In This Body

Ailey Jolie
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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?

  1. 1D AGO

    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 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 roots. Together, we explore practical ways to heal even when family members are unavailable or unsafe, using imagery, photographs, and simple practices that help the body move toward safety. If you’ve ever felt fear that seems bigger than your story, this conversation offers language, insight, and tools to help you meet what you carry with compassion and agency. If this resonates, subscribe, share, and leave a review. In this episode: 0:00 Welcome And Embodiment Frame4:11 Introducing Mark Wolynn And His Work6:53 What Being In The Body Means15:03 From Mice To Humans: The Science Arrives25:53 Defining Inherited Trauma Through Stories30:48 Ages, Milestones, And Symptom Triggers41:43 Healing Without Re-Entering Harm46:43 Positive Experiences That Rewire52:43 Blending Science And The Spiritual56:28 The Core Language Approach In PracticeYou can read the full transcript here. Learn more about Ailey Jolie: Find: Website Follow: Instagram Explore: Substack Experience: Insight Timer Sign up: InBodyMethod Email: info@aileyjolie.com To follow along with the In This Body podcast: Follow: Instagram Find: Website Email: info@aileyjolie.com

    1 hr

  2. MAR 5

    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 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 lenses of betrayal trauma, complex PTSD, and the window of tolerance, this episode examines why awareness can be delayed, why leaving can feel impossible, and how survival patterns often get misread as consent. Ailey also explores the links between sexual trauma, hypersexuality, eating disorders, and intergenerational patterns. This is a compassionate guide to understanding survival so shame can give way to clarity, and healing can begin from the inside out. In this episode: 0:00 Setting Intentions For A Hard Topic4:41 Why Disbelief Persists Culturally12:43 How Culture Primes The Body19:01 Betrayal Trauma And Not Knowing25:23 Why Leaving Isn’t Simple37:28 Delayed Disclosure And Shame42:48 Institutional Betrayal And Justice48:14 Complex PTSD And The Window Of Tolerance53:56 Hypersexuality As Adaptation1:00:48 Eating Disorders, Body Image, And TraumaYou can read the transcript here Learn more about Ailey Jolie: Find: Website Follow: Instagram Explore: Substack Experience: Insight Timer Sign up: InBodyMethod Email: info@aileyjolie.com To follow along with the In This Body podcast: Follow: Instagram Find: Website Email: info@aileyjolie.com

    1h 5m

  3. FEB 26

    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 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 explore how culture trains disconnection, how language reinforces the mind body split, and how returning to direct experience changes the way we act. She introduces the Moving Cycle of awareness, integration, and natural action, along with a simple practice she calls breathe, move, sense. We also touch on the influence of Thich Nhat Hanh and her book Conscious Moving. If mindfulness has felt incomplete, this episode offers a grounded path back to your own skin. If it resonates, subscribe, share, and leave a review. In this episode: 0:00 Welcome and Meet Christine4:10 I Am My Body, Not In It8:23 Synthesising Dance, Bodywork, And Psychology12:59 Why Fields Became Siloed17:43 Defining Bodyfulness Beyond Prescriptions23:46 Technology, Consumerism, And Disembodiment28:59 The Moving Cycle: Origins And Phases33:51 Physical Free Association In Practice38:40 Buddhism, Attention, And Everyday Practice43:44 Enlightened Body And Sensorimotor Loop47:55 A Doorway: Breathe, Move, SenseYou can read the transcript here Learn more about Ailey Jolie: Find: Website Follow: Instagram Explore: Substack Experience: Insight Timer Sign up: InBodyMethod Email: info@aileyjolie.com To follow along with the In This Body podcast: Follow: Instagram Find: Website Email: info@aileyjolie.com

    57 min

  4. FEB 19

    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 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 arousal. We also challenge cultural sex scripts and reframe sexual liberation as the freedom to choose what truly honours your body and heart. If you’ve ever wondered if you are just not a sexual person, this episode offers language, tools, and hope. Start small. Pleasure grows where pressure eases. If this resonated, subscribe, share, and leave a review. In this episode: 0:00 Welcome & Embodiment Mission4:06 The Dinner Party Confession12:53 Disembodiment & Pleasure Capacity24:55 Shame, Silence, And Sex Scripts31:15 From War To Body Neutrality37:28 Learning Desire And Boundaries41:49 Beauty Myths And Control50:49 Debunking Sex MythsYou can read the transcript here Learn more about Ailey Jolie: Find: Website Follow: Instagram Explore: Substack Experience: Insight Timer Sign up: InBodyMethod Email: info@aileyjolie.com To follow along with the In This Body podcast: Follow: Instagram Find: Website Email: info@aileyjolie.com

