Life Transition Coaching

Guiding women through life transitions and rites of passage

Helping them reconnect with, reclaim and redefine who they are + what matters most to them along the way

Whether the transformation you’re experiencing is external or internal (and it’s often both), chosen or chosen-for-you, there are some life shifts that make you feel like you’re becoming a new person.

It’s the end of a career path. The beginning of motherhood. The end of a relationship. The beginning of menopause. It’s a life-changing diagnosis, a spiritual quest, a devastating loss, an encounter with burnout, a search for purpose, or a healing journey. Sometimes, it's just a quiet sense that this isn't the life you wanted or expected, or the person you thought you would become.

Testimonials

“I feel unmoored.”
– S.P.

“I'm considering blowing up my life.”
– J.B.

“I did what is valued by society but I didn't think about myself.”
– V.F.

“Who am I?”
– H.M.

“The rug got swept out from underneath me”
– N.P.

“It's the end of an era.”
– M.K.

I'm here to remind you that...

Sometimes the challenges you face are actually initiations.

Sometimes the life changes you think will break you will actually make you.

There is so much on the other side of the way things used to be.

It would be an honour to walk alongside you, holding space at the threshold of your becoming.

Jessie Harrold - Life Transition Coach for Women

Women who've worked with me have...

made massive career changes

healed from burnout and started sustainable self-care practices

stepped into powerful new leadership roles

made complex, life-changing decisions

renegotiated their priorities after a world-rocking diagnosis

started creative projects

healed – or ended – relationships and established healthier boundaries

reconnected with their authentic (witchy, weird, wonderful) selves

navigated fertility, pregnancy and matrescence

dramatically shifted their relationship with their bodies

Welcome to your chrysalis – the brave space to be held, witnessed and guided as your transformation unfolds.

My coaching methodology is rooted in a four part transformation process that is both evidence-based and magical, in equal measure. It draws upon ancestral wisdom, adult development psychology, earth-based practices, attachment and complexity science, somatics, and (always) feminism. Think of it as a map for your metamorphosis.

When we work together, I’ll support you to orient to and metabolize the changes you’re experiencing in your life and also to reconnect with yourself again.

I’ll gently invite you into a practice of grieving and letting go of what is no longer. I’ll protect and defend the possibility that co-exists with the discomfort of liminality, and I’ll walk with you through an entire season of just. not. knowing, if that’s what it takes. I will hold a compassionate but steadfast vision of the potential that this time in your life has to grow you, even when you can’t see it.

During our sessions, we will cycle between diving into deep inner work and alchemizing tangible, radical change.

Jessie Harrold - Coach, Doula, Author, and Matrescence Expert

We’ll steady the roots of this powerful process with a mycelial network of support, including self-care, embodiment practices, ritual, intuition development, creative exploration and earth-based wisdom. You'll carry these tools with you so that you can meet future times of change feeling fully resourced, literate in the art and science of traversing transformation.

I’ll support you to emerge from this transformational time in your life feeling grounded, trusting your own inner knowing and ready to claim something new – or reclaim something true – for yourself. I will challenge you to bring the wisdom you’ve earned along your path in service of the liberation, healing and transformation of the collective, whether that’s in your immediate family, community or the wider world.

Testimonials

“I feel like a part of myself has just awoken.”
– Hannah

“I feel more like me every day.”
– Marina

“I feel more solidified in my core values. Before I only knew what I was supposed to think.”
– Jess

“This is better than all the therapy I've done.”
– A.S.

“I feel more okay with the unknown.”
– Jenny

“I'm allowing myself to go more slowly now.”
– Pia

I like to imagine...

….that we are sitting around the fire together, or we’re curled up on the couch in my living room, or we’ve found a mossy perch in the woods. I’ve gathered herbs for tea – nettle to help you sit with discomfort; rose for openheartedness; mint for clarity; honey to help you taste the sweetness along the way. We light a candle and begin with a few deep breaths, and we both know this is how magic gets made.

Want to know more about my coaching philosophy?

Here are some of the core beliefs and understandings that shape the way I work with people:

In my work over the past two decades, if I have learned anything, it’s this: women and people socialized as women – and, honestly, most humans with two feet and a heartbeat – navigate the process of life transition in a very unique way that has been previously unrecognized by most adult development theorists, psychologists and coaches.

Our lives shift within a complex ecosystem of roles and responsibilities that are often relying on us to stay the same, and those realities mean that change is often circuitous, many-faceted and gradual in a way that our modern capitalist, patriarchal culture overlooks. My coaching approach is rooted in the Four Elements of Radical Transformation and supported by the Seven Core Competencies of Radical Transformation, evidence-based models of life transition that I have developed to support women’s unique process of navigating change. The radical part? That's because radical comes from the word for root, and every life transition or rite of passage asks you to remember your roots; to reconnect with who you are and what matters most to you.

