Stronger in the Difficult Places

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enMarch 05, 2024

cravings of your soul

How to Have the Hard Conversations

It's the things that we don't say that get us in the most trouble. Often we are afraid of saying the wrong thing, for fear that our loved ones can't handle what we need to talk about. These fears prevent us from saying the thing that needs to be said. Listen in and learn how to overcome those fears and how to have hard conversations with the people we love.

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enFebruary 27, 2024

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Feeling Lonely on Valentine's Day - Even When You're in a Relationship

You know what’s worse than being by yourself on Valentine’s Day? Being in a relationship and still feeling lonely on Valentine’s Day.

In this episode, I help you make sure you’re asking for what you need in your relationship and I also give some tips for healthy self-care on this day of celebrating love.

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enFebruary 13, 2024

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 clear steps you can take to set and hold those boundaries that are sacred to both your own wellness as well as the health of your intimate relationships.

Listen in and connect. I'm here to help.

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enFebruary 06, 2024

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 the woman in a difficult relationship or having just ended a difficult relationship. She shares how poetry or any kind of creative expression can help healing. She also shares two beautiful poems at the end of the episode.

See Emily Bridget Taylor's new poetry book, Remedy, and also visit her site here for a free gift.

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enJanuary 30, 2024

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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 relationships there just as significant as your personal ones.

It makes sense that we talk about having health in relationships at work as well.

In this episode, Dr. Zoe talks with author and workplace thought leader Jake Brown about his sometimes humorous and very poignant perspective on how to navigate difficult relationships with your boss, finding hope for your career.

Listen in to find out how to work with a difficult boss.

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Jake's Book, Leadershit: Tales & Tools to Survive a Bad Boss & Have Fun at Work

enJanuary 09, 2024

work relationships

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.

In this episode, Dr. Zoe shares her own word of the year and addresses setting yourself and your relationship up for success in the new year.

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enJanuary 04, 2024

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 practice in Ottawa, Ontario, and has been working with individuals and couples for 17 years. Her book, I Didn’t Sign Up for This: A Couples Therapist Shares Real-Life Stories of Breaking Patterns and Finding Joy in Relationships...Including Her Own, features case studies from her practice and her own relationship. The book helps readers learn how to get unstuck in their relationships.

You can find Dr. Tracy’s popular Instagram account @DrTracyD where she brings her therapeutic expertise and advice to a broader audience looking for help in their relationships.

Dr. Tracy and Dr. Zoe have an engaging conversation about what you can do when you didn't sign up for this in your relationship.

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enDecember 19, 2023

#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 the Holidays, I address how you can honor your spouse while still caring for yourself.

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enDecember 12, 2023

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 the holidays and how to care for yourself, while caring for everyone else.

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enDecember 07, 2023

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 you through the hardest decision of my life. Through my story, I provide you with examples of what you can do when something terrifying is happening to you. I will model for you how I tackled the hard questions, including divorcing as a Christian, and how I have ultimately found freedom in my choice.

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enDecember 01, 2023

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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 left abandoned in a drug-infested home. Throughout her teenage years, she wrestled with feelings of rejection, leading her to attempt suicide twice. At twenty-six, she married a man whose severe alcoholism and violent behavior threatened her life. But through these hardships, Deb yearned for love and recognition, searching for it in all the wrong places.

Deb and I spoke about resiliency and true forgiveness.

Watch this episode in video format: HERE

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Website: www.debcurtis.com

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enAugust 04, 2023

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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 to be intentionally selfish to amplify relationship intimacy as they grow to live in the space of (and) fully.

After a successful career helping families push through trials caused by trauma, lost confidence and communication challenges impacting intimacy within their relationships, Naketa Ren Thigpen, broke barriers and glass ceilings when she decided to break free from outdated expectations and binding patriarchal definitions that limit the ability to self-actualize.

Utilizing her distinct experiential, intuitive, and highly energetic style, Naketa is the host of the Balance Boldly Podcast & International Best Selling Author of the book Selfish: Permission to Pause, Live, Love, and Laugh Your Way to Joy. A highly sought-after Transformative Empowerment Speaker and CEO of ThigPro Balance (and) Relationship Management Institute, this brilliant beauty has revolutionized how to heal traumas while balancing work/life (and LOVE).

Watch this episode in video format: HERE

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Website: http://thigpro.com/

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enJuly 25, 2023

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. She’s known for her humor, and she speaks candidly about the real ups and downs of life—specifically her own—to encourage women from a Christian perspective. She’s open about her husband’s infidelity, her struggles with parenting, and how she views women need more encouragement to find their passions and purpose.

Jami has been on The Happy Hour with Jamie Ivey, the Daily Grace Podcast, the (in)courage podcast, The 700 Club, and Behind the Scenes with Jeremy and Audrey Roloff.

Watch this episode in video format: HERE

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Website: https://jaminato.com/

Instagram: @jaminato

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enJuly 18, 2023

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.

Watch this episode in video format: HERE

About Ashlee Gadd:

Ashlee Gadd is author of Create Anyway: The Joy of Pursuing Creativity in the Margins of Motherhood and the founder of Coffee + Crumbs—a beautiful online space where motherhood and storytelling intersect. As a writer and photographer, Ashlee has spent her entire motherhood creating in the margins. When she's not writing or vacuuming Cheerios out of the carpet, she loves making friends on the internet, eating cereal for dinner, and rearranging bookshelves. She and her husband have three kids and live in Northern California.

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https://ashleegadd.substack.com/

Create Anyway: The Joy of Pursuing Creativity in the Margins of Motherhood book

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enJune 13, 2023

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 is often considered the cornerstone of our lives, a source of love, support, and understanding. But sometimes, circumstances arise that create rifts and distance between family members. Family estrangement can leave us feeling lost, confused, and burdened with a sense of longing for the connection that once was.

In this episode, Dr. Zoe Shaw, licensed psychotherapist and author discusses the main reason for estrangement in families and how you can have health in the midst of estrangement, whether you chose to end a relationship or your family member did.

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enJune 06, 2023

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 a life full of adversities and lessons, she decided to turn her efforts towards facilitating workshops for young and experienced adults to encourage them to live in peace and power.

In this episode we talk about what courage means in everyday life and how to cultivate it.

Watch this episode in video format: HERE

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https://thecouragecircle.com

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www.susanshapirobarash.com

enMay 23, 2023

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 relationship. I don't believe it is a recipe for a healthy relationship. The purpose of this episode is to understand yourself better if you find yourself in this space and to help to prevent you from getting there to begin with.

Susan has written a timely new book called, "A Passion for More" which is the culmination of her over three decades of research about today's women and infidelity.

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