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
73 episodes
The Hidden Cost of Being the Good Girl with Sara Hirsh Bordo
What happens when being "good" comes at the cost of being yourself?In this episode, Ailey sits down with Sara Hirsh Bordo, author of Autoimmunity and the Good Girls, to explore the connection between people pleasing, self abandonment, an...
Your Voice Reveals Where Your Body Still Braces with Jordan Dann
What is your voice communicating before you say a single word?In this episode, Ailey sits down with Jordan Dann, a psychoanalysis informed somatic practitioner and relationship therapist, to explore the connection between voice, embodime...
Embodiment Without Force with Alexis Florentina
What if your nervous system is asking to be understood, not managed?In this episode, Ailey sits down with Alexis Florentina, a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, to explore how nervous system regulation has become another form of self i...
The Body Beyond Belief with Arielle Estoria
What happens when you leave a belief system, but your body is still living by its rules?In this episode, Ailey sits down with poet and spoken word artist Arielle Estoria, author of The Unfolding, to explore faith deconstruction,...
Reproductive Grief And Embodiment with Ailey Jolie
What happens when the grief carried inside the reproductive body is never fully named?In this solo episode, Ailey speaks to miscarriage, endometriosis, adenomyosis, infertility, reproductive surgery, and the quiet grief so many people ar...
Beneath the Rage with Vanessa Bennett
What if anger is not the final destination, but the doorway to something deeper?In this episode, Ailey sits down with depth psychologist and author Vanessa Bennett to explore the complexity of anger, healing, and what happens when righte...
How Shame Impacts Intimacy with Aleksandra Trkulja
What if pleasure is not about learning new techniques, but learning how to feel safe in your body?In this episode, Ailey sits down with sex therapist and sexologist Aleksandra Trkulja to explore the connection between body image, nervous...
Staying In Your Body Through Chronic Illness with Dr. Ann Saffi Biasetti
What if your body is not betraying you, but asking for a different kind of relationship?In this episode, Ailey sits down with Dr. Ann Saffi Biasetti, psychotherapist, yoga therapist, and mindfulness teacher, to explore what it means to s...
A Map of Somatic Therapy Approaches with Ailey Jolie
What if somatic work is not failing you, but simply not the right approach for your body?In this solo episode, Ailey explores how somatics has become a catch all term for healing, and why that can lead to harm when practices are used wit...
Navigating the Psychedelic Landscape with Valeria McCarroll
What if psychedelic healing is not just about the experience, but about what your body can actually integrate?In this episode, Ailey sits down with Valeria, a counselling psychologist and depth practitioner, to explore the realities of p...
Regulation as Capacity Not Constant Calm with Rebekah Ballagh
What if understanding your patterns is not the same as changing them?In this episode, I’m joined by Rebekah Ballagh, a counsellor, somatic and nervous system coach, and author, to explore the gap between insight and real change. The plac...
Emotional Sobriety with Laura McKowen
Alcohol can look like the problem, until you notice what it was solving. In this episode, Ailey is joined by writer and speaker Laura McKowen, founder of The Luckiest Club and author of We Are The Luckiest, for a conversation that b...
Your Body Is Not An Adversary, It Is Home with Abigail Rose Clarke
What if coming home to your body feels unfamiliar because you were taught to see it as something outside of you?In this episode, Ailey sits down with somatic educator, author, and artist Abigail Rose Clarke to explore what embodiment act...
Botox Changes How You Feel And Read Others with Ailey Jolie
What if Botox is not just changing how you look, but how you feel and connect?In this episode, Ailey explores the quiet bind many women live inside, where beauty culture tells you your body is a problem to fix, and wellness culture tells...
What If Self-Worth Is the Medicine You Are Missing with Dr. Tracy Shevell
What if the reason you struggle to speak up in medical spaces is not weakness, but your body recognizing it is not safe?In this episode, Ailey Jolie is joined by Dr. Tracy Shevell, a maternal fetal medicine specialist and women’s health ...
What If Healing Your Nervous System Changes A Lineage with Dr. Genevieve von Lob
What if the hardest moments in parenting are the ones pointing you back toward yourself?In this episode, Ailey Jolie sits down with Dr. Genevieve von Lob, a clinical psychologist whose work weaves together trauma, mindful parenting, and ...
Tracing The Echoes Of Inherited Trauma with Mark Wolynn
What if your biggest fear isn’t a flaw, but an echo from a story that began before you were born? In this episode, Ailey Jolie sits down with Mark Wolynn, author of It Didn’t Start With You, to explore how inherited trauma can shape ou...
Understanding Sexual Trauma Through The Body’s Wisdom with Ailey Jolie
What if the responses that seem most confusing after sexual violence are actually the body’s most intelligent survival strategies?In this episode, Ailey explores how culture has taught women to doubt their instincts and how institutions ...
From Mindfulness To Bodyfulness With Christine Caldwell
What if the most radical thing you can do for your life and relationships is to feel your body right now? In this episode, we’re joined by somatic psychotherapist and movement pioneer Christine Caldwell to explore bodyfulness, the embodied coun...
Reclaiming Pleasure After Years Of Disconnection with Emma-Louise Boynton
What if the thing blocking pleasure isn’t technique, but a long war with your own body? In this episode, we talk with Emma-Louise Boynton, creator of Sex Talks and author of the forthcoming book Pleasure, about her journey from disconn...
What If Safety Is Costing You Aliveness with Courtney Smith
What if the wisest part of you isn’t your thinking mind, but the sensations already alive in your body? In this episode, executive coach and Enneagram expert Courtney Smith joins us to explore how fear quietly shapes our choices and how learnin...
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...
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...
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...
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,...