Life, in all its forms, wants only for wellness. Every organism carries an ancient intelligence that moves it towards repair and balance. Plants bend towards sustaining light. Roots seek oxygen-rich soil that nourishes them. Wolves groom one another to restore calm within the pack. Elephants console their grieving and help raise one another’s young. Newly born humans instinctively crawl towards the scent of nourishment. These are life’s instructions, the blueprints of wellness embodied.

For most of our species’ existence, humans lived in rhythm with these instructions. How we gave birth, raised ...

 

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