Mothers Uncovered

Mothers Uncovered Mothers Uncovered� is an award-winning project for the Livestock charity. We run low cost creative peer support groups for mothers, led by past participants.

Founded 2008. Support our campaign here for better maternal care. www.change.org/SupportMatrescence. Matrescence means the process of becoming a mother. Like adolescence, it is a time of new identity, bodily changes and hormonal fluctuations, yet we don't honour this time or look after mothers properly. Mothers Uncovered helps women at ALL stages of motherhood to reconnect with the women they’ve always been. If you feel your life as a mother is a rollercoaster, with blissful highs and overwhelming lows and some mum and baby groups offer no opportunity to discuss real issues, then Mothers Uncovered is for you. We run a range of groups and events across Sussex and online nationally and are looking to expand. Our sessions are warm, welcoming, non judgemental spaces, involving facilitated discussion and arts activities. Our peer supporters who lead the groups are all past participants. They are not perfect mothers. They certainly don’t want to tell you how to be mothers. They are going through it all too. Participant feedback

A truly valuable experience which pulled me from the brink of post natal depression. Considerate & understanding facilitators. Thank you all so much.”
‘Mothers Uncovered fills a gap you didn’t even know was there.’

Our book
The Secret Life of Mothers, is a compilation of over 50 past participants’ stories, interviews and poems about their motherhood experience, with foreword by Caroline Lucas, MP. Available from Silverdart publishers or Amazon. Awards
Winner of Community Works' Star Sector Award for providing 'support for women at a transitional point in their lives and creating a legacy for future generations.'
Finalist Groundwork Awards 2019

You care for your baby, but who cares for you?

22/12/2025

Not a jolly Christmas post, sorry about that. We really would appreciate any help so that we can carry on helping mothers with birth trauma, loneliness and isolation.

We would like to thank our fabulous guests for our Secret Lives of Mothers podcast who’ve been interviewed by Maggie Gor...
19/12/2025

We would like to thank our fabulous guests for our Secret Lives of Mothers podcast who’ve been interviewed by Maggie Gordon-Walker in the last year!
Such amazing stories of strength, resilience and creativity. Their experiences of matrescence shaping their lives and remaking them.
They are all doing amazing work in the fields of arts, research and advocacy, so go listen - Spotify and Apple links in the bio.
In the photos….
Becky Barnicoat
Sam Southern
Charlotte Faircloth
Caro Giles
Jane Upton
Daisie Lane
Ida Melum
Alisha Samms
Hannah Turlington
Naomi Booth
Thank you all for sharing and everyone who’s listened!

We would like to thank our fabulous guests for our Secret Lives of Mothers podcast who’ve been interviewed by in the la...
19/12/2025

We would like to thank our fabulous guests for our Secret Lives of Mothers podcast who’ve been interviewed by in the last year!
Such amazing stories of strength, resilience and creativity. Their experiences of matrescence shaping their lives and remaking them.
They are all doing amazing work in the fields of arts, research and advocacy, so go listen - Spotify and Apple links in the bio.
In the photos…. Becky Barnicoat Sam Southern Caro Giles Jane Upton Daisie Lane Ida Melum Alisha Samms Hannah Turlington Charlotte Faircloth Naomi Booth
Thank you all for sharing and everyone who’s listened!

Another day, another crisis in maternity care. If women choose or need to have a caesarean birth that is, of course, the...
17/12/2025

Another day, another crisis in maternity care. If women choose or need to have a caesarean birth that is, of course, their choice. What is so alarming is the rates of women doing this because they are too scared to give birth vaginally.
Link in stories.

Anyone identify…? Christmas is magical… and absolutely chaotic. If you’ve ticked even one of these, you’re in good compa...
16/12/2025

Anyone identify…? Christmas is magical… and absolutely chaotic. If you’ve ticked even one of these, you’re in good company.
Our groups exist for moments just like this. The tears, the laughs,
the overwhelm and everything in between.

If you’d like to help another mum feel less alone this winter, even a small gift makes a huge difference. Support Mothers Uncovered with a one off donation or set up a monthly donation.

https://mothersuncovered.com/how-you-can-help/

You’re doing great.

Christmas is magical… and absolutely chaotic. If you’ve ticked even one of these, you’re in good company.Our groups exis...
13/12/2025

Christmas is magical… and absolutely chaotic. If you’ve ticked even one of these, you’re in good company.
Our groups exist for moments just like this. The tears, the laughs,
the overwhelm and everything in between.

If you’d like to help another mum feel less alone this winter, even a small gift makes a huge difference.

Support Mothers Uncovered with a one off donation or set up a monthly donation.

https://mothersuncovered.com/how-you-can-help/

You’re doing great.

11/12/2025

Delighted to share the latest episode of The Secret Life of Mothers - in conversation with .
Naomi is the author of the novels Exit Management and Sealed, and the short-story collection Animals at Night; her work has been featured in books of the year in the Guardian and the White Review, listed for the Sunday Times short story award, and she won the Edgehill Short Story Reader’s Prize in 2023.
Naomi is Professor in Creative Writing at Durham University. Her most recent novel, ‘raw content’, was described in nb magazine as ‘a beautiful and thought-provoking story of post-natal mental health, violence, paranoia and unconditional love in all its forms’.
We had a wide ranging conversation about the anxiety of becoming a mother, about expectation v reality of motherhood and the expectations of others. As an extra, Naomi reads part of ‘raw content.’
Link for Spotify and Apple in bio.

09/12/2025

Another day, another maternity review, with Baroness Amos chairing the latest. Yet more mothers, babies and families not being cared for. At best this leaves a mother feeling let down, but in many cases there are extreme levels of trauma, with mothers reporting PTSD for months afterwards. And lives are lost due to these failings. How many reviews and reports are needed before change happens?! So many of us, like the woman who lost her baby said on Radio 4 this morning, could tell you what’s wrong immediately.
We. Need. Action. Not. More. Reviews.

Our last session of the year is on Weds.Booking link in bio.My Birth at Shoreham Family Hub - a space to share your birt...
08/12/2025

Our last session of the year is on Weds.
Booking link in bio.
My Birth at Shoreham Family Hub - a space to share your birth experience in whatever way you feel comfortable. Babies up to 15m can be brought to the session
You can also come without your child/ren.
Refreshments available.
So take some time for you in this busy season 🎄 and connect with fellow parents.

We’ll be at Hove museum on Monday for our last art workshop this year for mothers. Booking link in bio or via QR code....
05/12/2025

We’ll be at Hove museum on Monday for our last art workshop this year for mothers. Booking link in bio or via QR code.
Matrescence often means a woman’s needs get lost when she is spending so much time caring for her baby.
Inspired by the Creativity Collections, we will start a journaling process which can provide sanctuary over the busy holiday period which often heightens the motherhood load.
We will also explore motherhood through writing, visual art and shared stories in a space where your voice matters.
Peer-led. Babies up to 14m can be brought to the session.

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