This gentle, baby-friendly online therapeutic writing workshop offers mothers a safe space to pause, reflect, and reconnect with themselves beyond motherhood. Through guided expressive writing and emotional wellness practices, participants can explore identity shifts, emotional challenges, and self-discovery in a supportive environment designed especially for women navigating motherhood and personal growth.

What is this workshop about?

This 2-hour gentle, baby-friendly online therapeutic writing workshop for women offers a space to pause, reflect, and reconnect with the woman you are — beyond the expectations of motherhood.

Led by Dr. Ananya Mahapatra, the session explores matrescence, identity shifts, and evidence-based expressive writing practices that support emotional wellbeing. Through guided reflective exercises, participants will experience a psychologically safe and intimate environment designed especially for mothers.

Who Is This For?

The workshop is for women navigating motherhood alongside professional life, emotional exhaustion, invisible labor, and self-discovery. All mothers are welcome, and no previous writing experience is required.

Details

Date: 17th May 2026 (Sunday)
Time: 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM IST
Mode: Online (Google Meet)
Registration Fee: ₹2500 (INR) per participant

This session integrates:

• Psychoeducation on matrescence

• Evidence-based expressive writing tools

• Guided reflective exercises

• Practical 10-minute writing frameworks for busy schedules

Babies and interruptions are welcome.

Participants will receive writing tools, emotional regulation techniques, and reflective exercises for everyday use.

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About

Ananya Mahapatra is a psychiatrist and an alumnus of All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi. After more than a decade in academic and public health institutions, she transitioned into private practice, where her work increasingly began to move toward a deeper exploration of the inner life beyond diagnosis. She is also a writer. Her short fiction and creative non-fiction have appeared in anthologies by Readomania and Kitaab International, USAWA Literary Magazine, Quillmark Magazine, and Champaca Publishers. She also conducts therapeutic reading and reflective writing workshops that harness the psychological depth of literature and the healing potential of expressive writing practices. Through her intersectional work between literature and mental health, she hopes to examine how language and storytelling can become not just a form of expression, but also a means to reclaim one’s identity, emotions and narrative in this world.