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4\\ Coming Home: Why Women in the Home Matter

4\\ Coming Home: Why Women in the Home Matter

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Caroline explores the profound importance of women in the home - not as a limitation, but as sacred, skilled work that has been central to human survival for thousands of years.

From ancestral communities where women were decision-makers and knowledge-keepers, to the Industrial Revolution and convenience culture, Caroline traces how we've lost something essential: the understanding that tending a home, creating family rhythms, and passing down knowledge matters.

She shares her journey from entrepreneurship and burnout to discovering that being laid off was a gift - allowing her to reclaim the home, investigate food storage, learn about herbs, and rebuild the rhythms that hold her family together.

Caroline discusses the science behind cognitive labour, the research on family meals, and what different faith traditions teach about the home as sacred space.

Topics include ancestral wisdom, Victorian homemaking, cross-faith perspectives on the home (Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Indigenous traditions), the mental load women carry, family meal benefits, and practical daily rhythms.

This is an invitation to remember what your ancestors knew: the work of tending a home is powerful, valued, and worth your time.

Start with one meal at the table, make your bed, cook from scratch, and reclaim one ancestral practice. You don't have to do it all perfectly - one small choice shifts everything.

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