Mental Health & Wellness Blog from Jenny B. Smith
When Self-Sabotage Creeps In Is self-sabotage getting in the way of a goal you truly care about—leaving you procrastinating, resisting, or even working against yourself? You want to: feel better in your body nourish yourself consistently build habits that support your...
You might not hear the words “body grief” very often, but it’s real. It’s a tender kind of grief that often goes unnamed—a quiet sorrow tied to our relationship with the body. It’s the ache of realizing the body you hoped for—the one you were promised if you worked...
Practical Tools to Support Your Post-Traumatic Growth I fell down a neuroscience rabbit hole—and I’m bursting to tell you what I found out about Post-Traumatic Growth. I’m going to make this ultra-digestible (no jargon, I promise) and share the actual studies in case...
Learn What Belly Tension Is Telling Your Nervous System—And 3 Ways to Release It Uncover how fascia, stress, and safety are connected—and what you can do to support healing from the inside out. We’ve been conditioned—especially as women—to hold in our bellies.Many of...
Learn the three-step process I use with clients to shift from feeling "gross" in your body to feeling safe—using compassion, curiosity, and consent. What do you do when living in your own unique body leaves you feeling “gross”—like you want to hide away? How do you...
How I stopped performing and started listening to my body through the 5Rhythms approach If you’ve ever struggled to reconnect with your body—to feel safe, present, and fully in it—you're not alone. Has it felt like your body was more of a display than a home? Like you...
What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat by Aubrey Gordon What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat discusses how our culture often feels completely justified in discriminating against fat bodies. While implicit bias is declining in other categories—such...