Dr. Cohen is a clinical psychologist, the CEO and founder of the online divorce course and membership Afterglow: The Light at the Other Side of Divorce and the CEO of the Center for CBT in NYC. Dr. Cohen’s online course teaches women how to heal, grow and thrive after divorce no matter how difficult the process has been. Dr. Cohen has been featured on the Tamron Hall Show, the Wall Street Journal, NBC News, Women’s Health, NY Post, Daily Beast and Good Housekeeping.
Dr. Cohen is a weekly contributor to Psychology Today with her “Divorce Course” column. Dr. Cohen hosts the Divorce Doctor podcast where she interviews people about their divorce experiences. Dr. Cohen is the author of, Light at The Other Side of Divorce: Discovering the New You which debut at #1 on Amazon in popular psychology.
In this episode we talk about:
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Growing up and going to school as an Orthodox Jew and the messages she got as a girl/woman
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How parents staying together for the sake of their kids is not ideal
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Going to college and leaving her Orthodox roots behind
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How her path as a pyschologist came to be.
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The different types of therapy and how you are the consumer so you can change therapist and which type of therapy to utilize.
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Going through a divorce herself and seeing the need to create work to support women and to change the stigma of divorce
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Why she calls people who divorce superheros
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How we need to stop sorrying on people and instead simply express love and support when hearing about changes in their lives
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Creating her divorce course in 3 days and how that inspired a membership platform for women to continue to support themselves a s each other AND her new book
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Relationships ending don’t have be shameful or seen as failure or bad to be final
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Paying attention to who you tell things to, how much you tell them and why. You don’t have to tell everyone everything.
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My own relationship transition and how we are navigating it
For more from Dr. Elizabeth Cohen find her @thedivorcedoctor and https://drelizabethcohen.com
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