In This Body
Episodes
A Map of Somatic Therapy Approaches with Ailey Jolie
07 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Navigating the Psychedelic Landscape with Valeria McCarroll
30 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 Va...
Regulation as Capacity Not Constant Calm with Rebekah Ballagh
23 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 nervo...
Emotional Sobriety with Laura McKowen
16 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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, founde...
Your Body Is Not An Adversary, It Is Home with Abigail Rose Clarke
09 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Botox Changes How You Feel And Read Others with Ailey Jolie
02 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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, w...
What If Self-Worth Is the Medicine You Are Missing with Dr. Tracy Shevell
26 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 i...
What If Healing Your Nervous System Changes A Lineage with Dr. Genevieve von Lob
19 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Tracing The Echoes Of Inherited Trauma with Mark Wolynn
12 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 W...
Understanding Sexual Trauma Through The Body’s Wisdom with Ailey Jolie
05 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
What if the responses that seem most confusing after sexual violence are actually the body’s most intelligent survival strategies?In this episode, A...
From Mindfulness To Bodyfulness With Christine Caldwell
26 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 p...
Reclaiming Pleasure After Years Of Disconnection with Emma-Louise Boynton
19 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 o...
What If Safety Is Costing You Aliveness with Courtney Smith
12 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 Enneagr...
Undoing The Gaze with Ailey Jolie
05 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 ca...
Stories The Body Won’t Let Us Forget with Hala Alyan
29 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
What if the stories your body carries are the map back to belonging? In this conversation with Palestinian–American poet and clinical psychologist H...
From Yoga Mat To Therapy Room: Embodiment, Burnout, And Belonging with Megan Campbell
22 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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, yog...
What If Your Body Is Where The Divine Lives with Brandon Nappi
15 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 spi...
Why People-Pleasing Isn’t Kindness: Healing The Fawn Response With Dr Ingrid Clayton
08 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 pat...
Who Am I When I'm Not Needed: Health, Identity, and the End of Performing with Ailey Jolie
01 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 he...
The Body Knows: Healing, Hypervigilance, and the Pace of Trust with Ailey Jolie
14 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 qu...
The Art of Listening Within: Internal Family Systems & Inner Peacekeeping with Mariel Pastor
31 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Join Ailey Jolie and Mariel Pastor, therapist, trainer, and creator of Character Mapping, on this episode of In This Body. The conversation moves thro...
Trauma, Tradition, and our Body’s Wisdom with Jambo Truong
16 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Join Ailey Jolie and Jambo Truong, bodyworker, yogi, clinician, and mystic, on this episode of In This Body. The conversation journeys into the rich i...
Somatic Intelligence and Trauma Recovery in Modern Times with Dr. Christy Gibson
03 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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. Tog...
Pain, Pleasure, and Pelvic Power with Dr. Christine Pieton
19 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Join Ailey Jolie and Dr. Christine Pieton, physical therapist, Pilates instructor, and founder of Pieton Physical Therapy, on this illuminating episod...
Listening to the Body and Listening to the Earth with Linda Hartley
05 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Join Ailey Jolie and Linda Hartley, somatic practitioner, author, and a teacher of The Discipline of Authentic Movement, on this contemplative episode...
Opening to the Body’s Intelligence and Inner Teacher with Andrea Juhan
22 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Join Ailey Jolie and Andrea Juhan, psychotherapist, embodiment teacher, and co-founder of Open Floor International, on this expansive episode of In Th...
Eating Disorders as Metaphor and the Feminine Path to Healing with Dr Anita Johnston
08 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Join Ailey Jolie and Dr. Anita Johnston, clinical psychologist, storyteller, and author of Eating in the Light of the Moon, on this episode of In This...
Movement as Medicine: Exploring the Class with Jaycee Gossett
24 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Join Ailey Jolie and Jaycee Gossett, movement artist and founding teacher of The Class, on this episode of In This Body. The conversation explores emb...
The Intelligence of Feminine Feeling with Jenna Ward
10 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Join Ailey Jolie and Jenna Ward, a feminine embodiment coach and founder of the School of Embodied Arts, on this episode of In This Body. Together, th...
