The Moms Group: A Community for Maternal Wellbeing

Overview

Maternal mental health has a profound impact on the long-term health and well-being of children — for better or for worse. When moms aren’t able to give children the social, emotional, and psychological nurturing that they need, we as a society suffer. Enter The Moms Group: an online community where moms can connect with other moms to feel seen, heard, and supported.

Why The Moms Group matters

We all know that it takes a village to raise children. It’s an honor to raise children, but it’s also a challenge. Moms today are hurting, still reeling from the loneliness caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, maneuvering new and lingering stressors, and coping with many kids’ associated mental health struggles.

And even so, moms are still expected to be performing at 100% — making sure that their loved ones feel loved, cherished, and heard — when their own love battery has long-been depleted.

The Moms Group is an online community that invites every mother to participate in an entirely new kind of mothering experience. This digital village is a virtual playgroup that allows moms to “pop in” for connection, learning, celebration, and fun. Moms of every race, culture, and socioeconomic background need to feel cherished and heard, basic needs that are so important yet so lacking in today’s society.

After 22 years of teaching parenting classes and 16 years of being a marriage and family therapist specializing in working with parents, I am certain that raising children stretches every single mother to limits they never thought possible. Mothering requires phenomenal amounts of caring and serving beyond what most adults have experienced before. And through my lens as a therapist, I see that women are happiest when they feel connected to friends.

Here’s another way of looking at it: if we want a world that’s filled with better families, better businesses, and better neighborhoods, then we’ve got to start with our mothers who are working hard to raise the best humans possible. When moms are emotionally healthy, they have the power to create a better world. Happy, healthy moms are good for all of us.

How The Moms Group works

As long as moms have an internet connection, they can go to The Moms Group to find actual, meaningful friendships with other women. Within this community, moms can celebrate little wins and share misadventures via small mom pods, laugh and cry with mentor moms who have been there–done that, attend educational events, run book clubs, and learn valuable emotional skills as they evolve to feeling fully alive.

The Moms Group’s mission is to provide mothers with community, training, and loving support to help them provide parenting where children’s needs are met and they feel seen, known, and valued.

How we’ll use the funds

We have been working hard for months — building this vision and this platform that is The Moms Group. But we need help co-creating this vibrant new community.

All funds received will help us hire more team members so that every mom who joins has a personal, welcoming experience with live women who are glad to see them. We would also like to hire engagement guides, social media coordinators, and SEO specialists to help The Moms Group reach its full potential. We need mentor moms who have raised their children and now can pour love into younger moms who are in the thick of it.

Please consider joining this cause by making a donation. You will help support children to feel seen and loved because you will be helping their moms feel seen and loved, too. And that, my friend, is a gift to all of us.