Identity After Motherhood: Who Am I Now?
About the event
Four conversations. One musical closing.
Identity After Motherhood: Who Am I Now?
An intimate Toronto evening of honest storytelling, thoughtful conversation and connection—exploring the many versions of becoming after motherhood.
Trust Her Words™ brings women’s stories and lived experiences to the centre of the room. Hosted by Courtney Smith, the evening unfolds through four fireside-style conversations, audience reflection and Q&A, and an unplugged musical closing.
01 · The Returning Mother
Career, ambition and returning to a professional identity
A conversation about navigating the workplace after motherhood—ambition, guilt, confidence, changing priorities and whether the professional woman we were before still fits who we are now.
Featuring Evie Begy.
02 · The Searching Mother
Feeling lost—and finding yourself again
An honest conversation about the identity loss that can come with motherhood, the invisible emotional load, and what it can look like to slowly reconnect with oneself again.
Featuring Libby Ward.
03 · The Rebuilding Mother
Building something while raising someone
A conversation about entrepreneurship, creativity, ambition, family and the reality of building a business while navigating motherhood.
Featuring Julie Cole.
04 · The Embodied Mother
Reconnecting with the body that carried you
A conversation about body identity, strength, confidence and learning to inhabit and appreciate a body that may feel very different after motherhood.
Featuring Jess Sennet.
05 · To Close the Evening…
SABRE closes the evening with an intimate, unplugged musical experience created especially for the room—a few songs, stories and a moment to simply sit with everything the evening has held.
Because sometimes the things we feel most deeply aren’t explained. They’re felt.
Your evening includes
• Four intimate fireside-style conversations
• Audience reflection and Q&A moments
• Connection time throughout the evening
• Light bites and refreshments
• An intimate, unplugged musical closing
Plan your evening
Thursday, November 19, 2026 Doors: 6:15 PM · Programme: 7:00–10:30 PM Avant Garde Gallery 218 Merton Street, Toronto, ON M4S 1A1
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Trust Her Words™ — A stage for her story. Produced by Listen To Her Events Corp.
