Uploaded September 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
What if your life doesn’t follow the script? No chaste kiss under the mistletoe. No perfectly timed miracle. Just you, trying to survive the best-worst years of your life.
In this radiant episode, Kate Bowler speaks with actor and advocate Nikki DeLoach—known for her beloved Hallmark movies—about what it means to keep going when real life refuses to resolve neatly. Together, they talk about postpartum depression, parenting a medically fragile child, losing a parent to dementia, and how small joys still make space for magic.
Topics We Cover:
- When your life doesn’t follow a happy plotline
- Postpartum depression and the myth of instant joy
- Parenting in medical crisis—and surviving love’s cost
- Grieving a parent while raising a child
- Holding on to small joys when big ones feel far away
This conversation is for anyone whose life hasn’t turned out the way they imagined—and needs a reminder that beauty still finds its way in.
What if your life doesn’t follow the script? No chaste kiss under the mistletoe. No perfectly timed miracle. Just you, trying to survive the best-worst years of your life.
In this radiant episode, Kate Bowler speaks with actor and advocate Nikki DeLoach—known for her beloved Hallmark movies—about what it means to keep going when real life refuses to resolve neatly. Together, they talk about postpartum depression, parenting a medically fragile child, losing a parent to dementia, and how small joys still make space for magic.
Topics We Cover:
- When your life doesn’t follow a happy plotline
- Postpartum depression and the myth of instant joy
- Parenting in medical crisis—and surviving love’s cost
- Grieving a parent while raising a child
- Holding on to small joys when big ones feel far away
This conversation is for anyone whose life hasn’t turned out the way they imagined—and needs a reminder that beauty still finds its way in.
