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 To Have Difficult Conversations And Come Out Better with Kimberly Beams Holmes-image

How To Have Difficult Conversations And Come Out Better with Kimberly Beams Holmes

 Do you dread having certain conversations with your spouse? Do they always turn out the same way? What type of communicator are you? A pursuer or an avoider? Kimberly Beam Holmes (CEO of Marriage Helper and podcast host) and...

How To Fall In Love With Your Boundaries-image

How To Fall In Love With Your Boundaries

Often when I talk about boundaries, I get a response like, “I know (eye roll). I have to have boundaries.” Boundaries are seen as this awful thing that we know is important but that we dread. We dread others’ boundaries....

Finding Your Bliss When Your Relationship Isn’t Perfect-image

Finding Your Bliss When Your Relationship Isn’t Perfect

Sometimes the answer to an unhealthy or less than perfect relationship is to leave. Sometimes that can be the most caring thing you can do for yourself and your spouse. Sometimes that’s not the answer. Sometimes the answer is to...

More Than Sorry- When You’ve Committed Infidelity with Deborah Miller-image

More Than Sorry- When You’ve Committed Infidelity with Deborah Miller

Have you cheated? Have you violated your partner's trust through an in-person affair, secret online relationship, or pornography? Have you repeatedly found the words "I'm sorry" aren't enough to stop the suspicions and accusations? These words, alone, won't lead to...

Finding Peace and Purpose in a World You Can’t Control-image

Finding Peace and Purpose in a World You Can’t Control

This episode was inspired by an episode I did with this Grit and Grace Life podcast. When the world feels like it’s going haywire, we can get so caught up in trying to find truth and we get so polarized...

You Saw the Red Flags Though, Right?-image

You Saw the Red Flags Though, Right?

This episode is for all the women who are in relationships that you knew better than to get into or are getting out of a relationship that probably wasn’t working well from the beginning. It’s for the women who are...

Overcoming Your Shame Story with Latoya Mathew’s-image

Overcoming Your Shame Story with Latoya Mathew’s

Have you ever held onto guilt so long that it turned into shame? Are you still holding onto something that is affecting your relationships and the ease through which you move through life? Latoya Mathews shares her shame story (a...

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 knew this more than a century ago- laughter makes us feel good. And today, we’re still exploring the many health...

When Mother’s Day Isn’t So Happy- Navigating a Difficult Relationship With Your Mother-image

When Mother’s Day Isn’t So Happy- Navigating a Difficult Relationship With Your Mother

Happy Mother’s Day, they say. But what if you dread the day, spending hours in the card aisle trying to find a card because none of them fit? What if your relationship with your mother is strained or non-existent? Today,...

Are You Doing Boundaries Wrong?-image

Are You Doing Boundaries Wrong?

Many people who recognize the importance of boundaries and sincerely want to erect healthy ones seem to be missing the mark when it comes to implementation. In this episode, Dr. Zoe (licensed psychotherapist and relationship coach) specifies what constitutes healthy...

Releasing Miss Independent with Tamika McTier-image

Releasing Miss Independent with Tamika McTier

Can a woman be too independent? Tamika McTier, podcast host, author and transformational coach, discusses healthy independence and dysfunctional independence. Tamika addresses the effect that toxic independence can have on a relationship and provides listeners with some tips to release...

Tips for Having Hard Conversations-image

Tips for Having Hard Conversations

  I’ve been walking this journey of really hard conversations with a number of my clients recently. Needing to have them, gearing up to have them and then processing the aftermath of them. Conversations with parents, friends, spouses and children....

Overcoming People Pleasing- Tolerate a little less-image

Overcoming People Pleasing- Tolerate a little less

  People-pleasers are known for doing whatever it takes to make other people happy. While being kind and helpful is generally a good thing, going too far to please others can leave you feeling emotionally depleted, stressed, and anxious. In...

