Mother Bear Sanctuary and Retreat Center

Mother Bear Sanctuary and Retreat Center An animal sanctuary and retreat center that fosters connections to your body, nature & each other Fostering connections between animals, people, and the Earth.

Mother Bear Sanctuary’s Mission is to remind people of their innate connections to their bodies, the Earth, all animals, and each other and to inspire joy and service to a new paradigm of sustainable living that allows all people and animals to thrive. Care for our future generations and the larger narrative is part of the maturity of consciousness: we are ALL parents. A common anthropological characteristic of all advanced mammalian species who survive and thrive is the fierce behavior on the part of an adult female of the species when she senses a threat to the cubs. Our complacency about the immense suffering is a sickness. Moral outrage is not born of anger… it is born of Love.---Marianne Williamson lecture, “The Art of Aligning Body and Soul”

Please note Mother Bear Sanctuary is also our home. ---Please come only by appointment or at scheduled events---

**********OUR UPCOMING EVENTS
http://www.motherbearsanctuary.com/events-calendar/

About the founders
BarbraWhite.com
DaveTuscany.net

Men's Healing and Brotherhood
ManKindProject.org

03/01/2026

Love this moment of wonderful, joyful ruckus as shavings flew into the stalls today. 🐴✨

Community Cleanup Day was such a gift. Watching the kids and animals interact, laugh, and play while we all worked side by side was pure magic.

We got the barn cleaned, the stalls freshened, and the whole place humming with love and teamwork. So fun. So beautiful. So grateful.

Thank you everyone who showed up and made it special. 💛

How YOU can help – Mother Bear Sanctuary & Retreat Center https://share.google/4u8lsVokJdsurEW98

03/01/2026

Such a beautiful day at Mother Bear Sanctuary.
Community Clean Up day!!. Kids playing. Animals gently interacting with so much tenderness and softness.

Ronan nose love touches with Fiadh
Gracie gave her big, slobbery love-kisses to all the kids.
And the children did such great work — present, respectful, and commuted to a good job!

There is something so powerful about watching young nervous systems and animal nervous systems meet in safety. No force. No rush. Just curiosity and kindness.

Moments like this remind me why this sanctuary exists.
Softness is strength.
Belonging is medicine.
Gentleness changes everything.

Today felt like that medicine moving through all of us.

So grateful. 💛

How YOU can help – Mother Bear Sanctuary & Retreat Center https://share.google/jVbrCj9MZ1qrKjUNd

02/27/2026

Volunteers needed for barn clean up!
Snuggling animals is your "payment" txt 734 796-6690

Ronan fell. 💔And he’s going to need extra support.We’re starting him on medical-grade CBD, and the vet is coming out lat...
02/23/2026

Ronan fell. 💔
And he’s going to need extra support.

We’re starting him on medical-grade CBD, and the vet is coming out later this week.

Ronan came to us with a tortured history. He was ridden even after his back was broken. Passed around. Used. Discarded. Loved for a brief moment in one place… and then we found him.

He arrived with seizures, severe skin issues, and teeth so overgrown they were cutting into the side of his own face. His first seizure here was terrifying. Savannah ran in circles around him, panicked, almost stepping on him in fear. Her body didn’t understand what was happening to her friend. We had to move her to the paddock beside him.

And then something happened I will never forget.

Savannah was still freaking out in the paddock. Ronan, barely able to move, dragged his body across the ground and stretched his nose to hers to comfort her.

That is who Ronan is.

A horse who has every reason to shut down… choosing connection. Choosing love.

Ronan has helped countless human trafficking survivors and abuse survivors at Mother Bear Sanctuary. People who have been broken in body and spirit sit beside him and whisper, “If Ronan can love again, so can I.”

He is living proof that trauma does not get the final word.

Thank you to everyone who donated recently — the $2,400 hay delivery arriving Saturday is fully covered because of you!!!!
🐻❤️

If you’d like to help with Ronan’s upcoming CBD protocol and veterinary bills, we would be deeply grateful for your support.

Healing takes a village.
And Ronan has given so much.
Please share this post. Or if you can give we would be very grateful
Donate https://share.google/5rNxiaNiFpXVjTctl

“The most worthwhile thing about going vegan was that it led me to experience a very different kind of relationship with...
02/22/2026

“The most worthwhile thing about going vegan was that it led me to experience a very different kind of relationship with animals, namely chickens. These relationships are based first and foremost on recognizing the intrinsic worth of each individual. For the first time in my life, I allowed animals to teach me what I could never have learned on my own.

