Where Ancient Wisdom Teachings Unmask Modern Parenting Mythology
Where Ancient Wisdom Teachings Unmask Modern Parenting Myth
Welcome
Do You Feel Like There’s More To Parenthood Than Overwhelm And Routine?
Did You Know the Grief Cycle and the Hero's Journey are Paths to Transformation?
Perhaps You Are Hearing An Ancient Call To Explore Your Instincts And Use Your Imagination To Write A New Story Of Parenthood.
Thank You For Answering The Call!
Meet Your Guides
Lisa Reagan on Her Mother (of a) Quest and the Heroic Grief Journey of Parenthood
Lisa Reagan on Her Mother (of a) Quest and the Heroic Grief Journey of Parenthood
Lisa Reagan on Her Mother (of a) Quest and the Heroic Grief Journey of Parenthood
With Lisa Reagan, you will discover How Love and Chronic Illness Inspired the Creation of Kindred. How her journey through matrescence became a Grief Cycle, that she found inside the Hero's Journey. Both paths point us to wholeness through service to Life.
Elly Taylor on Parenthood as a Rite of Passage
Lisa Reagan on Her Mother (of a) Quest and the Heroic Grief Journey of Parenthood
Lisa Reagan on Her Mother (of a) Quest and the Heroic Grief Journey of Parenthood
With Elly Taylor, you will discover the implications of parenthood as a rite-of-passage and what this individual transformation means for your relationship to yourself and others, especially your partner.
Lysa Parker on Mindful Parenting as a Spiritual Essence of Attachment
Lisa Reagan on Her Mother (of a) Quest and the Heroic Grief Journey of Parenthood
Barbara Nicholson on Mindful Parenting as a Spiritual Essence of Attachment
With Lysa Parker and Barbara Nicholson, you will find the superpower of mindfulness as a tool for discovering the spiritual essence of attachment in relationship.
Barbara Nicholson on Mindful Parenting as a Spiritual Essence of Attachment
Lisa Reagan on Her Mother (of a) Quest and the Heroic Grief Journey of Parenthood
Barbara Nicholson on Mindful Parenting as a Spiritual Essence of Attachment
With Lysa Parker and Barbara Nicholson, you will find the superpower of mindfulness as a tool for discovering the spiritual essence of attachment in relationship.
Karen Brody, The Well-Rested Parent: Surrendering to the Call, Chucking Perfect and Awakening Your Vital Force
Karen Brody, The Well-Rested Parent: Surrendering to the Call, Chucking Perfect and Awakening Your Vital Force
Karen Brody, The Well-Rested Parent: Surrendering to the Call, Chucking Perfect and Awakening Your Vital Force
With Karen Brody, you will learn to enter into your own unconscious realm through the restorative power of sleep.
Meryn Callander, Parenting in the Shadow of the Soul: Reclaiming Hidden Treasure
Karen Brody, The Well-Rested Parent: Surrendering to the Call, Chucking Perfect and Awakening Your Vital Force
Karen Brody, The Well-Rested Parent: Surrendering to the Call, Chucking Perfect and Awakening Your Vital Force
With Meryn Callander you will discover that the underbelly of hell, including surviving divorce, abuse, or betrayal, can providing the compost for a new, empowering reality to emerge.
Kelly Wendorf, The Quest for Wisdom
Karen Brody, The Well-Rested Parent: Surrendering to the Call, Chucking Perfect and Awakening Your Vital Force
John Breeding, PhD, The Dangers of Refusing the Call of the Hero's Journey
With Kelly Wendorf, you will discover ways to distill the ultimate treasure of all heroic journeys: the elixir of wisdom and its practical applications to everyday life.
John Breeding, PhD, The Dangers of Refusing the Call of the Hero's Journey
Karen Brody, The Well-Rested Parent: Surrendering to the Call, Chucking Perfect and Awakening Your Vital Force
John Breeding, PhD, The Dangers of Refusing the Call of the Hero's Journey
With John Breeding, PhD, you will discover how a break with cultural conformity may appear as a break down, more than a break through, for your or your child, but these openings are how the light gets in!
Robin Grille, Inner Child, Inner Wisdom Unmasking The Mythology Of The Modern, Uber Parent
Kate White, The Baby Is In the Shadow: How Going Back to Heal Our Earliest Life Trauma Can Help Us Go Forward
Kate White, The Baby Is In the Shadow: How Going Back to Heal Our Earliest Life Trauma Can Help Us Go Forward
With Robin Grille, you will unmask the mythology of the modern, uber parent on a quest through your own Inner Child’s realm.
