The Solace of Friends in Community
Women’s Empowerment Circles offer community-within-community, building trust, caring, and mutual support.
Women’s Empowerment Circles offer community-within-community, building trust, caring, and mutual support.
After a journey from nuclear family life through student coops, an ecovillager finds rich opportunities for intimacy, in many diverse forms—not just with lovers and family.
A starter marriage, a spouse’s health crisis, and the small details that define each person shed light on the meaning of intimacy.
Relationships don’t exist in a vacuum. Through a culture of communication and support, communities can create the healthy container which relationships need in order to flourish.
In the author’s first, very intense intentional community immersion, revealing the truth led to love and intimacy. He left that group, but, in many spheres of life, emotional and intellectual honesty became his religion.
Ten European ecovillages show the way to a brighter future.