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Mother’s Empowerment Podcast

A Conversation with Isabelle Bridges

Are you tired of feeling resentful and overwhelmed by motherhood?

Today, Isabelle had the absolute pleasure to sit down with author Tracey Yokas to discuss the importance of knowing who you are, identifying codependency, and dealing with “mental health issues.” Tracey shares her personal journey around mental health and the challenges she had raising a daughter who had many “unfixable” challenges. We get real and personal as Isabelle shares her own issues with mental health. This episode is packed with valuable advice for anyone looking to improve their relationship with themselves.

Mother’s Empowerment Podcast

As an empowerment coach for moms, bestselling author, and mother, Isabelle Bridges supports ambitious, motivated, and heartfelt women to light up the world by fulfilling their dreams, while still being great moms.

Committed to empowering women to create their most joyful lives while navigating motherhood, Isabelle is the founder and CEO of The Mother’s Empowerment Membership™, a community where women all over the world gather to cultivate lives they love and redesign what it means to be a mother.

Isabelle’s work has been featured by The Today Show, People Magazine, The Hollywood Reporter, The Guardian, and Publisher’s Weekly, and she’s the daughter of actor Jeff Bridges. Isabelle lives in California with her husband and children, Grace and Benjamin.

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Episode Highlights

I share, in part:

  • What empowerment means to me right now.
  •  How my sense of self (identity) shifted and changed over the course of our journey.
  • Why my need to “fix” the situation with my daughter was about more than what was going on in the moment.
  • That I’d encourage my younger self to see me in my full humanity rather than as a tiny sliver of a mom with low self-esteem.
  • How talking about mental health is a way to pay the messages of health and healing forward.
  • Silence and avoidance keep shame stuck in place.
  • Why it’s important to build up our skills around honesty and openness in safe containers.
  • Why the best gift we can give to the people we love is to do our own work.
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2 Comments

  1. Great conversation, Tracey! Listening to this episode, I was reminded of how I used to define myself as a daughter, wife, mother, etc. These were the roles I played, mainly as ways I was there to take care of people I loved. That’s not all bad. The problem was that I wasn’t also truly taking care of myself. Something was missing inside me for a long time, and it was the work I did to feel whole that led me to be my happiest and most fulfilled self. Over time I realized I am so much more than the roles I fill.

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