Dr. Jodie Skillicorn
Welcome to Skillicorn Wellness & Resilience Coaching
A grounded path to balance, clarity, and possiblity
The name Skillicorn comes from the Old Norse words skali (a temporary shelter) and horn (a curve of land forming safe harbor). This is that kind of place — a space to rest, reconnect, and rebuild, before setting sail again with deeper confidence, resilience, and vision for what’s possible.
Life has become increasingly fast-paced, pulling us in countless directions with ceaseless distractions. In the rush to keep up, many of us have become disconnected from ourselves and our purpose, leaving us burned out, overwhelmed, and uncertain about how to find our way back to balance,
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This is your pause.
Your harbor.
A space to breathe, reset your nervous system, cultivate physical and emotional wellbeing, and remember who you are beneath the pressure and the endless doing.​
Our work integrates neuroscience, mindfulness, and embodiment to help you understand your stress patterns, reconnect with your body and emotions, reframe old stories, practice skills that restore calm and clarity, and expand into your fullest potential. It’s a process of balancing grounding with growing, presence with possibility.
Wellness and resilience coaching is not about diagnosing or fixing what's "wrong." It's about cultivating the capacity to listen and respond compassionately to the messages your emotions and body convey, so you can align with your inner wisdom and purpose.​
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Unlike conventional therapy or psychiatry, coaching focuses on growth and forward movement. It’s about cultivating awareness and strengthening physical, mental, and emotional resilience.
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Because lasting change requires both insight and consistent action, coaching also provides gentle accountability and structure to help you stay aligned with your intentions, even when life gets busy or old patterns resurface.
With compassionate support and clear guidance, you learn to return to your center again and again, until regulation, clarity, and growth become your new rhythm.
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Welcome to your safe harbor — and the beginning of your next voyage.
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What is Wellness & Resilience Coaching?
To understand what this work involves, we must first define wellness and resilience — the two interwoven foundations of this coaching practice.
Wellness
Wellness is not the absence of distress or dis-ease.
It is the active process of awareness through which we make intentional choices that enhance our physical, emotional, cognitive, social, environmental, occupational, and spiritual wellbeing.
Wellness is not a fixed state; it is a continual invitation to intentionally cultivate habits and mindsets that support energy, clarity, and joy.
Resilience
Resilience is a vital component of wellness — the ability to ride life’s waves with awareness, flexibility, curiosity, coherence, and compassion.
It’s what allows us to meet life’s difficulties not as dangers to avoid, but as invitations to grow. Resilience is not something we’re born with; it’s a skill that can be developed and strengthened over time.
Like a tree, resilience flourishes when we are both deeply rooted and able to sway freely with the winds of change.
When life’s storms arise, a tree grounded in fertile soil may bend, but it does not break. When the storm passes, it returns to stillness — its roots deeper, its trunk stronger, and its branches more flexible than before.
My Approach
Once we understand what wellness and resilience truly mean, the next step is learning how to cultivate them in daily life.
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As both a holistic psychiatrist and a coach, my work bridges neuroscience, mindfulness, and embodiment — blending research-based methods with deep presence and compassion to address the whole person: physical, emotional, cognitive, environmental, social, and spiritual.
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In my psychiatric practice, the focus is on applying many of these same tools within a clinical framework. This includes addressing symptoms, identifying and healing emotional and physiological imbalances, working through past trauma, and, when appropriate, helping individuals safely taper or manage medications.
In my coaching work, the emphasis shifts to growth and transformation — supporting individuals who are ready to expand beyond symptom management into self-discovery, nervous system regulation, alignment, and opening doors to new possibilities.
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While the approaches differ, the foundation is the same: honoring the whole person — body, mind, heart, and spirit — and guiding you to reconnect with your innate capacity to heal, grow, and thrive.​
Foundational Pillars of Wellness & Resilience
PHYSICAL WELLNESS
The body is the foundation of resilience.
Together, we explore the rhythms that shape your vitality and wellbeing — movement, nutrition, sleep, and time in nature — so your nervous system can function optimally: regulated, responsive, and adaptable.
COGNITIVE CLARITY
Our thoughts shape how we experience the world.
