Podcast – Isabelle Bridges

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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The Isabelle Bridges Show

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.

You know what you want. You know what’s good for you. So why do you keep eating lunch at your laptop and running until your body pulls the emergency brake?

In the Season 1 finale, holistic nutritionist, clinical hypnotist, and mental health coach Stephanie Valentine shares the crash she’s still coming back from. She explains why your body can’t digest while it thinks it’s being chased, and she guides a 60-second practice to bring you back to rest and digest before your next meal.

In this episode:

Why eating at your desk keeps your body in fight or flight
The “runway” of capacity, and why reaching the end of it is human, never a failure
What’s happening underneath “I know what I want, so why don’t I have it?”
The 10-minute rule for when your body would rather stay on the couch
A guided 60-second practice to use before any meal
How to carry less pressure into the holiday season

Timestamps

00:00 Welcome to the Season 1 finale

01:49 When food alone wasn’t the whole answer

03:53 Stephanie’s story: from the bathroom floor to holistic nutrition

08:07 It’s not just what we eat, it’s how we eat

11:22 Rest and digest vs. fight or flight

17:44 Stephanie’s crash and the end of the runway

21:37 Having the tool, knowing the tool, using the tool

24:06 “I know what I want, so why don’t I have it?”

28:21 The 60-second practice before a meal

30:50 What to carry into the season ahead

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