Episode 1: Ailey Jolie
13/06/2024
Watch now on Youtube.
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 "Take It In," artist, and writer of "Be Difficult, Darling" on Substack. Her approach to slow living emphasizes making joy, healing, and reflection more accessible to help us cope with fast-paced, distracted, and disconnected living. Giselle explores how we can find Quiet Joy in simple, everyday things, practice Quiet Rebellion by questioning hustle culture, and embrace Quiet Healing without the pressure of perfect wellness. Her ultimate goal is to inspire a Quiet Revolution, where we slow down enough to reconnect with our humanity and create meaningful social change.
In this episode Ailey reflects on her early childhood experiences of sexual abuse and neglect, and how this led to her life almost ending due to an eating disorder. She speaks to how struggling with an eating disorder was a result of wanting to numb the pain she had experienced as a young girl. Ailey reflects on how her personal experiences are woven into her professional life, and how her work as a psychotherapist is rooted in what her younger self needed. This interview is vulnerable, tender, and will open your heart to the grief and joy that is inhabiting a body. We hope you enjoy.
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:
1.04 - Ailey speaks on why it was so hard to record her own solo episode
9.09 - Ailey reflects on how the relationship with her body has influenced her personal and professional life
14:40 - Ailey speaks to the unconscious mechanisms which led her to dancing
17:50 - The experiences that shaped Ailey’s understanding of embodiment
19:39 - Ailey shares some personal stories highlighting the journey it has been to connect with her body
22:09 - What Ailey wants everyone to know about the relationship she has with her body
25:04 - How Ailey reconciles feeling safe as an individual vs feeling unsafe as a woman in the world
28:59 - What led Ailey to be so passionate about embodiment
32:44 - The challenges Ailey had to overcome in her journey towards embodiment
36:09 - How Ailey handles the days she feels disconnected from her body
39:39 - Ailey speaks to how she navigates the dance between being in the body and moving out of the body when it’s needed
42:54 - How the relationship Ailey has with her body has influenced how she moves through life
47:49 - How connecting to Ailey’s body impacted the relationships she has with others
51:34 - The role people play in their own embodiment
54:54 - How societal expectations affect the relationship Ailey has with her body
59:44 - How Ailey’s work in embodiment contributes to deeper social and political change
1:03:04 - How embodiment can lead you into authenticity with your Self
1:07:04 - How Ailey’s understanding of embodiment has evolved over time
1:11:04 - Ailey speaks to the misconceptions people have around embodiment
1:14:49 - How your body can communicate with you
1:17:59 - The advice Ailey would give to her younger self
1:21:49 - What Ailey hopes listeners will take from this podcast