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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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How to Restore an Estranged Family Relationship-image

How to Restore an Estranged Family Relationship

My heart has been heavy with so many people in my life- friends and clients alike who feel distance and estrangement in their relationships. Something has happened, whether it was a clear breach or a slow distancing. Moms who feel...

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Five Relationship Myths That Keep You Unhappy-image

Five Relationship Myths That Keep You Unhappy

1. If I tell him what I want him to do, then it’s not genuine if he does it I often have this conversation with my clients: “What are your needs or what do you want from him?” I’ll ask....

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When your relationship is changing what do you do?-image

When your relationship is changing what do you do?

It’s painful when an important person in your life stops showing up in the same way. How do you hang on to a relationship and yet let go at the same time when things have changed? Maybe you’re a mother...

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Why All The Relationship Advice Isn’t Working For You-image

Why All The Relationship Advice Isn’t Working For You

I have been listening to relationship podcasts, following other relationship experts on social and all of them give very good advice, but as I have been consuming it, I found myself realizing NONE of it will work with certain relationships....

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How To Own Your Extra When You Feel Like Too Much-image

How To Own Your Extra When You Feel Like Too Much

At least once a week, a woman in my practice says, I feel like my needs are just too much. I felt like too much as a child and I feel like too much in my marriage or with my...

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How to Make Peace With Uncertainty in Your Relationship-image

How to Make Peace With Uncertainty in Your Relationship

I remember being a young newlywed and I was young- 19 when I got married. My husband is significantly older than I am and he had a close friend in her 40’s. She was divorcing her husband of 20 years....

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Coparenting During the Holidays with Tammy Daughtry-image

Coparenting During the Holidays with Tammy Daughtry

The holidays have snuck up on us and for many this time is filled with warm thoughts of time with family and friends. But for an increasing number of women, this time can spell dread as you think about spending...

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When You Compare Your Relationship and Yours Comes Up Short-image

When You Compare Your Relationship and Yours Comes Up Short

I used to be that girl who felt jealous of other's relationships. You know, THOSE couples who finish each other's sentences, do everything together, say they never fight, are truly the best of friends - maybe even wear matching outfits...

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How Strong Women Keep Promises To Themselves-image

How Strong Women Keep Promises To Themselves

Do you make a promise to yourself and break them over and over again? When you don’t keep your promises to yourself, you send a powerful message to yourself about your trustworthiness. When you don’t trust someone, it permeates into...

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Making Space for Your Sadness When Everyone Wants You Strong-image

Making Space for Your Sadness When Everyone Wants You Strong

I’m seeing a trend of general sadness with my clients as the world opens up. And if they’re feeling it, my guess is that you may be too. It seems we should be celebrating, but many are telling me that...

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Why Being a Strong Woman Is Not Enough-image

Why Being a Strong Woman Is Not Enough

Strong woman. -This term is thrown about so much that I’m even a little sick of hearing it. Were the pioneer women, the immigrant women, the slave women who are the foundation of this country, who built this country with...

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