Kindred Community Contributors and Bloggers
Kindred Community Contributors and Bloggers
Annie Burnside, M.Ed.
A modern bridge between the mainstream and the mystical, Annie Burnside M.Ed. is a soul nurturer, award-winning author, public speaker and teacher specializing in parenting, conscious relationships, authentic living and spiritual development. Her book Soul to Soul Parenting won the 2011 Nautilus Silver Book Award and the 2011 Next Generation I… read more
Caroline Knorr
Caroline Knorr writes for Common Sense Media.
Common Sense Media is dedicated to improving the lives of kids and families by providing the trustworthy information, education, and independent voice they need to thrive in a world of media and technology.
We exist because our nation's children spend more ti… read more
Cassandra Vieten, Ph.D.
Cassandra Vieten, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist, Director of Research at the Institute of Noetic Sciences, co-director of the Mind-Body Medicine Research Group at California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute, and co-president of the Institute for Spirituality and Psychology.
Funded by the National Institutes of Health, the State of California, and several private donors and foundations, … read more
KJ Hannah Greenberg
Whereas Hannah's preferred method of nurturing has remained unwearied analysis, it is not beyond her ken to resort to screaming (a little) or to sitting on the sofa and crying (a lot). Otherwise, she'… read more
Chris White, M.D.
Chris White, M.D., is a board-certified pediatrician, parent educator, and life coach. He is the creator and director of Essential Parenting, an organization that emphasizes the psycho-emotional development of children and their parents. Visit him online at read more
Elena Tonetti-Valdimorova
A Russian-born visionary who after 25 years of intense soul-searching is now sharing her insights on the mechanisms and tools for creating our own reality.
Elena had her first formal training in Russia at the College of Arts in theater. Sinc… read more
Elizabeth Rose
Elizabeth Rose has a diverse background; in teaching, as a healing arts practitioner, administrator and in media communications. She has practiced Massage for the Childbearing Year for 25 years, been … read more
Tracy Wilson Peters And Laurel Wilson
About Tracy Wilson Peters
Tracy Wilson Peters, CLD, CLE, CCCE, is the co-author of The Greatest Pregnancy Ever: Keys to the MotherBaby Bond. Tracy is the CEO of CAPPA the worlds largest childbirth organization. Tracy has been a lifelong advocate for families and babies. Internationally known as a pregnancy expert, she has authored numerous journal and magazine articles, keeping both professionals and expectant families in tune to what is happening in the world of women’s healthcare. Peters has appeared on many television networks, including FOX, CBS, NBC, and ABC. You may visit her website at tracypeters.com or on facebook.
About Laurel Wilson
Laurel Wilson, BS, IBCLC, CCCE, CLE, CLD, CPPFE, CPPI owns and manages MotherJourney in Centennial, Colorado. She has her degree in Maternal and Child Health-Lactation Consulting. With over sixteen years experience working with women in the childbearing year, Laur… read more
Jane Hardwicke Collings
Jane Hardwicke Collings is an independent midwife from the Southern Highlands, NSW, Australia, who has been attending homebirths since 1984. She is herself a homebirth mother, a grandmother and a teacher … read more
Jennifer McCormack
Before she embarked upon the adventure of motherhood, Jennifer was a career-focussed Early Childhood Teacher who was mainly inspired by the creative possibilities presented by Waldorf/Steiner Education. After a brief period of mourning for her professional life, Jennifer discovered that life at home wit… read more
Jessica Zucker, Ph.D.
Dr. Jessica Zucker is a licensed clinical psychologist in Los Angeles specializing in women's health with a focus on fertility, prenatal and postpartum adjustments, attachment, and transitions in motherhood. Jessica works with adults, couples, mothers and daughters, infants and mothers, and developing families. She comes to the field of clinical psychology with a background in international women's reproductive health, mindfulness-based stress reduction, and psychoanalytically-oriented clinical training. Her psychotherapy practice integrates a mind-body health approach with principles of depth psychology. Having worked and lived in numerous countries around the world, Dr. Zucker brings a global perspective to her work.
