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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 with their babies and children, FAHN crafted the first ever Wikipedia entry for Stay-at-Home mother. The heavily cited entry exposes the culturally-engineered myth that pits working mothers and stay-at-home mothers against each other by sharing the economic reality that most women, 57%, do not have a choice to work or stay home but instead float between home and work out of necessity. Furthermore, labor statistics on Stay-at-Home Mothers are collected in such a way the dynamic and large population of SAHMs have been represented as small and ineffective, when the opposite is true. The Stay-at-Home Mother entry launched on Wikipedia on May 7, 2024. Find out more about how we were never meant to raise children alone, in isolation, and without robust community support in this science-based post by Darcia Narvaez, PhD “Stay-at-home mothers are often ignored or stereotyped in cultural and political conversations. Although stay-at-home parents do essential work, they're not considered part of the workforce and their work is not counted in the GDP,” says Willow Duttge Tepper, member of the FAHN Board of Directors and lead of the project. “Though homemaking skills should never be denigrated, at-home mothers must not be misidentified as housewives,” says Catherine Myers, Executive Director of FAHN. “Most at-home mothers are focused on their children's needs and on their own desire to spend time together with their children. Family and Home Network is happy to set the record straight.” FAHN has four decades of experience listening to and speaking up to dispel misconceptions about at-home mothers, and the team brought that knowledge to the Wikipedia entry. It's important because all families must be included in family policy, and many families with an at-home parent are economically vulnerable. Unfortunately most U.S. family policy is crafted through the lens of “working families,” leaving out at-home mothers and at-home fathers, who are forgoing paid employment in order to care for their children by choice or by circumstance. FAHN found that stay-at-home fathers have their own Wikipedia page, and now stay-at-home mothers have one too. “Care has value, whether it's done by child care providers or by parents themselves,” says Myers. “At-home mothers, at-home fathers, and other unpaid caregivers must be recognized and their care counted and supported with equitable, inclusive family policies.” Because Wikipedia is a publicly accessed site, the new entry has already seen changes, including elimination of some of the paragraphs that expand on the misrepresented labor statistics around SAHMs. Kindred has posted FAHN's original definition of the term, complete with citations, in our New Story Glossary here. Kindred is also proud to have Darcia Narvaez's award-winning book, Neurobiology and the Development of Human Morality, listed as the first citation on the SAHM Wiki page. You can learn more about this book, and read its introduction and first chapter, in its 10th anniversary celebration interview with Darcia here. You can learn more about centering the needs of children as a path to cultural transformation in our Evolved Nest Initiative posts on Kindred and on the Evolved Nest's website. Kindred Magazine is a sister initiative of the Evolved Nest Initiative through the award-winning nonprofit, Kindred World.

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 William James Book Award from Division I of the American Psychological Association as well as the Moral Development and Education SIG at the American Educational Research Association. In 2017, the book was chosen from among more than 360 total entries from 170 universities and 30 countries for the Vatican's Expanded Reason Award. Since 2019, Darcia and Lisa have worked to bring this book's award-winning research and science to the public through the Evolved Nest Initiative and its many projects, including a trilogy of short films funded by the Vatican award monies. Kindred Magazine is a sister-initiative of the Evolved Nest Initiative. Both are collaborative, educational initiatives of the award-winning, American nonprofit, Kindred World. In this celebratory podcast of Neurobiology and the Development of Human Morality's 10th anniversary, Lisa and Darcia discuss the book's challenges coming into publication, its unique transdisciplinary approach, and the ongoing work through the Evolved Nest Initiative and Kindred to unpack its far-reaching potential for our human family and planet's return to our evolutionary pathway to wellbeing, our Evolved Nest.

