Loving your body is hard to do.
Project Body Love is the story of my quest to find acceptance, respect, and maybe even love for my body after spending a lifetime counting calories and drops of sweat.
What followed was a two-year series of experiments that had me mining the depths of my past, dismantling the effects of Diet Culture on my self-worth, taking up bellydancing, posing for nude photographs, and other daring feats of self-exploration.
Far from being a shiny tale of self-actualization, Project Body Love explores the complexity of being a fat person in a thin-obsessed world, and concludes with an entirely new perspective on the elusive body love – one that was surprising, even to me.
This is my story, and so much of it is also the story of millions of other women.
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Reviews of Project Body Love
Testimonials
“Project Body Love is a fierce, honest and necessary read for all women ready to transform their relationship with their bodies. Jessie’s honesty moved me and her vision of healing is inspiring.”
– Molly Mahar, Founder of Stratejoy
Testimonials
“Part confessional and part body acceptance roadmap, Project Body Love is a huge sigh of relief. I caught myself nodding along, laughing, and crying with recognition as I read Jessie's words. This book is both a beacon of hope and a reminder that none of us are alone.”
– Mara Glatzel, Author of Needy
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Reviews of Project Body Love
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“Jessie decloaks her heart with refreshing honesty, as she guides her reader to an unconditional acceptance of self. Her heartfelt offering here is a genuine invitation to reunite with what matters most.”
– Anne Bérube, Author of Be Feel Think Do
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“Jessie’s words feel like a homecoming. Having wrestled with the same weight issues and body love challenges all my life, I felt like this book offered a safe place to land in a world that doesn’t always make our bodies feel welcome.”
– Heather Plett, Author of Holding Space and Where Tenderness Lives
About the Author
Jessie Harrold is a coach, doula and author who has been supporting women to navigate life transitions and rites of passage for nearly two decades.
Project Body Love is the story of what happened when she used her own methodology to guide herself on a quest to transform her relationship with her body.
Jessie works one-on-one with women and mothers in her practice as well as facilitating group programs, circles, rituals and retreats. She has a Master’s in Health Promotion and a B.Sc. in Neuroscience, and her research on women’s experiences navigating health and wellbeing has won multiple awards and been published in peer-reviewed journals internationally. Jessie’s writing and work have also been featured in Spirituality & Health, Today’s Parent, Green Parent, Mindful Magazine, Motherly, She Explores, and more. She is also the author of the award-winning Mothershift: Reclaiming Motherhood as a Rite of Passage, the editor of Mother Becoming: Reflections and Scholarship on Matrescence and the host of the Becoming Podcast.
Jessie lives with her partner on the wild east coast of Canada where they raise their children and steward the land.
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