For example, I saw how unique and unexpected their interactions are with other flock mates. I also saw how sophisticated their abilities are to interact with other species, including humans, and to build strong life-long bonds of love and friendship. They think and act by recalling past experience and memory as well as anticipating the future.

But the insights I gained from chickens extended far beyond my understanding of them. I gained a new perspective on all animals, including the human ones, including myself.”

From

For years Barbra White Crow and Dave Tuscany  have offered various programs, and retreats, many times for free for those...
02/20/2026

For years Barbra White Crow and Dave Tuscany
have offered various programs, and retreats, many times for free for those in need. The expenses to give our free retreats, feed & house our herd has exceeded our availability. We humbly ask for your support to help us sustain this mission of love and service. Will you consider donating, & perhaps share the GO-FUND-ME link?
All funds go toward retreats for human trafficking survivors, herd food, hay, & care. Thank you in advance- It means the world to us! https://gofund.me/5a57307fb

If you can't donate, please share the link. Please help us to help more people and continue to rescue animals, that rescue people.
❤️♥️🐮🐻❤️🌟🌟♥️🐮
Please consider giving more if you have the means. Please consider scholarship for a trafficked individual for healing $350 or
We have six human trafficking Retreats and we support three safe houses.. Each retreat costs $1,500 of our a time and resources.

HAY cost $2,400 every 3 months. This does not include Vet bill's, supplements and added care

I’m grateful that the Epstein stuff is being talked about. Why?!? Over 50% of men and women have experienced s*xual abus...
02/19/2026

I’m grateful that the Epstein stuff is being talked about. Why?!? Over 50% of men and women have experienced s*xual abuse in their lifetime.

Statistically — and in my work — I have seen even higher numbers. BUT pause with that. If you’re sitting in a room with four people, at least two of them have had their sovereignty violated. Their dignity stripped. Their sense of self fractured. They have had to claw their way back to worth.

And if you know me, you know I believe in post-traumatic growth — not just PTSD. I have walked alongside hundreds of survivors of trafficking and s*xual abuse as they reclaimed not only their worth, but their power and purpose. I have done my own healing from actual pedophilism and abuse. So I’m not speaking theoretically.

🐻❤️ I have witnessed the human spirit rise from devastation and become medicine for the world.

So excuse me if I’m not shocked that the Epstein conversation is finally exploding into public awareness.

But let’s be clear.

This isn’t just about Epstein.
It’s not just about one man or one network.

We live inside a culture that normalizes exploitation.
A culture that commodifies bodies.
A culture that protects power over people.

And here’s something many don’t know:
Michigan — because of the Canadian border — is a human trafficking hub.

We still punish s*x workers more aggressively than the Johns.
More aggressively than the traffickers.
We target the easiest person to arrest — often the very person who was coerced, groomed, or economically trapped.

Why?

Because dismantling the actual power structures would require courage.
It would require looking at patriarchy, colonization, and power-over systems — not as “men vs. women,” not as a culture war — but as a system that siphons energy, money, and life from women, children, marginalized communities, animals, and the Earth itself.

Stop arguing about the details of the Epstein files.
It’s a stupid waste of time.
Stop the culture war so we can see there is an elite few siphoning from our children, nature… from US.

Can’t you see it?!?

I am now serving on a task force for human trafficking survivors, working to change legislation. And let me tell you — the system is not designed to protect the vulnerable. It is designed to maintain control.

This conversation is overdue.

Because it’s not just about elite corruption.
It’s about whether children — of any gender — are safe in our society.
It’s about whether we continue normalizing domination as strength.
It’s about whether we keep pretending the problem is isolated.

It’s not isolated.

My dissertation research — a multi-modality Ecopsychology approach to Healing Trauma — is in its final stages this year. I’m excited for every trauma center in the U.S., for traditional therapists to understand nature as a fundamental part of healing deep trauma — not just a pretty backdrop.

A small number of people extract power from bodies, from nature, from animals, from systems — and we call it normal.

The Matrix wasn’t science fiction.
It was metaphor.

And healing isn’t just personal.
It’s radical.
Rebellious.
A reclaiming of one’s fundamental wholeness.

Healing isn’t just personal.
It’s ecological.
It’s cultural.
It’s legislative.
It’s systemic.

