On today’s episode, I chat with transformational coach and spiritual mentor Isabel Draughon. Our conversation covers everything from Isabel’s soulful turning point to how she stays grounded and connected with her sense of self. She says that the key to staying young while growing older is to live now and have fun. “The more you live on the inside,” she says, “it automatically takes care of the outside.” Tune in to hear more wisdom on how to create a deeper connection with your mind, body, and spirit.
Isabel Draughon wears many hats: coach, mentor, podcast host, entrepreneur, mom, wife, and the list goes on. Right before her fortieth birthday, she realized that she was defining herself by those titles, not who she truly was deep inside. In fact, she didn’t know who that person was. After listening to other people’s opinions and expectations for so many years, her inner voice felt foreign.
That’s when she started practicing stillness. Simply breathing, listening to her heart, and reflecting. Isabel was guided by her intuition and embarked on a journey to make internal changes in her life. She realized that the most important relationship that a person can have is with oneself, so she stayed rooted in self love and acceptance.
Listen in to today's episode to hear more about how Isabel mended her relationship with her mind, body, and soul, and advice for how listeners can embark on that journey, too. We will be covering this topic and much more on Vitally You®!
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[00:00:00] Dana Frost: Welcome to Vitally You, a podcast created to introduce you to the tools that will be your roadmap for feeling younger while growing older. I'm your host, Dana Frost, a wellness expert, life coach, and energy medicine practitioner. Here's what you can expect: conversations about vitality from the inside out with guests experts in the field of health, culture, and spirituality. And solo episodes along the way from me, where I do deep dives into the topics of aging, heart intelligence, energy medicine, and your innate capacity to heal. If you want to feel younger while growing older, this is the place for you.
Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Vitally You podcast. This is Dana. I'm your host. And I am so excited to have a very dear friend Isabel drawn with me this afternoon. Isabel. Number one, she's an amazing human being. She lives her top. And walks the walk and she shows up every day, I think at 5:00 AM for herself to work out and train her body and mind.
And I just always admire seeing her on Instagram. Really her purpose is to empower women to come home to themselves. How powerful is that? Come home to yourself, connect to their hearts. Unearth deeply held beliefs. Find their voice and connect to their intuition. Now, Isabel is a life transformational coach.
She's a spiritual mentor. She is a podcast host herself, and she's an entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience. She's a mother, she's a wife, she's an entrepreneur. She's the founder of the loud whisper or reignite your voice and co-founder of this X design studios. She specializes in helping entrepreneurs and purpose-driven women who have lost connection with the core of who they are, despite their success.
So aren't we so blessed to have Isabel with us today. Thank you is about and welcome.
[00:02:20] Isabel Draughon: Oh, thank you. Thank you. Thank you for having me day and I was such a pleasure and I'm honored, truly honored to be on your show. I know I've known you for a couple of years and this is it feels good. Thank you so much for having me on I'm excited.
[00:02:35] Dana Frost: So welcome. Well, Isabelle, I would love our. Listeners to get to know you a little bit. Maybe give us a little bit of your background. You have a really interesting history, and I think that really illuminates the work that you do that so
[00:02:51] Isabel Draughon: powerful. Well, thank you. Yes. I am originally from Tanzania and Zambia, which is Eastern Southern part of Africa.
I was blessed to be able to travel and live in so many different places. And, um, I came to the us at the age of 17. I came here for college, of course. And then right on my freshman year, as I started in school, I found myself in a situation, not the best of situations and I got pregnant. So at the age of 19, I was over 8,000 miles away from home about to become a mother who needs.
Own mother. And it was like, whoa, but like enough of the grace of God, you know, it clicked in right from 19 I'm away from home that survival instinct kicked in. And I started to really reflect. I was turning. I was at the age of, at the verge of turning 40. And this is all going to come together is so at the age of 19, I come to the us, I find myself in this situation and I'm having a child I'm away from home.
So naturally without me even realizing a survival instinct kicked in and as I continued to live, because the relationship that I was in was very abusive. So I had to get out of that relationship. And I met my husband after that had kids. We started a business. I started living, living, living it just like, you know, most of the women were on autopilot.
