Out Loud Moms is a small, non-clinical community for women navigating pregnancy, early motherhood, identity shifts, overwhelm, and the emotional realities no one always prepares us for.
“Everyone asks how the baby is doing. We created a place that asks how you are doing.”
You can love your baby and still feel overwhelmed. You can feel grateful and still miss who you were. You can be a wonderful mother and still need support. Out Loud Moms creates space for honest conversation, consistent connection, and practical education.
Talk openly about the emotional realities of pregnancy and motherhood without needing to perform or pretend.
Connect with women experiencing similar transitions, worries, pressures, and identity changes.
Learn practical strategies for emotional regulation, boundaries, communication, coping, and self-compassion.
Out Loud Moms is built around the experiences women often aren't warned about—and may feel guilty admitting.
A closed circle offers consistent company, room to speak plainly, and the relief of being understood by women living through a similar season.
Each Out Loud Moms cohort meets once a week for eight weeks. Every gathering brings together one hour of facilitated, honest conversation and The Second Hour: practical group education with a rotating guest practitioner.
An eight-week circle for moms-to-be navigating pregnancy, changing identity, birth-related worries, relationships, body changes, and the transition into motherhood.
Weekly format: 1 hour facilitated conversation + 1 hour group education.
An eight-week circle for mothers adjusting to life after birth, including emotional changes, relationships, loneliness, identity, recovery, feeding, and the invisible mental load.
Weekly format: 1 hour facilitated conversation + 1 hour group education.
Registered dietitian-led education on nourishment, recovery, energy, and realistic nutrition.
Women’s-health PT education on pelvic-floor recovery, movement, core function, and exercises.
Feeding education, common challenges, preparation, and time for questions.
Birth preparation, postpartum planning, advocacy, recovery, and building a support system.
Comfort techniques, tension relief, body awareness, and partner-assisted techniques when appropriate.
Hydration, feeding demands, meal planning, and sustainable routines.
Women’s-health PT follow-up focused on strengthening, mobility, posture, and recovery.
Closing reflection plus a guest session focused on continuing community, information, and support.
Motherhood does not separate emotional adjustment from physical recovery, nourishment, feeding, relationships, and support. Out Loud Moms brings trusted guest practitioners into the circle so mothers do not have to organize every resource alone.
Guest sessions provide general education to the group. They do not include individual assessment, advice, or services.
A consistent host keeps the conversation welcoming, organized, and grounded while making room for every member to speak in her own way.
General education for pregnancy, postpartum recovery, energy, feeding demands, and realistic family routines.
Gauri JunnarkarMS, RDN, CDCESMeet Gauri →Education around pelvic-floor health, core recovery, movement, posture, discomfort, and recovery.
Group education on birth preparation, postpartum planning, advocacy, family support, and early recovery.
General education on comfort, relaxation, tension relief, body awareness, and practical techniques.
Group education around breastfeeding, pumping, expectations, and common feeding questions.
Meet the facilitator and guest practitioners who lead each circle and each Second Hour.
Gauri is a registered dietitian and classically trained Ayurveda practitioner with more than 17 years in integrative health. She joins The Second Hour to lead group education on nourishment, recovery, energy, and realistic routines for pregnancy and postpartum life.
Gauri brings together three perspectives: the traditional wisdom of Ayurveda, the science of nutrition, and functional nutrition. She earned her Bachelor of Ayurvedic Medicine (BAMS) from the University of Mumbai and a Master of Science in Nutrition from Texas Woman’s University, where her thesis research on dietary curcumin was presented at the national Experimental Biology conference.
She is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist, Certified Diabetes Care and Education Specialist, and Licensed Massage Therapist, with a Certificate of Training from the Integrative and Functional Nutrition Academy. Her focus areas include digestive health, metabolic health, women’s health, and stress management.
Gauri is co-author of A Primer on Ayurveda: A Practical Guide and Ayurveda & Yoga: A Path to Health and Healing, hosts the show Wellness Bites with Gauri, and speaks at conferences internationally. She is the founder of Ayurnutrition, an independent integrative wellness practice in Dallas–Fort Worth.
ayurnutrition.com · Independent practice, separate from Out Loud Moms
Out Loud Moms is designed as a closed cohort, not a drop-in event. Pricing and final enrollment details will be shared before anyone commits.
A small, consistent group built around honest conversation, useful information, and relationships that have time to develop.
Help finding the right independent professional or community resource when you want support beyond the circle.
Independent providers set their own eligibility, fees, availability, and professional relationship with you.
Ask About NavigationNo perfect-mom performance required. Each cohort combines honest peer connection with practical group education, so useful information feels organized rather than scattered.
Complete a brief inquiry so our community team can understand what you're looking for, answer questions, and help identify a well-matched cohort.
Meet weekly for one hour of facilitated conversation followed by The Second Hour with a rotating guest practitioner.
Learn, connect, ask questions, include your partner in selected educational sessions, and use community navigation if you want help finding an independent resource.
Out Loud Moms may be a fit if you're pregnant or postpartum and finding this season more emotionally complicated than expected.
Each cohort includes eight weekly two-hour gatherings with the same small group: one hour of facilitated conversation followed by The Second Hour, a rotating group-education session with a guest practitioner. Final pricing will be provided before enrollment.
Community Navigation helps members find vetted independent professionals and community resources. It may include warm introductions and help organizing booking information, but Out Loud Moms does not include or deliver individual professional services.
Selected Second Hour sessions may be designed to include partners—for example, education about practical support, postpartum planning, feeding, or recovery. The weekly member conversation remains limited to the enrolled circle.
No. Out Loud Moms is a non-clinical community and education circle. It does not provide therapy, counseling, diagnosis, treatment, or individualized professional advice, and it is not a substitute for help from a qualified professional.
No referral or diagnosis is required. The circle is for moms and moms-to-be who want consistent company, honest conversation, and practical information during pregnancy or postpartum life.
Yes. Before Baby Circle is intended specifically for women navigating the emotional transition of pregnancy and preparing for motherhood.
Out Loud Moms is a separate organization operating at the same location, with AIM Trials serving as a community partner. Research is only one optional community resource. Joining a circle does not require research participation, and choosing not to participate will not affect membership or access to the community. Information about research opportunities is shared only with separate consent.
We can share a vetted list of independent resources and help you find contact information. Out Loud Moms is not an emergency service. If there is immediate danger or a medical or psychiatric emergency, call 911 or seek emergency care.
Every member will receive clear privacy expectations before the first meeting. Members are asked to protect one another's stories, but Out Loud Moms cannot guarantee that another member will keep information confidential in the way a licensed professional may be legally required to.
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