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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” […]

  In the Nested World film below, Darcia Narvaez introduces and expands on the messages of the trilogy of films created by the Evolved Nest Initiative over the past three years. The footage of Darcia introducing and exploring the films was shot on the beautiful campus at the University of Notre Dame in fall 2024. […]

Kindred World is delighted to announce the launch of the Nested World Initiative and its long-anticipated Nesting Ambassador Program. . The Nested World website and ambassador program were launched on Kindred’s nonprofit partner, the Maternal Gift Economy’s, 88th Salon on November 15, 2025. A video presentation by Lisa Reagan, Kindred World founder, and Darcia Narvaez, […]

Salon #88 – Nested World for Maternal Gift Economy with Darcia Narvaez and Lisa Reagan November 15, 2025 The world is deeply in need of nested nurturing, which is what each of us expected in babyhood and childhood. The maternal gift economy is the origin of the evolved nest, shaping human nature and communities. Nestedness […]

Indigenous Peoples’ month marks the history of genocide and biocultural eradication that Indigenous Peoples faced in the “New World” and around the globe. They remind us that their life force is strengthening to help humanity reach forward to honor ancestors and future generations by transforming and adopting regenerative lifeways. Here are two inspiring songs to […]

On the Nested Pathway, we aim to feel always nested: Feeling related, connected, centered, and knowing how to live well with others (human and more than human). Evolved nest practices keep us feeling nested (Nature connection, healing practices, play, responsiveness, touch, welcome, multiple mentors, soothing perinatal experiences, breastfeeding). It is ever more challenging to find […]

“To ask ‘Why Clown, Why Now?’ is to recognize that clowning is not an escape from reality, but a way of engaging it more fully. The clown disarms us, helps us see through illusions, and reminds us that joy, humility, and play can be agents of transformation in service of what is sacred.” Clowns will […]