Episode 68: Ailey Jolie

06/04/2026


What happens when the grief carried inside the reproductive body is never fully named?

In this solo episode, Ailey speaks to miscarriage, endometriosis, adenomyosis, infertility, reproductive surgery, and the quiet grief so many people are forced to hold alone. Drawing from both her clinical work and personal experience, she explores what it means to live in a body shaped by pain, loss, diagnosis, and scar tissue.

Ailey examines how easily self trust can erode when symptoms are dismissed and answers are delayed, and how that experience impacts the nervous system and relationship to the body itself. She also explores the growing conversation around endocrine disrupting chemicals, reproductive health, and the complex realities many women are navigating inside modern environments.

From there, the episode moves into pregnancy, miscarriage, ambiguous loss, and the ways grief can remain invisible when there is no ritual, language, or collective witnessing around it.

This conversation offers a compassionate and grounded space for anyone navigating reproductive grief, chronic pain, or a changing relationship with their body.

About In This Body: Conversations with leading experts about the importance of embodiment in living an authentic life. 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?

In this episode:

  • 2:53 Naming Reproductive Loss Out Loud

  • 11:58 The Bigger Pattern In The Data

  • 22:48 When Systems Shift Blame Onto Women

  • 32:37 Miscarriage As Postpartum In The Body

  • 40:22 Microplastics In Placentas And Loss

  • 45:33 Surgery, Scar Tissue And Proprioception

  • 49:03 Healing Through Witnessing And Choice

  • 53:18 Where To Go Next And Share

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