We keep going, but I'll tell you what really changed for me was I was on the verge of turning 40. And I remember like it was yesterday, like just like the women that are. So from the outside, looking in, everything looked great. I'm an entrepreneur. I have a family love my family and everything seems to be going well, but I would find myself coming home in a three o'clock in the morning.
It became like a constant thing. I'm just gazing in the seat. You know, I feel some, I feel an emptiness inside of me. I feel like something is missing. My soul was so empty and I really started asking myself those questions. What I know is that night is when I told myself, I don't want to feel like this anymore.
I was feeling like. Depressed depleted disempowered. But when you see me on the outside, you're like, she's the it girl. But the truth of my truth is I was not doing well inside. You know, and that's when I really started on this journey. I said, I need to do something about this. So I started reflecting and I was reflecting on my whole life.
And that's when it dawned on me, I grew up amongst very resilient women. I mean, these women are courageous, they have willpower, but what I didn't realize was this women would stand tall amongst most, but they didn't have for, for. For themselves, they never took care of themselves. So all they did was survive.
And that is why, you know, when they say that kids don't do what you teach them, they do what they see. That's why when I was 19 years old in the us, by myself, that natural instinct kicked in of survival. So I kept on surviving and surviving through my life until when I was about to turn 40. My soul couldn't take it anymore.
And that's when I had to figure out I had to make a change. I had to transform my life to really dig deep and see what is really happening because essentially what I done was at evicted myself out of my own lifestyle. Right. So I was getting value from all the roles that I played, being a mother, being a wife, being a friend, being assistant, quite frankly, I didn't even know who I was.
I was just playing the role of what everybody else told me that I was. And that's why my soul was so empty. And I said, no, I have to find my voice. I want to be the author of my own lifestyle. And that's a little bit about me.
[00:06:52] Dana Frost: I love that. And you know, something really strikes me that we can all relate to.
I found myself in a situation. Yeah. Your situation was pregnancy. Some situations, a health crisis. Another situation is a divorce, another situation, abuse, loss accidents. We find ourselves in a situation and what most women do is what you did. We survive and we kick it into gear. And so the nervous system actually gets set in that fight and flight.
And you described it beautifully. You just took off. And lead your life. And then at some point in time for all of us, that soul, it comes knocking on the heart's door. Yes,
[00:07:45] Isabel Draughon: it does.
[00:07:46] Dana Frost: It does. And that's what happened to you in the middle of the night? It's like, Hey, I'm here.
[00:07:51] Isabel Draughon: Where are you? 'cause I think a lot of women will relate to this.
I just became so exhausted of feeling alone. I was exhausted of my life and my soldiers chipping away everyday, as I pretend to be somebody that I'm not because that's who society say that I was, you know, that I am to be, and it was not a fun time. And I think as women, we live this life, according to society's expectations of who we should be.
And I always tell the women that I serve, even my clients, what I came to realize is. Society has created all these expectations for women, but these expectations leave us broken because they're not attaining. And the most important thing is why I talk about the three pillars, your mind, your body, and your spirits that you have to tap into yourself because we have a God given strength as women.
We bring life into this world, whether you have where they birth the child or not, we naturally nurture people. Right. So then that was the aha moment for me. I said, that's what I need to tap in. I need to tap into that strength, that intuition, because as long as I was living my life based on society's expectations, which they measure a man's strength by how much weight he can carry.
But a woman's strength is measured by how much pain she can endure. And I said, no, that's not right. So I don't even, I no longer even subscribed to the strong one. Cape. I don't want to, because I lived it, it left me broken in, left me hurt. I never asked for help because everybody quote unquote called me the strong woman.
[00:09:36] Dana Frost: I really love that Isabelle. And what if one of our listeners is out there and they find themselves in this moment in a situation, what would you say to them? Be still be still. Yes, it is what I have told all my clients forever be.
