A Place where we all exhaled: Postpartum support international conference 2025
This past weekend, I walked into a room full of strangers and instantly felt less alone.
That’s the kind of magic the Postpartum Support International conference holds. It wasn’t just a professional gathering in a hotel ballroom in New Orleans—it was a sanctuary. A soft place to land. A mirror held up to our hardest truths and most hopeful futures.
And I want to share a bit of that with you.
What struck me most wasn’t the statistics, the titles, or the expert panels (though all of those were powerful). What stayed with me were the quiet nods between sessions. The tears that welled up when speakers shared intimate experiences that society often judges moms for.
If you’ve ever laid in bed and questioned whether your baby would be better off without you…
If you’ve hidden in a bathroom, desperate for a moment of quiet…
If you’ve told yourself to “just be grateful” while feeling like you’re drowning—
You were represented at this conference.
And more than represented—you were seen, honored, and understood.
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No One Is Immune, and No One Is Beyond Hope
PSI Conference wasn’t about putting a shiny bow on motherhood. It was about the messy middle. About how we can support moms to tell the truth about their stories, and empower our healthcare providers to hold space for these stories and their healing.
There were conversations about intrusive thoughts, postpartum OCD, eating disorders, postpartum psychosis, and the grief that no one warned us sometimes come alongside love.
There was space for loss. For rage. For ambivalence. For joy.
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Why This Matters for Our Community
At MyTribe, our mission has always been to create a space where motherhood isn’t performative—it’s personal. And what this weekend reinforced is that healing happens in community. Behind the scenes, we’ve been working on an online space where we can create this community for you in an accessible and supportive way.
Here’s what we’re bringing to our community from the conference:
• You don’t have to wait until you’re in crisis to take action to support your mental health.
There is so much healing in just knowing that someone else completely gets your story, and even moreso in finding out they’ve lived it themselves too.
• Postpartum depression, anxiety, and other mental health problems don’t make you weak—they mean you need care.
• We believe you. We see you. And we are building this space for you.
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Looking Ahead
This conference was a reminder that we are not meant to do any of this alone—not parenting, not healing, not surviving. We left with full hearts, new tools, and a renewed commitment to walking beside you as you navigate the complex, sacred terrain of new parenthood.
We’re going to keep showing up. With education. With support. With stories that reflect the reality, not the highlight reel.
You don’t have to be anyone other than who you are to be worthy of help.
You don’t have to be “fixed” to be loved.
And if you’ve never heard this before: You’re doing better than you think. You’re already enough.
With deep solidarity,
Katie & The MyTribe Team
