the Evolved Nest on Kindred Media: https://www.kindredmedia.org/topics/conscious-pare...

Read the transcript and find resources mentioned in the interview here: https://www.kindredmedia.org/2022/07/our-science-fictiony-worldview-lens-do-we-ever-know-what-is-happening-an-interview-with-marilyn-schlitz-phd/ When it appears that everything is wrong with the world, we know we’re dealing with a worldview issue. Science shows us our worldview creates our world, but what creates our worldvie...

Four Arrows and Darcia Narvaez discuss their new book, Restoring the Kinship Worldview. Learn more about worldview and discover Four Arrows' Indigenous Worldview Chart on Kindred here: https://www.kindredmedia.org/glossary/indigenous-worldview/ The book features selected speeches from Indigenous leaders around the world--necessary wisdom for our times, nourishment for our collective, and a path aw...

Kindred’s editor, Lisa Reagan, talks with Isa Gucciardi, PhD, about the seven life initiations needed to move into our full state of wholeness and our full potential for thriving – and what happens when these initiations are broken, interrupted, or culturally unacknowledged. Isa shares her considerable insight into how we are thwarted from completing our seven initiations, and how we can reclaim,...

Darcia Narvaez and Mary Tarsha discuss their studies recent findings in this podcast. “This is a game changer. It points to the fact that it is not enough to be trauma-informed. We must also provide for children’s basic needs, which our evolved nest does by its very nature. Cultures that are not attending to wellness-informed practices are not optimizing human potential, something sorely needed as...

Darcia Narvaez and Mary Tarsha review the new book by Oprah Winfrey and Bruce Perry. They look at the book through the lens of the Evolved Nest to find if the components for life-long wellness for human wellbeing are found in the book. They give the book two thumbs up! About the book Have you ever wondered Why did I do that? or Why can't I just control my behavior? Others may judge our reactions a...

Darcia Narvaez and Mary Tarsha review Michaeleen Doucleff’s book, Hunt, Gather, Parent: What Ancient Cultures Can Teach Us About the Lost Art of Raising Happy Helpful, Little Humans. "We give this book two thumbs down in terms of it not being heart-centered and providing the evolved nest." My name Dr. Darcia Narvaez and I’m here with Mary Tarsha. We are both at the University of Notre Dame’s Depar...

Kindred's series on Centering Childhood in Activism continues this month with an interview with Tanu Biswas. This series marks the beginning of a new dialogue at Kindred around the promise of centering childhood in social justice education for the next generation of changemakers. Kindred is launching the Kindred Fellowship Program (see below) this summer to continue to explore this promise as we c...

In this discussion with Rhea Komarek, DC, we ask what happens when we bring ourselves out of our heads and into our bodies to our worldview? Is this a which comes first, the chicken or the egg question? Dr. Rhea shares insights from Polyvagal Theory and Somatic Movement and how, befriending and tending our bodies, allows us to create the safe space that becomes the fertile, “tonified” soil for per...

Kelly Wendorf shares her two decades of indigenous worldview allyship captured in her latest book, Flying Lead Change, and shared on her teaching ranch in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Kelly has lived and worked around the world, studying with many spiritual and indigenous leaders in India, Africa, Indonesia, and Australia. Her early work inspired her to found Kindred to answer the question: how do we liv...

Read the story here: https://www.kindredmedia.org/2021/01/tackling-a-national-family-literacy-epidemic-during-a-global-pandemic-an-interview-with-pam-leo-of-the-book-fairy-pantry-project/ Pam Leo inspires us to quite the hand-wringing and get busy tackling the epidemic of family illiteracy in our local communities with her on-the-ground Book Fairy Pantry Project stories and guidance! At-risk commu...

Lisa Reagan talks with Jamie Grumet about her new gem of a book, Modern Attachment Parenting: The Comprehensive Guide to Raising a Secure Child. You may remember Jamie as the mother featured on the cover of TIME magazine in 2012 nursing her three-year-old. Her follow-up interview with me in 2013 entitled The Cover Shot Heard Round the World – won two Hermes Platinum Awards and told the real story...

Read the article on Why We Need A Native Breastfeeding Week here: https://www.kindredmedia.org/2020/08/a-closer-look-at-native-breastfeeding-week/ Native Breastfeeding Week is August 9-15, and is being celebrated for its second year. Listen to the founder share her story of realizing why a Native Breastfeeding Week and movement are needed, and how she is working with her community to create ceremo...

Riane Eisler talks with Kindred on Creating a Post-Pandemic Caring Economy and Culture. Riane is a social systems scientist, cultural historian, and attorney whose research, writing, and speaking has transformed the lives of people worldwide. Her newest work, Nurturing Our Humanity: How Domination and Partnership Shape Our Brains, Lives, and Future shows how to construct a more equitable, sustaina...

Dr. Suzanne Zeedyk shares how Scotland is on track to become the world’s first ACES (Adverse Childhood Experiences) Aware nation. The country’s holistic approach to treating violence as a virus has led to a 50 percent reduction in violence in big cities like Glasgow. On this podcast we will hear Dr. Zeedyk share her experience of working with police departments, childcare centers and hosting an AC...

In this interview with Robin Grille, we learn why it is important for us to spend time growing up our inner child before becoming an activist. “The wounded children are driving the direction of the planet,” says Grille. “And we need adults to show up as activists to do the work that needs to be done to make real change.” Grille and Lisa Reagan, Kindred’s editor, walk through the process of forgive...

READ THE SERIES: www.kindredmedia.org/2020/03/black-…ocial-justice/ Kindred listeners and readers are invited to our virtual campfire to hear the Wisdom Council members of Reaching Our Brothers Everywhere, ROBE, share their inspired personal stories and vision for their national nonprofit work. In this series, Lisa Reagan is joined by Kindred’s social justice editor, Dave Metler, in Detroit, MI, a...

Part III in Kindred’s Black Men, Breastfeeding and Social Justice Series An Interview with Reaching Our Brother's Everywhere, ROBE's Wisdom Council Members, Calvin Williams and Kevin Sherman. TRANSCRIPT HERE: www.kindredmedia.org/2020/06/black-…uncil-members/ About Kindred’s Black Men, Breastfeeding and Social Justice Series: In this series, Lisa Reagan talks with the Wisdom Council members of Rea...

In this interview with Lisa Reagan, Marilyn Mandala Schlitz, PhD, shares the inspiration for her documentary, Death Makes Life Possible, created with co-producer, Deepak Chopra. You can see the film's trailer, and read a feature article with Dr. Schlitz and Dr. Chopra on Kindred here: www.kindredmedia.org/2013/06/death-…-bridging-the/ Marilyn Mandala Schlitz, PhD, r. Schlitz is an acclaimed social...