Kate White, The Baby Is In the Shadow: How Going Back to Heal Our Earliest Life Trauma Can Help Us Go Forward
Kate White, The Baby Is In the Shadow: How Going Back to Heal Our Earliest Life Trauma Can Help Us Go Forward
Kate White, The Baby Is In the Shadow: How Going Back to Heal Our Earliest Life Trauma Can Help Us Go Forward
With Kate White you will learn to integrate understanding the baby’s experience into our parenting journey and heal our earliest traumas. We can clean the slate for our children so that they don’t need to address unmetabolized grief, fear, and pain. The parenting journey that includes the baby helps bring our unhealed moments out of shadow and into the light.
Michael Mendizza, Transcendent Mentoring of This and Future Generations
Kate White, The Baby Is In the Shadow: How Going Back to Heal Our Earliest Life Trauma Can Help Us Go Forward
How Does the Science of Our Evolved Nest Help to Heal Our Hero's Journey?
With Michael Mendizza, you will discover how your hero’s journey can be transformed into a much needed call for mentoring other parents and future generations of parents.
How Does the Science of Our Evolved Nest Help to Heal Our Hero's Journey?
Kate White, The Baby Is In the Shadow: How Going Back to Heal Our Earliest Life Trauma Can Help Us Go Forward
How Does the Science of Our Evolved Nest Help to Heal Our Hero's Journey?
The evolved nest doesn’t just meet the child's needs—it heals the parent, too. By embedding parenting within biological, communal, and emotional scaffolds—like oxytocin-linked care, shared caregiving, healing rituals, nurturing touch, and connection with nature—it short-circuits the emotional spiral of the Grief/Hero’s Journey Cycle and transforms it into a regenerative quest.
REMEMBER…
When You Called Upon Your Imagination to Create Your World?
YOU STILL CAN.
The science is in.
We “know” everything we need to know to nurture ourselves, our families, our communities and our Earth. You are welcome to explore the award-winning, transdisciplinary, integrative science of our Evolved Nest, by Darcia Narvaez, at our sister-initiative, The Evolved Nest.
The many components to our evolutionary pathway to wellbeing, our evolved nest, have been explored at Kindred Magazine for over 20 years. You are welcome to discover our New Story of the Human Family at our sister-initiative and alternative media project, Kindred Magazine. The magazine features Darcia's work and writings and uses the lens of the holistic theory of our Evolved Nest to finally "see" our way to Welcoming a Wisdom-based, Wellness-informed World (our nonprofit mission and vision at Kindred World).
What is needed now is a willingness to follow a call to adventure, an adventure that promises to shift our awareness in a way that helps us return to the wholeness of ourselves and remember…
- How to imagine.
- How to play.
- How to construct the whole-hearted adventure we want to experience.
- And how to be present so we don’t miss a single enchanted moment of our precious lives.
With the loving guidance you'll find in Parenting as a Hero's Journey you will also discover:
- How to spot and avoid the traps of soul-draining modern parenting mythology.
- How to create daily habits that allow you to draw strength, wisdom and inspiration for your rite-of-parenthood journey.
- How to immerse yourself in the natural magic of connection with your self, partner and child.
- How parenthood, unlike any other rite-of-passage you will face, provides the greatest adventure of your lifetime.
Parenting As A Hero’s Journey calls upon the insights of Joseph Campbell’s Great Monomyth Wheel – the universal structure of storytellers – that helps us as individuals and communities to create and understand the personal and collective stories/mythologies we live by. As Campbell teaches us, we all make daily and life choices through these personal mythologies, which serve as our lenses, or worldviews. Campbell believes it is our unique quest to discover these personal mythologies and then to retool them to our higher purposes.
With parents, many of these mythologies are passed down unconsciously through family traditions and cultural conditioning. To become aware of our own mythologies and claim authorship of our own stories is the purpose of all forms of conscious parenting.
If you are a parent who is questioning cultural norms, feeling out of place in the world, or unsatisfied with your “identity” as a parent, you are hearing the ancient “Call To Adventure.”
This Call has inspired heroines and heroes of ancient and modern mythology to leave their day to day lives in search of “Something Else Our Hearts Believe Is Possible.”
Today, it is the parents who are answering this ancient call that are transforming themselves, and therefore the world. The choice to follow the call can feel like a Grief Cycle, as we say goodbye to our industrial cultural programming (leave the known world behind) and set out to reclaim our humanity from a war-torn, climate-changing world.
We welcome you to join our Fellowship of the Sling and find companions for your journey by joining our Mighty Networks platform at www.KindredCommunity.org.
Your Fellowship Of The Sling guides below, believe Parenting IS A Hero’s Journey.
Join a Band of International Travelers and Your Wise Guides on an Adventure Below...