Dr. Jessica Zucker is currently writing her first book based on her award-winning dissertatio… read more
John Breeding, PhD
John has been a psychologist for over 25 years, working with adults, children and families in Austin, Texas and around the world. A significant part of his work involves counseling with parents and childr… read more
John Davidson
Website: www.davidson-heartworks.com
Email: john@davidson-heartworks.com
An attorney for over 30 years, John started early in his practice to seek ways to maintain his own health in the midst of the stress common to that profession.
Over twenty five years ago, John began t… read more
Karen Brody
Karen Brody, writer, activist, mother, is the author of Birth, translated into French, German and Spanish and performed in communities around the world since 2006 as part of BOLD, a global movement to make maternity care mother-friendly. Brody is the founder and Artistic Director of BOLD.
She is also the creator and co-founder of FEAR to FREEDOM Birth, a groundbreaking new childbirth education preparation method. She read more
Karl Farren
Karl Farren is from Dublin, and became involved in Oriental Medicine in 1989 after some years training in Kung Fu. He studied initially at the British School of Shiatsu-Do, London, where he later spent six years as a Senior Teacher of Shiatsu and Chinese Medicine.
Karl went on to complete a further four years of study in Acupuncture and Chinese Herbal Med… read more
Kaayla T. Daniel, PhD, CCN
Kaayla T. Daniel, PhD, CCN, is "The Naughty Nutritionist" because of her ability to outrageously and humorously debunk nutritional myths. She earned her PhD in Nutritional Sciences and Anti-Aging Therapies from the Union Institute and University in Cincinnati, is certified as a clinical nutritionist (CCN) by the International and American Association of Clin… read more
Kelly Wendorf
Kelly Wendorf is a writer, author, public speaker, facilitator and social entrepreneur. Having spent much of her life between the Native lands of the Sangre de Cristo mountains, to the devotional places of India, and finally the vast expanse of Australia, she has spent years exploring the practical application of spiritual awakening to daily life, social change, sustainable business practices and innovations in community learning.&… read more
Laura Grace Weldon
Laura Grace Weldon is a writer and editor, perhaps due to an English professor's scathing denunciation of her writing as "curious verbiage." Her recent book is "Free Range Learning." www.lauragraceweldon.com She lives on Bit of Earth Farm with her family where she is a barel… read more
Lauren Feder, M.D.
Lauren Feder, M.D. is a nationally recognized physician who specializes in primary care medicine, pediatrics and homeopathy. Known for her holistically minded approach and combining the ‘best of both worlds,’ Dr. Feder is a frequent lecturer for parents and professionals and has been seen nationally on various health-oriented television and radio programs including most recently Oprah and Friends interviewed by Dr. Mehmet Oz… read more
Laurie A. Couture
Laurie A. Couture is the author of Instead of Medicating and Punishing: Healing the Causes of Our Children's Acting-Out Behavior by Parenting and Educating the Way Nature Intended. Her book was chosen… read more
Lisa Reagan
Lisa Reagan is the Executive Editor for Kindred Community and the co-founder and past president of Families for Conscious Living. Sher is the associate editor for Pathways to Family Wellness magazine. She is the parent representative on the board of directors for the Holistic Pediatric Association. She is the former East Coast Editor-at-Large for read more
Maggie Dent
Maggie Dent is a parenting author, educator, resilience specialist and inspirational presenter. Maggie is the mother of four adult sons, and has an extensive range of experience including 17 years as … read more
Marianna Cacciatore
Marianna has worked for over 25 yrs with people who are working to bring about a better world and because of this, she has a unique vantage point from which to tell the stories we don’t generally hear in the media today. Marianna possesses the rare gift of presence, a deep listening which evokes in people the desire to tell their story. She enters into intimate conversations with ease, and now she brings these dialogues to VoiceAmerica.com.
