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13/05/2026

Dispelling Cry-It-Out Sleep Training Myths And What To Do Instead: A New Academic Anthology

This guide draws together evidence from psychology, neuroscience, anthropology, and human development to make a compelling case for why you shouldn’t be using or recommending crying-it-out sleep training techniques with babies.

Dispelling Cry-It-Out Sleep Training Myths and What to Do Instead explains what normal infant sleep is like and explores the history and context of cry-it-out sleep training methods for infant sleep. It presents what research shows us about the impact of cry-it-out on babies’ wellbeing and on attachment with their caregivers. It investigates how brain development is affected by sleeping training and discusses why sleep training is developmentally inappropriate and often does not work. The book ends with an in-depth exploration of alternative approaches to promoting good quality infant sleep.

Darcia Narvaez, PhD, Kindred World's president, and Mary Tarsha, KW board member, have contributed a chapter to the forthcoming book, Dispelling Cry-It-Out Sleep Training Myths and What to Do Instead. Narvaez's and Tarsha's chapter is entitled, The E

13/05/2026

In this episode, Darcia describes “the evolved nest”, which is the set of conditions needed for healthy human development. Stemming from our deep evolutionary past, these conditions include close-knit community, affection, care, play, and connection to nature. She sheds light on the way so many ...

11/05/2026

Join the LIVE Nested World Discussion this Wednesday, May 13, at 5 p.m. Watch the Nested World film to reimagine your world in 36 minutes (see link to film below). Bring your questions and insights to the discussion with Darcia Narvaez and Lisa Reagan.
REGISTER: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/Z2de7PUuQaGkU2VHIREncQ

In this Nested World film, Darcia Narvaez introduces the trilogy of films: Breaking the Cycle, The Evolved Nest: Nature's Way of Raising Children; and Reimagining Humanity. The footage of Darcia introducing and exploring the films was shot on the beautiful campus at the University of Notre Dame.
WATCH THE NESTED WORLD FILM: https://youtu.be/IiVqJ1I6GgQ?si=RKVGNLGfV6EA0P1R

10/05/2026

Rooted In Care: Reimagining Motherhood Through The Wisdom Of The Earth

Motherhood awakens us to the complex growth that defines our humanity—the same spark of life that animates the natural world and sustains ecosystems through daily acts of care. While awareness of ecological crisis can feel overwhelming, it is not merely a burden. It is also a call to action.

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 fo

10/05/2026

What is our Evolved Nest?
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The Evolved Nest is a North Star guide for human development, for child raising, and for growing and maintaining our cooperative human nature. Just as the North Star has dependably guided explorers across seas and continents for thousands of years, our unchanging, millions year-old Evolved Nest, provides a baseline for “species-typical”, normal human lifeways. Our Evolved Nest is an interlocking set of practices that include the Communal Evolved Nest for everyone, with special attention to babies and children, the Intergenerational Nest, and the Cosmic Nest

Just as the North Star has dependably guided explorers across seas and continents for thousands of years, our unchanging, millions year-old Evolved Nest, provides a baseline for “species-typical”, normal human lifeways. It follows the Cycle of Cooperative Companionship and a wellness-promoting pathway.

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03/05/2026

In his book, Earth in Mind: On Education, Environment, and the Human Prospect, David Orr pointed out that the type of aptitudes and attitudes that were needed to industrialize the Earth are not the same as those needed to heal planetary ecology and build durable economies and communities. What he pointed out a few decades ago, unfortunately, is still true today: “We are still educating the young as if there were no planetary emergency."

Instead of rewarding the kinds of intelligence we need, education systems and society at large continue to reward cleverness (short term manipulative thinking and action, as opposed to intelligence: long term holistic thinking and action aimed at thriving) as well as conformity, “indoor thinking,” and careerism. Universities continue to be factories of fragmented unevaluated knowledge that is directed more by the worlds of power and commerce (as advocated by Francis Bacon, a founding father of our current worldview) rather than by wisdom. The industrial economy desires college graduates with enough scientific and mechanical knowhow to keep industry profitable, but no more, since a more holistic education might rock the boat, questioning the whole industrial lifeway.

Education has not changed in the ways needed today. In his book, Earth in Mind: On Education, Environment, and the Human Prospect, David Orr pointed out that the type of aptitudes and attitudes that were needed to industrialize the Earth are not

27/04/2026

Bringing The Evolved Nest To Schooling
How can classrooms nest children?

In a trauma-including culture, teachers are encouraged to control students—how they behave and what they focus on. Many students arrive wounded from early unnestedness.

Most children are required to attend school, but if you haven’t noticed, it historically moves against species-normal evolved nest principles. There is: Minimal welcoming of students’ unique interests. A lack of self-directed freedom to learn and p

26/04/2026

AI Is The Left-Brain’s Utopia: Converting the living into objects

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It is the process of creation that engages our spirit and grows our wholeness, entangled with a living world.

Life is a process, not a resume.

As noted in multiple earlier posts, we’ve been somewhat blindly undernurturing half our brains, leading to a diminished understanding of intelligence.Specifically, we neglect to provide the evolved nest care needed to nourish the right hemisphere (RH

22/04/2026

Watch Celebration And Medicinal Poetry Reading With Stephanie Mines, PhD

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.

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

20/04/2026

Happy Earth Day Week! Celebrate our living planet with The Great Physician medicinal poetry readings with Stephanie Mines.
WATCH or LISTEN: Earth Day Celebration And Poetry Reading For The Great Physician With Stephanie Mines, PhD
https://kindredmedia.org/2024/04/earth-day-celebration-and-poetry-reading-for-the-great-physician-with-stephanie-mines-phd/

“The Great Physician: Medicinal Poetry for the Anthropocene 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 of forgiveness, healing, unity and being in conscious action for Mother Earth, people and the planet, Dr. Stephanie Mines gives the reader a reason to continue on this journey, when we feel defeated or tired. If you wish to be a life-giving force at this time of challenges and possibilities, then please read and experience this small book of poetry with big messages. “

– Dr. Anita Sanchez, Nahua (Aztec) and Toltec, author of international award-winning book, The Four Sacred Gifts: Indigenous Wisdom for Modern times.

19/04/2026

Apparent Telepathy Between Babies And Nursing Mothers – A Research Survey By

Much light could be shed on the nature and development of by studying its role in the interrelationships between and .

IntroductionIn nursing mothers, breast milk becomes available for feeding the baby through a physiological process called the let-down reflex, mediated by the hormone oxytocin, which is produced in the pituitary gland. As the let-down occurs, many wo