Jessie Harrold

Jessie Harrold is a coach, doula and author who has been supporting women through life transitions and rites of passage for nearly twenty years. She works one-on-one with women and mothers in her practice as well as facilitating group programs, circles, rituals, and retreats.

A world-leading expert in the field of matrescence (the transition to motherhood), Jessie is the founder of the internationally acclaimed matrescence support program MotherSHIFT, and The Village, a Matrescence Educator Certification. She is the author of the award-winning book Mothershift: Reclaiming Motherhood as a Rite of Passage and the editor of Mother Becoming: Reflections and Scholarship on Matrescence.

Jessie is also the author of Project Body Love: my quest to love my body and the surprising truth I found instead. She is the host of The Becoming Podcast. Jessie lives on the east coast of Canada where she mothers her two children, writes, and stewards the land.