S2 #25 - 20 Years of Matrescence Wisdom; An Interview with 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 matrescence (the transition to motherhood), Jessie 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. She is also the author of Project Body Love and 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.

In this episode we speak about:

• Jessie, the work she does and the Mi’kmaq’i land that she lives on
• my pivotal & emotional experience learning about Matrescence
• Jessie working with and becoming a doula
• world systems and cultural gaslighting that tries to blame Mothers — before we learn about Matrescence
• how grief will always come with next chapters, and it's limiting to think otherwise
• living in cycles with the land, and our menstrual cycle
• rites of passage & parenting through neurodiversity

Themes: matrescence, motherhood, rites of passage, grief and neurodiversity

At the end I share a quote from Ruth Allen.

To learn more about Jessie see here on her website, and here on Instagram.

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