“From The Shadows To the Light: Truth- Telling For Postpartum Mental Health & Collective Care”

Join us for Day 4 of the National Postpartum Awareness Week where we create a brave and compassionate space for honest conversation about postpartum mental health, including grief, anxiety, depression, rage, numbness, and isolation. We center truth-telling as a pathway to healing, breaking silence and stigma through shared witnessing and community care.

Through grounding practices, gentle movement, and dialogue, participants explore how families and support networks can hold emotional complexity with tenderness rather than judgment. The session uplifts the realities BIPOC birthing people face when navigating mental health within systems that often dismiss, minimize, or overlook their experiences, while affirming the importance of culturally responsive and trauma-informed support.

This day reminds us that no one should carry postpartum mental health struggles alone. Collective care, being believed, held, and accompanied, is essential to building a more just, responsive, and humane postpartum ecosystem.