[00:09:57] Isabel Draughon: Yeah, you have to be still. And a lot of my clients, like I said, you know, I work with purpose driven women, so they're very driven and they do very well.
So when they come to me and they say, what's the first thing I say, be still, they look at me because they're like, well, that's it, you know, everybody's expecting for this grandiose thing. It is hard to be still, but you have. To be stale. So you can listen to your voice, that intuition, that voice that we call a gut feeling.
That is our voice. The only problem is we've been hearing everybody else's voice for so many years that our own voice has become foreign. So it's time to just, just be still, even if it's five minutes, they still, you can hear you let your thoughts go through. But most importantly, I want you to hear. Feel your breath and for your heartbeat.
So you can connect to you yourself. I love that.
[00:10:49] Dana Frost: I think that's essential and it's so important. We have so many messages coming to us today and we've been training our nervous system and our habits to pick up our phone, to pick up our device. It's just, it's becoming automatic. This is what we do. And we're looking outside of ourselves.
For what we should be doing instead of getting quiet and listening, listening to, I say it's a still small voice and it's ready. It's just like right there, ready to come forward. But actually it demands that we get quiet.
[00:11:30] Isabel Draughon: I have to get quiet. There's so much strength in stillness. Right. So even when I'm overwhelmed, I sit still.
On a regular day. I have days I'm a life coach. I'm human. Just like everybody else. I have days where I just can't, I can't do it today, but I know enough that in order for me to move forward, I have to be still, I have to allow myself to just decompress, like in listen to my voice because I believe we're guided right.
And if you stay still enough, you will be guided everyday. You will hear that silence still voice inside of you, which is your intuition. What's your connect to that. You start gaining the power to now show up for yourself because as you were mentioning Dana, the problem is we don't have a concept of self.
We have others concept. We've lived a life where all these years. We live our life based on other people's opinions and expectations of all we are. So we ultimately, as you mentioned, when living outside of ourselves, I call it evicting yourself from your own life and your own truth. Stillness gives you truth, whether you like what it looks like or not, it will give you that truth, which will give you the awareness to start making a change for yourself.
Yeah. And, you know,
[00:12:56] Dana Frost: Isabel, something I have wanted to talk to someone about, and I feel like this is a great opportunity is, you know, working with women since 2006, and this idea that we aren't our roles and we are so much more than the roles that we do. And, and if I just think about you or your example of what you've shared is externally.
If someone would look at you and say, okay, this was Isabelle before, you know, at 39 and Isabel now externally, they wouldn't see anything differently, right? Because you're still married to your husband. You still have your entrepreneurial role. You're a life coach. You're still the mom. And so the shifts happen, share with our listeners where those shifts have.
'cause sometimes it's not what other people can see. Women are afraid. I think that, oh, this means I need to make all of these changes in sometimes yes, changes are going to happen. Sometimes we have to make drastic changes in the roles that we play, but speak into your situation where the roles didn't change, but there was deep interchange.
[00:14:11] Isabel Draughon: Right. So, as you mentioned the same thing, I'm still an entrepreneur, you know, running tubers and I'm a life coach. I'm a co-founder to a mother, a wife and all that good stuff, sister, whatever. Those roles never changed. Right. And I'm grateful for them. I'm truly grateful for them. I had to change. I had to start treating myself differently.
I had to do the internal work. You can never do this work externally. And most people don't even realize change. Change happens in. So the hard stuff, everything, it happens internally, it will never show on the outside. You don't go up there and make a change on the outside. I actually did a video about that this morning, I was talking about change.
And the thing about us women is that it's either we're refusing to accept that we need to make a change. We are afraid to make a change, or there's some things that we are afraid to confront. Ooh. That's why we don't make change. Yeah. Can you say those again
[00:15:12] Dana Frost: for our listeners? I feel like those need to be repeated.
[00:15:17] Isabel Draughon: I definitely will. We're afraid to make a change, right? As women, very afraid to make a change for whatever reason, making a change is a huge thing for us. I'm afraid to make a change.
