{"id":260870,"date":"2026-05-06T17:30:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T17:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/260870\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T17:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T17:30:11","slug":"mom-walk-collective-creates-meetup-groups-for-new-moms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/260870\/","title":{"rendered":"Mom Walk Collective creates meetup groups for new moms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ST. PETERSBUG, Fla. \u2014 Emily Geary of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/yoursourdoughgirl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">\u201cYour Sourdough Girl\u201d<\/a> has a sourdough starter named Leisel.<\/p>\n<p>She came from a buddy on an Austrian baking trip.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey sent her home with a 200-year-old dehydrated starter,\u201d Geary said.<\/p>\n<p>Together, along with daughter Ellie, joined <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/themomwalkco.stpete\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Mom Walk Collective<\/a>, an in-person meetup group to combat the isolation of motherhood.<\/p>\n<p>The group is also host to a Mother\u2019s Day celebration on Saturday, May 9, at the <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/oCoLbrajHq4yrM7d8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">St. Pete Pier<\/a> with free family photos, free mommy and me yoga, and free mini-massages.<\/p>\n<p>The event begins at 9 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLike most people I\u2019ve met down here, we\u2019re all transplants,\u201d Geary said. \u201cFinding Rebakah and finding the group that she\u2019s created has given me kind of like that sense of home again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rebekah Langelle is the organizer of The Mom Walk Collective group in St. Petersburg.<\/p>\n<p>She said her mom meetup group was the community that \u201cpulled me out\u201d when she faced postpartum depression.<\/p>\n<p>She wants to help new moms, as she was helped.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have walks twice a month,\u201d Langelle said. \u201cCome, follow us on Instagram, and we\u2019ll be there. I\u2019ll be waiting for you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Geary, who will be a vendor at the Saturday celebration, credits her daughter with the motivation to work at a full-time job, a sourdough side-job and the mom job.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe is the literal light of our world,\u201d Geary said. \u201cAnd I think after you have a child, they become your reason why \u2014 so this is my reason why.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Mom Walk Collective started in California in 2022 when a new mom was surprised by the large response to her initial meetup request on social media.<\/p>\n<p>Now the group is in cities throughout the country, as well as in Canada.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBUG, Fla. \u2014 Emily Geary of \u201cYour Sourdough Girl\u201d has a sourdough starter named Leisel. She came&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260871,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[28,115,4094,7149,202,204,203,199,201,200,135,7148,835],"class_list":["post-260870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-florida","tag-news","tag-on-the-town","tag-on-the-town-app","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-tampa","tag-virginia-johnson","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}