I didn’t start Motivational Mums Club because it sounded like a good idea. I started it because I was tired.
Tired of seeing mothers struggle in silence. Tired of watching Black mothers be dismissed, unheard, and unsupported during one of the most vulnerable times of their lives. Tired of knowing that the disparities in maternal mental health weren’t just statistics. They were real women, real families, real stories.
I founded Motivational Mums Club from pure joy after giving birth to my first born but quickly realised after the birth of my second born (16 months later) how the system is failing Black mothers and it was rooted from my lived experience.
Stories of resilience
What began as a vision rooted in lived experience has grown into a movement that has now supported over 7,000 mothers. But to me, that number is not just impact. It’s 7,000 stories of resilience. 7,000 women who walked into a space and finally felt safe enough to exhale.
Motherhood can be beautiful. But it can also be isolating, overwhelming, and frightening especially when you feel invisible in the very systems designed to care for you.
That’s why we created Mummas Together Group, our peer support group built on trust, shared experience, and cultural understanding. These are not just sessions. They are lifelines based in seven locations, across six boroughs in London and Kent (in Lewisham, Bexley, Medway, Dartford, Bromley and two in Greenwich). There are spaces where mothers can speak freely without fear of judgment. Where they can cry, laugh, learn, and rebuild their confidence.
We partner with local NHS Mother and Baby Units to ensure that when mothers return to the community, they are not left to navigate recovery alone. Too often, support ends at discharge. We make sure it doesn’t.
We have established partnerships across six local NHS Trusts and Councils to ensure professionals come into our groups to learn, listen and create meaningful relationships. We are working intentionally to reduce the disparities faced by Black mothers to ensure continuous feedback and learning is given to professionals who are ‘the front door’ to services. We carry out six-month reviews with the mothers we support to ensure their continued safety and to assess the impact our groups have had on their mental health. We then compile this data into a report for each of our locations. This is essential to our work and that’s what makes Motivational Mums Club different.
If we truly want change, we must address the systems that shape maternal experiences. That’s why we have trained over 5,500 healthcare professionals across the country – from West Yorkshire to Wales and London.
Our training challenges assumptions. It opens uncomfortable conversations. It centres lived experience.
When healthcare professionals listen differently, respond differently, and see mothers differently, outcomes shift. And when outcomes shift, generational cycles change.
This work is personal
Motivational Mums Club is advocacy. It is resistance. It is love in action.
It is about ensuring that Black mothers are not overrepresented in negative outcomes and underrepresented in support. It is about building community power. It is about creating spaces where women are reminded of their strength, even when they feel at their weakest.
I am proud of the 7,000 mothers we have supported. I am proud of the 5,500 professionals we have trained. I am proud of the partnerships we have built. But most of all, I am proud that when a mother walks into one of our spaces, she knows she is not alone, and that’s what our Peer Support Group, Mummas Together has done.
And I will continue this work until equity in maternal care is not an aspiration but a reality.
Chrissy Brown is the Founder/CEO, of The Motivational Mums Club