Having suffered a childhood tragedy that spiraled downward into her teens and young adult years, she eventually turned it around and, in 1988, created a grief center in Tucson… read more
Marilyn Fayre Milos, RN
Marilyn Fayre Milos, RN, is the founder and director of the National Organization of Circumcision Information Resource Centers (NOCIRC) and coordinator of the International Symposia on Circumcision, Sexua… read more
Marion Badenoch Rose
I’m fascinated with pregnancy, birth, and parenting, and have an extensive background in infant and child development spanning more than 20 years. My past experiences include a Ph.D on the mother… read more
Meghann Birks
Meghann Birks is a first time mum, life coach, writer, motivational speaker and fitness trainer living on the Mornington Peninsula. She is passionate about her son, Elliot, her husband, Andrew, and h… read more
Michael Belkin
Michael Belkin is a world-renowned financial analyst. He was a financial forecaster and statistician uninvolved in medical policy until his infant daughter died after receiving a hepatitis B vaccine in 1998. Belkin has testified before Congress in opposition to forced hepatitis B vaccinations. Read more from Belkin in the book read more
Michael Mendizza
Michael is an author, educator, documentary filmmaker and founder of Touch the Future, a nonprofit learning design center. His book, Magical Parent-Magical Child, the Art of Joyful Parenting, co-authored with Joseph Chilton Pearce, applies research on opt… read more
Naomi Aldort
Naomi Aldort is the author of Raising Our Children, Raising Ourselves. Parents from around the globe seek Aldort's advice by phone, in person and through her workshops, teleclasses, by reading her book an… read more
Nicole Moore
Nicole is an independent filmmaker who has travelled widely. Being deeply affected by years spent in developing countries, she now lives a low impact lifestyle deep in the forest, by the sea, in an e… read more
Patrick Houser
Patrick M Houser is the founder of Fathers-to-Be and is the author of Fathers-to-Be: A Road Map to the Transition to Fatherhood. Patrick is a grandfather and father of 2 sons. It was the birth of his first son which revealed to him the need to understand bi… read more
Peter Gray, PhD
Peter Gray is a research professor of psychology at Boston College. He has conducted and published research in comparative, evolutionary, developmental, and educational psychology; published articles on innovative teaching methods and alternative approaches to education; and i… read more
Rachel Ernst
Rachel Ernst has been an FCL board member since 2007. She mothers two children entering kindergarten and first grade in an urban Waldorf school. Together with her husband of thirteen years, the… read more
Richard Louv
Richard Louv is a journalist and author of eight books about the connections between family, nature and community. His newest book is The Nature Principle: Human Restoration and the End of Nature-Deficit Disorder (Algonquin), which offers a new vision of the future, in which our lives are as immersed in nature as they are in technology. This future, available to all of us righ… read more
Sammi Cambray
Sammi Cambray runs BirthStories, a private practice providing counselling for healing and deepening awareness of self, for the birth process, and for all issues from pre-conception to early parenting. Sa… read more
Sarah Buckley, M.D.
Sarah J Buckley is a trained GP/family physician with qualifications in GP-obstetrics and family planning. She is the mother of four home-born children, and currently combines full-time motherhood with her work as a writer on pregnancy, birth, and parenting,
Dr Buckley’s work critiques current practices in pregnancy, birth, and parenting from the widest possible perspectives, including scientific, anthropological, cross-cultural, psychological, and personal. She enc… read more
Shannon Hayes
Shannon Hayes works with her family raising grassfed livestock on Sap Bush Hollow Farm in West Fulton, NY. She holds a bachelors in Creative Writing from SUNY Binghamton, and a Masters and Ph.D. in Sustainable Agriculture and Community Development from Cornell University. In addition to homeschooling her children with her husband, Bob Hooper, Hayes hostsgrassfedcooking.com and is the … read more
Sharon Hill
Sharon is the author of 'Back in Daddy’s Arms' – her own poignant true story of triumph over abuse, abandonment and loss. She is also co-author of 'The Path to Success' – a compilation of short … read more
Teresa Graham Brett, J.D.
Teresa Graham Brett, J.D., lives her passion for creating social change by combining her work in social justice education with parenting. As a professional, she has spent over 20 years working in and with universities and colleges as an educator, leader, administrator and co… read more
Uncle Bob Randall
Bob Randall is a member of the Stolen Generations and former Indigenous Person of the Year. He is credited with bringing to light the issue of forced removal of Aboriginal children from their families, in 1970. His song, "My Brown Skin Baby They Take Him Away," written at the time, is described as an "anthem" for the Stolen Generations.
He spent some time on Elcho Island and other places in the Northern Territory. At age seven, Bob was removed from his family in the vicinity of Uluru and taken to Alice Springs.[1]
Later he created the first Aboriginal Centre at the read more
