In This Body

What if the voices we instinctively trust have less to do with wisdom and more to do with what our bodies have been taught to recognize as authority?
In this solo episode, Ailey explores how cultural conditioning can quietly shape whose knowledge we trust and whose confidence makes us uncomfortable. Drawing from what she has been noticing while writing her book, she considers how these patterns can live beneath our conscious beliefs and influence the way we respond to women in positions of authority.
Ailey reflects on the difference between confidence and safety, questioning why women are so often expected to prove their expertise while navigating the discomfort that can come with fully claiming it. She also turns toward the women whose work has profoundly shaped modern approaches to trauma and embodiment, despite their names not always receiving the same recognition as the ideas they helped establish.
Rather than approaching these biases as something to judge or intellectualize, Ailey invites us to notice them in the body. What happens when a woman speaks with certainty? What shifts when the same message comes from a man?
This conversation is an invitation to become more discerning about whose wisdom we receive, while creating more freedom for women to take up space within their own work.
In this episode:
4:07 The Question Of Female Authority
16:44 Confidence Is Not The Issue
22:22 Naming The Female Elders We Miss
33:22 Neuroception And Somatic Misogyny
37:20 Family Conditioning And Inherited Safety
39:29 Ageism And Women As Threat
44:06 A Body Based Practice For Change
47:03 Ways To Go Deeper Together
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What happens when you learn to read everyone else before you learn to read yourself?
In this episode, Ailey sits down with registered clinical counsellor and yoga therapist, Heidi Stokes, to explore how the nervous system shapes our experience of safety. Together, they look at how easily we can become focused on reading the room while losing touch with what is happening inside our own bodies.
Heidi shares how patterns like people pleasing can develop as ways of staying connected and protected. The conversation explores what it takes to turn our attention inward again, especially when insight has not been enough to create meaningful change.
Ailey and Heidi also discuss why trauma healing requires patience and why feeling safe with another person can be an important part of learning to feel safe within ourselves. Rather than pushing the body toward change, they consider what becomes possible when healing moves at a pace the nervous system can actually hold.
If you have ever struggled to know what you feel or found yourself paying more attention to everyone else than to yourself, this conversation offers a gentler way back to your body.
In this episode:
3:25 What Being In Your Body Means
6:00 Women Trained To Leave The Body
11:27 Somatic Therapy Versus Talk Therapy
22:16 What Yoga Therapy Looks Like
27:24 Trauma Disclosure And Building Safety
35:37 The Harm Of Going Too Fast
40:57 Co-Regulation Before Self-Regulation
48:59 Self-Regulation As A Gentle Choice
57:16 When Talk Therapy Is Not Shifting
1:00:00 Closing Invitation To Rest And Validate
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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 avoidance and our desire to escape uncomfortable experiences. The conversation considers what changes when we stop treating discomfort as evidence that something is wrong and begin developing the capacity to stay present with what we feel.
Ailey and Amanda also reflect on the difference between protecting ourselves and avoiding life. Rather than searching for the perfect boundary or healing practice, they explore a more flexible way of relating to ourselves that leaves room for uncertainty and the full range of being human.
If you have ever felt exhausted by the pressure to optimise yourself, this conversation offers another possibility: a life built around greater capacity rather than greater control.
In this epsiode:
4:30 Learning Safety In The Body
9:29 Wellness Culture And Optimisation Illusions
13:03 Therapy Speak Boundaries And Armour
26:13 Recovery Eating Disorders And Substance Use
35:05 12-Step What Helps What Limits
49:34 Practising Friction In Daily Life
1:00:45 Building Discomfort Tolerance That Lasts
1:05:17 Closing Reflections And Ways To Join

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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 a gift and a responsibility. The conversation explores how to distinguish intuition from fear, why boundaries are essential for those who feel deeply, and how our nervous system shapes the way we interpret what we experience.
Ailey and Carissa also reflect on healing as a process of integration rather than elimination. They discuss shadow work, shame, and the importance of developing a relationship with every part of ourselves instead of trying to push difficult experiences away.
If you have ever questioned your intuition or wondered how to trust yourself more deeply, this conversation offers a thoughtful and grounded place to continue the journey.
In this episode:
5:21 Dreams Visions And The Seer Path
10:58 Feelers Knowers And Psychic Clairs
16:01 The Price Of Gifts And Surrender
26:14 Sleep Science And Mental Health Nuance
43:31 Integration Over Eradication
52:02 Interoception Boundaries And Closing Invitations
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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 with illness, sensitivity, and trauma shaped her understanding of embodiment. The conversation explores the relationship between the physical and the spiritual, offering a grounded perspective on what it means to care for both without losing sight of either.
At the heart of the episode is the role of ritual and community. Ailey and Carissa consider what happens when life's thresholds go unnamed, and why grief, loss, and transformation are often easier to carry when they are acknowledged rather than endured alone.
If you are moving through change or searching for a deeper way to understand life's transitions, this conversation offers a thoughtful place to begin.
In this episode:
2:26 Meet Carissa Schumacher
5:44 A Gentle Content Note
6:20 Hope, Essence, And Stewardship
17:11 Childhood Sight Of Spirit
23:07 Building Boundaries With Intuition
27:49 First Period Without A Rite
36:11 Why Rites Of Passage Heal
41:53 Everyday Thresholds You Might Miss
51:12 Purification, Grief, And Channel Work
1:01:08 Liminality, Language, And Listener Next Steps

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