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 the truth of our birthright: our “Original Brilliance.” On Earth Day 2024, The Great Physician was launched with a celebratory poetry reading and discussion with the author, Stephanie Mines, PhD. In the recording of the Earth Day Poetry Reading below, you will find the timemarks here. Beyond Traumatic Repetition: 5:25 The Black Madonna: 11:13 The Texture of Oppression: 17:38 1933: 34:54 Read the press release and watch the poetry reading here: https://kindredmedia.org/2024/04/earth-day-celebration-and-poetry-reading-for-the-great-physician-with-stephanie-mines-phd/

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 World's nonprofit work (www.KindredMagazine.org and www.KindredWorld.org). Watch Ministry of Surf here: https://youtu.be/hItwb4-4skc?si=n2DabUZA89H_e4Lb Ministry of Surf made the rounds at international film festivals in 2023 and 2024, where it won eight best documentary awards including the Best Humanitarian Short Film at this year's CANNES World Film Festival. You can learn more about the film at www.MinistryofSurfFilm.com. In the interview with Danielle and Izzy, you will learn how Surfers Healing was inspired by their son's regression into autism and their family's discovery of the calming impact of the ocean, a phenomenon recognized as Blue Mind Theory. Izzy and Danielle share their vision for families impacted by autism to have "one perfect day" after many imperfect days of dealing with autism's traumatizing impact on children, their families, and communities. Visit Surfers Healing for more information about their 25 years and thousands of families served by their nonprofit work: www.SurfersHealing.org Visit www.KindredMagazine.org to learn more about Nature Connection and its restorative power through our Evolved Nest. Kindred World is a vision-holder for 26 years for a Wisdom-based, Wellness-informed Society. Support our nonprofit work at https://kindredworld.org/donate.

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 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, planetary collapse, toward the truth of our birthright: our “Original Brilliance.” Purchase your copy of The Great Physician from the publisher for a discounted price. These sales support the nonprofit work of Kindred Magazine and Kindred World. The public is invited to join the live launch party on April 22, 2024 at 3 p.m. ET. The Great Physician will be launched on Earth Day 2024, with virtual poetry readings and a salon discussion with Stephanie Mines and Lisa Reagan, founder of Kindred World and publisher of Kindred World Publishing House. (Register for the live event here.) In The Great Physician's autobiographical poetry and prose, Dr. Mines shares how her personal and professional background shaped her insights into a fusion of trauma recovery and climate activism. In her global activism through her Climate Change & Consciousness nonprofit, Dr. Mines focuses on humanity's forward moving direction where inner and outer climates meet. In that place of mystery is our connection with the natural world and the living systems waiting to communicate with us, to give us what data cannot record. Poetry, Dr. Mines says, helps make possible “the spaciousness needed to match our inner experience to the outer catastrophe that is accelerating before our eyes. It helps us to understand.” These poems are inner experiences through which she, and indirectly the reader, find a way to understand planetary experience, personal and generational cause and effect, and hopefully, the courage and energy to change organically—from war, intolerance, fear, ennui. “The invitation I received from Lisa Reagan of Kindred World to assemble a collection of my poems as a chronicle of these times stopped me in my tracks. It led me to an internal retrospective of my life in which I saw that I was born to be a poet as well as a healing artist” writes Dr. Mines in the introduction to The Great Physician. “My life has been marked by irrevocable losses. This is underscored by the crushing impact of the Anthropocene. The loss that is the most brutal, the most devastating, is the loss of our children's future. I am speaking of the children of the world, born and unborn, as well as my own children and grandchildren.” In more than a dozen books that reflect her three decades of research as a neuroscientist and embryologist, Mines has investigated shock and trauma as a survivor, a professional, a clinical researcher, and a healthcare provider. Her work has resulted in her nonprofit, The TARA Approach, which provides practical means for the systemic change she promotes as a Regenerative Health paradigm. Her training and healing modality is used by individuals internationally and by professional counselors and organizations such as addiction clinics, abuse centers, and refugee charities.

