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
86 episodes
Come Home To Your Body with Ailey Jolie
Why can you understand your patterns completely and still feel them happening in your body?In this solo episode, Ailey responds to listener questions about the space between what we know intellectually and what the body has learned throu...
How Jaw Tension Reveals Pelvic Patterns with Serena Gold
What if the place you feel pain is not the only place asking for your attention?In this episode, Ailey sits down with somatic sexologist and pelvic care specialist Serena Gold to explore what becomes possible when we begin seeing the bod...
Embodiment In Community with Dr. Krystal Redman
What does it mean to feel at home in your body when the world around you does not feel equally safe?In this episode, Ailey sits down with Dr. Krystal Redman, a self-published author, and a speaker throughout sexual and reproductive justi...
Learning to Feel Instead of Manage with Mollie Birney
What happens when thinking becomes the place you go to avoid feeling?In this episode, Ailey Jolie sits down with clinical life coach and former therapist Mollie Birney to explore embodiment as the practice of being present with ourselves...
Why We Doubt Women's Expertise with Ailey Jolie
What if the voices we instinctively trust have less to do with wisdom and more to do with what our bodies have been taught to recognize as authority?In this solo episode, Ailey explores how cultural conditioning can quietly shape whose k...
The Body Beneath People Pleasing with Heidi Stokes
What happens when you learn to read everyone else before you learn to read yourself?In this episode, Ailey sits down with registered clinical counsellor and yoga therapist, Heidi Stokes, to explore how the nervous system shapes our exper...
Wellness Culture And The Myth Of Optimization with Amanda White
When does wellness become another way of trying to fix yourself?In this episode, Ailey sits down with Amanda White, licensed professional counsellor and author of Not Drinking Tonight, to explore how the pursuit of wellness can ...
Trusting Your Intuitive Wisdom with Carissa Schumacher
How do you know when to trust what your body is telling you?In part two of this conversation, Ailey welcomes back Carissa Schumacher, a neuroscience trained forensic psychic medium and sacred ceremony facilitator, to explore the relation...
When Life Has Milestones but No Rituals with Carissa Schumacher
What helps us move through life's biggest transitions without losing ourselves?In this episode, Ailey sits down with Carissa Schumacher, a neuroscience trained forensic psychic medium and sacred ceremony facilitator, to explore what it m...
Embodiment After Shame with Christian Snuffer
What happens when shame becomes the way you experience your body?In this episode, Ailey sits down with psychedelic somatic therapist Christian Snuffer to explore how shame can shape our relationship with ourselves long before we have wor...
What Becomes Possible When Yoga Meets Psychology with Dr. Stephanie Minchin
What if your body has been telling the truth all along?In this episode, Ailey sits down with Dr. Stephanie Minchin, clinical psychologist and yoga therapist, to explore what becomes possible when psychology and yoga are brought together ...
Body Confidence That Works with Phillippa Diedrichs
Can a global beauty brand create meaningful change for body image?In this episode, Ailey sits down with Phillippa Diedrichs, PhD, a Professor of Psychology and leading body image researcher at the Centre for Appearance Research, to explo...
The Face Beyond Beauty with Shelly Marshall
What is your face communicating beyond what you see in the mirror?In this episode, Ailey sits down with Shelly Marshall, founder of Beauty Shamans and Skin Within Studio, to explore the relationship between beauty, embodiment, and the ne...
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...