About Émilie
Psychotherapist, Writer, Speaker, and Educator on Mom Burnout, Slow Motherhood, and Motherhood Culture
I’m Émilie Avon-Green, a psychotherapist, writer, speaker, and educator exploring the emotional, relational, and cultural realities of modern motherhood.
My work focuses on mom burnout, slow motherhood, and the pressure women feel to hold everything together while slowly losing connection to themselves.
Through my writing, podcast, book, speaking, and professional education for therapists, I help mothers and the professionals who support them understand burnout beyond surface-level self-care.
My Work
Modern motherhood often asks women to be endlessly available, emotionally steady, deeply grateful, professionally capable, and constantly improving.
Many mothers are not simply tired.
They are carrying invisible labour, guilt, resentment, identity loss, perfectionism, overstimulation, emotional exhaustion, and the pressure to perform motherhood well.
My work explores what happens when mothers burn out under that weight, and how slow motherhood offers a different way forward.
Not as another standard to live up to.
Not as a performance of softness.
But as a return to presence, self-trust, values, boundaries, and a life that does not require women to disappear in order to be good mothers.
What I’m Known For
I write, speak, and teach about:
Mom burnout beyond surface-level self-care
Slow motherhood as a response to hustle culture
The invisible labour and emotional load of modern motherhood
Motherhood culture and the myth of the “good mother”
Identity loss, resentment, guilt, perfectionism, and self-abandonment
The emotional and relational patterns that shape women’s experiences of motherhood
Supporting therapists in working more deeply with mothers experiencing burnout
My Approach
My work is rooted in clinical insight, feminist reflection, and honest conversations about what mothers are carrying.
I am interested in what sits beneath the presenting issue.
The roles women inherit.
The expectations they internalize.
The anger they feel guilty for having.
The needs they have learned to minimize.
The pressure to be both selfless and successful.
The quiet grief of losing parts of themselves inside motherhood.
I believe mom burnout is not a personal failure.
It is often a signal that something deeper needs to be seen.
Professional Bio
Émilie Avon-Green is a psychotherapist, writer, speaker, and educator specializing in mom burnout, slow motherhood, and motherhood culture.
Her work explores the emotional, relational, and cultural pressures shaping modern motherhood, with a particular focus on burnout, invisible labour, identity loss, perfectionism, resentment, guilt, and self-abandonment.
Through her podcast, writing, book, speaking, and professional education for therapists, Émilie helps mothers and clinicians understand mom burnout beyond surface-level self-care.
For most of my life, I was an overachiever, a walking burnout waiting to happen. I kept chasing the next milestone, believing peace would finally come once I had achieved “enough.”
In 2021, I completely burned out and stepped away from work for six months. That pause cracked something open. It gave me the space to ask: what do I actually want for my life, and for my future motherhood?
It was during this season that I began learning about essentialism, slow living, and authentic living. These ideas weren’t just helpful — they were healing. They allowed me to release the pressure, come back to my values, and begin living from a place of presence rather than performance.
But when I became a mom a year later, the old patterns crept back in. I tried to do everything “right” — be the perfect mom, keep the house together, never drop a ball. Instead of joy, I felt overwhelmed, overstimulated, and teetering on the edge of burnout.
That experience pushed me to take ownership of my motherhood and make intentional shifts. Shifts that allowed me to create the kind of life I deserve — and become the mother I longed to be for my daughter.
Today, slow motherhood isn’t just a concept I teach. It’s the way I live. And I’m here to walk alongside you as you create your own.
My Story
Back when I was so exhausted, I’d crash on the couch by 6 PM every night — but never actually felt rested.
Explore Émilie’s Work
Listen to the podcast, explore professional trainings, read the blog, or learn more about her upcoming book on slow motherhood.