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 foreword to the book, by Darcia Narvaez, here: https://kindredmedia.org/2024/01/attached-at-the-heart-the-foreword-by-darcia-narvaez/ Learn more about the book here: https://kindredmedia.org/2024/01/35730/ “Our book encourages the nurturing care and emotional connections necessary to build strong, resilient brains for optimal mental and emotional health. It's revolutionary because the information in this book isn't found in most parenting books. It counters popular parenting advice in order to empower parents to listen to their babies and young children. These early years are critical to the development of trust and empathy, the necessary ingredients for developing a secure attachment,” said co-author Barbara Nicholson, MEd, CEIM. Attached at the Heart is endorsed by parenting experts, pediatricians and luminary moms such as Alanis Morissette and Mayim Bialik, PhD. “When we co-founded Attachment Parenting International, now known as Nurturings, nearly 30 years ago, we knew that new parents needed evidence-informed education and practical information about how best to nurture their babies. That's how Attached at the Heart came about – as a guidebook for new parents to help them lean into their caregiving instincts and set their children up for success,” said co-author Lysa Parker, MS, CFLE, CEIM. Attached at the Heart has been a key resource for the attachment parenting movement, encouraging parents to trust their instincts and provide responsive care for their children. “Research has proven that early nurturing experiences transform lives. The Eight Principles of Parenting that are detailed in our book are supported by research and rooted in attachment theory. Attached at the Heart provides science and evidence-backed recommendations to guide new parents in their loving journey,” said Nicholson. The 3rd edition provides new recommendations regarding infant sleep, how to help children and their parents maintain a secure attachment, and how parents can learn to be more emotionally self-aware in order to teach their children emotional regulation strategies.

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-parenting/evolved-nest/ About Darcia Narvaez: https://www.kindredmedia.org/author/darcia-narvaez-phd/ About Mary Tarsha: https://www.kindredmedia.org/author/mary-tarsha/

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 worldview? Welcome to Kindred. This is Lisa Reagan and today I am talking with Marilyn Schlitz, the social scientist and field-based researcher of human consciousness who will answer the questions, what is our worldview, how is it formed, and what does science show us about how to shift our worldview. Kindred World's nonprofit work and vision of a wisdom-based, wellness-informed society has been supported by the Worldview Literacy facilitator training I received from Marilyn at the Institute of noetic sciences over a decade ago. I will include links below the podcast to resources for this program's training, as well as the Kindred resources for our ongoing work with Four Arrows and Kindred World's president, Darcia Narvaez, on Indigenous Worldview and Restoring the Kinship Worldview.

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 away from extinction toward a sustainable, interconnected future. Indigenous worldviews, and the knowledge they confer, are critical for human survival and the wellbeing of future generations. Editors Wahinkpe Topa (Four Arrows) and Darcia Narvaez present 28 powerful excerpted passages from Indigenous leaders, including Mourning Dove, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Winona LaDuke, and Xiuhtezcatl Martinez. Accompanied by the editors' own analyses, each chapter reflects the wisdom of Indigenous worldview precepts like: • Egalitarian rule versus hierarchical governance • A fearless trust in the universe, instead of a fear-based culture • The life-sustaining role of ceremony • Emphasizing generosity and the greater good instead of pursuing selfish goals and for personal gain • The laws of nature as the highest rules for living The editors emphasize our deep need to move away from the dominant Western paradigm--one that dictates we live without strong social purpose, fails to honor the earth as sacred, leads with the head while ignoring the heart, and places individual “rights” over collective responsibility. Restoring the Kinship Worldview is rooted in an Indigenous vision and strong social purpose that sees all life forms as sacred and sentient--that honors the wisdom of the heart, and grants equal standing to rights and responsibilities. Inviting readers into a world-sense that expands beyond perceiving and conceiving to experiencing and being, Restoring the Kinship Worldview is a salve for our times, a nourishment for our collective, and a holistic orientation that will lead us away from extinction toward an integrated, sustainable future.

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, and even heal, our innate paths to flourishing. LINK TO POST: www.kindredmedia.org/2022/02/seven-…-reclaim-them/ Editor's Note: Below are the seven initiations excerpted from Chapter 4: The Seven Initiatory Stages, from Isa's book, The New Return to the Great Mother. This excerpt is edited for brevity. The complete chapter includes stories from women Isa has worked with over many years as they travel through each stage. We hope you will purchase and enjoy these rich, intimate stories.

