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Dear Kindred,
In his book, The Forest in Folklore and Mythology, Alexander Porteous reveals the ancient root of the word panic, the state of consciousness that seems to define our modern lives. In his story of humanity’s shifting relationship to Nature, especially during our early days of building and moving into cityscapes, Porteous writes that when “loud and incomprehensible noises” were heard emanating from the forests, they “gave to the timid a kind of superstitious terror, ascribed to Pan [the god of Nature], and to apprehensions which are now known as panic.”
Are we panicked because we’ve been too long disconnected from our relationship to Nature? From our Kinship Worldview?
Welcome to 2024, the year we are slated astrologically to begin our collective quest toward wholeness after centuries of separation consciousness and its resulting Dominator Worldview. Where to begin our quest for wholeness this pivotal year? According to mythologist, Joseph Campbell, we must journey to the “darkest part of the forest where there is no path.” Ah, the forest again.
Maybe we’re panicked because, individually and collectively, we have arrived at the darkest part of an ancient forest, a long cast-off realm of our human psyches, where our Dominator Culture skills have no power. Maybe we’re huddled here at the edge of the unknown, fretful and frightened, searching for a shortcut, a way out, or a rocket ship to Mars.
What happens when we face our fear of relationship to the living world, beginning with ourselves? Could we create sustainable humans if we normalized nurturing? What does science say?
If you’ve followed Kindred for very long, you probably know that Kindred is where I have chronicled my own Mother (of a) Quest for over two decades. In this issue of Kindred, I am honored to share a podcast interviewwith two women who were there with me from the beginning, when I first stepped into my own dark, pathless forest of motherhood.
As Lysa Parker, Barbara Nicholson and I recall here, while we did not know the questions to ask as a new mothers, our hearts and intuition prompted us to protect and support our children’s whole states of being. We saw our children as whole through a lens of love, through our hearts.
In the new edition of their classic book, Attached at the Heart: Eight Principles for Raising Connected and Compassionate Children, Parker and Nicholson present 80 years of attachment science, along with 30 years of grounded experience (they train parenting educators worldwide through Attachment Parenting International). The third edition integrates updates from Adverse Childhood Experiences, co-regulation, resilience, gut microbiome and birth, breastsleeping, alternatives to sleep training, and how to have more Nature and less screen time to strengthen attachment.
In her foreword to Attached at the Heart, Darcia Narvaez writes, “Indeed, society pays the price of under-nurtured, under-cared-for children. In the United States, where Ian Suttie noted there is a ‘taboo on tenderness,’ we have burgeoning epidemics of mental and physical illness, suicide, and violence at all ages." You can read Darcia’s foreword to Attached at the Heart exclusively on Kindred here.
In addition to the Normalizing Nurturing interview in this issue, we’ve curated courage, light for the path, and inspiration for the new year’s journey to the forest’s edge, and beyond. If you’re wondering where the science is taking us, you can read an excerpt from Darcia’s new paper, Understanding Deep Nestedness for All, here.
You are invited to join us this month in the Evolved Nest Learning Module, Rewilding Through Nesting, beginning on February 6, and for the LIVE Breaking the Cycle discussion on February 8. Register for these events below.
In the year ahead, let's resolve to not fret over the "incomprehensible noises" coming from the ancient forest of our human psyches. They're probably the sounds of the great party we've been invited to join as our birthright. I'll see you there!
Onward,
Lisa Reagan
Kindred Media,Editor
Kindred World, Co-founder
editor@kindredmedia.org
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Normalizing Nurturing: A Discussion With The Authors Of Attached At The Heart
"It’s crazy how it has become so much a part of the culture that you can ask any middle schooler or high schooler to finish that sentence: Don’t pick up the baby because… and they know it. They just kind of picked it up out of the ether, or they’ve heard it from people and their families. There’s so much that we’re trying to change and to clarify for parents." – Lysa Parker, from the Kindred interview.
Lisa Reagan talks with Lysa Parker and Barbara Nicholson, founders of Attachment Parenting International, about the new edition of their beloved and classic parenting book, Attached at the Heart: Eight Principles for Raising Connected and Compassionate Children.
Watch the video interview, or download the audio interview, and read excerpts from the transcript, here.
Read an overview of the book, the eight principles of attachment parenting, and the new information in the book here.
