Dr. Zoe’s Podcast

STRONGER IN THE DIFFICULT PLACES

Dr. Zoe, a licensed psychotherapist and relationship coach walks with you on your journey through fixing your difficult relationships, including that sometimes difficult one with yourself. Here, she offers a space where you can look at yourself and your relationship through a lens of psychology, faith and a dash of her own kind of feminism. Stronger in the broken places podcasts hosts guest from all over the world, from celebrity tv therapists to everyday women, authors and scientists, offering therapeutic tips, encouragement, camaraderie and support, helping women stay strong and transform difficult relationships. We’re not fixing them, we’re fixing you and that changes everything!

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How The 12 Steps Can Transform Your Life And Relationships-image

How The 12 Steps Can Transform Your Life And Relationships

In this powerful episode, Ian and I explore how these time-tested principles can radically shift your relationship with yourself and others. We talk about the freedom that comes from radical honesty, the courage it takes to confront your own story,...

Overcoming The Shame Of Your Everyday Addictions-image

Overcoming The Shame Of Your Everyday Addictions

Addiction isn’t just about substances—it can show up in our everyday lives in ways we don’t always recognize. Whether it's scrolling endlessly on social media, emotional eating, overworking, or even seeking validation from others, these everyday addictions can hold us...

Navigating Everyday Grief-image

Navigating Everyday Grief

Grief isn’t just about losing a loved one or experiencing life’s biggest losses. In this episode, I sit down with Natasha Smith to explore the often-overlooked grief we carry in our everyday lives. From unmet expectations to life transitions, we...

How To Advocate For Yourself In Difficult Relationships-image

How To Advocate For Yourself In Difficult Relationships

Why is it so easy to stand up for others but so hard to advocate for ourselves? If you’ve ever felt stuck between not wanting to seem "too much" and not knowing how to use your voice effectively, this episode...

How To Rebuild Your Life When You Didn’t Sign Up For This-image

How To Rebuild Your Life When You Didn’t Sign Up For This

You had a plan for how your life would turn out. You were working your plan and then life happened. How do you cope and how do you rebuild a worthy life, full of joy when it hasn’t turned out...

How Your Masculine Energy Is Affecting Your Relationship-image

How Your Masculine Energy Is Affecting Your Relationship

This masculine/feminine energy debate may feel over discussed, but the more I work with women who are experiencing difficulty in their relationships, the more I see this issue creeping up. In this episode, I address how an imbalance of the...

How to Respond to Repeat Boundary Violations in Your Marriage-image

How to Respond to Repeat Boundary Violations in Your Marriage

In this episode, I discuss setting boundaries between you and those you love. Often I work with clients who work to set and keep boundaries, but are constantly violated when their loved one crosses those boundaries. I talk through the...

Healing From Relationship Breakdown Trauma Through Poetry-image

Healing From Relationship Breakdown Trauma Through Poetry

 In this episode, I interview poet, Emily Bridget Taylor about her journey of healing from divorce and marriage breakdown trauma. She gives encouragement to women in a difficult relationship or having just ended a difficult relationship. She shares how...

Managing a Difficult Relationship With Your Boss-image

Managing a Difficult Relationship With Your Boss

So many of us spend the majority of our life at work. I'm always talking about relationships in your life, often intimate ones. But if you're spending the majority of your life at work - you're going to have some...

Setting Your Relationship Up for Success in the New Year-image

Setting Your Relationship Up for Success in the New Year

We often focus on individual goals for the New Year, as we should, but it’s crucial to the long term health of your relationship, that you regularly assess and create goals for your relationship as well. Healthy relationships happen intentionally....

I Didn’t Sign Up For This: What To Do When Your Relationship Doesn’t Look Like The One You Said Yes To with Tracy Dalgleish-image

I Didn’t Sign Up For This: What To Do When Your Relationship Doesn’t Look Like The One You Said Yes To with Tracy Dalgleish

 Dr. Tracy Dalgleish is a clinical psychologist and relationship expert who is on a mission to help couples break old relationship cycles and find joy in their relationships again. She is the owner of Integrated Wellness, a mental health...

#2 Navigating Your Difficult Relationship Over The Holidays – How To Honor Your Spouse And Still Care For Yourself-image

#2 Navigating Your Difficult Relationship Over The Holidays – How To Honor Your Spouse And Still Care For Yourself

For people pleasers and relationship supporters, the holidays can easily feel overwhelming when your needs aren't getting met and you are trying to make the holidays great for everyone else. In this second episode of Navigating Your Difficult Relationship Over...

Navigating Your Difficult Relationship Over The Holidays – Why You Matter-image

Navigating Your Difficult Relationship Over The Holidays – Why You Matter

For people pleasers and relationship supporters, the holidays can easily feel overwhelming when your needs aren't getting met and you are trying to make the holidays great for everyone else. In this episode, I address why your needs matter over...

When Healing Yourself Doesn’t Heal Your Relationship- My Divorce Story-image

When Healing Yourself Doesn’t Heal Your Relationship- My Divorce Story

I’m excited to return after a much needed break, during which I wrote a book and navigated a divorce. In this episode, I am interviewed by my coach, Rebecca Mullen. She is a Master Certified Life Coach. Together, we walk...

Forgiving In A Way That Honors You with Deb Curtis-image

Forgiving In A Way That Honors You with Deb Curtis

Deb Curtis’s personal journey, marred by hardship and strife, has molded her into a resilient advocate In her early years, Deb encountered numerous trials that could have shattered the spirit of anyone lesser. At the age of nine, she was...