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 we face numerous culture-caused crises.” – Darcia Narvaez, PhD KEY POINTS - Adversity in childhood is associated with poor physiologic regulation, seen in measures of vagal tone. - A system of socially supportive childraising known as the evolved nest is associated with healthy vagal tone. Read about the study here: www.kindredmedia.org/2021/11/evolve…fects-of-aces/

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 and think, What's wrong with that person? When questioning our emotions, it's easy to place the blame on ourselves; holding ourselves and those around us to an impossible standard. It's time we started asking a different question. Through deeply personal conversations, Oprah Winfrey and renowned brain and trauma expert Dr. Bruce Perry offer a groundbreaking and profound shift from asking "What's wrong with you?" to "What happened to you?"

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 Department of Psychology and the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. In these book review podcasts, we discuss books aimed at parents and how they align or not with humanity’s evolved nest and with child thriving. First a quick review of the evolved nest, which you can learn more about here: www.EvolvedNest.org. Humans evolved to be nested. Humanity’s nest for young children helps optimize children's development, fostering thriving, flourishing and resilience capacities in children of all ages. The evolved nest includes soothing gestation and birth, on-request extensive breastfeeding and positive moving touch (no negative touch), a welcoming social climate, self-directed play with multiple aged mates, warmly responsive nurturing from mother and others, Nature immersion and connection, and healing practices to repair miscommunication or hurts. Child thriving includes Physical health; Happiness and wellbeing, Self-acceptance and appreciation; Self control; Emotional Intelligence; Sociality & social skills; Empathy; Perspective taking; Kindness; and Active curiosity.

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 collectively imagine a world transformed from social justice beginning with childhood. Dr. Tanu Biswas is a Post-Doctoral Researcher, under the Junior Professorship of Political Philosophy at the Faculty of Cultural Studies -University of Bayreuth, and an advisor for University of Rutger's Childism Institute. Dave Metler, Kindred’s Social Justice Editor, and Lisa Reagan, Kindred’s Editor, talk with Tanu about the roots of oppression in childhood, and how they relate to social justice issues. Learn more about the Kindred Fellowship Program and support the initiative here: kindredfellows.org Listen to part one of the series with John Wall, director of the Childism Institute, here: www.kindredmedia.org/2021/03/childi…ignty-learned/ See the term childism, and learn about its origins, in Kindred's New Story Glossary here: www.kindredmedia.org/glossary/childism/

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 perceiving our world around us. “When our physiology changes, our worldview changes. We can also use worldview to help us change physiology. There is so much we can do to tonify and nurture our physiology – to get ourselves into a healthier worldview. They can work together, the intellect and the intelligence. It is not a battle, but people need to be safe enough to shift their neuroceptions.” In this Kindred interview, Dr. Rhea shares: - Her personal story of moving from a wellness to wholeness approach, and discovering the roots of dominator culture thinking in our quest for an intellectual understanding of “wellness” instead of a relational experience of wholeness within the living energy of our bodies. “One is befriending and accepting, and one is shaming,” Rhea says. - Her personal story of moving through injury and “panic states” when trying to approach her body, and discovering the neurobiological roots of her body’s responses. - How she uses practical self-awareness and self-regulation exercises that both model for her son that these states are possible, and enrich his own capacity to co-regulate. - How a community of adults who understand and practice co-regulation is a part of our cellular memory and expectations as human beings. - How the Polyvagal science helps to explain our lack of “listening” in our culture and how its practical skills can be used for conscious activism. Dr. Komarek is a chiropractor in Napa, California specializing in helping people move from states of stuckness and stress into more embodied states of health and wholeness using hands on care, applied polyvagal theory, and somatic movement. You can visit her site here: www.blossomlife.com

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 live a sustainable and peaceful life? A question we still aspire to answer here at Kindred. Read the transcript and find resources here: www.kindredmedia.org/2021/03/findin…kelly-wendorf/

