Bøker av Jessie Harrold

​​Explore this supportive, grounding guide for new mothers navigating the cascade of identity change and transformation that is motherhood--based on the internationally acclaimed program, Mothershift. Our modern, Western societal understanding of what happens to a woman when she becomes a mother--beyond emotional rollercoasters and healing her pelvic floor--largely remains uncharted territory. The transition to motherhood actually takes two to three years, not six weeks or three months as we've been led to believe. Mothershift offers a supportive, affirming road map to take women through that transformational process. Jessie Harrold introduces her "map for your becoming," a research-based, four-phase model that maps out how the transition to motherhood unfolds--and helps women to navigate every step along the way. She has used this model to guide thousands of women through the shift into motherhood. Harrold also includes self-inquiry questions and journal prompts in each chapter to help women identify and thrive amidst the cascade of changes they can expect as they enter motherhood. Topics include: Normalizing the feelings of grief and loss of self you may feel along the way, Navigating the discomfort of not knowing who you are anymore now that you're a mother; Guiding you to cultivate a sense of empowerment and leadership in motherhood, showing you how mothering is a counterculture act; Showing you how to use the "superpowers" that motherhood can offer--self-tending, creativity, embodiment, ritual, community, inner knowing, and earth connection;Gently guiding you to explore who you are becoming and more Mothershift offers a wise, inspiring, and practical view of what it can look like when women are supported and encouraged to experience motherhood as a doorway to becoming more deeply in touch with who they are--and what is possible in their lives. It is a vision for an experience of motherhood that is understood as a rite of passage filled with power and potential.

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.And so.I wrote this for every woman who has spent too much time trying to make herself small. I wrote it for every woman who wants to love her body, but can't figure out how. I wrote this for a world that needs its women committed to revolution and sovereignty and joy, not eating more salad.