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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Your Two Competing Drives That Sabotage Your Relationship-image

Your Two Competing Drives That Sabotage Your Relationship

You have two competing internal parts that influence your interactions. It’s often why things are so complicated in relationships. And to further complicate the situation, don’t forget that your partner has two competing parts too that you are communicating with...

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

When You Compare Your Relationship and Yours Comes Up Short

We've all been there. You take a glance at the woman in the other lane and her relationship looks like all you dreamed yours would be. You feel all the feelings, jealousy being one of them. You don't like this...

Five Relationship Myths That Keep You Unhappy-image

Five Relationship Myths That Keep You Unhappy

In our world, there are a lot of relationship myths. Relationship myths can be highly damaging because they are ideas that don’t match up with real people and their real feelings. Listen in as Dr. Zoe (licensed psychotherapist and relationship...

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

When your relationship is changing what do you do?

Wouldn’t it be wonderful if our good relationships stayed the same? It’s hard to deal with change in a relationship (marriage, mother/child or friendship) when you were enjoying it just as it was. Listen in as Dr. Zoe (licensed psychotherapist...

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

Why All The Relationship Advice Isn’t Working For You

You may have tried all the common relationship advice and found yourself frustrated, hopeless and feeling like there is something wrong with you because you are trying all the things and can’t make your relationship work smoothly. In this episode,...

How to Make Peace With Uncertainty in Your Relationship-image

How to Make Peace With Uncertainty in Your Relationship

If you are feeling a little uncertain about the health or the longevity of your relationship, if you are longing for clarity on how to be healthy when things feel upside down in your relationship, this episode is for you....

A Little About Me and What’s This Re-Brand Shift?-image

A Little About Me and What’s This Re-Brand Shift?

Welcome to the first episode of the re-branded Stronger in the Difficult places podcast. This podcast is for the woman who finds herself in a difficult relationship and struggles to keep herself whole and healthy despite it all. The answer...

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

How To Own Your Extra When You Feel Like Too Much

To all the women who’ve been told they are too much- you feel too much, you talk too much, you ask for too much, you are too intimidating, this episode offers some quick words of encouragement to keep being you....

Thriving After an Unwanted Divorce with Dr. Imara Moses-image

Thriving After an Unwanted Divorce with Dr. Imara Moses

It is possible to go through an unwanted divorce and come out on the other side healthy and okay. It is possible to be in an abusive relationship and still achieve all of your goals and raise amazing kids. In...

Emotional Spring Cleaning – How to Emotionally Declutter Your Brain-image

Emotional Spring Cleaning – How to Emotionally Declutter Your Brain

An uncluttered house is great, but you may not realize the stressful effects of emotional clutter or even what it is. What better season than now to tackle it? Dr. Zoe addresses what clutter you could be hiding in your...

Your Anxiety And Depression Has Nothing To Do With Your Faith-image

Your Anxiety And Depression Has Nothing To Do With Your Faith

Have you ever been in a state of panic, fear, sadness or hopelessness and when you sought help were told or it was insulated that your emotional or mental health issues are your own fault? That if you had more...

The Curse of Capability- How To Keep Your Talents From Ruining You-image

The Curse of Capability- How To Keep Your Talents From Ruining You

We can get tripped up by capability because it allows us to stay in a zone of competence- sometimes for decades. We can perform well in that zone, but it doesn't always allow us to step out into our zone...

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. This may sound ironic coming from a woman who touts strength. Yet now, in this modern world, we are “strong” with our...

Finding Brilliant Balance in 2021-image

Finding Brilliant Balance in 2021

Dr. Zoe and Cherylanne Skolnicki highlight ways that women can find a brilliant work/life balance and maintain some sanity in 2021. Addressed in this episode: 1. Three-step ladder for creating a brilliant work/life balance. 2. How to figure out where...

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

Making Space for Your Sadness When Everyone Wants You Strong

It’s a new year. It seems we should be celebrating newness, but many are telling me that they felt there was nothing to celebrate on New Year’s Eve. So much is uncertain and people are feeling a general funk. When...

Crushing 2021 Goals Without a Resolution!-image

Crushing 2021 Goals Without a Resolution!

How can you accomplish more this year without a resolution by focusing on just one word? Dr. Zoe shares her secret to being more productive and smashing her goals by eliminating resolutions that cause you to feel like a failure...