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 communities, who were already struggling with an epidemic of illiteracy, often transgenerational, are now finding their limited book resources drying up during the pandemic. Pam Leo shares with us in this interview practical ways to combat illiteracy in your community, as well as the shocking statistics on the lack of books in many homes in America. Her stories are uplifting, funny, and common sense, with her guidance on how to work with food pantries, local WIC offices, Goodwill, Eagle Scouts (who built Little Free Libraries in two Maine neighborhoods), and more. Visit the Book Fairy Pantry Project for more literacy statistics and guidance on how to get your own community literacy activism going at www.BookFairyPantryProject.org. Visit Kindred Media for a transcript of this recording in the near future, and read more of Pam's work: www.kindredmedia.org/author/pam-leo/ Visit Kindred World to learn more about our nonprofit initiatives: www.KindredWorld.org

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 behind the scenes of the TIME magazine shoot. In our call with Jamie today, you will hear about the fallout of the TIME cover in the years following Jamie’s TIME shoot, the social bullying and trauma she endured, how she fought to preserve her relationship with her children, how attachment parenting supported her recovery, and how she is still championing parents who follow their primal instincts. Jamie’s new Modern Attachment Parenting book features a foreword from singer and AP mom Alanis Morrisette, and an introduction from AP founder, Dr. William Sears. In the book, Jamie tackles the myths and misperceptions of attachment parenting and shares her personal stories and compassion for parents, and her affirmation to all parents that they are in fact enough. Find the transcript, foreword, and more excerpts from Modern Attachment Parenting on www.KindredMedia.org during October's Attachment Parenting Month celebrations.

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 ceremonies and rituals to honor and heal families. Breastfeeding, as a "First Medicine," is considered vital to this decolonization practice. "Native Breastfeeding is an act of defiance to the colonial systems and their imposed “norms” as well as a resilience of culture and body sovereignty, no matter the length of your experience. In decolonizing practices of motherhood such as breastfeeding, we can promote food sovereignty, body sovereignty, and the healing of the next generation. In decolonizing feeding practices, we follow the needs of our children." JASHA LYONS ECHO-HAWK

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, sustainable, and less violent world based on partnership rather than domination. Riane is internationally known for her bestseller and seminal work The Chalice and The Blade: Our History, Our Future, which Ashley Montagu called “the most important book since Darwin’s Origin of Species” Currently, Riane is president of the Center for Partnership Studies (CPS), which is dedicated to research and education. A transcript of this interview will be available on www.KindredMedia.org asap. Visit the Center for Partnership Studies for more resources: centerforpartnership.org

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 ACES conference of over 2500 attendees in 2019. As a dual citizen of America and Scotland, we will ask her for insights on the possibility of bringing this cultural transformation to the United States. Dr. Zeedyk is a research scientist at the University of Dundee and began her academic career with a doctorate from Yale University. She is the creator of the film and educational project, The Connected Baby, and the author of multiple books on the science of human connection. You can read this transcript on Kindred at www.KindredMedia.org

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 forgiveness, befriending your triggers, and creating community on a path to bringing out our adult selves to be the activists the world needs right now. “We make public policy based on our inner child’s needs, and the sooner we wake up to that fact, the sooner we’re out of this mess.” Please don’t think that Inner Child Journeys is a parenting book. It’s not. But it will help you to understand, through a series of interactive exercises, how to identify your own inner child’s needs instead of projecting them onto your child or a corporation. You can read excerpts of Robin’s books on Kindred here: www.kindredmedia.org/author/robin-grille/

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, and our Kindred Spirit Research Student, Reshma Grewal, from the University of California at Santa Barbara, who helped to expand our inquiry into our own personal experiences and perspectives. In Part IV, you will meet Carl Route, Jr, and Greg Long, Wisdom Council members of Reaching Our Brothers Everywhere. Their personal stories share the insight of reaching and preparing fathers to help counter the race-driven epidemic of high infant and maternal mortality rates in the black community, as well as increase breastfeeding rates for lifelong wellness. You can visit ROBE at www.breastfeedingROBE.org