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Soul-Centered Strategies For The New Year: A Thoughtful Planning Toolkit
By Kelly Wendorf
If you are like me, you resist the notion of New Year’s resolutions. The whole idea can wreak of performance, pressure, and obligation. But we would be remiss in avoiding the invitation to vision and dream upon the threshold of a new cycle around the sun. The natural turning of a season – be it a new year, or a new phase, is an excellent time to reflect and imagine desired outcomes into existence.
I’ve created an easy-to-implement yet game-changing way to create a New Year’s plan that will ensure your next 12 months are a success. I call it Your Soul-Centered 12-Month Planning Toolkit.
Read the post.
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Mother Consciousness
By Stephanie Mines
Sheryl was no longer afraid of being punished for anything. She was beyond that now. She became an advocate for veterans and their families, a counselor for suicide prevention, a speaker ready to tell the world about what happens when soldiers come home and why we have to look out for them, abide by them, and pay attention to what they are doing as they reveal the inevitable signs of unresolved combat shock and all the myriad ways in which war comes home.
Read the post.
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Attached At The Heart:
The Foreword By Darcia Narvaez
Attachment caregiving, as conveyed in these pages, supports parents and children on the wellness-promoting pathway our ancestors followed, one that brings about individual, family, and community wellbeing. The path away from trauma-inducing childhoods to childhoods that foster wellbeing starts here, in this manual that Barbara and Lysa have so brilliantly written. For the sake of generations to come, we must take up their advice and together restore the pathway to wellness.
Read the Foreword
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Misperceptions About Baby Needs | |
Darcia Narvaez converses with psychotherapist Elizabeth Barrett, host of The Reluctant Therapist podcast.
They discuss questions like what is a baby? What do babies need for healthy development? What is harmful about sleep training? And, what can adults do if they were raised unnested?
You can also download A Baby's Bill of Rights poster free or buy a custom-sized poster here.
Watch the video and find resources.
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Join Darcia Narvaez and Lisa Reagan for a discussion of the Evolved Nest's short films, Breaking the Cycle, the Evolved Nest: Nature's Way of Raising Children, and Reimagining Humanity. Watch the films at www.EvolvedNest.org.
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Read the foreword to the new book, The Evolved Nest,
by Gabor Mate, MD, here.
Read the first chapter of The Evolved Nest here.
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Check Out the Evolved Nest's Short Film Collection
Breaking the Cycle illustrates our capacity for breaking our current Cycle of Competitive Detachment and returning to the pattern of 95% of our human history: a healthy, peaceful Cycle of Cooperative Companionship. Breaking the Cycle is based on the multi-award-winning book, Neurobiology and the Development of Human Morality: Evolution, Culture, Wisdom.
The Evolved Nest: Nature's Way of Raising Children is the second short film in a series that includes Reimagining Humanity and Breaking the Cycle. This short film in an accompaniment to the acclaimed book, The Evolved Nest, by Darcia Narvaez and G.A. Bradshaw.
The goal of Reimagining Humanity is to expand human imagination, based in deep history and transdisciplinary science, about human potential. We have not always been so stressed, disconnected and mindlessly destructive. For most of our species existence we have lived in cooperative companionship. The film illustrates what this looks like.
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Kindred's Worldview Chart by Four Arrows! | |
This chart is not intended as a rigid binary, but a true dichotomy best viewed as a continuum. It is meant to encourage seeking complementarity and dialogue. Absolutism is discouraged with the realization we are all participating in DW precepts to some degree. The chart assumes that all diverse cultures, religions, and philosophies can be grouped under one of the two worldviews.
“Indigenous Worldview” does not belong to a race or group of people, but Indigenous cultures who still hold on to their traditional place-based knowledge are the wisdom keepers of this original Nature-based worldview. All people are indigenous to Earth and have the right and the responsibility to practice and teach the IW precepts. All have the responsibility to support Indigenous sovereignty, dignity, and use of traditional lands.
For non-Indians who are concerned about misappropriation, see the peer reviewed article, “The Indigenization Controversy: For Whom By Whom.”
Worldview Chart and introduction by Wahinkpe Topa (Four Arrows), a.k.a. Don Trent Jacobs, Ph.D., Ed.D. Originally published in The Red Road (chanku luta): Linking Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives to Indigenous Worldview, 2020. Featured in Restoring the Kindship Worldview, 2022, by Four Arrows and Darcia Narvaez, Ph.D.
Watch the video on how to use the chart and download the PDF.
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