Welcome to the Resilience Rewired podcast. I’m your host Isabella Ferguson. I’m a registered counsellor specialising in helping women build emotional resilience to navigate midlife challenges with confidence, self-worth, and true fulfilment.

Emotional resilience is the ability to adapt to life’s stressors with purpose, allowing for personal growth - without resorting to wine, sugar, carbs, doomscrolling and the rest - because those behaviours don’t solve the problem; they hold you back and keep you stuck where you are rather than where you want to be.

I believe that developing emotional resilience, strengthening our emotional muscle, is the key to helping women in midlife break out of problematic holding patterns. I also believe that our emotional resilience changes in different life phases. Where you might have felt resilient in one phase, you might reach midlife feeling emotionally threadbare.

I know what it cost me and what it costs my clients when emotional resilience is lacking. But luckily emotional muscle-building is something we all have the capacity to do!

My hope is that you’ll walk away from each episode of this podcast with fresh insights on navigating midlife as well as practical counselling tips that you can weave into your everyday life, and feel better for it. Join me!

To learn more about my emotional resilience counselling services and my alcohol programs, head over to my website isabellaferguson.com.au and follow me on Instagram.

The Resilience Rewired podcast is an educational audio resource and not a substitute for professional health advice, treatment or assessment.

If you are struggling with any of the issues raised in this podcast, please see a healthcare professional or call Lifeline on 13 11 14.

If you are struggling with physical alcohol dependence or think you might be, I recommend you reach out to the lovely folks at Clean Slate Clinic.