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. 11H AGO

    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 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, why women often freeze or fawn with authority figures, and simple ways to prepare for appointments so you can be heard. We also explore physician burnout and how broken systems impact care on both sides of the room. From there, we expand into a more holistic view of health, one that includes emotional support, community, and nervous system awareness. Tracy connects the dots between trauma, chronic illness, and autoimmune conditions, and shares what trauma informed care can look like when dignity and choice are centered. If you have ever left an appointment feeling dismissed or unsure how to advocate for yourself, this conversation offers both language and practical support. In this episode: 2:27 Meet Dr. Tracy Shevell4:40 Feeling At Home In Your Body10:34 Self-Worth As Core Healthcare14:26 How To Get More From Visits19:20 Moral Injury Inside Modern Medicine25:54 Spirituality, Ritual, And Miracles36:12 How Birth Shaped Tracy’s Faith42:19 Birth Fear, Extremes, And Isolation47:58 Why Long-Term OBGYN Care Matters51:51 Trauma-Informed Gynaecology That Respects You1:02:22 Integration, Resources, And ClosingYou can read the full transcript here. Learn more about Ailey Jolie: Find: WebsiteFollow: InstagramExplore: SubstackExperience: Insight TimerSign up: InBodyMethodEmail: info@aileyjolie.comTo follow along with the In This Body podcast: Follow: InstagramFind: WebsiteEmail: info@aileyjolie.com

    1h 9m

  2. MAR 19

    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 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 authenticity creates more safety than trying to get it right. We also touch on shame, inherited patterns, and the importance of being witnessed in community. If you are learning to meet yourself while raising someone else, this conversation offers a steady and compassionate place to land. In this episode: 0:00 Welcome To Embodiment Work3:45 Brief, Numbness And Coming Back8:12 Why Parenting Starts In The Body13:20 Triggers, Guilt And The Lost Village18:18 Resonance, Congruence And Repair26:17 Shame In The Body And Lineage31:55 Collective Healing And Spiritual Intelligence55:03 Closing InvitesYou can read the full transcript here. Learn more about Ailey Jolie: Find: WebsiteFollow: InstagramExplore: SubstackExperience: Insight TimerSign up: InBodyMethodEmail: info@aileyjolie.comTo follow along with the In This Body podcast: Follow: InstagramFind: WebsiteEmail: info@aileyjolie.com

    59 min

  3. MAR 12

    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: WebsiteFollow: InstagramExplore: SubstackExperience: Insight TimerSign up: InBodyMethodEmail: info@aileyjolie.comTo follow along with the In This Body podcast: Follow: InstagramFind: WebsiteEmail: info@aileyjolie.com

    1 hr

  4. 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: WebsiteFollow: InstagramExplore: SubstackExperience: Insight TimerSign up: InBodyMethodEmail: info@aileyjolie.comTo follow along with the In This Body podcast: Follow: InstagramFind: WebsiteEmail: info@aileyjolie.com

    1h 5m

  5. 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: WebsiteFollow: InstagramExplore: SubstackExperience: Insight TimerSign up: InBodyMethodEmail: info@aileyjolie.comTo follow along with the In This Body podcast: Follow: InstagramFind: WebsiteEmail: info@aileyjolie.com

    57 min

  6. 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: WebsiteFollow: InstagramExplore: SubstackExperience: Insight TimerSign up: InBodyMethodEmail: info@aileyjolie.comTo follow along with the In This Body podcast: Follow: InstagramFind: WebsiteEmail: info@aileyjolie.com

    51 min

  7. 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: WebsiteFollow: InstagramExplore: SubstackExperience: Insight TimerSign up: InBodyMethodEmail: info@aileyjolie.comTo follow along with the In This Body podcast: Follow: InstagramFind: WebsiteEmail: info@aileyjolie.com

    47 min

  8. 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: WebsiteFollow: InstagramExplore: SubstackExperience: Insight TimerSign up: InBodyMethodEmail: info@aileyjolie.comTo follow along with the In This Body podcast: Follow: InstagramFind: WebsiteEmail: info@aileyjolie.com

    44 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
    59
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2026 In This Body
  • Show Website
    In This Body

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