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 Reaching Our Brothers Everywhere, ROBE, Calvin Williams and Kevin Sherman, who share their extraordinary stories of forging a new “generative” path to fatherhood, one that prepares black fathers to become crucial advocates and supporters “to increase breastfeeding rates and decrease infant mortality rates within African-American communities.” The maternal morbidity, infant death and low breastfeeding rates (a path to lifelong wellness) in African-American communities are the results of institutional and structural racism, gender inequality, and living in the one developed country on Earth that does not provide social support for families, such as paid family leave, healthcare, and worklife laws for fathers. While ROBE’s wisdom council members seek to “educate, equip and empower” new fathers, they, and the fathers they serve face the persistent cultural myth of black fathers as absent fathers. A damaging mythology contradicted by CDC data that shows: Most black fathers live with their children. There are about 2.5 million who live with their children, and 1.7 million who don’t, according to the CDC. Black dads who live with their children are actually the most involved fathers of all, on average, a CDC study found. For more academic insights into breaking stereotypes of black fathers, see Understanding the Positive Impacts of African American Fathers, or any work by Waldo E. Johnson, Jr., who has been deeply immersed in the study of black fathers and families for over two decades. About Kindred’s Editor: Oral history has its roots in the sharing of stories throughout the centuries. It is a primary source of historical data, gathering information from living individuals via recorded interviews. Lisa Reagan’s interviews of thought-leaders, researchers, activists, parents and professionals serves as an oral history of the organic conscious parenting/family wellness movement in the United States and globally since 1999. Follow her podcasts, and this series, on Apple Music/iTunes, SoundCloud and here on Kindred.

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 scientist, award-winning author, and charismatic public speaker. She has conducted clinical, laboratory and field-based research into consciousness, human transformation, and healing. Her books include Living Deeply: The Art and Science of Transformation in Everyday Life; Consciousness and Healing: Integral Approaches to Mind Body Medicine; and Death Makes Life Possible (and companion film by same title). Having taught at Stanford, Harvard, and Trinity University, she is currently Chair of the doctoral program in Transpersonal Psychology at Sofia University, CEO/President Emeritus and Senior Fellow at the Institute of Noetic Sciences. Schlitz has published hundreds of articles in scholarly journals and popular publications, and has lectured extensively in diverse venues, including the United Nations, Smithsonian Institution, Commonwealth Club, and community groups across the world.

A national treasure for her leadership in breastfeeding and equity education, in this Kindred interview, Kimarie Bugg, DNP, RN, MPH, IBCLC, shares her story of discovering her love for caring for babies and mothers as the granddaughter of a Southern lay midwife who cautioned her to become a “real nurse” when she grew up. Born in South Bend, Indiana, Kimarie’s childhood visits to her grandmother in Arkansas shaped her understanding of racism with first-hand experiences – like moving off of sidewalks with her grandmother to let white people pass – ­that she did not encounter in South Bend. In 1978, Kimarie became a mother of twins and a registered nurse while living in the state of Texas. In her Kindred interview, she shares her experience of calling La Leche League for help with breastfeeding her twins as a young mother and discovering the organization’s leaders and local hospital, at that time, did not return calls to “people who lived in my area code.” Her challenging and isolating experience breastfeeding twins inspired her to help mothers until, as a nurse, she became known in her hospital as the “breast nurse.” Her pursuit of a doctorate in nursing, 40 years of breastfeeding education, and integration of her early and ongoing awareness of racial disparities, led her to found Reaching Our Sisters Everywhere, ROSE, in 2011. A recipient of a million-dollar W. K. Kellogg Foundation grant, ROSE is tasked to “Address inequities in breastfeeding rates among African American women by creating communities across the United States who promote and support breastfeeding through culturally appropriate capacity building of community members, public health professionals and healthcare systems.” In her 2020 letter to ROSE members and supporters, Kimarie shares, “Through our passion for eliminating the disproportionate negative impact of [Black] maternal and infant mortality, breastfeeding initiation and duration, and all the maternal, paternal and child health systematic injustices to which we have dedicated our lives, we are labeled hostile by some. To them, we say, “we are not hostile, we are passionate about disrupting the political determinates of health” in the communities where we live, work, play and worship. “We will not be satisfied with just Black representation. We listen to Black mothers. And we will fight for their rights to have true power in the information, care and engagement they receive from institutions and systems. This is our calling and our covenant to you. We will continue to address the root cause of social injustice and make a culture shift towards an anti-oppressive culture. And we will actively engage it until we can run no more, at which point we will gladly pass this baton of passion, this birthright, this struggle, to the next-gen mothers, the next-gen servant leaders, who will carry our power further than I can imagine. Our magic is in our fears and tears, our sisterhoods and our LOVE.” (Read Kimarie’s letter from the president here.) READ THE FULL INTERVIEW ON WWW.KINDREDMEDIA.ORG HERE:https://www.kindredmedia.org/2020/05/the-magic-of-fears-and-tears-an-interview-with-kimarie-bugg/