[00:15:29] Dana Frost: I
[00:15:29] Isabel Draughon: like to raise my hand. Yeah. Yeah. I'm afraid to make pain sometimes too. Yeah. But then, so we're afraid to make a change, but what we fail to realize is you can never change what you tolerate.
You can never change what you accept and you will never change what you don't confront and in order to make any form of change in your life. And it's little it's little chair. I'm not saying you do a drastic change, but change is as little as walking into your bathroom and looking at yourself in the mirror for the literally looking at yourself in the mirror and saying, this is who I am.
Those little changes or saying no, using that as a full sentence, that's a healthy boundary. Those are changes because you have to teach people how to treat you. And the healthiest relationship you can have in this world is a relationship with yourself. You got to know who you are to the core of your B.
You have to believe in something bigger than yourself. So you can connect to your intuition, which is your forests in turn that gives you the power to go out there and rewrite your story. For me, shame was my middle initial. And that's why I hid and I survived for all those years. I could never speak my truth because I've been abused, have gone through all of these different things.
As a single mom, I had a child at a very young age, so my name was not only Isabelle drawn. My name was Isabelle. I'm ashamed of who I am drunk. I had to get rid of that shame, but it started with the internal work. I had to look up myself and say, I can't do this anymore. So I need to start peeling each layers, like an onion.
And you know, when you cook, cause you'd like to cook Dana. I said, each time you peel a layer on and what happens, your eyes are tearing a little bit. Right? It's the same thing with. As you peel every layer, it's going to be rough. Yes. But the whole point is for you to get back to that core, to the core of who you are.
And
[00:17:39] Dana Frost: wow. Just I'm letting that kind of settle in. I think that this is such an important message for all of us. And even I find for men also that men have had the same projection.
[00:17:56] Isabel Draughon: Placed upon them about
[00:17:57] Dana Frost: who they should be from culture, from family, from job. And so I think that this is a message that's for men and women.
Although we are speaking into the woman's voice, I think that we have some men out there who really could relate. And when we get quiet, do you suggest that people journal? What do you suggest. That people do when they get quiet. It's a listening. So I have the visual, the ears are open. The heart is open.
And I actually invite people just to talk to your heart and ask the heart to speak back. What are some of the things you suggest your clients do?
[00:18:42] Isabel Draughon: If this is a journey that you're embarking on right now, and you say, okay, today I listened to this podcast then as podcast, and you know, this is the journey that I'm going on.
I'm going to give it a try. The first thing I want to tell you is be gentle with yourself because it's a lot of unpacking, right? A lot of unpacking from things that you have been conditioned to think and feel about yourself. So I always tell my clients, it's all about stillness. You can journal later, but the first thing I want you to preach people don't understand how powerful is it to just sit and take deep breaths.
Find some time for stillness and breathe. Most of us on autopilot, we don't even realize that we're stopping ourselves from breathing. We don't even breathe the right way, but I don't live the right way. So I was just sit down and breathe, take a couple deep breaths in and out. It changes your body. It changes what you feel in your mind.
You know, it's like I tell women and this is what everybody. Some of the illnesses that we experience our body notifies us, the emotions that we're feeling that go through our body. So for me instance, when I'm stressed, my upper body around my neck is very tense. Start paying attention to different parts of your body, according to how you're feeling.
So even when you're in your stillness, if you are angry, pay attention, To what you're feeling, where it's coming from, what part of your body is really feeling that tension. And that's how you start identifying with yourself, your intuition, your forties, or just even getting to know yourself. Because as I mentioned, some of us, I might've been breathing the right way because we're constantly going.
We're on autopilot. We're about creating and producing. You know, we get our validation from everything external, but not what? Yeah. Once we
[00:20:45] Dana Frost: move into fight and flight, the breathing pattern and nervous system shifts, there are things that we could just be doing naturally that would move it back to slowing down or parasympathetic mode.
But it's rare the person where that will happen. Normally we get, we, you know, we're in fight and flight and we stay in that breathing pattern and the breath can be retrained to go back so that we're not in fight and flight. I love that you take us back to the breath because if we look at the breath in every ancient language, just the word, it means spirit.
