HOSTED BY ISABELLE BRIDGES
The Isabelle
Bridges Show
Real conversations and practical searchings on empowerment, wellbeing, relationships, and creating a life you love.
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For the woman who is capable, connected, and maybe a little bit stuck. (Aren’t we all!) Each week, Isabelle Bridges sits down with the guides, teachers, and thinkers who help vision-driven women come home to themselves, through conversations on nervous system regulation, emotional health, embodied identity, and what it really takes to keep a dream alive.
This is NOT a productivity podcast. It’s a permission slip. Isabelle explores what it means to feel everything, metabolize it, and keep moving toward your future self, without losing yourself in the process. Some weeks it’s a conversation with a leading voice in somatic work or emotional healing. Other weeks it’s Ia solo episode where Isabelle names the thing you’ve been feeling but couldn’t quite say out loud.
New episodes drop every Tuesday. 200+ episodes and counting, on nervous system regulation, circle facilitation, emotional metabolism, and the sacred work of keeping your vision visible.
You’re not broken. You were never meant to carry it alone. Come sit with us for a while.
If you’ve ever set a beautiful vision for your life, gotten lit up about it, and then quietly let it die a few weeks later — and called that a discipline problem — this episode is for you. We’re talking about why the way you move (or don’t move) toward what you want has almost nothing to do with willpower, and everything to do with your relationship to your father, the masculine, and the culture you were raised inside of.
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What you’ll learn:
- Why asking “but HOW would I ever do that” before you’ve taken a single step is actually a fixed mindset — and what a growth mindset asks instead
- What the father wound really is, and why almost everyone raised in this culture carries some version of it
- A personal story about early motherhood, misplaced anger at her husband, and the moment Isabelle realized mom guilt was hiding underneath it
- How patriarchy lives inside us, not just around us — and what that has to do with your right to want things
- The real definition of alchemy, and how it applies to transmuting your own history into your becoming
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Resources mentioned:
- The Vision Keeper — free at isabellebridges.com/vision-keeper
- The Sistering – Isabellebridges.com/the-sistering
- The Alchemy of Becoming retreat – https://isabellebridges.thrivecart.com/alchemy-of-becoming/
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P.S. — If you haven’t grabbed The Vision Keeper yet, it’s a wonderful place to start getting honest with yourself about what you actually want. Grab it free at isabellebridges.com/vision-keeper.
LASTLY: Join The Sistering before September 10th and you’ll also be invited to our in-person retreat, The Alchemy of Becoming, September 19th in Santa Barbara. Isabellebridges.com/the-sistering
