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Kindred World is delighted to announce Andrea Brooks Dole has joined our board of directors. We welcomed Andrea as a parent representative this past spring. Andrea’s story has been featured in Kindred Magazine and she joined the first Nesting Ambassador’s Cohort this June 2025. Andrea is a recognized advocate for families of children with complex medical needs. […]

And if we can teach our children this—that relationships are messy and worth it, that we can bridge two perspectives to build one path, that love is a daily practice, not a promise—we give them something precious. A map of their own. For life. Before Baby, We Thought We Were Ready We’d done the prenatal […]

The work of normalizing nurturing isn’t just about changing individual families, though that would be enough. It’s about shifting our entire cultural understanding of what children need and what parents can trust.  When we choose the whisperer’s way over the breaker’s way, we model a different possibility for our communities. We show that strength doesn’t […]

Just as we once believed a fed baby would thrive, we now falsely believe a well-intentioned parent can buffer a child from the  effects of systemic instability on their own. The next necessary leap in our psychological and public health understanding is this: Relational health is ecological. It requires not just one-on-one attachment between parent […]

People sometimes ask or wonder about how to be respectful of Native Peoples while desiring to adopt Indigenous ways. I find it helpful to approach the term “Indigenous” in four ways. First, as some argue, we are all indigenous to Earth. True. We are Earthlings with layers of being that are shared with the rest […]

Although in the USA today, many residents are ego-wilding (see prior post), this is not humanity’s heritage. Eco-wilding is our heritage. Eco-wilding deeply contrasts with ego-wilding. People often misunderstand “wildness,” as if it refers to ego-wildness—unfettered impulsive or planned antisociality. But we are not born to be ego-wild. Ego-wildness comes from undercare (unnestedness), inherited epigenetic […]

The term, wilding, emerged as a description of random youth violence. A sign of failed socialization. But in recent decades, this kind of wilding has been appearing in previously unexpected quarters—in business and political leaders. Instead of aiming for the common good with common sense about what that means, “wilders” follow their impulses to be […]

“We are stuck in the wrong story.” — Riane Eisler “The Evolved Nest helps us remember what being human really means.” — Darcia Narvaez (from the recorded conversation below)    In this powerful conversation, Riane Eisler and Darcia Narvaez explore the synergy between Eisler’s Partnerism framework and Narvaez’s Evolved Nest model. Narvaez’s and Eisler’s lifelong […]

Corporations sell us hedonic pleasures (tobacco, alcohol, processed “food”) and behavior triggers (guns, cars, energy) by using advanced science about how to hook us to their products (Freundenberg, 2014). They tap into neurobiological functions, like the brain’s reward pathway. As you know the processed food you eat is designed to ‘keep you hooked.’ Sugar does […]

Watch the video tribute below. From Darcia Narvaez, PhD Dr. James Prescott is one of my founding mentors for the work I do today. His papers were an alert, a wake up call, an inspiration that lit up my intuitions about the world having gone wrong. I discovered his origins of violence video and his […]