And so I like that. Yes, visual that when we connect to our breath, we are literally connecting to our spirit. We're connecting to our soul.
[00:21:31] Isabel Draughon: I am so glad you say that. Yes, because it is connected. It is your spirit and it's your soul. I'm so glad you mentioned that. And that's how I view my. It's kind of, if that's my skull is how the body moves.
Yeah. So even when I'm having a stressful day, three deep breaths, three deep breaths allows my mind to clear, right? Because everything is connected by spirit where mind, body, spirit, our bodies, eventually they'll just die out. That's our bodies, right? Our mind. When you're gone, you're gone. But if there's one thing that stays constant is your soul.
And that is why it's important to come back home to your heart, to yourself, build that bridge back and figure it out. How you can come back and tap into who you truly are. The truth of yourself.
[00:22:26] Dana Frost: Yeah. I want to bring the listeners back to a solo podcast episode. I did. I think the title is the body something I'll put it in the show notes.
I actually walk people through how to begin identifying exactly what you said when you get quiet. Notice, what are the FA what's your physiology telling you? Yes. And think about the people you're around the ambiance, the tasks that you're doing. Every little thing that you're involved in, notice how your body's responding, where there's constriction.
There's something that's not in agreement. Exactly. Yeah, where there's flow, you're in agreement. And that these are the clues that tell you where you need to make some shifts and changes, what needs to be communicated,
[00:23:16] Isabel Draughon: and that applies in every area of your life. Even your environment. If you find yourself in environments where you feel, you're always.
Pay attention to that. Maybe it's time for you to let go. Maybe it's time for you to move forward. Maybe that relationship is not for you. Maybe you need to work on that. That's every area of our life. It's about slowing down and really focusing and paying attention to yourself. It's not selfish at all because the thing about it is I always say, I love my family.
I love all this. And I say that for years, even when I was going through my. But when I really started coming back to my heart and knowing who I was, I thought I loved my family. I know I love my family because I love myself enough to know how to give love. Yes.
[00:24:06] Dana Frost: And don't you think we teach people how to treat us and how to love us based on how we love ourselves.
Yeah. Oh, it's just a reflection. How people treat us. It's a reflection of how we're treating ourselves.
[00:24:19] Isabel Draughon: Oh my God. Yes. Yes. And people don't like to accept that, but it's the truth. You teach people how to treat you. So the day that you start creating the value for yourself, Watch how everything shifts, because there's some things that you do that you will no longer tolerate because now you're creating the value for yourself.
You're starting to know yourself better. Like I had, I didn't have the best habits. So when I started becoming a better person, there's some things I didn't tolerate. The people who I had to let go. So you know what that does. When people come in front of me, I know who I am. And the way I treat myself, they don't have to second guess they will know, Isabel probably won't tolerate that.
Or she'll probably, you know, somebody else will call me a name. Don't even deal with her. I'm okay with that because I have to treat myself correctly. I teach people how to treat me. So when people walk around saying these people are treating me so bad, no, honey, you are teaching them how to treat. Because they keep stepping on you and you keep doing the same thing.
You keep going back. So you not valuing yourself. Don't expect other people to value you. Yeah. That
[00:25:23] Dana Frost: can be really hard to
[00:25:25] Isabel Draughon: hear. It's a very hard to hear, very hard to hear, especially coming from a woman who's been abused because I was an abused woman. Right. Being an abused woman. What normally happens is that when the person abuses you, you go back to the puppetry.
And then I wonder why you hitting me again, but the last time I hit you, you came back to me. So I'm just speaking. This is honestly my truth. I had to go through all these things because there's a, why, why me? Why is it constantly me? Why was I in this? Why was I constantly this relationship or relationships that are abusive?
Well, because I allowed it, right? Yeah. Because when it happened, the person will apologize. And then I'll say, okay, it'll get better. And I go right back to that person. There's no way they would treat me differently because by me constantly going back and I know it's. It was me showing that I don't value myself.