Astrology in Motion: How the Stars Live in Our Bodies with Heidi Rose Robbins
27 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Join Ailey Jolie and Heidi Rose Robbins, a poet, astrologer, and author, on this episode of In This Body. Together, they explore the profound link bet...
Understanding the Barriers to Desire and Reconnecting with Pleasure with Dr. Kate Balestrieri
13 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Join Ailey Jolie and Dr. Kate Balestrieri, a clinical psychologist, certified sex therapist, and author, on this episode of In This Body. The conversa...
How We Carry and Transform Reproductive Experiences with Kristen Portney
27 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Join Ailey Jolie and Kristen Portney, a therapist and reproductive health specialist, on this episode of In This Body. Together, they explore the unco...
Embodied Systems: How Structures Shape Our Bodies and Lives with Dr Roger Kuhn
13 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Join Ailey Jolie and Dr Roger Kuhn, a Poarch Creek Two-Spirit Indigiqueer soma-cultural sex therapist, sexuality educator, writer, activist, and music...
How Love Lives in the Body with Dr. Sara Nasserzadeh
30 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Join Ailey Jolie and Dr. Sara Nasserzadeh, an author, speaker and thinking partner with a PhD in Social Psychology and specialisation in Sexuality, Re...
Integrating the Body in Meditation with Dawn Mauricio
16 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Join Ailey Jolie and Dawn Mauricio, a Buddhist Meditation and Mindfulness Teacher, Author, and Mentor, on this episode of In This Body. The conversati...
Emotional Inheritance with Dr Galit Atlas
02 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Join Ailey Jolie and Dr. Galit Atlas, a psychoanalyst, clinical supervisor, essayist, and author, on this episode of In This Body. Dr. Atlas explores ...
Uncovering Sibling Abuse with Dr Amy Meyers
19 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Join Ailey Jolie and Dr. Amy Meyers, a psychoanalytic psychotherapist, professor, and prominent researcher on sibling abuse, in this enlightening epis...
Embodying Authenticity with Giselle La Pompe-Moore
12 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of In This Body, host Ailey Jolie welcomes back Giselle La Pompe-Moore—author, artist, speaker, slow living advocate, and creator of...
Dismantling Diet Culture with Dr Emilia Thompson
05 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Join Ailey Jolie and Dr Emilia Thompson, a Registered Nutritionist, Educator, Mentor, and Meditation Teacher, on this episode of In This Body. Togethe...
Exploring Masculinity and Men’s Work with Dr. Darragh Stewart
28 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Join Ailey Jolie and Dr Darragh Stewart, a PhD graduate and co-founder of InwardBound who specialises in psychedelic retreats and men’s work, for th...
Befriending your Nervous System through Polyvagal Theory with Deb Dana
21 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Join Ailey Jolie and Deb Dana, a clinician, consultant, author, and international lecturer on polyvagal theory-informed work, for this episode of In T...
The Role of Embodiment in Trauma Recovery with Dr Arielle Schwartz
14 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Join Ailey Jolie and Dr Arielle Schwartz, a licensed clinical Psychologist and the developer of Resilience-Informed Therapy, for this episode of In Th...
Navigating Abortion, Miscarriage, and Unexpected Pregnancies with Kristen Portney
07 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Join Ailey Jolie and Kristen Portney, a psychotherapist specializing in reproductive mental health, for this episode of In This Body. Kristen shares h...
Navigating Strained Family Relationships with Joanna Townsend
31 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Join Ailey Jolie and Joanna Townsend, a therapist, teacher, and mentor specializing in integrative approaches to trauma, spirituality, and personal tr...
The Integration of Sexuality and Internal Family Systems with Patricia Rich
24 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Join Ailey Jolie and Patricia Rich, a Certified IFS Therapist, Approved Consultant and an AASECT Certified Sex Therapist and Supervisor, for this epis...
Moving from Numbness into Sensuality with Henika Patel
17 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Join Ailey Jolie and Henika Patel, the founder of the School of Sensual Arts and the bestselling author of SENSUAL, for this episode of In This Body. ...
