April 2019 Board Message
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…
Creating a Life Culture in Your Community
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…
Carla Machado, A Messenger for Life
Carla Machado is the President of the World Organization of Prenatal Education Association in Brazil. Her organization carries the message throughout the world of the importance of the very beginning of…
Life Culture and Maternal Feminism
The U.N. Commission on the Status of Women had a record number of registrants this year at over 9000. Big Ocean represented a small drop in that number, but I…
Save the World: Help Your Neighbor
Last night I finished reading a memoir that left me reeling. I lay in bed for several hours afterward pondering my place in the world. I evaluated the way I…
February 2019 Board Message
Peace within the Paradox By Carolina Sagebin Allen This month’s tenet, “We are each unique and innately worthy of respect,” can present a paradox of seeing each person as unique,…
November 2018 Board Message
THE MODEL OF POWERFUL IMPACT “Be the change you wish to see in the world,” said Mahatma Gandhi. He understood The Model of Powerful Impact. Change starts from within. When…
October 2018 Board Message
The Ultimate Protection System I have been thinking a lot about this year’s United Nations Commission on the Status of Women’s priority theme. It’s about social protection systems and special…
Feminine Nature and Biology
If we had to choose one tenet that encapsulates maternal feminism, this is it. There are five major things happening in this one small tenet. Let’s investigate. We [Big…
April 2018 Board Message
A delegation of Big Ocean women attended the Commission on the Status of Women at the United Nations in March. We gathered information, made new contacts, and interviewed women from…