Meet the 2025 Speakers
Here is your awaited update on who is going to be pouring into you for the 2025 Mental Health & Motherhood Summit.
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.
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. 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 self-care time.
When can we buy tickets?? June, my friends! There is so much to do on the back dashboard of this new robust program. You’re going to appreciate it, just be patient and you’ll get an early bird price for VIP passes.
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.
Meet your speakers!
MJ Harford, LPC, NCC - Demystifying DMER" (Dysphoric Milk Ejaculation Reflex)
Dorcas Nung, LMFT - Motherhood from Within: How Your Nervous System Holds the Key to Emotional Wellbeing
Nancy Reddy - The Good Mother Myth
Allison Auth - Your Postpartum Needs and How to Get Them Met
Bridget Cross LCSW - Parts of you: Navigating infertility, loss, and birth trauma with IFS
Jeannie Ewing - Permission to form an identity aside from motherhood
Allison Mei-Li - The 5-Minute Muse: Creative Sparks for Busy Moms
Mary Joan Cunningham - Resilience, Fear, and Superpowers in Motherhood (and 3 Steps to Release Fear Immediately)
Allegra Chapman - Expressing and Meeting Your Needs as a Neurodivergent Mother
L'Oreal Thompson Payton - Permission to Pause: How High-Achieving Moms Can Reclaim Rest Without Guilt
Melissa Anderson - Redefining Strength: Motherhood, Healing, and Somatic Practices
Kate Lewis - Writing to Build Community
Vanessa Scaringi, PhD - Hungry for Security; Healing relationships with food and strengthening connections with our children through an attachment lens.
Gail Marlene Schwartz - Falling Through the Night: from postpartum anxiety to published novel
Ilana S Yahdav - Matrescence: Navigating the Non-Linear Path of Motherhood
Annie Woods - New Roots, Deep Love: Navigating Motherhood After Immigration
Susan Landers, MD - Matrescence: The Process of Becoming a Mother
Shanon Williams-Hughes - Reclaiming Space and Sanity: A Spatial Wellness Approach to the Mental Load of Motherhood
Sarah Kernion - Outmaneuvering Chaos: Neurodivergent Strength, Inchstone Growth, and the OODA Advantage
Sunita Kapahi Theiss - The Mental Load of Caregiving: A Mother’s Journey Through Career, Family, and Self-Preservation
Amber Cook - Motherhood in the Military
Dae Hayes - Ultimate Trade: Exchanging Grief for Grace in Infant Loss
Carlaura Jordan - Graced For The Assignment
Sandra Fernandes, MD - Escape Survival Mode: Reclaiming Your Time, Energy, and Sanity as a Busy Mom
Aaliyah Burgess - The Mama Within: Healing While You Parent
Please follow them, congratulate them, and uplift them back!