Eating Disorder Recovery and Body Image with Joy Dorsey
10 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Join Ailey Jolie and Joy Dorsey, an Eating Disorder Recovery Coach, for this episode of In This Body. Ailey and Joy delve into how embodiment can enha...
Embodied Oppression with Hala Khouri
03 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Join Ailey Jolie and Hala Khouri, a therapist, yoga teacher, and somatic experiencing practitioner, for this episode of In This Body. Hala shares her ...
Reconnecting with Sisterhood, Spirituality, and Embodiment with Chameli Ardagh
26 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Join Ailey Jolie and Chameli (pronounced sha-meh-lee), a yogini, mystic and a Goddess Wisdom Keeper, for this episode of In This Body. Ailey and Chame...
The Poet of Tantra Traditions with Chandresh Bhardwaj
19 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Join Ailey Jolie and Chandresh, a seventh-generation spiritual teacher, author, and founder of the 'Break The Norms' movement, for this epis...
Personal and Social Transformation with Staci Haines
12 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Join Ailey Jolie and Staci Haines, an innovator in the field of Somatics, for this episode of In This Body. Together, Ailey and Staci discuss the esse...
Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy with Angela Cara
05 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Join Ailey Jolie and Angela Cara, a Registered Clinical Counsellor with a Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology, for their second episode together ...
Being in Relationship with the Body with Dr. Hillary McBride
29 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Join Ailey Jolie and Dr. Hillary McBride, a registered psychologist, researcher, and podcaster, for this episode of In This Body. Together, Ailey and ...
Understanding the Role of Nightmares with Dr. Leslie Ellis
22 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Join Ailey Jolie and Dr Leslie Ellis, a leading expert in the use of experiential and somatic approaches in psychotherapy, for this episode of In This...
The Body as an Ally in Therapeutic Settings with Angela Cara
15 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Join Ailey Jolie and Angela Cara, a Registered Clinical Counsellor holding a Masters of Arts in Counselling Psychology, for this episode of In This Bo...
Healing Feminine Wounding through Embodiment with Sarah Warnaar
08 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Join Ailey Jolie and Sarah Warnaar, a mentor, artist and women’s work facilitator, for this episode of In This Body. Sarah shares about her transiti...
Breeding a Culture of Homogeneity in the Beauty Industry with Ellen Atlanta
01 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Join Ailey Jolie and Ellen Atlanta, a writer and brand consultant specializing in Gen-Z and millennial culture, for this episode of In This Body. Elle...
Reclaiming Passion and Sexual Pleasure through Somatics with Dr Holly Richmond
25 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Join Ailey Jolie and Dr Holly Richmond, a Somatic Psychotherapist, Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist (LMFT), Certified Sex Therapist (CST) and ...
The Impact of Weight Stigma and Social Biases on Embodiment with Dr Jason Jones
18 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Join Ailey Jolie and Dr Jason Jones, a registered psychologist and certified sex therapist, as they explore topics such as weight stigma, embodiment, ...
How Professional Athleticism Alters Your Relationship With Your Body with Khan Porter
11 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Join Ailey Jolie and Khan Porter as they explore how mental health and early childhood trauma can influence the relationship a cis-gendered male has w...
The Importance of Embodiment in the Expression of Sexuality with Paula Leech
04 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Join Ailey Jolie and Paula Leech for the fourth episode of "In This Body." In this episode, Ailey and Paula speak to the crucial role embodi...
The Power of Dream Work with Dr. Leslie Ellis
27 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Join Ailey Jolie and Dr Leslie Ellis for In This Body's third episode. In this episode, Ailey and Dr Ellis discuss focusing-oriented therapy, the...
Exploring the Intersection of Somatic Healing & Sexual Wellbeing with Ariel Giarretto
20 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Join Ailey Jolie and Ariel Giarretto for In This Body's second episode. In this episode, Ariel shares their personal path to discovering the deep...
This Body Is Home with Ailey Jolie
06 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Join Ailey Jolie and her interviewer, Giselle La Pompe-Moore for the first episode of In This Body. Giselle is a slow living advocate, author of "...
Introducing: In This Body the Podcast
30 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In This Body is a podcast dedicated to providing thoughtful dialogue to demystify the unseen influence of the unconscious in your life. Through consci...