Making a Truce With Your Body with Anne Poirier-image

Making a Truce With Your Body with Anne Poirier

When you were growing up, how often did you hear women in your life talk about how much they loved their body? Dr. Zoe and Anne Poirier, an Intuitive eating and body confidence coach, discuss how women can work towards...

How Strong Women Keep Promises To Themselves-image

How Strong Women Keep Promises To Themselves

Do you make a promise to yourself and break it over and over again? Listen up as I talk about how to become self-trustworthy and keep your promises. In this episode, I address: 1. The best way to make a...

Removing Chaos From Your Life When You’re a People Pleaser-image

Removing Chaos From Your Life When You’re a People Pleaser

Are you feeling overcommitted? Irritable? Do you find yourself taking on too much or saying yes and then feeling overwhelmed- like there is no space for you in your own life? Tune in as I talk about removing chaos from...

Strategies For Conquering Self Doubt with Suzy Carroll-image

Strategies For Conquering Self Doubt with Suzy Carroll

Suzy Carroll, a leadership and business mentor, openly shares her journey of self-discovery and self-awareness and how — as a Coach and Course Facilitator — she helps other women realize the same. Plus, she shares how to cure your addiction...

What’s Your Box Story? My Personal Story of Reframing and Resilience-image

What’s Your Box Story? My Personal Story of Reframing and Resilience

In this episode, I share a very personal story with you that I hope you recognize as universal. It is a speech I shared last week at Carol Cox’s Speaking your brand virtual summit. It was a powerful event and...

Can Work/Life Balance Exist anymore? with Nikole Stanfield-image

Can Work/Life Balance Exist anymore? with Nikole Stanfield

Do you feel like your work and life are all the same thing? Like one bleeds into the other? Do you wonder if you're struggling with burnout and what in the world you can do about it? Listen in as...

What Strong Women Do With Regret-image

What Strong Women Do With Regret

 Regret. It’s a six letter word that holds enormous weight. Listen in as Dr. Zoe (licensed psychotherapist and relationship coach) shares with you how you can deal with missed opportunities and bad choices with strength. Here is the link...

Eight Practices To Be Your Own Hero Through Your Story with Amanda JP Brown-image

Eight Practices To Be Your Own Hero Through Your Story with Amanda JP Brown

My guest today is Amanda JP Brown, an Author, Speaker and Coach, guiding women who want to walk through their darkness and shame and step into their power by reclaiming all the disowned pieces of themselves. Through sharing her shame...

How To Stay Strong And Trust Again When You’ve Been Hurt Before-image

How To Stay Strong And Trust Again When You’ve Been Hurt Before

This episode is inspired by a question I received from a listener.: She asked how can I open myself up again without fear of failure, rejection, and heartache. She discussed a history of over giving in relationships, making unhealthy choices...

“Getting Over I Got It Syndrome” with Elayne Fluker-image

“Getting Over I Got It Syndrome” with Elayne Fluker

This week I am joined by Elayne Fluker, host podcast Support Is Sexy. We are going to talk about her new book and also Getting Over I Got It Syndrome. Connect with Elayne:  Website: www.elaynefluker.com Instagram: @Elayne Fluker Her book:...

How Strong Women Do Boundaries-image

How Strong Women Do Boundaries

A boundary is not a rule that you impose on someone else to follow. It is a line that you draw for yourself. Listen in as Dr. Zoe (licensed psychotherapist and relationship coach) describes what a healthy boundary is, provides...

Is Authenticity Fake Strength?-image

Is Authenticity Fake Strength?

Is authenticity another way to overshare and accept something in ourselves that doesn’t further our greatest potential? Or is it a means to connect with others in a deep way. I think the answer is yes and yes. But how...

You’re Not Broken, Just Bent-image

You’re Not Broken, Just Bent

That feeling of brokenness can stop you dead in your tracks. Just like a conked out car, you might feel like you have lost the motivation to go one more inch. Every time I have felt broken, I was certain...

What To Do When Your Partner Triggers You-image

What To Do When Your Partner Triggers You

Have you ever gotten severely angry or sad over a very small issue in your relationship? You’re probably getting triggered. Listen in as Dr. Zoe (Licensed psychotherapist and relationship coach) explains what a trigger is and what you can do...

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