In This Body

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 shares clinical insights from somatic work, where micro expressions and co regulation are central to how we relate.
From there, we move into real life. Dating, friendships, and early attachment, exploring how reduced facial responsiveness may impact how we read and feel with one another. We also touch on objectification, interoception, and how self monitoring can distance you from your body long before any intervention.
This conversation invites you to step out of the cycle of fixing and into something quieter and more honest. Learning to listen. Learning to feel. Learning to be in your body.
In this episode:
0:00 Welcome To In This Body
2:25 The Beauty And Wellness Bind
9:54 Facial Feedback In Therapy
16:16 When Symptom Relief Hides Danger
18:47 The Research On Emotion And Botox
30:14 Objectification Cuts Interoception
35:34 Wellness Culture Rebrands Self Surveillance
40:51 Leaving The Loop Through Presence

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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 Shevell
4:40 Feeling At Home In Your Body
10:34 Self-Worth As Core Healthcare
14:26 How To Get More From Visits
19:20 Moral Injury Inside Modern Medicine
25:54 Spirituality, Ritual, And Miracles
36:12 How Birth Shaped Tracy’s Faith
42:19 Birth Fear, Extremes, And Isolation
47:58 Why Long-Term OBGYN Care Matters
51:51 Trauma-Informed Gynaecology That Respects You
1:02:22 Integration, Resources, And Closing
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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 Work
3:45 Brief, Numbness And Coming Back
8:12 Why Parenting Starts In The Body
13:20 Triggers, Guilt And The Lost Village
18:18 Resonance, Congruence And Repair
26:17 Shame In The Body And Lineage
31:55 Collective Healing And Spiritual Intelligence
55:03 Closing Invites
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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 Frame
4:11 Introducing Mark Wolynn And His Work
6:53 What Being In The Body Means
15:03 From Mice To Humans: The Science Arrives
25:53 Defining Inherited Trauma Through Stories
30:48 Ages, Milestones, And Symptom Triggers
41:43 Healing Without Re-Entering Harm
46:43 Positive Experiences That Rewire
52:43 Blending Science And The Spiritual
56:28 The Core Language Approach In Practice
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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 Topic
4:41 Why Disbelief Persists Culturally
12:43 How Culture Primes The Body
19:01 Betrayal Trauma And Not Knowing
25:23 Why Leaving Isn’t Simple
37:28 Delayed Disclosure And Shame
42:48 Institutional Betrayal And Justice
48:14 Complex PTSD And The Window Of Tolerance
53:56 Hypersexuality As Adaptation
1:00:48 Eating Disorders, Body Image, And Trauma
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