That was just showing them how to treat me according to how I treated myself. Well,
[00:26:32] Dana Frost: great admiration for you, Isabelle. I was just thinking that of the three pillars of longevity that you have the body mind. Spirit it's so buzzwordy, right? Those three body mind spirit it's it's so buzzwordy, but it's really ground.
It's actually very much so grounded in science today. I love the work of HeartMath. That's grounded the breathing techniques with the wisdom of the heart and the thoughts grounding that in research and. It's really just asked simple the way that you connect the three is
[00:27:10] Isabel Draughon: through the breath, through the breath
[00:27:12] Dana Frost: and through our beliefs.
Right. Can you speak in a little bit to the mind pillar?
[00:27:18] Isabel Draughon: Yeah. The mind pillar has evolved for me as time has gone, because it's truly what you believe about yourself. Yeah. And I also believe that while the mind is very powerful. It can never comprehend what your heart knows cause it's afraid what the heart knows out of protection and exactly, and the mind will always protect you.
Yeah. And most of us have grown up. Of course, as I mentioned earlier, conditioned taught to think feel, so we grow up, not thinking good enough about ourselves. And you know, we have this negative thought process. Whatever you believe about yourself is how you live your life. There's not, there's not end birds.
We can't even cut nothing through that. That's just what it is. Whatever you think about yourself is how you're going to show up in life. So it's important to really sit down and reflect. On who you are. This is where journaling for me sometimes works well. Although most of the time when I journal for me, the heart, I'm a heart girl.
I believe the heart never goes wrong. I lead with my heart and the mind follows, but yeah, so this is the time where it truly just, if those limiting beliefs that I talked about, when you read about my book, We have to eradicate those because we're told you're not good enough. You can't do this. You can't sell, we grow up thinking all these things and then it becomes our story.
And then also another thing that I want to include with the mind is our thoughts come from our emotions. So the reason why I tell people to lead with their heart is because I want you to. To feel your emotions, whether you're angry, sad, happy, or joy for whatever. Because when we suppress our emotions, they're not going anywhere.
All they're doing is they're going to our thoughts. That's why sometimes you find yourself overthinking or you're feeling a certain way. You're upset about something. And your mind is just that sabotage. The judge is telling you you're not good enough. Like when I was starting my coaching. The imposter syndrome.
It was like me, we were fighting with imposter syndrome. Right. Because although I knew I'm capable of doing it in my mind, I still didn't think, I didn't believe I was good enough to do it.
[00:29:45] Dana Frost: Aren't we so glad you overcame that belief. I'm glad you rewrote that that
[00:29:49] Isabel Draughon: was important. Yeah, but your thoughts are very important.
It truly is. Cause we we're always, we have something that's judging us. We all have our different strengths. You have people who are high achievers who are comforters for me. I was a people pleaser. So as my people pleasing was my strength and my weakness. So in my mind, it's like, if I'm not pleasing people, I'm not good enough.
And I believed that. So our thoughts are really important. What you think about yourself, what you believe about yourself is exactly how you're going to show up in life. Yeah, that's
[00:30:27] Dana Frost: so true. And
[00:30:30] Isabel Draughon: one of the things that can
[00:30:32] Dana Frost: be. We can become curious about is when we get quiet and I love that you said no judgment.
I think somewhere, you said no judgment, be tender with yourself. So when we get quiet without judgment, and only with curiosity, we can begin to listen to what are the thoughts and pay attention to the thoughts you're telling yourself, because that's the way you can begin to deconstruct them and turn them around.
And I would point our listeners to the work of Byron Katie.
[00:31:05] Isabel Draughon: I love
[00:31:05] Dana Frost: her who has yeah. The process called the work. I'll put that in the show notes, a really interesting process that allows you to turn your thoughts around, but you have to know what your thoughts are in order to, you've got to know what your beliefs are in order to turn them around and be set free.
[00:31:24] Isabel Draughon: Exactly. So you have to be still enough to really know who you are. I understand your belief. And for me, it's important. Understand where you come from. I'm not talking about the state, the location or whatever. No. As being right. What source do you come from? What is it that's that you can believe in?
