Jacqueline Thiessen is a former midwife, doula, holistic facialist, and mother whose path has been anything but conventional. Raised on ranches across B.C., Alberta, and Saskatchewan, and later training and raising horses in the Prairies, her early life was steeped in connection to the land, animals, and birth in its most primal form. She started her own horse training business as a teenager but soon felt a deeper calling.

Her journey led her from Las Vegas to the Hopi Reservation, to Afghanistan, and eventually to midwifery school. She trained at a U.S.-based program, spending two years immersed in birth work at a charity birth center in the Philippines, and later served as a midwife for four years in the remote islands of Micronesia. After returning to Canada and completing the Midwifery Bridging Program, she practiced in Ontario until 2022, when she chose to step away from the system to honor her values around bodily autonomy. Shortly after, she gave birth to her son—a moment that felt like a sacred gift from that decision.

Now living on a small homestead with her husband, son, and animals, Jacqueline weaves her love of ancestral wisdom, holistic skincare, and hands-on healing into everything she does. Through her work as a doula and her emerging platform The Primal Birth Haven, she advocates for physiological, undisturbed birth and supports women in reconnecting with the primal intelligence of their bodies.

I hope you enjoyed the powerful, beautiful weaving of story medicine, experiences, life and death that Jacqueline has shared in this scared space. If you feel called to connect with Jacqueline her email address is below.

Blessings,

Jacqueline's Email Address:

jacquelinethiessen@gmail.com