"Our children already know the truth. We need to align ourselves with this truth, tend to our Inner Climate Change, so we can talk with them and prepare them for the world that exists now." – Stephanie Mines, PhD Read the transcript of the interview here: www.kindredmedia.org/2020/05/buildi…nie-mines-phd/ Stephanie Mines, PhD, is the author of We Are All In Shock, and a dynamic neuroscientist integrating human consciousness, indigenous healing systems, and our planetary crisis of climate change and species extinction. Dr. Mines offers her deep wisdom and sustainable healing systems for navigating our way out of an Old Story. Check out this post on Kindred to find a few handouts to go with it, and resources for healing practices. Dr. Stephanie Mines is a psychologist whose unique understanding comes from her academic research as well as her extensive work in the field. Her stories of personal transformation have led many listeners to become deeply committed to the healing journey. Dr. Mines understands shock from every conceivable perspective. She has investigated it as a survivor, a professional, a healthcare provider, and as a trainer of staffs of institutions and agencies. Her blend of Western and Eastern modalities offers the best of both paradigms. She is devoted to ending the lineage of shock and trauma for individuals and the world. Dr. Mines is the Program Director of the DOM Project, a non-profit organization dedicated to providing alternative health options for a broad spectrum of populations. As Director, she is responsible for disseminating information to communities in need, especially people suffering from illness that results from shock and trauma, survivors of domestic violence, families and children, and people living with neurodiversity including autism and other sensory integration challenges. Dr. Mines’previous book, We Are All in Shock: How Overwhelming Experiences Shatter You and What You Can Do About It, (New Page Books, 2003), presents a comprehensive application of the healing system she has developed.

Kindred’s editor, Lisa Reagan, attended the University of California at Hastings’ Center for Worklife Law‘s Breastfeeding Policy Summit at Jones Day Law Firm in San Francisco on August 6, 2019. The summit’s purpose was to educate an invited group of activists from around the country on the insights gleaned from Joan Williams’ quarter century research into advancing women in the workplace, as well as the center’s new reports on discrimination against breastfeeding and pregnant mothers in the workplace. The summit trained activists in choosing politically-conscientious verbiage, becoming aware of values of their legislators and region, and using these insights to help create and pass legislation to promote and protect women’s reproductive rights in the workplace. Joan C. Williams is a Distinguished Law Professor and Founding Director of the Center for WorkLife Law at UC Hastings. Her path-breaking work helped create modern workplace flexibility policies and the field of work-family studies. She has authored over 90 academic articles and 11 books, including White Working Class: Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America and What Works for Women at Work. One of her proudest accomplishments was winning the Betty Crocker Homemaker Award in high school. READ THE TRANSCRIPT: https://www.kindredmedia.org/2020/01/class-conflict-breastfeeding-policy-and-creating-systemic-change%EF%BB%BF-an-interview-with-joan-c-williams/