In This Body
In This Body is a podcast that explores the hidden impact of the unconscious on our lives. Through conversations with global experts, we reveal the silent stories shaping our experiences, paving the way for genuine change and deeper authenticity. In This Body asks the important questions: How does connecting to your body change your life? How will connecting to your body allow you to love better and live more authentically? And how does connecting to your body change the trajectory of our shared world?
Episodes
52 episodes
Undoing The Gaze with Ailey Jolie
In this solo episode of How To Be In This Body, Ailey Jolie reflects on carrying breast implants for 15 years and the moment she finally had enough capacity to hear the “no” she couldn’t access almost two decades ago. This is a convers...
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43:38
Stories The Body Won’t Let Us Forget with Hala Alyan
What if the stories your body carries are the map back to belonging? In this conversation with Palestinian–American poet and clinical psychologist Hala Alyan, we explore how narrative, trauma, and the nervous system meet inside a living body. H...
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Season 3
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Episode 50
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52:24
From Yoga Mat To Therapy Room: Embodiment, Burnout, And Belonging with Megan Campbell
What if a devoted practice is quietly pulling you away from your body instead of deeper into it. In this episode, we sit down with Megan Campbell, yoga teacher, trainer, retreat leader, and psychotherapist, to explore what embodiment really ask...
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Season 3
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Episode 49
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46:21
What If Your Body Is Where The Divine Lives with Brandon Nappi
What if your body isn’t a barrier to spirituality, but the place where the sacred actually meets you. This is the heart of the conversation with spiritual teacher and retreat leader Brandon Nappi, whose work weaves together Christian mysticism,...
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Season 3
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Episode 48
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48:38
Why People-Pleasing Isn’t Kindness: Healing The Fawn Response With Dr Ingrid Clayton
In this episode of How To Be In This Body, we explore the fawn response as an adaptive survival strategy (not a character flaw) and trace a gentle path from self-abandonment back to self-contact. Dr. Ingrid Clayton, clinical psychologi...
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Season 3
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Episode 47
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45:22
Who Am I When I'm Not Needed: Health, Identity, and the End of Performing with Ailey Jolie
Join Ailey Jolie for a raw and personal solo episode of How To Be In This Body. In this New Year's reflection, Ailey shares what happened when her body stopped letting her perform; a year of health crises, the real story behind her viral posts,...
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Season 3
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Episode 46
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40:51
The Body Knows: Healing, Hypervigilance, and the Pace of Trust with Ailey Jolie
Join Ailey Jolie for a tender and personal solo episode of In This Body, where she weaves a health update, insights from a sacred MRI, and listener questions into a nuanced meditation on embodiment. Ailey explores the delicate terrain between a...
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Season 2
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Episode 45
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52:49
The Art of Listening Within: Internal Family Systems & Inner Peacekeeping with Mariel Pastor
Join Ailey Jolie and Mariel Pastor, therapist, trainer, and creator of Character Mapping, on this episode of In This Body. The conversation moves through the heart of Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy; exploring how self-energy, parts work,...
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Season 2
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Episode 44
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55:39
Trauma, Tradition, and our Body’s Wisdom with Jambo Truong
Join Ailey Jolie and Jambo Truong, bodyworker, yogi, clinician, and mystic, on this episode of In This Body. The conversation journeys into the rich intersection of yoga, trauma recovery, and spiritual ritual—exploring how forest yoga can becom...
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44:56
Somatic Intelligence and Trauma Recovery in Modern Times with Dr. Christy Gibson
Join Ailey Jolie and Dr. Christy Gibson, physician, trauma educator, and author of Modern Trauma, on this rich and timely episode of In This Body. Together they explore how trauma lives not just in our minds but in our bodies, and how the press...
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Season 2
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Episode 42
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46:44
Pain, Pleasure, and Pelvic Power with Dr. Christine Pieton
Join Ailey Jolie and Dr. Christine Pieton, physical therapist, Pilates instructor, and founder of Pieton Physical Therapy, on this illuminating episode of In This Body. Together they explore the often overlooked world of pelvic health—how our r...
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Season 2
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Episode 41
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47:05
Listening to the Body and Listening to the Earth with Linda Hartley
Join Ailey Jolie and Linda Hartley, somatic practitioner, author, and a teacher of The Discipline of Authentic Movement, on this contemplative episode of In This Body. Together, they explore embodiment as an evolving, relational journe...
