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Current Thoughts, interesting things by Sara Cohen
Chart showing Polyvagal nerve

Understanding the Polyvagal Nerve: Insights from a Boulder Therapist

February 20, 2025 / Sara Cohen

If you’ve been feeling stressed and overwhelmed, you’re not alone. Understanding how your body reacts to stress can be a game-changer, especially when armed with knowledge about the polyvagal nerve—an essential part of the nervous system that directly influences how you function and respond to life’s challenges. Sara Cohen lives and thrives Boulder, CO. Sara […]

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Secure Attachment with Sara Cohen podcast

Secure Attachment with Sara Cohen on The Wayfinder Show

May 11, 2023 / Sara Cohen

LISTEN HERE Secure Attachment with Sara Cohen on The Wayfinder Show Sara Cohen grew up in Newton, Mass and is now a therapist in Boulder, Colorado. In this conversation, we discuss: Wanting the feeling of being able to handle anything that comes in the door. Attachment therapy: Don’t get sucked into the story. What does “forgetting […]

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Elizabeth Gillespie - The science behind how close relationships change your life

Elizabeth Gillespie – The science behind how close relationships change your life

August 29, 2022 / Sara Cohen

Listen to this Ted Talk as Elizabeth Gillespie explains the science behind how close relationships change your life. EFT is at the root of my therapy practice, listen and if you have questions please ask. LET’S TALK Our experience of relationships usually moves between two extremes: our need for them is biologically hard wired and […]

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Soothing the Threatened Brain

Soothing the Threatened Brain

February 19, 2019 / Sara Cohen

Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFT) is an evidence-based method for helping couples to identify their ineffective cycle(s) and find deeper connection. EFT has the best, most long lasting outcomes over time of any type of couples therapy. In addition to the empirical evidence, I use it because I see time and again that it works. […]

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Taming the Cycle with Sara Cohen Emotionally Focused therapy

Taming the Cycle

February 17, 2019 / Sara Cohen

The author and I share similar ideas about EFT and working with couples. Couples going through EFT (Emotionally Focused Therapy) counseling report feeling they have a better handle on where they get off track and are able to catch themselves before they end up deep in a negative cycle. As they get further along in […]

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why does this keep happening to us? what's wrong with our relationship?

I’m done, I can’t do this any more

February 10, 2019 / Sara Cohen

How did we get into yet another “stupid” argument? It’s like Groundhog Day…we keep circling around the same old stuff and we never get anywhere. We don’t know what to do, but this can’t go on. And we can start thinking, I’m done, I can’t do this any more. Sound familiar? In my world, there is […]

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Meditation Instead of Detention

December 14, 2017 / Sara Cohen

  What a good idea to use meditation instead of detention!

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10 Ways to Have a Better Conversation - shared by Sara

10 Ways to Have a Better Conversation: TED Talk

December 6, 2017 / Sara Cohen

Celeste Headlee:  View on TED Talk HERE.

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Screen addiction developing brain

Screen addiction and the developing brain

December 4, 2017 / Sara Cohen

Ten years ago, psychologist Sue Palmer predicted the toxic effects of social media. Now she sees a worrying new danger… see full article

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Brene Brown’s talk on The Anatomy of Trust

December 4, 2017 / Sara Cohen

Brené Brown breaks down trust into easy-to-remember parts using the acronym BRAVING, so that we can better understand what trust actually is, how we can build trust, and become more trustworthy.

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Break the cycle of repetitive thoughts

Break the Cycle of Repetitive Thoughts

December 4, 2017 / Sara Cohen

There are a few basic principles for learning how to open our stuck places and release the contradictions of the body of fear. The first of these principles is called Expanding the Field of Attention. A repeated difficulty will be predominantly felt in one of the four basic areas of mindfulness. It will come either […]

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