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How To Make Good Decisions When You Feel Guilty-image

How To Make Good Decisions When You Feel Guilty

I hear this all the time: How can I make a decision without feeling guilty? How can I say no and not feel like a bad wife, child, mother, or friend? Guilt impedes decision-making. It clouds your judgment and keeps...

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My Lessons on Letting Go-image

My Lessons on Letting Go

If you learn to let go, your life will take off. The idea of letting things go in our life sounds so sad, but I’m going to address these one by one, because it is actually the holding on that...

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How Your Masculine Energy Is Affecting Your Relationship-image

How Your Masculine Energy Is Affecting Your Relationship

So many of my clients complain that their men aren't showing up for them in the way they want. What I'm going to talk about may feel controversial to some, but as independent and feminist as I am in my...

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6 Tips for Healing After a Breakup-image

6 Tips for Healing After a Breakup

Let’s face it, breakups feel like trauma—especially when you didn’t want it. And even if you were the one who initiated it, it can still crush you. Sometimes we have to do what we have to do, even though it...

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10 Apps for Long-Distance Couples to Stay Connected-image

10 Apps for Long-Distance Couples to Stay Connected

Guest Post, written by Farlyn Lucas Sometimes, work throws our relationships a curveball by making distance a thing temporarily. Careers like corporate employees, or in healthcare like traveling nurses, can face unpredictable work schedules. Without communication technology, this often puts...

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Professional Tips To Emotionally Get Over A Divorce After A Long Marriage-image

Professional Tips To Emotionally Get Over A Divorce After A Long Marriage

Guest Post, written by Arlene Westcott No one goes into a marriage thinking they'll ever have to face a divorce. Regardless of the reason, divorce can shake the whole constitution one has built a lot of time and effort on....

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6 Ways to Cope with Grief in a Marriage-image

6 Ways to Cope with Grief in a Marriage

Guest Post, written by Sarah Kessler One of the best parts of marriage is that you face challenges as a team. And one of the hardest things we face in life is the loss of someone we love. When grief...

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Laughter and the Strong Woman- Using Laughter as a Form of Self Care-image

Laughter and the Strong Woman- Using Laughter as a Form of Self Care

Philosopher and psychologist, William James said,  “We don’t laugh because we’re happy, we are happy because we laugh.” He understood, more than a century ago- laughter makes us feel good. Today, we’re still exploring the many health benefits and embracing concepts...

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Are You Doing Boundaries Wrong?-image

Are You Doing Boundaries Wrong?

I notice that some people who recognize the importance of boundaries seem to be missing the mark when it comes to erecting healthy ones. I had a conversation with someone online that quickly took a wrong turn. Her response to...

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Your Two Competing Drives That Sabotage Your Relationship-image

Your Two Competing Drives That Sabotage Your Relationship

Did you know that when you are interacting in your relationships, you have two competing internal parts that influence your interactions? It’s often why relationships feel so complicated. And to further muddle things up, your partner also has two competing...

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Making Joint Decisions in Your Relationship When You’d Rather Not-image

Making Joint Decisions in Your Relationship When You’d Rather Not

Decisions are tough to make when you’re single. They’re doubly tough when you’re a couple. Toss in a little conflict and they can feel downright impossible.  And it’s no surprise that you don’t agree. If you subscribe to the idea...

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Consider This Before You Promise To Change For Your Partner-image

Consider This Before You Promise To Change For Your Partner

Here’s the scenario. Something happened. You messed up again. Your partner gave you an ultimatum or you hit rock bottom on some level. Maybe the scale screamed a number bigger than you have seen or even want to admit. Maybe...

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Why Self Love Matters For the Woman of Faith-image

Why Self Love Matters For the Woman of Faith

Today we're talking all about that relationship with yourself and self-love and why for women, especially, it can be a little difficult. And we got to work on that. I don't know if I told this story already - I...

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Why You’re Likely to Marry Your Parent (and what you can do about it)-image

Why You’re Likely to Marry Your Parent (and what you can do about it)

I’m sure you’ve thought yourself or heard someone say, “I married my mother” or “I married my father.” Oodles of truth exists in that statement.  Despite our inability to recognize it, we do often marry someone like our mother or our...

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Are You Crazy or Are You Being Gaslighted?-image

Are You Crazy or Are You Being Gaslighted?

I once had a client who came in because she was having problems in her relationship with her significant other. All the signs were screaming at her that he was being unfaithful. It was glaringly clear, but every time she...

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What to Do While You’re Single and Waiting for Love-image

What to Do While You’re Single and Waiting for Love

Many of the things I write about are not new- maybe my spin on them is unique. But ultimately, I am holding space for this one moment in time for you to focus on this aspect of your life. You...

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When A Friendship Needs to End-image

When A Friendship Needs to End

Let me start with a prayer from Author Cole Riley. It is a Prayer for those who have outgrown a friend: Dear God, It is difficult to allow for evolution in our friendships. I confess that I cling to others...

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How to Like Your Husband-image

How to Like Your Husband

Sometimes it's a slow realization. Sometimes something happens that hits you over the head and you think, I don't even like this man. It can be a scary place to be when you finally admit it to yourself. As I...

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How to Know if You Have Unrealistic Expectations of Your Husband?-image

How to Know if You Have Unrealistic Expectations of Your Husband?

At least a couple of times a week, a client who is feeling some type of angst about a relationship will ask me, am I expecting too much? Am I being realistic? And I’ve noticed, it’s often the ones that...

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Are You Becoming Your Husband’s Mother?-image

Are You Becoming Your Husband’s Mother?

I might step on some toes today, but it’s in your best interest, so get ready. Are you acting like a mother or a wife to your spouse? Is your daily mantra a constant telling him to do the things-...

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