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Season 2
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Episode 40
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44:43
Opening to the Body’s Intelligence and Inner Teacher with Andrea Juhan
Join Ailey Jolie and Andrea Juhan, psychotherapist, embodiment teacher, and co-founder of Open Floor International, on this expansive episode of In This Body. Together, they explore the healing potential of movement, not as performance...
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Season 2
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Episode 39
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49:41
Eating Disorders as Metaphor and the Feminine Path to Healing with Dr Anita Johnston
Join Ailey Jolie and Dr. Anita Johnston, clinical psychologist, storyteller, and author of Eating in the Light of the Moon, on this episode of In This Body. Together, they explore the symbolic language of food and body image, ...
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Season 2
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Episode 38
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48:45
Movement as Medicine: Exploring the Class with Jaycee Gossett
Join Ailey Jolie and Jaycee Gossett, movement artist and founding teacher of The Class, on this episode of In This Body. The conversation explores embodiment as a lifelong practice, the evolution from performance-based movement to soma...
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Season 2
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Episode 37
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47:20
The Intelligence of Feminine Feeling with Jenna Ward
Join Ailey Jolie and Jenna Ward, a feminine embodiment coach and founder of the School of Embodied Arts, on this episode of In This Body. Together, they explore the transformative path of returning to the body as a site of power, pleas...
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Season 2
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Episode 36
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57:31
Astrology in Motion: How the Stars Live in Our Bodies with Heidi Rose Robbins
Join Ailey Jolie and Heidi Rose Robbins, a poet, astrologer, and author, on this episode of In This Body. Together, they explore the profound link between astrology, embodiment, and creative self-expression. Heidi shares how astrology ...
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Season 2
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Episode 35
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51:34
Understanding the Barriers to Desire and Reconnecting with Pleasure with Dr. Kate Balestrieri
Join Ailey Jolie and Dr. Kate Balestrieri, a clinical psychologist, certified sex therapist, and author, on this episode of In This Body. The conversation explores how systemic oppression—particularly patriarchy—shapes our relationship...
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Season 2
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Episode 34
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47:07
How We Carry and Transform Reproductive Experiences with Kristen Portney
Join Ailey Jolie and Kristen Portney, a therapist and reproductive health specialist, on this episode of In This Body. Together, they explore the unconscious narratives surrounding reproductive health—how they are shaped by family syst...
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Season 2
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Episode 33
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1:15:09
Embodied Systems: How Structures Shape Our Bodies and Lives with Dr Roger Kuhn
Join Ailey Jolie and Dr Roger Kuhn, a Poarch Creek Two-Spirit Indigiqueer soma-cultural sex therapist, sexuality educator, writer, activist, and musician, on this episode of In This Body. Together they discuss the nuances behind embodi...
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Season 2
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Episode 32
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52:08
How Love Lives in the Body with Dr. Sara Nasserzadeh
Join Ailey Jolie and Dr. Sara Nasserzadeh, an author, speaker and thinking partner with a PhD in Social Psychology and specialisation in Sexuality, Relationships, and Intercultural Fluency, on this episode of In This Body. They discuss...
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Season 2
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Episode 31
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48:30
Integrating the Body in Meditation with Dawn Mauricio
Join Ailey Jolie and Dawn Mauricio, a Buddhist Meditation and Mindfulness Teacher, Author, and Mentor, on this episode of In This Body. The conversation centers on the connection between embodiment and Vipassana meditation, with a focu...
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Season 2
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Episode 30
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50:44
Emotional Inheritance with Dr Galit Atlas
Join Ailey Jolie and Dr. Galit Atlas, a psychoanalyst, clinical supervisor, essayist, and author, on this episode of In This Body. Dr. Atlas explores her work on emotional inheritance and the connections between desire, sexuality, and ...
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Season 1
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Episode 29
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52:25
Uncovering Sibling Abuse with Dr Amy Meyers
Join Ailey Jolie and Dr. Amy Meyers, a psychoanalytic psychotherapist, professor, and prominent researcher on sibling abuse, in this enlightening episode of In This Body. Dr. Meyers delves into her extensive research, highlighting the ...
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Season 1
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Episode 28
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52:29
Embodying Authenticity with Giselle La Pompe-Moore
In this episode of In This Body, host Ailey Jolie welcomes back Giselle La Pompe-Moore—author, artist, speaker, slow living advocate, and creator of the Substack Be Difficult, Darling. Giselle discusses how deepening her conne...
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Season 1
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Episode 27
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58:21