In This Body

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  Wellness Culture And The Myth Of Optimization with Amanda White 20.08.2026 1h 7min

  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 quietly pull us further away from our bodies. Together, they question the promise that the right routine or enough self improvement will eventually create a version of ourselves who no longer struggles. Amanda shares how her own recovery shaped the way she understands...
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  Trusting Your Intuitive Wisdom with Carissa Schumacher 13.08.2026 57min

  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 relationship between intuition, embodiment, and self trust. Together, they examine how we can reconnect with our inner knowing without losing our grounding. Carissa shares her perspective on the different ways intuition can be experienced and why sensitivity is both ...
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  When Life Has Milestones but No Rituals with Carissa Schumacher 06.08.2026 1h 3min

  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 means to navigate change with the body, rather than simply endure it. Together, they reflect on why major life transitions can leave a lasting imprint and how healing becomes possible when we are witnessed through them. Carissa shares how her own experiences w...
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  Embodiment After Shame with Christian Snuffer 30.07.2026 59min

  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 words for it. Together, they reflect on what it means to lose touch with the body and why healing often begins with simply noticing what has been there all along. Drawing from his work in somatic therapy and psychedelic assisted psychotherapy, Christian shares h...
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  What Becomes Possible When Yoga Meets Psychology with Dr. Stephanie Minchin 23.07.2026 54min

  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 as one integrated approach to healing. Together, they examine why insight alone is not always enough, and how the body often holds the missing piece. Stephanie shares how yoga therapy supports people in rebuilding a relationship with themselves through curios...
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  Body Confidence That Works with Phillippa Diedrichs 16.07.2026 35min

  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 explore the complex relationship between science, social impact, and the beauty industry. Together, they examine what it means to create evidence based body confidence programs while working alongside global brands, and why discernment matters more than simple ans...
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  The Face Beyond Beauty with Shelly Marshall 09.07.2026 1h 1min

  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 nervous system. After years working as an aesthetician, registered nurse, and nurse injector, Shelly shares why she ultimately chose to step away from injectables. Together, they unpack how Botox and fillers may influence more than appearance, discussing facial...
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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...
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  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...
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  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 ...
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  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. ...
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  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 ...
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  Beneath the Rage with Vanessa Bennett 28.05.2026 1h 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...
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  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...
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  Staying In Your Body Through Chronic Illness with Dr. Ann Saffi Biasetti 14.05.2026 1h 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...
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  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...
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  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...
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  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...
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  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,...
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  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...