Every time of transformation allows us an opportunity to deepen our relationship with ourselves. Our work together will focus on identity shift rather than behaviour change: a developmental approach to change that is not about crushing goals, Accountability Measures, To Do Lists, behaviour modification, mindset shifts or Just Trying Harder. In other words: this is probably not the coaching you recognize as such from Instagram. My approach invites you to explore who you’re becoming during this time of change in your life. I believe that forcing new behaviours or thoughts works for a while, but fundamental identity shift is what is needed to sustain transformation. It’s like changing from the inside-out.

Really though? I believe coaching is just the modern version of what wise women and midwives have always done – being a steady witness and guide for the process of transformation.

Testimonials

“I was feeling really lost during one of the most important transitions of my life. I knew that I could trust Jessie to understand that I needed something more than I could find anywhere else. I really felt deeply seen and heard by Jessie through our work together, and feel a better sense of where I might be going in the next chapter of my life."
– A.S.

Testimonials

“Jessie held space for me as I walked through some of the final fires of this long initiation into motherhood. At the beginning of this year I wondered how on earth I could ever find peace with this journey I had never asked to enter. Jessie’s wisdom and insights played an invaluable role in where I find myself now. Now that my feet are firmly planted in this new world I have found myself in.”
– Hannah

Your Investment

$347 / month**

We’ll have two 60-minute coaching calls per month.

Transformation isn’t linear, and it doesn’t happen on a timeline. Our time together will match the pace of your unfolding, and is tailored to meet your needs. For some clients this means one month of powerfully catalyzing sessions, and for others this means a year of rich, in-depth support. Most people find that 3-6 months of coaching is exactly what they need to traverse transformations like the transition to motherhood, a new career, loss, a healing journey, menopause, relationship change, or recovering from burnout, for example.

** I use a form of parity pricing, meaning that if you are Canadian, Australian or Kiwi, this amount is in CAD; if you hail from the US or Europe, this amount is in USD.

Testimonials

“I discovered Jessie's work when I had been struggling for a while with a huge transition in my life, as my daughter went to college and I decided to end my marriage, leave my career, sell my house, and travel for a year. I worked with Jessie for more than a year, and I'm not sure I could have made it through without her. I'm not just drifting along anymore. Jessie helped me find my compass, and I'm forever grateful for that!”
– Anne

Testimonials

“I started meeting with Jessie about 4 months postpartum. I felt like I was still emerging into a completely new way of existing. Through our time together, Jessie helped me embrace the new ways I was experiencing the world. Her presence was a beautiful combination of both gentle and challenging. She provided a safe space for me to discover my own unique way of mothering, and still connect with the other parts of myself that exist beyond this new identity.”

– Kalei

Testimonials

“Jessie created a haven of support for me as I explored the idea of transitioning into motherhood. She simply and generously held space when I cried and she helped me see where I could grow and change, holding me accountable when I shied away from the hard stuff. I highly recommend Jessie’s support whether you are preparing for or currently experiencing a transition.”
– Kyle

Let’s get in touch!

When you click the button, you’ll be sent to my online booking system to schedule a complementary, no obligation, half-hour connection call. This is your chance to share with me what you’re experiencing right now, and for me to share how I might be able to support you. You get to use your intuition during this time to decide whether you feel we’d be a good fit.

Book your connection call to explore life transition coaching together

More About Me

I know. *Everyone* is a life coach these days. And chances are, if you’re still scrolling down this page, you’re the kind of person who cares a lot about the integrity of the people you entrust to support you.

Here’s what you might want to know about me:

I have a Bachelor’s Degree in Neuroscience and a Masters of Health Promotion with a focus in women’s health

My Masters research won awards and my work has been published in several international peer-reviewed journals

I have in-depth, accredited coach trainings from the Centre for Narrative Coaching, The Art of Developmental Coaching and the Centre for Applied Neuroscience

I have been a birth doula + radical birth keeper for nearly twenty years

I have amassed hundreds of coaching hours and thousands of teaching hours over the last decade

I have participated in hundreds of hours of continuing education, including grief support, ritual design, trauma-informed care and story-based trauma resolution, somatics, ecopsychology + ecotherapy-based coaching, yoga, herbal medicine and energy healing. You can find out more about my certifications and teachers here.

But also? I’m an INFJ Capricorn / Aquarius moon / Cancer rising. Which basically means I’m a nerdy mystic – a witchy geek – with an incisive intuition and a rebellious streak.

I cannot think of any greater honour than to support women through the most transformative experiences of their lives. I love my work, and I already love you – I can tell.

What phase of life transition are you in?

When you complete this quiz, you’ll receive a beautiful custom e-book and a 5-day mini-course based on your results.

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What phase of life transition are you in?

When you complete this quiz, you’ll receive a beautiful custom e-book and a 5-day mini-course based on your results.

TAKE THE QUIZ