In This Body

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• The Hidden Cost of Being the Good Girl with Sara Hirsh Bordo 02.07.2026 55min

  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, and chronic illness. Together, they examine how perfectionism, self silencing, and the pressure to keep others comfortable can become long term strategies for survival. Drawing from Sara's personal story and the experiences of thousands of women living with aut...
• Your Voice Reveals Where Your Body Still Braces with Jordan Dann 25.06.2026 52min

  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, embodiment, and nervous system regulation. Together, they examine how breath, tone, tension, and resonance shape the way we connect, communicate, and respond to one another. Drawing from her background in theatre and voice work, Jordan explains how the body influence...
• Embodiment Without Force with Alexis Florentina 18.06.2026 55min

  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 improvement, and why that can leave us feeling even more disconnected from ourselves. Drawing from her own experience with chronic illness and medical trauma, Alexis shares a gentler approach to embodiment, one that honors leaving the body as a valid survival ...
• The Body Beyond Belief with Arielle Estoria 11.06.2026 52min

  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, embodiment, and the journey of coming home to yourself after years of being taught to be smaller. Arielle shares how embodiment became tangible through everyday choices, from embracing her natural hair to redefining movement, beauty, and self trust on her own terms. ...
• Reproductive Grief And Embodiment with Ailey Jolie 04.06.2026 54min

  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 are forced to hold alone. Drawing from both her clinical work and personal experience, she explores what it means to live in a body shaped by pain, loss, diagnosis, and scar tissue. Ailey examines how easily self trust can erode when symptoms are dismissed and ...
• Beneath the Rage with Vanessa Bennett 28.05.2026 1t 7min

  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 righteous rage becomes the place we live. Together, they examine how anger can protect us while also shielding us from deeper emotions waiting underneath. Vanessa shares how Jungian psychology, embodiment, and somatic healing can work together to create a more expa...
• How Shame Impacts Intimacy with Aleksandra Trkulja 21.05.2026 55min

  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 system regulation, and intimacy. Together, they unpack why shame, self criticism, and disconnection from the body can create real barriers to pleasure, arousal, and desire. Aleks shares insights from her work in eating disorder recovery and explains how cont...
• Staying In Your Body Through Chronic Illness with Dr. Ann Saffi Biasetti 14.05.2026 1t 4min

  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 stay connected to the body through chronic illness, pain, and uncertainty. Together, they unpack the grief of living in a culture that treats the body like a machine to fix rather than something to listen to. Ann shares why the phrase “your body never meant yo...
• A Map of Somatic Therapy Approaches with Ailey Jolie 07.05.2026 52min

  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 without context. As a somatic psychologist, Ailey has seen how well meaning embodiment work can overwhelm the nervous system instead of supporting it. Ailey offers a clear map of different somatic therapy approaches so you can better understand what you have tri...
• Navigating the Psychedelic Landscape with Valeria McCarroll 30.04.2026 56min

  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 psychedelic assisted therapy beyond the hype. We name the parts often left out of the conversation, including harm, power, and the complexity of what comes after. We talk about harm reduction in a practical way, from dose and physiology to the importance of th...
• Regulation as Capacity Not Constant Calm with Rebekah Ballagh 23.04.2026 53min

  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 place where the mind understands, but the body does not yet feel safe enough to follow. Rebekah shares her experience with panic and illness, and how it revealed the limits of purely cognitive tools. We talk about intellectualising as a form of protection, and ex...
• Emotional Sobriety with Laura McKowen 16.04.2026 46min

  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 begins with sobriety and opens into something deeper. Embodiment, shame, appetite, and the hidden intelligence behind the ways we cope. We explore how alcohol can both numb and, at times, create access to sensation when the body feels out of reach. From there,...
• Your Body Is Not An Adversary, It Is Home with Abigail Rose Clarke 09.04.2026 51min

  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 actually is beneath the noise. Not a concept to master, but a practice of curiosity, presence, and relationship rooted in lived sensation. We talk about what pulls us away from ourselves, from objectification to self surveillance, and the cultural belief that th...
• Botox Changes How You Feel And Read Others with Ailey Jolie 02.04.2026 43min

  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 you it is something to optimise. Both can sound supportive, yet both can pull you away from your lived experience. Using Botox as an entry point, we look at research on facial feedback, emotional processing, and how expression shapes connection. She also sha...
• What If Self-Worth Is the Medicine You Are Missing with Dr. Tracy Shevell 26.03.2026 1t 8min

  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 advocate, to explore what happens when women enter rushed healthcare systems and leave unheard. Drawing from her experience as both a physician and a patient, Tracy shares how easily voices get lost, even when the stakes are high. We talk about self advocacy,...
• What If Healing Your Nervous System Changes A Lineage with Dr. Genevieve von Lob 19.03.2026 58min

  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 embodied healing. She shares her journey back into the body, and the role that protection, not failure, plays in our patterns. We explore the reality of parenting sensitive or strong willed children, how our nervous systems shape connection, and why authentic...
• Tracing The Echoes Of Inherited Trauma with Mark Wolynn 12.03.2026 59min

  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 our fears, patterns, and relationships. Mark shares how intergenerational stress can be passed through families, why symptoms often appear around key life milestones, and how language can reveal whether a struggle comes from personal experience or generational roo...
• Understanding Sexual Trauma Through The Body’s Wisdom with Ailey Jolie 05.03.2026 1t 4min

  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 have historically silenced survivors. She unpacks what truly happens in the nervous system during trauma, including tonic immobility, dissociation, the fawn response, and why arousal during assault can be a protective reflex rather than desire. Through the le...
• From Mindfulness To Bodyfulness With Christine Caldwell 26.02.2026 56min

  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 counterpart to mindfulness, and why attention belongs in sensation, not just thought. Christine shares how her work integrating dance therapy, body psychotherapy, and Buddhist practice led to founding the Somatic Counselling program at Naropa University. We...
• Reclaiming Pleasure After Years Of Disconnection with Emma-Louise Boynton 19.02.2026 50min

  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 disconnection to desire, and the moment she realized pleasure and self conflict cannot coexist. We explore how naming shame softens it, why body neutrality can be more sustainable than forced positivity, and how slowness and safety help the nervous system open to arous...