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Thank you to everyone who so generously supported our 1st annual Big Ocean Women Gala last month. Your contributions successfully raised much-needed resources for our International Cottages Fund. Your support helps gather women around the globe to be trained as deliberate thinkers and to engage as powerful forces for good in their homes, communities, and…
Women from around the globe gather in Big Ocean Cottages to strengthen each other, discuss our beliefs, and find ways to effect positive change in their communities. Often the projects they want to undertake, especially in the global south, require more resources than they can access on their own. The intention of our International Cottage…
April Tenet: “We live and promote a life-culture within the womb, the home, and our ecological environment. As women, we have the wonderful inborn capacity to create and therefore protect human life. We have the instinctive understanding that ALL life is unique and intrinsically valuable. This is our maternal power! Our simple yet refined model…
Our capacity to create and sustain human life is a tremendous power from which society can recognize and then begin to organize around.This framework challenges the current predominant social assumption that the sexed female body is less than fully human and therefore an inferior existence. Those words on the Big Ocean Women website stood out…
It was Barbara’s first child, and no one can tell the story better than she. “The pregnancy was a normal one. I was staying with my parents in New York while my husband, Sherm, was stationed in California in the Marine Corps. I woke up in the middle of the night. My parents took me…
The womb is the first environment every human experiences. When we were carried by our mothers, their bodies were our shelter. And when they breathed, they imparted to us the breath of life. During pregnancy mother and child exist together in a liminal space where they are simultaneously one and two. This is an exalting…
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