Why Motherhood Activates So Many Parts
A free live conversation about Mom Parts, KAP, and the support mothers actually need.
Wednesday, September 30, 2026 · 12–1 p.m. ET / 9–10 a.m. PT · Live on Zoom
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What if these parts are not the problem?
Motherhood can bring forward parts of you that feel anxious, perfectionistic, angry, resentful, overwhelmed, self-critical, fiercely protective, numb, or desperate for space. These experiences are often treated as problems to correct. We’ll explore what changes when we understand them as adaptive responses trying to protect something vulnerable.
- The part that believes everything depends on you
- The part that tries to get motherhood exactly right
- The part that longs for room, rest, or a different way
- The part that fears what your reactions might mean about you
What we’ll explore together
A grounded introduction to understanding maternal complexity with more curiosity, compassion, and choice.
Why motherhood activates parts
See how motherhood can reactivate old wounds, protective strategies, and competing internal experiences.
The intelligence beneath reactions
Approach anger, anxiety, guilt, grief, shame, and ambivalence without reducing them to problems to fix.
Where Mom Parts meets KAP
Learn how a Mom Parts lens can support preparation, dosing, and integration in ketamine-assisted psychotherapy.
This conversation is for you if…
You are welcome whether you are coming from lived experience, professional curiosity, or both.
- You are a mom who wants a more compassionate way to understand your inner experience
- You support mothers and want a nonpathologizing, mother-centered framework
- You are a clinician who is also navigating your own Mom Parts
- You are curious about Mom Parts, KAP, or the intersection of the two
Meet the humans holding the conversation
Meredith and Jessica will guide the conversation, with a welcome from community host Ilana Mazlin.
Jessica Tomich Sorci, LMFT
Maternal Mental Health Expert, Speaker, Educator & Author
Jessica is the author of When Good Moms Feel Bad and the creator of the Mom Parts Method, a compassionate framework for understanding mothers’ internal experiences throughout motherhood and matrescence.
Meredith Futernick-Gerak, LPC
Therapist, Consultant & Clinician Educator
Meredith is a ketamine-assisted psychotherapist with advanced training in Brainspotting and psychedelic-assisted therapy. She founded Integrative Journey, focused on trauma-informed, brain-body care and experiential clinician education.
What participants say about this work
Previous participant
Mom Parts KAP
★★★★★
Jessica and Meredith have a calm, intuitive presence that invites all parts to actually feel welcome. I am already using “mom parts” with clients and seeing great progress!
Previous participant
Mom Parts KAP
★★★★★
This work has been so helpful for me in developing compassion for these hardworking parts and room for expansion to allow them to rest so that I can be ready for this next chapter.
A few things you may be wondering
Yes. This is a free, one-hour introductory conversation.
No. We’ll make the conversation accessible whether these ideas are familiar or completely new to you.
No. Moms, clinicians, practitioners who are moms, and anyone curious about this work are welcome.
No. This is an educational conversation. There is no medicine experience or personal ketamine participation.
Register anyway. The replay will be sent to everyone who registers.
© 2026 Mom Parts KAP. A collaborative educational offering from Meredith Futernick-Gerak and Jessica Tomich Sorci.