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Trainings, writing, resources, and ideas about boundaries, trauma, embodiment, and relational work.
Jenny Bilskie-Smith,
Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW)
EMDRIA Certified Therapist · Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor · Educator and Speaker
Hi, I’m Jenny Bilskie-Smith (she/her).
I’m a therapist, educator, speaker, and someone who genuinely loves a meaningful conversation—especially one that helps us understand what the body has been trying to communicate all along.
My work explores trauma, boundaries, embodiment, and relational healing. I’m particularly interested in what happens when people learn that protecting themselves might cost them connection—and how we can help the nervous system discover that self-protection and belonging no longer have to compete.
Thank you for spending this time with me. I’ve gathered some of the resources and ideas that have shaped my work below. If what I shared resonated with you, I’d love to stay connected through occasional writing, trainings, workshops, and resources.
Join me and stay connected.
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Things I Keep Coming Back To
Books, ideas, practices, and resources that have shaped how I think about bodies, boundaries, trauma, and agency.
Books That Made An Impact
The Wisdom of Your Body
Hillary McBride, Non-Fiction
This book helped me fall in love with my body–a place of wisdom, relationship, and belonging.
Bodyfulness
Christine Caldwell, Non-Fiction
This book gave language and structure to a way of being in the body that I was already beginning to find my way toward. It gave me specific ways to practice embodiment.
The Body Is a Doorway
Sophie Strand, Memoir
This book gives me a deep sense of connection—to body, place, land, and other people. It reminds me that embodiment isn’t only about turning inward; it’s also about experiencing ourselves as part of something larger.
Ideas & Practices I Enjoy
From Having a Body to Being Embodied: Phenomenological Theories on Embodiment
Barbara Weber (2018)
This chapter opened up something beautiful for me: the difference between experiencing the body as something we have and experiencing ourselves as embodied beings. It helped me think about the body less as an object we observe and more as the living place from which we encounter the world.
Explicit Procedures for Implicit Memories
Christine Caldwell
One of the ideas I return to again and again is that our capacity to act, choose, move toward, move away—and ultimately to say yes or no—is shaped through our embodied experience.
Our patterns of movement carry histories of how freely we’ve been able to act in the world. That also means the body can become a place where we practice something different: choice, movement, protection, and agency.
Ecstatic Dance / Friday Dance Dose
Leita Schiemann
Dance is medicine. Get your dose.