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The Sabrina Zohar Show

193: Can You Get Someone To Be Emotionally Available?

The Sabrina Zohar Show

Sabrina Zohar

Society & Culture, Mental Health, Self-improvement, Relationships, Health & Fitness, Education

4.9 • 5.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2026

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

You've done the therapy, read the books, and know your attachment style... so why does nothing change? In part 2 of the Hard Truth Series, Sabrina breaks down why you cannot heal your way out of incompatibility. Drawing on real research, she unpacks how to tell the difference between a wrong match and relationship anxiety, why therapy language can become a cage that keeps you stuck, and the line between actual growth and emotional gymnastics. If you've stayed way past the expiration date convinced the work would eventually pay off, this episode is for you. Sabrina covers the fear-of-being-single trap, why your anxiety isn't always an attachment wound, and introduces the Responsibility Audit. Some relationships don't fail because you're broken, they fail because two people want fundamentally different things. If you’re ready to slow down, trust your instincts, and break your old dating patterns, the Healthy Relationship Foundations Course walks you through it step-by-step  HERE! If you’re serious about changing your dating patterns instead of repeating them, the Art of Going Slow course helps you unlearn urgency, regulate your nervous system, and build real connection without rushing, chasing, or abandoning yourself HERE! Get Ad free HERE!Want to work with Sabrina? HERE!Get merch for The Sabrina Zohar Show HERE!Don't forget to follow Sabrina and The Sabrina Zohar Show on Instagram and Sabrina on TikTok! Video now available on YOUTUBE! Please support our sponsors! Treat yourself to gear that looks good, feels good, and doesn’t break the bank with Fabletics. Go to Fabletics.com/SABRINA and sign up as a VIP and get eighty percent off everything! Go to IM8HEALTH.com/SABRINA and use code SABRINA for a Free Welcome Kit, five free travel sachets plus ten percent off your order Get 15% off OneSkin with the code SABRINA at https://www.oneskin.co/SABRINA #oneskinpod ============================= Chapters 00:00 Hard Truth Series Part 2 Intro 03:14 The Self-Improvement Trap 05:33 Anxiety or a Bad Match? 08:03 When Self-Work Becomes Self-Blame 11:40 Compatibility Is Not a Wound 17:16 What Doing the Work Can't Fix 24:32 When Therapy Speak Keeps You Stuck 26:42 Growth vs. Emotional Gymnastics 31:11 The Knowing vs. Leaving Gap 34:10 The Responsibility Audit Tool Disclaimer: The Sabrina Zohar Show, formerly known as Do The Work, is not affiliated with A.Z & associates LLC in any capacity. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

What I've dedicated my life to is revenge. A brand new drama based on the best-selling novel. They think they're better than us. Who do you think you are? I'm going to prove to them that they're wrong. She's punishing me. You destroyed my family. I will not rest until I've destroyed yours. A woman of substance on Channel 4 starts tonight at 9. You've read the books. You've gone to therapy. You've worked on your attachment style. You're regulating your nervous system. You've become so fluent in the therapy speak. And you can identify every single pattern. And yet you're still on relationships that don't work for you. And I think this is something that most people in the wellness world aren't saying. that sometimes the problem isn't your attachment wound. Sometimes the problem is the person that you're with and no amount of work will fix an

0:41.8

outer mismatch. Hello, hello, hello, and welcome to another episode of the Sabrina Zohar show.

0:47.9

My name is Sabrina Zohar and I am your host. Hi friends, welcome back. It's episode two of the Hard Truth series. You guys know, I love a series. I'm kind of a slut for them. It's fun because we build and we get to like expand each one. And don't worry, you guys asked for it. We're going to do the nervous system one a little bit later in spring. And so I'm excited. But last week we talked about being addicted to potential, right? You were dating the fantasy instead of really being in the reality. So today we're going to go further. What happens when you try to therapy your way through incompatibility? Spoiler alert, it doesn't actually work. And I need you to stop blaming yourself for something that was never really yours to fix. And guys, before we start, I asked you guys what you wanted to hear about this topic.

1:28.0

And the question box exploded. Don't forget to follow on The Simranes-Zohar Show on Instagram if you want to add in so that I can answer some of your questions. So I'm weaving those throughout. And don't forget, as always, at the end, we have the tool of the week. All right, babes. Without further ado, let's get right on into it, shall we? Hi, friends. We're back for another week.

1:45.0

And guys, as always, I'm trying to keep's get right on into it, shall we? Hi, friends. We're back for another week.

1:45.0

And guys, as always, I'm trying to keep the intros as short as possible, but the reminders is we have a lot of new people. So if some of the stories feel repetitive, I know, I get it. I can't come up with new things that I haven't experienced, but I'm doing my goddamn best. And I always just like to share and give a disclosure. I have ADHD. I speak fast and I curse a lot. If that doesn't work for you, that is okay.

2:03.5

Then this just isn't your community. But I'm so fucking tired of having to change who I am in order to make other people feel comfortable that don't even follow or know who we are, but yet want me to change who I am. And part of being here is that you can show up as you so that I also can show up as me.

2:37.1

And I don't take offense to it. But all I ask, that means the fucking world is share this with a friend. Share the episode, share the podcast, share anything with somebody that could actually benefit from this because that's the quickest way we can grow. Don't forget to rate and review the show. Leave a comment. We do read all of them. Doesn't mean that all of them are welcomed here and that some people won't get blocked if you're fucking rude, but we do want to be part of the community. And I love when you guys engage with each other and talk. And we just have so much more to go. We're getting close to the book time and it just feels surreal. And so I just wanted to say thank you and express my gratitude for all of you guys and let you know if you need anything. You can join a course, work one-on-one, ask a question.

2:52.6

Everything's at the link in bio. As the book comes closer, I don't know how much more I'll be working with folks while this all process is happening, but we're in this together. Oh, I didn't even show you guys. If you're watching, I got my new tattoo. tattoo. I got a bean for Kobe. It's still being healed and my mom tattoo for my mama,

3:07.8

because you guys know I talk about her all the time. So I wanted to show you that. Okay,

3:12.7

let's get into the episode so that we don't dick around in Dilly too much in Dally.

3:17.2

But I wanted to talk about this episode and have this episode because I think it's really

3:21.7

important for us to expand the conversation. I get it. A lot of you guys

3:26.5

don't tune in because the episode title isn't what you want it to be, but I assure you that all of

3:31.5

the episodes really do build on and they start to have a cohesion and like what how do we start

3:36.3

to improve repetition? So I know again, you might be saying, God, I've heard her say this again,

3:40.2

but maybe it's saying it in a specific way that unlock something. So if know again, you might be saying, God, I've heard her say this again, but maybe it's

3:41.2

saying it in a specific way that unlocks something. So if you don't want to listen, just mark it

3:46.4

is finished. Welcome to rigging the system. Okay, let's talk about the self-improvement trap,

3:52.2

because I know I was guilty of this, that we want to do everything we possibly can, but sometimes

3:57.0

that becomes our personality. When we're doing everything we can to try, I have to fix, I have to fix, I have to fix. Eventually, we have to stop and go, when will I be okay with where I am, though? And that is, I'm

4:07.3

guilty as charged that I'm personally trying to become okay with myself as well, right? Even the J. Shetty episode was incredible. And I was trying to explain to people like, when you have ADHD, talking to somebody else in a conversation, I can show up differently versus when I talk to myself. And people say, why are you so angry? I'm like, I'm not angry. I'm passionate about what I'm saying and I'm building myself up. But if I had stopped and said, okay, well, that's it. I need to keep

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