Jessie Harrold, doula and a coach for new mothers, discusses how matrescence, or the developmental period of motherhood, initiates a profound shift in a mother's identity. Although there are many challenges associated with this period of rapid change, it can also be approaches as a time ripe with the potential of profound and positive self transformation.

Our conversation covers: 

• Jessie's background as a couch and doula
• Her early matrescence journey and who she's becoming as a mother now
• Matresence as an identity shift 
• Why time is important in the transition into a new mothering identity
• Her passion to explore "how" this shift happens
• The role of unbecoming in any transition and the normal grief, sadness, and anger common in this shift
• The power of the liminal, or in-between space, and why the discomfort doesn't need to be pathologized
• The fruitfulness of the in-between space and why time is essential 
• Patterns of challenges and competencies in this mothering life transition
• 7 skills of competencies Jessie calls "mother powers"
• Why mothering against motherhood through the mother powers is possible

Jessie is a coach, women's mentor, and doula who has been supporting women through radical life transformations and other rites of passage for over a decade. She works one-on-one with women and mothers, facilitates mentorship programs, women’s circles and rituals, and hosts retreats and wilderness quests.  She is the author of the book Project Body Love:  my quest to love my body and the surprising truth I found instead, and the upcoming title Mothershift:  Reclaiming Motherhood as a Rite of Passage.  Jessie lives on the East Coast of Canada where she homeschools her two kids and tends to her land.

More information: 

You can find out more about Jessie's coaching services at www.jessieharrold.com 

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