Mission

Encouraging the whole health of women, including self-care, promoting friendships, and increasing access and awareness to mental health care through events, charitable contributions and educational programming.

Our Story

Living Beyond Motherhood was born out of a shared truth we see every day in our work.

We are a collective of six perinatal mental health providers with nearly 90 years of combined experience supporting women through pregnancy, postpartum, infertility, loss, and the ongoing realities of motherhood. Across settings and seasons, one theme kept emerging: women are deeply hungry for connection—and increasingly isolated from it.

We watched mothers struggle not because they were doing something “wrong,” but because they were carrying too much alone. Systems meant to support women were fragmented or inaccessible. Friendships were harder to maintain. Identity quietly narrowed. Needs went unmet.

And therapy, while incredibly valuable, wasn’t always enough on its own especially when many providers are not adequately trained to support women and mothers.

Why We Chose This Path

Living Beyond Motherhood exists because women need more than survival support—they need community, permission, and space to be fully human.

We saw how often women minimized themselves, postponed care, and shrank their inner lives to fit the demands of caregiving. Even well-intentioned cultural messages told them that good motherhood meant self-sacrifice without limits. Over time, this left many women disconnected from who they are outside of what they do for others.

We didn’t want to create another space that focused solely on fixing or managing motherhood.
We wanted to create a space that expanded it.