How The Strongest Relationships Are Led By Those Bold Enough To Be Selfish with Naketa Rin Thigpen-image

How The Strongest Relationships Are Led By Those Bold Enough To Be Selfish with Naketa Rin Thigpen

Dr. Zoe and Naketa talk about the boldness and necessity of learning to be “selfish”. Naketa’s the #1 Balance (and) Relationship Advisor in the World activating power couples and potent humans who are ready to recalibrate and own their right...

Using the Shame of Your Past To Find Your Purpose with Jami Nato-image

Using the Shame of Your Past To Find Your Purpose with Jami Nato

Dr. Zoe and Jami Nato talk all things shame, purpose, faith, and parenting and how you can use the breadcrumbs of the past to find your purpose. Jami is a serial entrepreneur, social media influencer (94.4k on Instagram), and writer....

Create Anyway: How To Stewart Your Creative Gifts Even When You Feel with Ashlee Gadd-image

Create Anyway: How To Stewart Your Creative Gifts Even When You Feel with Ashlee Gadd

In this episode, Dr. Zoe and Ashlee Gadd speak to women who have creative passions, but feel guilt or shame when they follow them. Listen in for tips, encouragement and advice for creating in the margins. About Ashlee Gadd: Ashlee...

Finding Health in Long Term Estrangement-image

Finding Health in Long Term Estrangement

Are you or someone you know cut off from a family member by choice or circumstance? The pain of feeling disconnected from our loved ones can be overwhelming, and I want you to know that you are not alone. Family...

Finding The Courage You Need with Sandy Stream-image

Finding The Courage You Need with Sandy Stream

Sandy Stream is an author and activist whose work is built on the belief that everyone deserves and is capable of finding peace and warrior-like strength within themselves. After teaching law for 20 years, raising her two children, and facing...

What You Need To Know About Female Infidelity with Susan Shapiro Barash-image

What You Need To Know About Female Infidelity with Susan Shapiro Barash

The rates of Infidelity are rising in women. I chose to have Susan Shapiro Barash on to discuss this topic because she has studied women and infidelity for over 30 years. I do not condone infidelity and deception in a...

How to Rebuild Your Self Confidence After Divorce with Leah Marie Mazur-image

How to Rebuild Your Self Confidence After Divorce with Leah Marie Mazur

Have you had a breakup or divorce? Have you noticed that your self-confidence has taken a hit? You are not alone. It's common for self-confidence to take a plunge after divorce, but there are actions you can take to recover...

How to Grow Deeper, Instead of Bitter, Through Hard Times with Jodi Rosser-image

How to Grow Deeper, Instead of Bitter, Through Hard Times with Jodi Rosser

Jodie Rosser is an author, podcaster, and speaker who serves women through her podcast, Depth, and her blog, Heartbreak to Strength. She is author of Depth: Growing Through Heartbreak to Strength. She is passionate about helping find depth, growth and...

How to Use Your Difficult Relationship for Growth with Elana Israel-image

How to Use Your Difficult Relationship for Growth with Elana Israel

Elana Israel, relationship expert and host of the podcast, Partnership Aligned, joins me today to discuss how you can attain personal growth through the experience of a difficult relationship. In this episode, we discuss: 1. What's the difference between a...

Healing Abusive Brain Chatter with Jacquie Elliott-image

Healing Abusive Brain Chatter with Jacquie Elliott

We all have occasional negative self-talk, but how do you know when it morphs into self-abuse?⁣ ⁣ Today, I speak with Jacquie Elliott, Certified Life, Spiritual and Relationship Coach, specializing in Healing Abusive Brain Chatter using ABCs.⁣ ⁣ In this...

How Conflict Avoiders Can Speak Up in Relationships-image

How Conflict Avoiders Can Speak Up in Relationships

A conflict avoider is someone who avoids conflicts, sometimes at all costs - usually at a steep cost to themselves and their relationships. ⁣ ⁣ Conflict avoiders may seem easy-going and pleasant, but ultimately, conflict avoidance comes with a price....

It’s Not Normal, It’s Toxic – Recognizing A Toxic Relationship And What To Do About It with Dr. Heidi Brocke-image

It’s Not Normal, It’s Toxic – Recognizing A Toxic Relationship And What To Do About It with Dr. Heidi Brocke

This is the last of the Loving A Narcissist Series. Dr. Heidi is A Toxic Relationship Healing & Awareness Specialist. She is the host of the podcast, It’s Not Normal, It’s Toxic. She helps people get out, heal, and recover...

Get Off the Dating Roller Coaster and Attract Real Love with Dr. Morgan Anderson-image

Get Off the Dating Roller Coaster and Attract Real Love with Dr. Morgan Anderson

Dr. Morgan Anderson, Clinical Psychologist, Attachment Theory Expert, Author and host of the top-rated podcast: Let’s Get Vulnerable- is a powerful voice for women’s healing and a thought leader in the relationship space. Why does it seem that other people...

How Your Attachment Style And Personality Types Influence Romantic Relationships? with Tami Kiekhaefer-image

How Your Attachment Style And Personality Types Influence Romantic Relationships? with Tami Kiekhaefer

In this episode, licensed social worker, Tami Kiekhaefer and Dr. Zoe explain the types of attachment, how they develop and how they influence how you show up in romantic relationships. Connect with Tami: https://healthyhealing.net/   Connect with me: Dr. Zoe...

How Your Psychological Love Life Affects Your Relationships with Thomas Jordan-image

How Your Psychological Love Life Affects Your Relationships with Thomas Jordan

“Your Love life is not only what is visible in terms of the people you have loved and love. Your love life is also what is inside of you that shapes and determines the kind of relationships you’ll form and...

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