How Parenthood is a Grief Cycle and a Hero's Journey
How are Parenting as a Hero's Journey and a Grief Cycle Similar?
Both a grief cycle and a hero's journey share a similar structure of stages, encompassing departure, trials, and return, though with different contexts and emotional tones. The hero's journey, as outlined by Joseph Campbell, follows a character who leaves their ordinary world for an adventure, faces challenges, and ultimately returns transformed. Similarly, grief can be seen as a journey where individuals experience a loss, navigate its emotional landscape, and eventually integrate the experience into their lives, finding a new sense of self and purpose.
Both models describe deep personal transformation. The Grief Cycle helps understand the emotional stages of processing loss, while the Parenting Hero’s Journey frames the upheaval and growth of becoming a parent as a mythic transformation. They overlap in themes like resistance, suffering, surrender, and eventual growth—but where grief often ends in acceptance, the parenting journey may repeat cyclically, with each new phase (toddler, teen, empty nest) initiating a new call to adventure.
By Lisa Reagan
1. Denial / The Call to Adventure (or Refusal)
- Grief Cycle: In Denial, a person shields themselves from the reality of loss.
- Hero’s Journey: In parenting, the Call to Adventure (or its refusal) is the initial tug—feeling overwhelmed or ill‑prepared. Parents often think, “I can’t do this,” echoing denial of the change ahead
Read The Dangers of Refusing the Call of the Hero's Journey in Parenthood
By John Breeding, PhD
Read The Quest for Wisdom
By Kelly Wendorf
2. Anger / Emotional Ordeal
- Grief Cycle: Anger emerges as frustration, blame, or resentment.
- Hero’s Journey: Parenting triggers deep psychological reactions—anger, resentment, shame—when children reflect unresolved wounds. The site describes this as being “yanked into the underworld of the deep psyche”.
Read Inner Child, Inner Wisdom Unmasking The Mythology Of The Modern, Uber Parent
By Robin Grille
3. Bargaining / Surrender & Seeking Support
- Grief Cycle: Bargaining involves attempts to regain control (“If only…”). Support is sought.
- Hero’s Journey: Parents seek mentors, methods, rituals (like yoga nidra), and communities to regain balance and inspiration—echoing the bargaining impulse but channeled through surrender and tools for resilience.
Read The Baby is in the Shadow: How Going Back to Heal Our Earliest Life Trauma Can Help Us Go Forward
By Kate White
Read Transcendent Mentoring of This and Future Generations
By Michael Mendizza
4. Depression / Dark Night & Transformation
- Grief Cycle: Depression marks the profound grieving, an abyss of sorrow and introspection.
- Hero’s Journey: Parenting leads to the “Dark Nights of the Soul”—times of despair, isolation, crippling self-doubt, yet opening doors to transformation and surrender.
Read Parenting in the Shadows of the Soul: Reclaiming the Hidden Treasure
By Meryn Callendar
Read Parenthood as a Rite of Passage
By Ellie Taylor
5. Acceptance / Elixir & Integration
- Grief Cycle: In Acceptance, one reconciles and adapts to life without what was lost.
- Hero’s Journey: Parents emerge with new wisdom, habits, and inner alignment—they return bearing the “elixir” of self-awareness, relaxed presence, and deeper connection to self, partner, and child.
Read Mindful Parenting: The Spiritual Essence of Attachment
By Barbara Nicholson and Lysa Parker
Read The Well-Rested Parent: Surrendering to the Call, Chucking Perfect and Awakening Your Vital Force
By Karen Brody
We Are The New Story
PAHJ as a Wisdom Teaching Collection
With the decision to share a New Story, to embody this New Story in our daily lives, comes a unfolding of human capacities that – to the eyes of an Old Story observer – would certainly appear to be super powers.
In this Parenting as a Hero's Journey Wisdom Teaching Collection, your guides will share with you these New Story super powers, including awareness, self-nurturing, self-regeneration, self-regulation, mindfulness, becoming the author/authority of your own story, and discovering your own Inner Child realm. These are timeless, ancient wisdom teachings that will help you unmask modern parenting mythology and step into your authentic power of connection.
Welcome Home Trance-breakers, New Cycle Makers, & Wayfinders
Next Steps on the Journey
At Kindred World, we have worked to create need-based initiatives and projects to serve New Cycle Makers just like you.
1. Discover the New Story of the Human family through our alternative media platform at www.KindredMagazine.org.
2. Discover the science of our evolutionary pathway to wellbeing at www.EvolvedNest.org.
3. Join our private, Mighty Networks Community at www.KindredCommunity.org.
4. Learn more about our nonprofit work, and support us, at www.KindredWorld.org.
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