Meet Your Conference Speakers!
Introducing the women speaking at the 2024 Mental Health and Motherhood Virtual Conference
Learn how to treat yourself with compassion in mind, body, and spirit during this live-streamed event. Motherhood Minute is hosting its first virtual conference October 11, 2024. Please help us spread the word and these amazing speakers by sharing and leaving a heart on this post.
“How can we treat ourselves with compassion?” Our speakers will help you process this question during our online event at the 2024 Mental Health & Motherhood Virtual Conference this October.
Their backgrounds vary as psychologists, counselors, physicians, authors, and instructors but they share a vision of helping mothers have access to new tools and ideas that will help them find more self-compassion.
They say it takes a village to raise a child and we believe it also takes a village to raise a mother. There seemed no better time to announce our speakers than during May: Mental Health Awareness Month.
Introducing Our Featured Speakers & Topics
In the coming months, we will be sending out more detailed introductions of our speakers and more announcements on how to get your virtual conference tickets!
Please get to know these women by subscribing to their work, following them, or simply giving them a cheer in the comments! Their names will link to their profiles 🔗 on Substack.
Tanmeet Sethi, MD, is a board-certified Integrative and Psychedelic Medicine physician who has devoted her career to caring for the most vulnerable and teaching physicians how to care for these communities in the most humane and skillful way possible. She has spent the last 25 years on the frontlines practicing primary care, global trauma, and community activism. Her first book, Joy Is My Justice presses a whitewashed wellness world to acknowledge its non-inclusive platitudes and explore Joy as a revolutionary healing practice and human right accessible to all of us. She lectures globally and has spoken on two TEDx stages.
“Defining Self-Compassion”Dr. Amber Groomes is a licensed clinical psychologist working in Maryland. She specializes in the treatment of women's mental health, anxiety, OCD, and trauma. She currently works in Private Practice, providing evidence-based psychotherapy to adults and adolescents.
Kim Dickerson Panelist for “Noise Within Motherhood”
Kim is a trained therapist with a Master’s degree in Mental Health Counseling and a Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology. Over a fifteen years span, Kim worked in jails, domestic violence centers, substance abuse treatment centers, hospitals, residential facilities, and private practice. Kim is a mom, grandma, and cat lover. She writes about her time as a therapist and therapy client at
Panelist for “Noise Within Motherhood”Kathryn Barbash, PsyD is a clinical psychologist with a decade of experience working with children, adolescents and families. She is now a stay-at-home parent to her four kids and writes a parenting newsletter, Mindful Mom in the Mud.
“Navigating Postpartum Depression & Crisis”Jeannie is a published author with ten years of experience writing and speaking about the spirituality of grief. As a mom of five, including three who are neurodivergent, she is working on her first memoir of motherhood.
Panelist for “Holding Space For Ourselves & Inner Child”Lauren is a Sacred Business Mentor, Heart Centred Coach and Soulful Branding & Website Designer. She works in the realms of Motherhood and Holistic Business to support others in bringing their creative visions to life. A Mother of two daughters, a Sacred Space Holder, Writer, Speaker, Human Design Guide, Yoga & Meditation Teacher and Creator - Lauren is a true multi-passionate human.
Panelist for “Holding Space For Ourselves & Inner Child”Emma Del Rey is a mother, writer, and trauma survivor. She is two-thirds through a therapy masters program but she is currently taking a pause to raise her son and heal herself. Emma spends her days fielding communications for a social media marketing agency, chasing after her wild toddler, and taking every free moment to write, create, and be.
Panelist for “Holding Space For Ourselves & Inner Child”Kaitlyn is a psychotherapist with over 10 years of experience. She owns a private practice where she see adults dealing with anxiety, depression, relational issues, and the perinatal experience. She is currently in her IFS Level 1 training. She writes a newsletter on Substack called “dialoguing” where she blends her professional expertise with her own experience to provide weekly doses of honesty.
Workshop// “Held: Guided Journaling in Self Compassion”Krista is a therapist, writer and homemaker based in Columbus, Ohio where she lives with her husband, Jeff and their children. She never leaves the house without a book and always adds a bouquet of flowers to her Trader Joe’s cart. If Krista had a rule of life it would be Mary Oliver’s words: “Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.” You can subscribe to her Substack and Ohio residents looking for a therapist can schedule an appointment with her.
“Nurturing the Body”Heidi Schauster, MS, RD, LDN, CEDS-S, SEP is a nutrition therapist and Somatic Experiencing (SE)™ Practitioner in the Greater Boston area who has specialized in eating and body image concerns for nearly 30 years. She provides individual and group counseling and clinical supervision/consultation and is particularly interested in the intersection between food and body concerns with trauma. She is the author of two award-winning books, Nourish and Nurture, and the Nourishing Words newsletter on Substack.
“Movement for Mental Health”Naomi is a mama, a mover, and a maker. She’s been teaching yoga and movement for almost 20 years. Her goal is to make movement easier and more accessible for moms through, quick, creative, and fun classes that make them feel excited to move their bodies.
Thank you to our Compassion Sponsor, Heidi Fiedler!
will be our Master of Ceremonies! Heidi is being incredibly generous by helping facilitate the conversations during this live, virtual event. She is a writer, editor, coach, and mother, who has worked on hundreds of children's books. She also writes about creativity and motherhood, sharing simple, easy ways to feel energized and inspired, so you can keep going, even when life is hard.
Thank you for reading Motherhood Minute and supporting this event!
Why wait for the website to go live? You can claim a Founding Member Ticket by subscribing to Motherhood Minute now for $50 USD.
By pre-registering to the event you gain access to:
a VIP video call with one of our speakers
a general ticket to the October 11 live, virtual event
a name drop on the website sponsorship page
Not interested in the name drop? Send us an email after purchasing and we will set aside $25 to gift a mother her ticket free.
Cannot wait!!! 😍
I feel so so honoured to be part of this incredible lineup. I can’t wait to listen and share xxx