That's bigger than yourself that will allow you to lift up from where you're at? Because we live two lives. We have a life where everything that we're doing is what we've been taught. To do and told to be. But the thing with that life, it leaves us stuck. So when you start to change your thoughts, like you're mentioning, it allows you.
To open up to new possibilities, open up to new opportunities. But if we keep thinking and believing and staying in that same cycle of who we've been trained and taught to be, you will always be stuck as you will continue telling yourself a story. I'm going to tell you this really quick. I always tell this to my friends.
One thing I realized is that Jesus, whether you read the Bible or not, I'm just, I'm just going to put it out there. I'm not. He always said everything that he said after I am was positive. I am the light. I am the way I am the truth. So when you start having those thoughts, do your best to shift that if something is telling you in your mind, you're thinking you're not good enough.
Tell yourself I am good enough to start saying it out loud. Yeah. If you're not feeling worried about. I am worthy. I am worthy. I have that. That's what I used to do. I am worthy. I'm God's tout I'm worthy. And then eventually it's like going to the gym, you're building that muscle. Right. And then you start staging the narrative.
Yes, it is
[00:33:15] Dana Frost: going to the neuro gym. The neuro-plasticity gym, because you are literally building new neuropathways.
[00:33:22] Isabel Draughon: Yeah.
[00:33:23] Dana Frost: And we can do that. I mean, we live in this modern time that where we have so many pressures on us and if you will assaults that, that stillness, but we also live in this very exciting time where.
We have so much information in terms of our own biology, our neurology, since just, it's super exciting to know, you know, you really, it's not pseudo self-help that we're suggesting it actually is a real,
[00:33:54] Isabel Draughon: it's real. It's real. It's not, I mean, like these are practical things and this is real. If you do it, it will work for you, but it is everything.
Our lives are flection of what we think and believe about ourselves. If you look at your life today, the choices that you've made is truly a reflection of what you believe and what you think about yourself. And it's a process. It doesn't change overnight. We've got to start small one step at a time when you're having those moments, change the conversation, change the story in your head, whether you believe it at that moment or not say it anyway, you say it enough, you will start to believe it.
[00:34:41] Dana Frost: I think that's a beautiful place to. Close the conversation.
[00:34:46] Isabel Draughon: This is great.
[00:34:46] Dana Frost: Yeah. That is really beautiful. And Isabelle, what does feeling younger while growing older mean to you?
[00:34:54] Isabel Draughon: Freedom, freedom, peace, and joy. It's not about how I look externally. It's about how I feel internally. It's about how I treat myself.
Right. I mentioned it earlier. The most healthy relationship you can have and the most important relationship again. Is with yourself. So even as we're going, we're getting older, you can still be young and hot. Really. We're supposed to be kids still. The day we died to the things you want to do, don't care about what people are going to say, something about you.
Whether you sit at home and do nothing, or whether you become the best at everything that you do. So why not just go at it, live your life, right? But if you listen to your voice, if you come back to your heart, If you find time for stillness and most importantly, taking care of your three pillars, you don't have to go hard in the gym.
Take a walk, write your mind, affirmations or start reading different things. That'll allow your mind to change. Your body walk, do a little bit of movement, right? Motion creates emotion. The more you move, the more you lights up, your emotion inside and your spirit be still listen to your voice journal, whoever you believe in connect to that, tap into that, but know that you're enough.
How fun live now. Have fun. And the more you live on the inside, it automatically takes care of the outside. Well, that is
[00:36:32] Dana Frost: a beautiful synopsis of the conversation is about. Thank you so much. Thank you for being a guest. It's been. Really delightful to have you with us for this episode. I am
[00:36:43] Isabel Draughon: so honored.
Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. Bye everybody.
[00:36:47] Dana Frost: We'll see
[00:36:48] Isabel Draughon: you next week. Bye.
[00:36:55] Dana Frost: Thank you for joining me on a vital you podcast. If you like.
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