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Editor’s Note: This letter from the editor is a part of the Special Issue of Kindred Magazine celebrating The Mother of Medicine for Mother’s Day 2025. Kindredwelcomes Stephanie Mines, PhD, as guest editor for this issue.  Watch the Welcoming the Mother of Medicine video discussion with Lisa Reagan and Stephanie Mines below. See the overview […]

Editor’s Note: This post is a part of the forthcoming Special Issue of Kindred Magazinecelebrating the Mother of Medicine for Mother’s Day 2025. Kindred welcomes Stephanie Mines, PhD, as guest editor for this issue.  Watch the Welcoming the Mother of Medicine video discussion with Lisa Reagan and Stephanie Mines. See the overview of the Mother […]

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 welcomes Stephanie Mines, PhD, as guest editor for this issue.  Join the LIVE week-long events for the Mother of Medicine, May 12-16, 8 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. Pacific Time, by […]

John Bowlby’s insights about the importance of attachment was a revelation to a western world dominated by left-brain orientations of non-relational individualism and treating mothers as milk machines instead of nurturers. Attachment is a psychological concept that caught on among researchers and interventionists, and spread to the public. It usually refers to the type of […]

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 welcomes Stephanie Mines, PhD, as guest editor for this issue.  Join the LIVE week-long events for the Mother of Medicine, May 12-16, 8 a.m. Pacific Time, by registering here. Subscribe […]

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 welcomes Stephanie Mines, PhD, as guest editor for this issue.  Join the LIVE week-long events for the Mother of Medicine, May 12-16, 8 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. Pacific Time, by […]

Recently, I listened to an interview of Cory Keyes on languishing. He was discussing his new book, Languishing: How to Feel Alive Again in a World That Wears Us Down. He mentioned his unsupportive upbringing and his resulting conclusion that the world was not going to help him. He says he learned the lesson that […]

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 welcomes Stephanie Mines, PhD, as guest editor for this issue.  Join the LIVE week-long events for the Mother of Medicine, May 12-16, 8 a.m. Pacific Time, by registering here. Subscribe […]

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 welcomes Stephanie Mines, PhD, as guest editor for this issue. Subscribe now to receive this issue, and receive invitations to forthcoming related events here. SUBSCRIBE These practices, which have been […]

ENDORSEMENTS “The Great Physician is good medicine for my spirit, my mental and emotional being and my physical body.  The Great Physician: Medicinal Poetry for the Anthropocene will remain on my desk where I can revisit the beautiful, sobering, compassionate, inspiring experiences exquisitely shaped into poetic form.  As someone who is keen on the gift […]