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Jessie Harrold

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Jessie is a coach and doula who has been supporting women to navigate rites of passage and other radical life transformations for over fifteen years. She is the founder of the internationally acclaimed matrescence support program MotherSHIFT, as well as The Village, its sister program for postpartum support professionals.

Jessie also works one-on-one with women and mothers in her practice and facilitates workshops, rituals, retreats, and wilderness quests. She has a master’s in health promotion and a B.Sc. in neuroscience, and her research on women’s experiences navigating health and well-being has won multiple awards and been published in peer-reviewed journals internationally. Jessie’s writing and work have also been featured in Internati
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Jessie Harrold I have a few different ways. Sometimes I do some other creative practice, like painting or knitting. Sometimes I gather with my writing friends to wor…moreI have a few different ways. Sometimes I do some other creative practice, like painting or knitting. Sometimes I gather with my writing friends to work through some prompts together – that usually works! When all else fails, I write about food! For some reason, describing food always gets my creative juices flowing. (less)
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For when you have lost yourself

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the times in our lives when we lose ourselves.  Or, perhaps more specifically, times when we lose the parts of ourselves that remind us of who we are.

I hear about this experience a lot from mothers navigating matrescence, of course.  But I think it happens at many – or even most? – of the times when we feel the tectonic plates of our lives shifting beneath

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