Breaking the Cycle of Relationship Addiction with Sherry Gaba-image

Breaking the Cycle of Relationship Addiction with Sherry Gaba

Sherry GABA (licensed psychotherapist and relationship coach author and founder of Wake-up Recovery formerly feature on VH1’s Celebrity rehab) joins me today to discuss the difference between a toxic and co-dependent relationship, signs that you are in a toxic relationship...

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...

4 Steps to Changing Negative Patterns with Adele Spraggon-image

4 Steps to Changing Negative Patterns with Adele Spraggon

In this episode, I speak with Adele Spraggon, author, speaker and creator of SHIFT: 4 steps to personal empowerment. We speak about how our brains are wired to keep us in patterns that are not serving us. She outlines her...

The Four Types of Unspoken Truths in Your Relationship and Why You Need To Speak Them-image

The Four Types of Unspoken Truths in Your Relationship and Why You Need To Speak Them

The weight of the things we don’t say is heavy. Although you may realize the weight of it, you may also falsely believe that the weight of speaking up is heavier. In this episode, I speak about the four types...

How to Live with Unresolved Conflict with Shivonne Davis-image

How to Live with Unresolved Conflict with Shivonne Davis

Sometimes, despite trying all the things, you may have a relationship in your life that has unresolved conflict. Although there is plenty of headway you can make in a relationship when you focus on yourself and change yourself, there are...

How Perfectionism Affects You and Your New Year-image

How Perfectionism Affects You and Your New Year

At the beginning and end of this episode, I share my words and YOUR words (in your voices) for 2022. Many of us have goals, words, aspirations and desires for the new year. Our perfectionism is the first thing that...

Your Relationship With Yourself in 2022-image

Your Relationship With Yourself in 2022

This episode is all about Your beautiful relationship with yourself moving into 2022. One of the things I love about entering the new year is that we collectively give space for reflection and goal setting. There is nothing magical about...

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. It makes sense that each of...

Why Self Love Matters For the Woman of Faith-image

Why Self Love Matters For the Woman of Faith

In this episode, I explore the foundational beliefs about why self-love seems like a selfish quality to attain, especially for women of faith, how I think Jesus modeled something different than what we are taught in churches and why women...

How to Fix Your Relationship When He’s Checked Out-image

How to Fix Your Relationship When He’s Checked Out

Laura Doyle, New York Times Best Selling Author of The Empowered Wife was the perfect wife until she got married. We have a wonderful conversation about the tenants of her book, her programs, and her podcast, The Empowered Wife podcast....

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.” Well, there’s a lot of truth to this. Despite our inability to recognize it, we do often marry someone like our mother...

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

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

You have probably been doing all the things, focusing on yourself, self care, upleveling. You feel like you've got a good handle on that. But there is this glaring hole. You want a life partner. You deserve a life partner,...

When A Friendship Needs to End-image

When A Friendship Needs to End

As hard as it may be, sometimes we need to let friendships go. And it's hard and it can hurt. A lot. Often we stay too long and hurt longer than we have to because we don't want to hurt-...

Are You Crazy or Are You Being Gaslighted?-image

Are You Crazy or Are You Being Gaslighted?

Gaslighting is an effective technique that makes you question your entire perception of reality- or a slice of it from a certain angle. When someone is gaslighting you, you slowly begin to stop trusting yourself and your instincts. After an...

How to Like Your Husband-image

How to Like Your Husband

Admitting to yourself that you don't like your husband is scary. But it's not the end and it doesn't mean you are destined towards divorce or a lifetime of unhappiness. Listen in as Dr. Zoe (licensed psychotherapist and relationship coach)...

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

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

In general, having expectations for an outcome, an event or a relationship is good. It means that you are forward thinking, you value yourself and you have standards. The problem is that we are not in a relationship with ourselves....

Staying Together for the Kids: Should you? Shouldn’t you? And How to do it well.-image

Staying Together for the Kids: Should you? Shouldn’t you? And How to do it well.

For women out there who are struggling with making the decision or who have decided to stay because of the kids, Melissa Dumaz, LMFT and I talk about the following: What do you need to consider? When it definitely won’t...

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