Announcing the Virtual Conference Website!
Plus more details on what to expect for tickets and experience at the 2024 Mental Health and Motherhood Virtual Conference
I am so excited to announce the launch of the official website for the Mental Health and Motherhood Virtual Conference! I’ve been hard at work with the help of our volunteers (especially
and for their feedback) to provide you with all the details you need to make the most of this virtual event.Motherhood Minute is still going to share all the things about the virtual conference, but a website was necessary for better sharing. And Please Share! We need your help to let other moms know a day is being dedicated to mental health topics for their benefit.
How you can share:
Share the website url with mothers you know
https://mentalhealthmomevent.com/
Share in your newsletters or restack and like this post ❤️
Print or share a flyer with your local hangouts where moms go (coffee shops, play groups, work places, libraries, etc)
Let moms know that community is out there and maternal mental health awareness affects all of us! This might be the first step someone takes to become aware of their mental health and feel connected.
What You’ll Find on the Website
Conference Overview: Including the question this year: How can we treat ourselves with compassion?
Speaker Lineup: Meet our incredible speakers who will share their strength, knowledge, and experiences. Each speaker has a link on their profile so you can sign up for their newsletters, buy their books, and connect with them.
Store: Explore a limited selection of merch (profits benefit Postpartum Support International, a non-profit organization serving the needs of pregnant, post-loss, and postpartum women and families all over the world.) Costs kept as low as possible using a print on demand service.
We also hope these products will help you start conversations about maternal mental health.
Registration Information: Bookmark the website storefront to purchase tickets starting July 1, 2024
FAQs: Get answers to frequently asked questions about the conference!
Upcoming Features
Resource Page: We are working on a resources list for mothers in search of books, websites, and more. Feel free to comment any resources you have used or know of to potentially add to the list.
Video library: Ticket holders will be emailed a video library passcode for recordings after the event October 11, 2024 and recordings will be accessible through the end of 2024.
This virtual conference was created by moms and for moms. In my own journey, I experienced a resurgence of depression at 20 weeks of pregnancy in the middle of the pandemic, a near-death birth experience, and three years of postpartum depression and anxiety.
Resources felt scarce and often left me feeling like a crisis was needed before I could access help. My expectations of what postpartum depression was wildly differed from what I experienced (and that’s true despite my cycles of depression ten years before motherhood.)
It has always been community with other mothers that has provided me with a ray of hope.
Sometimes this community was one mom sitting with me in the mess or sending me check-in messages every day. Sometimes that fellowship has been online; which is why I started Motherhood Minute 2 years ago, in the middle of the night while nursing and feeling isolated. I have experienced solidarity in the stress in this space with other mothers.
As I interviewed other mothers about what building community looks like, I realized the conversation couldn’t stop. Maternal mental health is a discussion that needs to go beyond a month. There is an isolation that can occur once a mother births a baby and the meals run out or the congratulations disappear; this isolation must be acknowledged and fought against. The absence of other mothers in a mom’s life could have deadly effects.
It is up to us to share resources and hope first because moms understand moms better than anyone else can. When they ask us “how do you do it?” It’s up to moms to stop masking our struggles. We must shout “Sometimes we can’t!”
We share statistics, time, resources, and listening ears. We can’t do it alone but we do what we can.
This conference will not provide you with medical advice. In fact, you might go into it thinking you’re doing great and leave wondering if it’s time to talk honestly with a professional. Or you might go into it feeling isolated and leave feeling more grounded in a community. Every mental health journey is different.
But this event will leave you feeling more compassionate with yourself in mind, body, and spirit. You will hear from mothers who have professional backgrounds in nutrition, counseling, and movement. You’ll be able to go back and watch them on your own schedule too because we get life looks different for everyone.
You’ll feel more connected with mothers who are wondering, “Is it just me who feels this way?”
General tickets will be $25 USD. This is a price that should cover the needed expenses to host while also keeping the potential financial barrier low. You can email us through the website’s contact form if you have a pressing need for assistance.
VIP tickets will be $50. They include general admission, a VIP group video with a few of our speakers, and you can choose to have a website mention with your link (think of it as a small sponsorship) or you can let us know you’d like to fund a scholarship ticket instead.
I can’t wait for you to meet our speakers in our summer newsletter series and at the conference itself. Thank you for making this community project happen!
Chanel Riggle
Speakers For the Event:
When I don’t have a toddler asleep on me, I will share some books for resources ❤️
So awesome - getting my ticket now!