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2025 Mental Health & Motherhood Updates
Here is your awaited update on who is going to be pouring compassion into you for the 2025 Mental Health & Motherhood Summit (and a few announcements). 🎉
It’s been a very long month of consideration on this, especially since I had 3x the amount of applicants this year. Gracious mothers have been consulted in this slow process and I spent a lot of time asking who fits the following event vision the best.
If this is your first introduction to the summit, here it is for you as well:
The Mental Health & Motherhood Summit is a virtual event designed to connect mothers with mental health resources, offering a low-barrier approach that deeply values community and connection. It is 100% volunteer driven by mothers who care about building up awareness and support for other mothers.
At its core, this event is designed to connect mothers with resources that support their mental health.
First, we wanted to elevate the women who have medical and counseling backgrounds. Second, we wanted to see who else was able to articulate their lived experiences in a way that would pour compassion upon mothers.
I strongly believe the following women — counselors, authors, mental health advocates, and more — all have a strong desire to uplift other mothers. Please follow them, congratulate them, and uplift them back!
First, some things you wanted to know:
When is this thing? The 2025 Mental Health & Motherhood Summit will now be a 2 DAY virtual event thanks to the overwhelming amount of submissions. Save the date for October 10-11, 2025 if you’d like to schedule yourself some self-care time.
When can we buy tickets?? Now!
Ok, but how much will they be? Low-financial barrier is one of the biggest goals for this event. Standard tickets will be $25 per person. VIP passes (includes recording access) will be $47 before rising in cost the week of the event.
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Meet your speakers! Click their links! Tell us what topics are catching your eyes in the comment section!
» you’ll have a chance to read more about them on the ticket site in June 🎉
Clinical Mental Health Tools
MJ Harford, LPC, NCC - Demystifying DMER" (Dysphoric Milk Ejaculation Reflex and its effects on mental health)
Bridget Cross LCSW, PMH-C, (
) - Parts of you: Navigating infertility, loss, and birth trauma with IFS - Matrescence: The Process of Becoming a MotherMotherhood Identity & Transition
- The Good Mother Myth - Matrescence: Navigating the Non-Linear Path of Motherhood - Permission to form an identity aside from motherhood
Creative Healing Practices
- Writing to Build Community - The 5-Minute Muse: Creative Sparks for Busy Moms
Physical & Somatic Approaches
- Hungry for Security; Healing relationships with food and strengthening connections with our children through an attachment lens. - Your Postpartum Needs and How to Get Them Met - Redefining Strength: Motherhood, Healing, and Somatic Practices
Stress Management & Resilience
- Permission to Pause: How High-Achieving Moms Can Reclaim Rest Without GuiltShanon Williams-Hughes - Reclaiming Space and Sanity: A Spatial Wellness Approach to the Mental Load of Motherhood
- Resilience, Fear, and Superpowers in Motherhood (and 3 Steps to Release Fear Immediately)Sandra Fernandes, MD - Escape Survival Mode: Reclaiming Your Time, Energy, and Sanity as a Busy Mom
- The Mama Within: Healing While You Parent
Unique Challenges In Motherhood
- Expressing and Meeting Your Needs as a Neurodivergent MotherSunita Kapahi Theiss (
) - The Mental Load of Caregiving: A Mother’s Journey Through Career, Family, and Self-Preservation - Motherhood in the Military - Ultimate Trade: Exchanging Grief for Grace in Infant Loss - Graced For The Assignment - New Roots, Deep Love: Navigating Motherhood After ImmigrationSarah Kernion (
) - Outmaneuvering Chaos: Neurodivergent Strength, Inchstone Growth, and the OODA AdvantagePlease follow them, congratulate them, and uplift them back!
Do you want to sponsor this event?
Email hello@chanelriggle.com (or reply to this email) to learn more about our sponsorship options for this 100% volunteer event supporting mothers in their mental health.
Do you want to cheer on this event?
We need your help to spread the word. Please help this spread like wildfire so other mothers can find this support. You know how online engagement works: heart, comment, share.
You made it to the comment section! I'm Chanel, the founder of the Mental Health & Motherhood Summit. Thank you for supporting this cause and sharing the speakers you've met here. Who are you most excited to hear from this year?