Breastfeeding Resources

A skittish fish can transmit misinformation to a group of fish and threaten their survival by moving them away from food sources. Evolution promoted defenses against misinformation with variations in perceptual sensitivity. Fish in small groups are more responsive to a reactive colleague and will eventually die out if they keep missing eating. In large […]

  Dear Kindred, The ongoing, intensifying cultural debate around AI seems engineered to skip over the obvious, central question surrounding AI’s future potential and impact on the human family its creators purport to serve.  What if we paused and consider for a moment the missing baseline for any discussion about AI: is it intelligence? Its […]

How does Riane Eisler’s partnership model of leadership transform our understanding of politics, economics, and social change in an age of trauma and technological upheaval?

Helena Norberg-Hodge’s 80th birthday is an occasion to honor a lifetime – 50 years –  of devotion to living, local, life-centered cultures—the very ground that Kindred World and the Evolved Nest are working to protect and restore in families and communities today. Her work reminds us that healthy humans emerge from healthy cultures, and healthy […]

Pre-order your Gratitude Deck. Release date March 10, 2026 From Indigenous author, scholar, and activist Four Arrows (Wahinkpe Topa)—cultivate your own earth-based gratitude practice with this 52-card oracle deck. For readers of Robin Wall Kimmerer, Rae Diamond, Jessica Hernandez, and Sherri Mitchell All Our Relations, a 52-card oracle deck, guides readers through a nature-based gratitude […]

In this episode of This Is How We Care, Emily Race-Newmark sits down with developmental psychologist and author Dr. Darcia Narvaez to explore what children—and humanity—truly need to thrive. Drawing from neuroscience, anthropology, Indigenous wisdom, and decades of research, Dr. Narvaez introduces the concept of the Evolved Nest: the caregiving system humans evolved with for […]

My inbox exploded last month. I was tucked away in the mountains, deep in book-writing mode. Snow-dusted peaks outside my window. Fall leaves drifting down. The kind of quiet I’d been craving to finally write the chapters that have been living in my bones for years. Chapters about the magic of motherhood. The origins of […]

Evolved nestedness in early life has the perfume of enchantment. Multiple nurturers accompany baby, providing ongoing support as needed with evolved nest practices that represent love in action for our species. Mothers are fully supported. Joyful presence accompanies baby, nearly always in arms. Comforting is instantaneous. Nestedness shapes a biology of love and enchantment with […]

It’s easy not to know how to treat a baby when you have no species-normal baselines. So you ping-pong between conflicting advice. There is no need to do that. We have the baselines. Researchers (some) learned the hard way how important baselines are for raising the young of other species (e.g., it is abnormal for […]

In the mid-1980s, when I first volunteered with Mothers at Home (the original name of our organization), we were often challenged: “Why does it matter if you’re home? Children do just fine in child care. Responding to questions like this, we focused on simple statements such as: “I think this is best for my children” […]