Est. Whenever She Needed It  ·  Mother’s Day 2026

PELM
People for the Ethical Love of Moms

PELM is a Mother’s Day tribute website built for one specific mom: Jayne Gumpel. It is styled as a satirical nonprofit — inspired by PETU (People for the Ethical Treatment of Unicorns) — because Jayne’s son David thought she deserved her own organization. The Society is not real. The love is entirely real.

David and Jayne Gumpel in Jayne's meditation space
David & Jayne · Jayne’s meditation space

Defending
the mother.

May 2026 This month, PELM recognizes Jayne Gumpel — psychotherapist, painter, teacher, nonprofit co-founder, and by all available evidence, the best mom.

She answered every call. She sat with people in the hardest moments of their lives — professionally, for thirty years — and then came home and did it again. This site exists because she deserved her own organization.

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30+years healing people professionally
$0charged to her own kid, ever
1day per year we actually say thank you

Field Report · 2026

The Appreciation Audit.

We surveyed a lifetime of contributions. We tallied what was given. The numbers are conservative. She would say we’re being dramatic. We are not being dramatic.

The Therapy Room
30 years, thousands of hours

Couples in crisis, individuals lost, groups finding their footing. She held space for all of them — and then came home and held space for you too.

The Meditation Cushion
A core life practice

She didn’t just teach Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction — she lived it. The stillness she found, she quietly offered to everyone around her.

The Studio
Every canvas, a world

A painter who sees things others don’t. She made art the same way she made a home: with attention, with color, with willingness to sit with something until it becomes itself.

The Nonprofit Desk
accessmindfulness.org

Co-founded a 501(c)3 to bring mindfulness to more people. Co-founded it with her son. The Society finds this deeply, quietly moving.

The Kitchen
~18,000 meals prepared

Breakfast before school. Dinners that appeared from nothing. The thing you still crave and can’t replicate, which she makes without a recipe, from memory.

The Worry Department
Fully operational, always

Tracking your location, your weather, your general life circumstances — simultaneously, in the background, without external software. Still running. Will not stop.

“She has spent thirty years helping people find their way back to themselves. When asked about it, she calls it her passion. The Society calls it extraordinary. Both are true.”

Source: The PELM Foundational Report · Jayne Gumpel Edition · Vol. I

Forecast · Worth Considering

If We Do Not Act.

Three scenarios our research team has modeled. We present them calmly. We do not feel calm about them.

Soon

The Thank-You Deficit Widens

Gratitude left unexpressed accumulates in a form that cannot be retroactively delivered. She will not mention the deficit. The Society is mentioning it on her behalf.

Later

The Full Picture Assembles Itself

The complete understanding of what she did — healer, builder, artist, co-founder, meditator, person with a whole interior life — arrives slowly, over years. PELM exists so it arrives sooner.

Always

She Will Be Fine Either Way

She has done the inner work. She is, genuinely, okay. This does not mean she doesn’t want to hear from you. Call her. She is fine and she wants to hear from you. These are not contradictions.

For Concerned Persons

The PELM Protocol.

Four steps. Begin at one. Do not skip to the gift. The gift means more after the first three.

01

Call her. Not text.

She will answer. She always answers. When she says “I’m so glad you called” — and she will — understand that she means it completely, as she has every single time.

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02

Tell her one specific thing she taught you.

Not “thanks for everything.” Pick one lesson — about being present, about sitting with discomfort — that you still carry. Tell her it’s hers.

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03

Ask her about a painting.

She is an artist. Ask what she’s working on, what she sees in it. She has a creative life that has been patiently waiting to be asked about. The canvas is not just a canvas.

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04

Show up. Woodstock or the city — pick one.

She will say you didn’t have to. You did have to. She has two offices and one heart that works in both locations.

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Office of the Founder

Jayne Gumpel.

Jayne Gumpel with her son David
Jayne Gumpel
Founder · Psychotherapist · Artist · Mom
“Her passion is supporting clients on their journey towards inner wisdom and healing from trauma — to have more rich and satisfying lives and relationships.”
— And also, quietly, from her life as your mother
30+ Years Clinical Practice NYC & Woodstock, NY Founder, Relationship Resources LLC Co-founder, accessmindfulness.org Painter Best Mom Office Hours: Always
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Psychedelic Integration Psychotherapy

Professional clinical trainer. Member of the Woodstock Therapy Center’s KAP team. Completed MDMA-assisted psychotherapy training through MAPS.

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Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction

Teacher of MBSR. Describes meditation as a core life practice. Includes mindfulness as a foundation of all clinical work — because she lives it.

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Imago Relationship Therapy & Gestalt

Three decades with couples, individuals, and groups. She has seen what breaks people and what heals them.

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Painter

Makes art with the same attention she brings to everything else: fully present, willing to sit with something until it becomes what it needs to be.

FoundedRelationship Resources LLC
Co-founded with her sonaccessmindfulness.org · 501(c)3
Current statusActively helping people · right now
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A Final Note

Happy Mother’s Day, Jayne.

You have spent thirty years helping people find their way home to themselves. You built an organization. You made art. You co-founded a nonprofit with your kid. The Society notes all of it, on the record, with full sincerity. We hope you feel seen today.

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