Healing Path Guides from Jenny B. Smith
Why Do I Keep Repeating the Same Relationship (or life) Patterns Even Though They Don't Serve Me? First, let me validate something that might surprise you: Those patterns actually do serve you. They’re protecting you from something. The problem is that something...
The Surprising Science of Self-Compassion for Building Inner Resilience That Lasts Have you ever thought: Why do I fall apart so easily when things go wrong? Why can’t I stop spiraling when I make a mistake? Sometimes I feel like I’m failing at life because I can’t...
What Is Embodiment, Actually—And How Do You Do It? Here Are 5 Ways People say, “Be embodied.”But what the hell does that actually mean? Sure — be in your body.But how do you even know if you’re in your body?How do you do embodiment?And why is everyone talking about...
What to Do When Overthinking Won’t Stop (and Your Usual Tools Fail You) Ugh. I see you, my friend—those nights of relentless overthinking when your brain just won’t shut off. You’ve got great regulation tools, and you’ve tried them all: breath work, journaling,...
Seven therapist-recommended techniques to manage anxiety, stop panic spirals, and ground yourself quickly. When panic strikes, it feels like your whole body has been hijacked—your chest tightens, your thoughts spiral, and you can’t catch your breath. It’s like being...
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...
What Your Dreams Mean: How Nighttime Messages Guide Daylight Healing Dreams have become one of the most profound tools I use to stop abandoning myself. For so long, I didn’t even realize I was doing it. Self-abandonment was so baked into my nervous system—so entwined...
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...