Meet Jessica Harding
LICENSED HOLISTIC THERAPIST.
TRANSFORMATIONAL GUIDE.
BA International Studies, Masters in Social Work
Jessica Harding is the founder of Inner Child Sleepover Party and a holistic therapist whose work, whether in the therapy room or a sleepover gathering, begins from the same belief: that you are not a project to be fixed, but a wholeness to be remembered.
Her work begins with a single observation: somewhere along the way, women were told that maturity meant trading being for doing. The qualities that make us most alive (presence, wonder, spontaneous play, embodied emotion, joy for no reason) got reclassified as lazy, impractical, childish, because they don't produce anything. They just are and being is where aliveness lives.
Being is where aliveness lives.
Her answer to this is Inner Child Sleepover Party: sleepover-inspired gatherings, community, and transformational experiences for millennial women; a format she chose not for nostalgia's sake, but because the sleepover is the only cultural container that already arrives pre-loaded with everything adult women have been told to leave behind: the freedom to be playful, emotional, present, unpolished, and fully here.
The work is grounded in what she calls the Three Friendships (with yourself, with others, and with life itself) a framework she developed across two decades of living and working at the intersection of therapy, community development, and contemplative practice. She holds a Masters in Social Work, completed two terms of AmeriCorps in Baltimore City, served in Peace Corps South Africa, and spent her 20s traveling to over 30 countries seeking what turned out to be waiting inside her the whole time.
This work wasn't built from theory alone. It was built from the moment Jessica followed her intuition and watched old camcorder tapes of her childhood sleepovers, after returning from a women's ashram in Greece, and noticed that the girls in those tapes were doing exactly what the women at the ashram were doing. Singing, dancing, connecting, playing. Fully present and emotionally expressed. Fully alive.
The insight that followed became her life's work: that what girlhood knew and what womanhood forgot are the same thing, and that the path back isn't self-improvement, it's remembering.
She works with millennial women who sense that something essential was disowned along the way, and are ready to come home to themselves.
INNER CHILD SLEEPOVER PARTY