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
66 episodes
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,...
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...
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,...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...