The Isabelle Bridges Show

There is something you want that you have not said out loud in a while. Not the polished version you'd offer at a dinner party. The other one. The one folded up in your pocket.

In this episode:

Why the woman carrying something she cannot get out of her body is not flawed, and what the myth says the pressure actually is

The two-part move Gaia makes, and the half of it most women skip

What the word decide actually means, and why every real decision feels like grief

The beautiful house that produced nothing, and how to tell when structure and desire are living apart in your life

The golden net, being seen wanting something, and why shame shows up right at the edge of an evolution

Harmonia, and what only arrives on the far side

A place to start: if you want a quiet way into your own version of this, the Vision Keeper Workbook is free, and it is built for exactly this. It is a page for the thing you have been carrying.

You've done the therapy. You've read the books. You can name your pattern in one sentence. And there is still a part of you you've been managing instead of meeting.

My guest today is Lillian Eve Moore, a trauma expert and teacher with more than twenty years of experience blending somatics, nervous system work, energy medicine, and mindset tools. She has worked with veterans, with severe mental health conditions, with the things that happen in people's homes that we don't need to name out loud. Her optimism comes out of that, not around it.

We went straight into self-love, and Lillian took it somewhere I wasn't expecting. She started with a question: do you know what love feels like in your body? Because that feeling moves through your own body to get anywhere else. That's the biochemistry of it. Hold that sensation and hold awareness of yourself at the same time, and you're already there.

Then she took us down. Into the underworld, into the containment practice, into the list most of us have been carrying since childhood without ever writing it down.

JOIN US in the decent!

In this episode:

Your practice this week (Lillian's invitation):

Write the list of what you think you're not. Then write the list of what you think you should be. Go line by line and forgive yourself for each one.

I don't think I'm smart. I forgive myself for not thinking I'm smart.

I think I'm supposed to be smart. I forgive myself for thinking I'm supposed to be smart.

Feel the forgiveness as you go, as best you can. Then tell Lillian what you found.

Find Lillian:

A gentle note before you listen: this episode goes into trauma, and Lillian teaches a practice for being with hard material. She's clear that you move the thing further away the moment you leave your own well-being. Listen at whatever distance is right for you today, and get an adult in the room if you need one.

Come home to yourself.

If this episode landed, Come Home to Yourself: Your Personal Nourishment Menu is a soft place to start. It's free: https://isabellebridges.com/freebies/

And if you're ready to be witnessed rather than fixed, The Sistering is where that happens: https://isabellebridges.com/the-sistering/

What if the most powerful thing you could do for your child's health started at the dinner table, with a conversation?

Today's guest is Prescott Ellison — Chicago native, Grammy Award-winning drummer, composer, bestselling author, inventor, entrepreneur, and educator. Prescott is the creator of Superfood Friends, a nutrition and fitness curriculum he developed after returning to a childhood memory: his mother gathering her three kids at the kitchen table and teaching them why they were eating what they were eating — before they took a single bite.

That one habit sparked a movement. Prescott's work has been recognized by the White House, earned him the Presidential Lifetime Achievement Award, the Childhood Obesity Prevention Award, and a $250,000 grant to expand his program into schools across Las Vegas. His K–5 curriculum has reached classrooms, medical schools, and city halls and now, a Superfood Friends television series is in development.

In this episode, we talk about what it looks like to build a family food culture from the ground up, how to start conversations with your kids about what they're eating, and why the dinner table might be the most underestimated classroom you already have.

You'll hear:

Connect with Prescott: 

Instagram & Facebook: @PrescottEllison Website: www.superfoodfriends.com

Free resource for you: → The Pressure Relief Kit — isabellebridges.com/freebies

In the final episode of the Levels of Vision Planning series, Isabelle brings the vision all the way down to its closest, most immediate level: the week and the day. She covers the difference between a to-do list and an actual weekly plan, the importance of protected white space, and shares the ancient origins of the names of the days of the week, from Babylonian astronomy through Roman and Norse mythology, and how each day's original meaning can inform a theme for how you move through it.

In this episode:

Resources mentioned:

Catch up: Episode 1 (life & 3-year future self planning), Episode 2 (seasonal planning), Episode 3 (Moonthly planning)

In part two of the Levels of Vision Planning series, Isabelle comes down one level from the three-year future self vision into seasonal planning: her framework for building a ninety-day plan around the actual turning points of the year, the equinoxes and solstices, rather than an arbitrary calendar quarter.

You'll learn the four elements of a seasonal plan, why planning this way protects your energy and your calendar, and how this level of planning lets you prepare for a future season while you're still living in the current one.

In this episode:

Resources mentioned:

Catch up: Episode 1, Your Vision Is Priceless (life & 3-year future self planning)

In this episode, Isabelle talks about the quiet pattern that leads so many women toward burnout, and why the answer was never to push harder.

She unpacks how energy tends to build in whatever direction it's already moving, why our culture rewards constant outward energy while leaving almost nothing for rest, and what it actually looks like to build a sanctuary in your home before you need one. She also shares the ancient story of the goddess Inanna's descent into the underworld, and what it teaches us about the messier, quieter side of real healing.

You'll walk away with a clearer sense of why you feel depleted even when nothing is technically wrong, and a few real, doable ways to start coming back to center.

In this episode:

This month in The Sistering, we're going deep on everything from this episode, building a real healing space at home together, layer by layer. If you've been curious whether it's the right container for you, you can try it for 10 days and see how it feels.

Try The Sistering for 10 days → isabellebridges.com/the-sistering

Join before September 10th and you'll also receive an invitation to our yearly retreat here in Santa Barbara, The Alchemy of Becoming.

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This episode kicks off a four-part series called Levels of Vision Planning. Isabelle introduces the four layers we'll walk through over the coming weeks (life, seasonal, moonthly, weekly) and takes a deep dive into layer of your three-year future self.

You'll learn the difference between feminine desire and masculine structure, why your vision doesn't need to be practical yet, and how to start meeting the woman you're becoming three years from now, before you ever touch a to-do list.

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Next episode: Seasonal planning, built on the equinoxes and solstices. Airs September 1st.

You can think your way to total clarity about what you want, and still not be able to live your way there. In this episode, we talk about why almost everything you've been taught about calling in your vision was taught from the wrong organ, and what actually has to happen in your body before a new vision can take root.

What you'll learn:

Resources mentioned:

P.S. If you haven't listened to Episode 1 yet, start there. This episode builds directly on it.

CTA: 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/

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.

What you'll learn:

Resources mentioned:

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

This episode is different from a normal one.

There's no guest today. No teaching, really. Just questions, the kind that don't want a quick answer, they want you to sit with them. I read Stephen Cope's book, The Great Work of Your Life, on a recent road trip, and it cracked something open in me.

So, I built this episode as a guided reflection, walking through that same territory using the six BRIDGEs pillars I use in my own work, because our purpose doesn't show up in the abstract.

In this episode:

This one works best with a journal nearby, but it also works if you're just driving, walking, or lying on your floor doing nothing, which might honestly be the best way to do it.

If something moves in you while you listen, that's not nothing. That's the beginning of the same walk.