Today we open a field of inquiry and healing around women’s mental health, reclaiming wholeness, and reshaping the way we understand treatment, addiction, and embodiment.

Our guest is Dr. Stacy Cohen, a double board-certified psychiatrist, addiction specialist, and founder of The Moment Health, a revolutionary holistic health and wellness clinic that integrates science, soul, and social impact.

What drew me to Dr. Cohen’s work is not only her clinical depth, but her fiercely compassionate, woman-centered lens, a lens that acknowledges that mental health and also addiction looks different in women, that healing must honor biology and story, and that reclaiming joy, clarity, and inner coherence is a personal, political, and spiritual act.

As someone who has walked this path of healing myself, I know the power of what happens when we shift from symptom management to soul-based medicine.

This conversation is not merely about treatment, it is about remembering what wholeness feels like, and choosing it again.

Episode highlights:

[02:00] What “fragmentation” looks like in traditional psychiatry

[04:00] How The Moment Health was born

[05:45] Building a collaborative care team rooted in interdependence

[08:00] Why addiction and mental health look different in women

[10:00] The clinical blind spot around hormones, perimenopause, and gynecological factors

[13:30] Cultural differences in how menopause is experienced

[16:00] Psychedelics and the danger of one-size-fits-all thinking

[20:00] Embracing the middle passage: Stillness as power

[23:00] The importance of interconnection between women and men

[26:30] Why Dr. Cohen brought ketamine therapy into her practice

[29:30] Addiction psychiatry, recovery culture, and psychedelics

[33:30] Healing trauma and reinterpreting AA for female empowerment

[36:00] Embracing the lioness: Anger, motherhood, and power

[38:00] Returning to ancestral ways of raising children

[41:00] The power of play, embodiment, and creative self-expression

[43:30] Embracing duality: Complexity and simplicity in healing

[44:00] Repainting the system: A new vision for women’s mental health

[48:00] Practical first steps for reclaiming your mental health

[49:30] Honoring postmenopausal women and the second spring

Resources mentioned:

Dr Stacy Cohen

https://www.stacycohenmd.com/

The Moment Health

https://www.themomenthealth.com/who-we-are

The Middle Passage by James Hollis

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Middle-Passage-From-Misery-Meaning/dp/0919123600

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/66679.The_Middle_Passage

Internal Family Systems (IFS) – Richard Schwartz

IFS Institute official site: https://ifs-institute.com

Intro video on YouTube by Richard Schwartz: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99NF6K8vN00

Gateway Sciences / Gateway Clinic

Gateway Sciences: https://gatewaysciences.com

Gateway Clinic page: https://gatewaysciences.com/clinic

SOCIAL MEDIA

LinkedIn

https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-moment-by-dr-stacy-cohen

Instagram https://www.instagram.com/themomenthealth/

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/themomenthealth/