Mom Burnout, Slow Motherhood, and the Culture That Taught Women to Carry Too Much
I’m Émilie Avon-Green, a psychotherapist, writer, speaker, and educator helping mothers and the professionals who support them understand mom burnout beyond surface-level self-care.
My work explores the emotional, relational, and cultural realities of modern motherhood, and how slow motherhood offers a more honest, sustainable way forward.
Modern Motherhood Is Asking Too Much
Mothers are expected to be endlessly available, emotionally steady, professionally capable, physically present, mentally organized, and grateful for all of it.
No wonder so many women feel overwhelmed, overstimulated, resentful, disconnected, and exhausted.
Mom burnout is not a personal failure.
It is often a signal that a mother has been carrying too much for too long, with too little space to be a full person inside her own life.
Slow motherhood is my response to that.
Not a trend.
Not another impossible standard.
Not a softer way to perform motherhood.
A return to presence, self-trust, values, and a life that does not require women to disappear in order to be good mothers.
Explore the Work
Slow Motherhood
Reflections and resources for mothers who are tired of hustle culture, self-abandonment, and the pressure to do it all.
For Therapists
Training and consultation for therapists who support mothers experiencing burnout, identity loss, emotional labour, resentment, guilt, perfectionism, and overwhelm.
Speaking
Speaking, workshops, and podcast conversations on mom burnout, slow motherhood, emotional labour, women’s wellbeing, and motherhood culture.
Featured Work
Voice Notes from a Slow Life: A podcast on motherhood, burnout, ambition, identity, slow living, and the cultural expectations shaping women’s lives.
Listen to the Podcast
Slow Motherhood for Ambitious Women: A book on presence, ambition, burnout, self-trust, and what it means to mother without abandoning yourself.
Working Clinically With Mom Burnout: Professional training and consultation for therapists who want to deepen their clinical work with mothers through a psychodynamic, Gestalt, and feminist lens.
The Slow Motherhood Journal Pack: A guided resource to help mothers slow down, reflect, and reconnect with themselves in the middle of real life.
I’m a psychotherapist, writer, speaker, and educator specializing in mom burnout, slow motherhood, and motherhood culture.
My work sits at the intersection of clinical insight, feminist reflection, and honest conversations about what modern motherhood is asking women to carry.
Through my podcast, writing, book, trainings, and speaking, I help mothers and professionals understand burnout not as a personal failure, but as an invitation to look more deeply at the expectations, patterns, and systems shaping women’s lives.
Hi, I’m Émilie
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