Much of our suffering comes from the stories we tell ourselves. Reframing unhelpful neurocognitive patterns and shifting from a threat mindset (“something is wrong”) to a challenge mindset (“this is an opportunity to grow”) is essential to resilience.
As your focus sharpens and your inner dialogue softens, you’ll find yourself thinking more clearly, making aligned decisions, and responding to life rather than reacting to it.
EMOTIONAL REGULATION
Stress, anxiety, and overwhelm are part of being human, but they don't have to define you. Through mindfulness, breathwork, EFT, and other somatic and energy practices, you'll learn to pause, acknowledge emotions, and regulate reactivity. Instead of getting swept away by the waves of life, you'll learn to surf them — meeting yourself with curiosity and compassion.
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PURPOSE & MEANING
True wellness includes a sense of direction and meaning. As your body and mind settle, clarity about your values, purpose, and authentic desires naturally emerges.
Together, we explore what brings you alive — so your choices reflect not just what you think you “should” do, but what feels most aligned with your values.
CONNECTION & BELONGING
Modern life has disconnected us from ourselves, each other, and from the natural world. Healing and growth are amplified in connection. For this reason, the bulk of this practice is centered on group coaching, which offers a unique opportunity for healing and transformation through co-regulation and shared reflection. Realizing you’re not alone in your struggles or your growth is powerful medicine. In this space of collective intention, healing deepens and transformation amplifies both individually and collectively.
ENVIRONMENTAL WELLNESS
We live in rapidly changing, precarious times where environmental shifts, climate concerns, and exposure to toxins have become part of daily life.
Our surroundings — from the air we breathe to the spaces we inhabit, the relationships we nurture, and the work we do — all shape our mental and physical wellbeing.
While we can’t control every external factor, we can strengthen our inner and outer resilience by creating environments that reflect our values and support our nervous system. From that empowered place, balance and sustainability, both personal and collective, begin to take root.
INTEGRATION & ACCOUNTABILITY
Insight creates awareness. Practice creates transformation. And community sustains it.
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Whether in a group or individual setting, coaching provides the structure, encouragement, and accountability to turn awareness into lasting change. In group coaching, this support expands. The shared energy of others walking beside you keeps motivation alive, helps you stay consistent, and offers reflection when old patterns arise. When you witness others’ breakthroughs, it reignites your own — a reminder that growth is not a solitary path, but a shared evolution. In individual coaching, accountability takes on a more personal rhythm — focused, tailored, and deeply attuned to your specific goals and growth edges. Here, we refine, deepen, and anchor the shifts you’re making — ensuring your insights translate into embodied, sustainable change. In both settings, the intention is the same: to help you integrate new habits, perspectives, and ways of being into your daily life with grace and compassion. Setbacks become opportunities for recalibration, and every return to center becomes easier, quicker, and more natural. Over time, this becomes your new rhythm — a dynamic balance of regulation, resilience, and renewal, held within both your own grounded awareness and the collective strength of the community around you.
When your nervous system feels safe, your mind clears, your heart opens, and your purpose comes into focus.
The Essence of This Work
This work isn’t just about regulating the nervous system, it’s about creating the internal and external conditions that allow you to thrive.
When your system feels safe and nourished, your mind focuses, your heart and energy expand, and your purpose clarifies. From that place, you can design a life that reflects who you truly are — not from survival, but from alignment and authenticity.
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This work is not about striving for perfection, it’s about remembering your wholeness.
It’s about learning to work with your body, emotions, and mind as allies rather than adversaries.
It’s about finding safety within, so you can meet life, and yourself, with curiosity, compassion, and courage.
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This space is your safe harbor — a place to rest, recalibrate, and reconnect.
But it’s also your launch point — where new possibilities begin to unfold.
Once you’ve anchored into steadiness and self-trust, the horizon widens. You start to imagine, create, and embody what once felt out of reach.
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And ultimately, it’s about coming home to yourself — grounded, open-hearted, and resilient enough to grow through whatever life brings.
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From this place, transformation becomes natural.
You move not from pressure, but from purpose.
Not from striving, but from strength.
And life itself begins to expand — rooted, radiant, and aligned with the truth of who you are becoming.
