A Virtual New Mother Support Group ~ Thursdays 7:30-8:45pm
"I wish Erica could be our neighbor next door, so we could keep standing in her sunshine" Kathryn
Join us in an intimate New Mother Support group.
Receive non-judgmental support around your birth experience & feelings about parenting, tips on physical and emotional healing, and a support system where you can say and be all of who you are.
Gain resources and practices to support your entire family's well-being. Talk about sleep, feeding, following baby's cues, self-care, going back to work, how to ask for what you need, and more. Topics based on all mom's individual preferences. We talk about it all.
Life with a baby can be overwhelming, amazing, life-shifting to say the least. Erica has been there herself and has real passion around guiding new moms as they navigate their new lives.
Receive non-judgmental support around your birth experience & feelings about parenting, tips on physical and emotional healing, and a support system where you can say and be all of who you are.
Gain resources and practices to support your entire family's well-being. Talk about sleep, feeding, following baby's cues, self-care, going back to work, how to ask for what you need, and more. Topics based on all mom's individual preferences. We talk about it all.
Life with a baby can be overwhelming, amazing, life-shifting to say the least. Erica has been there herself and has real passion around guiding new moms as they navigate their new lives.
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"Just wanted to thank you for having us round this week. It was a really wonderful session and super empowering hearing and sharing stories and struggles with other mums. I look forward to doing this over the coming weeks!" Hannah
"Erica's support was there for me at a a time when I really needed it. Becoming a mother was the most magical and at times difficult experience and Erica really helped me by providing a safe space to talk about my experience. I am so lucky and happy to have found her." Leah
What's included:
weekly 75 minute live group calls every Thursday evening (option for video or voice on ZOOM) $25/call
optional private sessions with Erica for added support $65/60min call
"Each group brings a unique set of women, and Erica caters to everyone's interests and needs. She’s one of the most tuned in, empathic, loving, generous-with-her-time-and-energy women out there!" ELS
Group calls begin with individual check ins, and then are guided based on the weekly topics:
- breast and bottle feeding - insights on any challenges that can be made without being in person
- normalcy of changing moods and energy levels - blues, depression, normal ups and downs
- guidance with caregivers - hiring a nanny, a doula, not sure how to ask family/friends for support?
- self-care and how to make it happen - on the daily and the hourly
- baby care tips including soothing, following cues - all the what’s and how’s of being with a newborn
- following your own gut as you get to know your baby - enough he said, she said : what feels right to you?
- self and body image - we talk about it all, and make action steps and hold each other accountable
- navigating new friendships and making amends with changing relationships
- how to bring a touch of mindfulness to your overwhelm - practices and tools to bring in more peace
- safely expressing true feelings around the transition to parenthood
- back to work transitioning and feelings - action steps for success and getting your village together
- and much, much more
Erica's passion for facilitating New Mom Support Groups came after she received the "relief, care, attention, love, and community" from a group she attended herself in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, with Jenna Bourgeois
when she and her newborn were just 6wks old. She took a 90 min bus ride just to get there each week! She left her doula badge at that door, and knew her new mom self needed a place to be "raw, heard, seen, unraveled, and re-sown" with the help of some new mama friends she could go a little deeper with. From there, Erica held New Mom Support groups in her own Greenpoint living room and then realized she could reach women on a national and global level - so the online program was born.
“The most difficult part of birth is the first year afterwards. It is the year of travail- when the soul of a woman must birth the mother inside her. The emotional labor pains of becoming a mother are far greater than the physical pangs of birth; these are the growing surges of your heart as it pushes out selfishness and fear and makes room for sacrifice and love. It is a private and silent birth of the soul, but it is no less holy than the event of childbirth, perhaps it is even more sacred" Unknown