    51 min

  5. FEB 12

    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 learning to feel what’s here now can restore agency, presence, and pleasure. Courtney shares her path from Yale Law and McKinsey to a body first approach blending the Enneagram, conscious leadership, and somatic awareness. We unpack three core fears: loss of security, approval, and control, and how they keep us looping familiar conflicts and drama triangle roles. We move into practice by welcoming fear, tracking it in the body, and asking, If I weren’t scared, what would I be doing? We also explore pleasure as information, not indulgence, but a compass toward aliveness and truth. You’ll leave with tools to notice sensation, spot fear driven patterns, and choose presence over performance. If this resonated, subscribe, share, and leave a review, then ask yourself: if fear disappeared for one hour, what would you choose? In this episode: 0:00 – Opening And Embodiment Mission5:14 – From Head To Body-Based Presence10:02 – Enneagram Beyond Typing16:42 – Presence Begins With Sensation23:57 – Bypassing With Self‑Knowledge28:53 – Why Growth Is Uncomfortable34:55 – Socialisation, Fear, And Scripts41:48 – The Drama Triangle ExplainedYou can read the transcript here Learn more about Ailey Jolie: Find: Website Follow: Instagram Explore: Substack Experience: Insight Timer Sign up: InBodyMethod Email: info@aileyjolie.com To follow along with the In This Body podcast: Follow: Instagram Find: Website Email: info@aileyjolie.com

    47 min

  6. FEB 5

    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 conversation about consent, power, and why trauma tools designed for single events often fail to address lives shaped by repetition, surveillance, and the gaze. Ailey explores how trauma research centered on male bodies overlooks a common female experience: disembodiment without a clear origin story. From self-objectification to the dulling of interoception, she traces the cultural and clinical forces that teach bodies to doubt their own knowing. Rather than chasing perfect regulation, this episode reframes healing as capacity—the ability to feel fear, grief, and hope while still moving toward what is right. Distinguishing “scoreboard” healing from “story” healing, it invites a different question: not what broke you, but what you were shaped to hold. This episode is for anyone who’s tried every somatic tool and still feels far from home. In this episode: Opening And Embodiment MissionThe Gap In Trauma TheoryA Child’s Wish And Split SurvivalPatterning Danger And AdolescenceViolations In Medicine And AftermathSelf‑Objectification And Losing InteroceptionBeauty Culture’s Profitable WoundsChoosing Explant And Choosing TrustRepair Through Consent And CareYou can read the transcript here Learn more about Ailey Jolie: Find: Website Follow: Instagram Explore: Substack Experience: Insight Timer Sign up: InBodyMethod Email: info@aileyjolie.com To follow along with the In This Body podcast: Follow: Instagram Find: Website Email: info@aileyjolie.com

    44 min

  7. JAN 29

    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. Hala shares how displacement shaped her love of books and oral histories, why writing still arrives as mystery, and how creative practice can offer coherence when life feels scattered. We move beyond buzzwords to talk about embodiment as a political act—how storytelling becomes witness and resistance when institutions fail. Hala offers practical ways to return to your body: hand over heart, 4-7-8 breathing, hot baths without a phone, and the simple mantra “this is just what’s happening.” She also unpacks why perfectionism makes somatics feel inaccessible and how choosing to feel—even discomfort—builds resilience. This episode is for anyone curious about creativity as healing, building distress tolerance, and holding grief and agency at the same time. Expect clear language, grounded tools, and gentle guidance for reconnecting to your body and your story. In this episode: 0:00 – Welcome And Episode Setup3:37 – Narrative As A Unifying Thread9:53 – How Narrative Works In The Body14:46 – Displacement, Reading, And Early Survival20:47 – Creativity As Conduit And Mystery30:17 – Safety, Downregulation, And Rewriting36:52 – Storytelling As Survival And Alliance42:12 – Memory, Erasure, And Resistance49:07 – Embodiment As Political PracticeYou can read the transcript here Learn more about Ailey Jolie: Find: Website Follow: Instagram Explore: Substack Experience: Insight Timer Sign up: InBodyMethod Email: info@aileyjolie.com To follow along with the In This Body podcast: Follow: Instagram Find: Website Email: info@aileyjolie.com

    53 min

  8. JAN 22

    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 asks of us beyond perfect poses or polished language. Megan shares how grief surfaced unexpectedly through practice, the allure and limitations of modern wellness culture, and the steady courage it took to move from the studio into the therapy room. Together, we examine the ways embodiment can become performative, and how returning to sensation, cycles, and nervous system awareness creates a safer path back to self. This conversation offers a compassionate look at healing that values both story and somatics, honors fluctuation rather than fixing, and reminds us that sometimes the most therapeutic move is to slow down and feel more, not do more. In this episode:  0:00 – Setting The Embodiment Intent7:08 – Teaching Early And Finding Voice10:02 – Women’s Bodies, Ritual, And Safety17:06 – Seasons, Cycles, And Chakras20:28 – Naming Burnout And Aging Out27:32 – Pedestals, Patriarchy, And Credit34:27 – Fixing The Body Or Feeling It39:42 – Seeing Nervous Systems In Motion45:42 – Windows Of Tolerance In PracticeYou can read the transcript here Learn more about Ailey Jolie: Find: Website Follow: Instagram Explore: Substack Experience: Insight Timer Sign up: InBodyMethod Email: info@aileyjolie.com To follow along with the In This Body podcast: Follow: Instagram Find: Website Email: info@aileyjolie.com

    47 min
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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?

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  • Creator
    Ailey Jolie
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2026
  • Episodes
    57
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2026 In This Body
  • Show Website
    In This Body

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