The Duggan Sisters:
An inspiring brand for the
challenging times we live in.

When sisters Mary and Annie Duggan formed their company in December of 2003, they named themselves The Soul Sisters. They could just as appropriately have called themselves the soul survivors. Perhaps the word that best describes the Duggan Sisters is RESILIENCE. Spiritual, emotional, and physical resilience underlies the classes they teach, the products they make, and the message of hope and renewal that is the Duggan brand. And of course stories of victory over the odds, their own and others’, that define the Duggan Sisters experience.

“When Annie and I joined forces professionally in 2003 the press releases, had there been any, should have read HALF DEAD AND BRAIN DEAD JOIN FORCES” says Mary, President and one-half of the Duggan Sisters team. But, we jumped into the fray and there has been no looking back.

The Duggan Sisters brand is the inspiring story of two sisters determined to beat the odds and take others along for the ride. Mary is a former educator, administrator, and designer who sustained a traumatic brain injury in December of 2000 that left her with a mystifying mix of disabilities and talents but unable to do any of the work she had previously done. Annie had 20 years invested in the mortgage and banking industry when a mysterious immune malfunction derailed her career and her life in the summer of the same year.

Being victims was never an option for the Duggan Sisters; so, they combined their weakened but still substantial skill sets to prove that there had to be a better way than the hopeless or diminished prognosis medicine frequently had to offer. What they learned about healing both body and soul informs their classes, their products and their services.

In their own words: “In March of 2006, as we prepared to launch our first website, we wanted a new name that reflected an important change in our lives — namely our new home. The Rose Cottage in Beverly was chosen to reflect the sort of place we’d needed to find when we were really sick and struggling — a cottage, a retreat, a sanctuary — the sort of place, as well, that we wanted to offer to others. Little did we know at the time that it would also reflect the sorts of cottage industry products that we had needed ourselves and were destined to make for others as well.

The Rose Cottage has been our home and our headquarters since 2006 — we trust as well that it has been a place of comfort and hope for others. We hope you are nourished by the information, products, and stories we have made available to you on our website. We intend to maintain our commitment to integrity and growth. We trust and hope that you will become regular visitors to our site. We promise to do our best to always offer product innovation, information, and inspiration.”

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