Home Page ⋆ Barb Elgin, MSW, LCSW-C

Hi, I'm Barb Elgin and I want to welcome you. You've arrived at a great time because I am just beginning to envision our co-living community. So, if you are ready to explore the idea with me, let me know.
I loved living in a well run, active adult community before and I am now researching how to find myself in a vibrant co-living environment soon again! Read to join me?
Our community will be pet-friendly and residents will have opportunities to connect socially with other pet owners and heck, maybe we will even engage in animal rescue.
We will each cook in our own kitchens, but we will also join together in our community center on a regular basis to prepare and share meals together. Our group meals will be nutritious and as plant-based as possible. I propose for our health and the health of animals and the planet let's make this style of eating a central value in our community.
You will LOVE pickleball, if you don't already. Our community will of course offer lots of it, along with other recreational activities.
This picture of course is just one potential vision for our community. It reminded me of the active adult community I lived in for 10 years. Those who join us as founding members will help create the plan. Interested in learning more? Call or email me. Initial thoughts for me include words like green, healthy building materials. Solar. Living more off the land, etc.
Are you tired of the too hectic pace of life and looking to simplify, in ways that will support you in slowing down and savoring life more? Co-housing is an option catching fire because it helps residents cut costs, share and/or shave care giving costs and more.
Do you have a wacky sense of humor? Our community will be full of like-hearted others who want to connect with and live near others who take life seriously when needed, but desire to let their hair hang down otherwise.
Couples - gay and straight - will be an integral part of our community. I'll bet the toast will more likely be with grape juice cocktail than wine, given our wellness focus.

I am convinced most of us have given up life quality for something else in today's world, and it's time we stepped back to reflect. Sleep deprivation, obesity, relationship unhappiness, rapidly increasing rates of mental illness, addiction, excessive use of prescription medications and financial problems are all signs a course correction is needed. I don't know about you but I am inspired to find a happier, healthier, wealthier way...

My dream is to wake up - in the not-too-distant future - in a sweet co-housing community that better balances quality of life to it's residents. Sound like a project you'd like to be a part of?