Jessie Harrold is a coach and doula who has been supporting women through radical life transformations and other rites of passage for over 15 years. She works one-on-one with women and mothers, facilitates mentorship programs, women’s circles, and rituals, and hosts retreats and nature-based experiences.

Jessie specializes in matrescence, or the transition to motherhood. She is the founder of the internationally acclaimed matrescence support program MotherSHIFT, and its sister program for postpartum professionals, The Village.

She is author of Mothershift: Reclaiming Motherhood as a Rite of Passage (Shambhala 2024) and Project Body Love: My Quest to Love My Body and the Surprising Truth I Found Instead, and host of The Becoming Podcast. Her writing and work have been featured in Spirituality & Health, Green Parent, Expectful and Explore Magazine, among many others. Jessie lives on the east coast of Canada where she mothers her two children, writes, and stewards the land.