Join me on the 23rd, 6–6:45pm on Zoom.
Calling all torch bearers for the Earth. Learn to cultivate rootedness and resilience in the chaos.
Email: motherbearsanctuary@gmail.com

Currently, three safe houses will be receiving free eco-therapy retreats at Mother Bear Sanctuary in 2026. Each retreat costs us $1,500. If you’d like to donate and support creating a better world with me, please do.

How YOU can help – Mother Bear Sanctuary & Retreat Center
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Mr Elton has entered the car!!! LOL Children, animals, and people in general are more controllable when you dominate wit...
02/18/2026

Mr Elton has entered the car!!! LOL Children, animals, and people in general are more controllable when you dominate with fear. That has been the old blueprint—outdated parenting styles, extractive politics, the way we have been taught to relate to Nature through hierarchy, power-over, and domination.

It takes more patience to let a child have their own feelings, agency, and voice. It takes restraint to sit with their tears instead of silencing them.

Similarly, it takes patience to let animals tell you what they need—to read their bodies, to respect their boundaries, to honor their agency rather than override it for convenience or control.

It is easier to dominate.
It is easier to suppress brown bodies, animals, women—
to siphon power from what you do not understand
or what threatens your fragile authority.

Easier in the moment.
But it costs the person...
their aliveness.
Integrity and
soul.

Never feel weak for having empathy.
We live in a world that will break your heart almost daily..if you care deeply.
Hurting is not a sign that you don't have enough faith or you need to harden.
🐻It's a sign that you're alive and that you care

Do not internalize their insult when they call you “too sensitive” or a “snowflake.”

Sensitivity is not fragility—it is perception. It is attunement. It is nervous systems that can feel. It is the capacity to recognize harm and refuse to replicate it.

It takes profound courage to remain soft in a world shaped by war and violence.
It takes strength to choose relational power over domination.
It takes maturity to share power instead of siphoning it from controlled people and extracting from nature

Empathy is not weakness.
It is evolution.

Join me! February 23rd. Rooted resilience in times of chaos. Calling all torch bearers of the Earth. You know you're here to make a difference. Learn to draw strength in a collaborative relationship with nature
If you're an activist, or just need more support, please come to this free offering. 6:00 to 6:45 email me at motherbearsanctuary@gmail.com. questions from 6:45 to 7:30

I'm an eco-psychologist, body-natute based trauma healer
27+ years of facilitation experience and gifted intuitive. I used my gifts to empower both human and animals, to reconnection back to purpose, life and a sustainable world that works for all

Barbrawhite.com
motherbearSanctuary.com

Go to Mother Bear page if you'd like to see the longer video of Elton!
Lol 🐻🥰😁

02/18/2026

Eltan has entered the car!!! LOL Children, animals, and people in general are more controllable when you dominate with fear. That has been the old blueprint—outdated parenting styles, extractive politics, the way we have been taught to relate to Nature through hierarchy, power-over, and domination.

It takes more patience to let a child have their own feelings, agency, and voice. It takes restraint to sit with their tears instead of silencing them.

Similarly, it takes patience to let animals tell you what they need—to read their bodies, to respect their boundaries, to honor their agency rather than override it for convenience or control.

It is easier to dominate.
It is easier to suppress brown bodies, animals, women—
to siphon power from what you do not understand
or what threatens your fragile authority.

Easier in the moment.
But it costs the person...
their aliveness.
Integrity and
soul.

Never feel weak for having empathy.
We live in a world that will break your heart almost daily. If you care deeply. Hurting is not a sign that you don't have enough faith or you need to hurt in. It's a sign that you're alive and that you care

Do not internalize their insult when they call you “too sensitive” or a “snowflake.”

Sensitivity is not fragility—it is perception. It is attunement. It is nervous systems that can feel. It is the capacity to recognize harm and refuse to replicate it.

It takes profound courage to remain soft in a world shaped by war and violence.
It takes strength to choose relational power over domination.
It takes maturity to share power instead of siphoning it from controlled people and extracting from nature

Empathy is not weakness.
It is evolution.

Join me! February 23rd. Rooted resilience in times of chaos. Calling all torch bearers of the Earth. If you're an activist, or just need more support, please come to this free offering. 6:00 to 6:45 email me at motherbearsanctuary@gmail.com. questions from 6:45 to 7:30

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Pinckney, MI
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