Between Hope and Heartbreak
Between Hope and Heartbreak is a podcast for moms walking through the pain of estrangement, family separation, and broken relationships with their children.
Host Nicole Coates shares honest reflections, stories, and encouragement for navigating emotional distance, disconnection, and the grief that comes when love feels one-sided.
If you’re longing for healing, restoration, and peace while trusting God with your family, you’re not alone. There’s still hope — even in the heartbreak.
Between Hope and Heartbreak
Ep 27 From Messy Middle to New Beginnings
In this first solo episode of 'Between Hope and Heartbreak,' I discuss the evolution of the podcast from 'Motherhood in the Messy Middle', highlight the decision to focus solely on estrangement, and share my personal experiences. Discover past episodes that delve deep into my story, and learn about the community built around this theme. I invite listeners to share ideas and engage in meaningful conversations. This episode also emphasizes the importance of faith and finding hope through Jesus while navigating the difficult journey of estrangement.
00:00 Welcome and Introduction
00:03 Recap of Previous Episode
00:19 Transition to Solo Podcast
01:25 New Podcast Name: Between Hope and Heartbreak
01:31 Episodes on Estrangement
02:30 Community and Future Plans
03:26 Call for Audience Engagement
04:25 Final Thoughts and Encouragement
04:39 Disclaimer and Personal Journey
06:04 Closing Remarks
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This podcast is created for moms walking through estrangement — a place to be understood, encouraged, and reminded you’re not alone.
I'm in a season of it now where I'm reaching back to you saying there's hope ahead, and that hope is in Jesus. Hey guys, welcome back. I'm excited to get started. If you have not been able to catch the last episode of Motherhood in the Messy Middle, please go back and listen to that. Just to recap, in that episode, Robin and I discussed the future of what the podcast look like, looks like, and that future, um. Shifts from a we of Robin and I, to me, just me solo doing the podcast and solely focusing on estrangement. It was evident, in the analytics and data and the feedback we were getting that the episodes that resonated most with people was estrangement. And that's where the biggest need was. And our goal is always to, be serving you guys and also be in alignment for what is best for us and, our souls and our businesses, and mostly just our hearts. In order to serve our audience better and for Robin to be in, in alignment with, you know, what, where her sole business is leading her, we made the decision that I would. Be doing the podcast by myself. So, welcome. And this is the first episode of our new name, which I, I keep saying r but it's gonna be a hard transition to me and I, and, uh, all the things, but, uh. Welcome to the first episode of, between Hope and Heartbreak. And we're gonna talk about estrangement. There is, you can still access all of the episodes from motherhood in the messy middle, and, there's five episodes on estrangement in all of those episodes that you, if you haven't listened, that you can get caught up on episodes 13 and 14 are. My personal story of estrangement and it's a pretty vulnerable and raw, there's lots of crying, which by the way, you guys, it's really awkward to hear yourself cry, but that's beside the point. Tho those episodes are very raw and vulnerable, where I share, really real time how I'm feeling in estrangement. And then episodes 22 through 24 is a three part series. Kind of just touching base with where I'm at now and how I'm feeling about things. It's not quite as emotional or raw because I feel like I've transitioned to a new season of estrangement and grief. So, Check those episodes out if you haven't already. I'm excited you're here. The future of Between Hope and Heartbreak, the name is something that's been around for a while. It's the name of my community, my online virtual community that I have for moms walking through estrangement because that's where we live. I think when we walk through estrangement, we're kind of living in this world between hope and heartbreak will, our heart will always feel a little bit broken. It's the Lord will mend it for sure. But it, there's, it will always still have a crack. It will never be whole, whole, um, and we're always holding onto hope. So, that's. Where that name evolved from, and so it feels familiar to me and my community and so I'm excited. I will be doing shorter little episodes here, and the idea is then to start interviewing people, which I'm still working on. But I'm excited to see what the Lord does. Also as I walk through, as I transition through this new solo podcast, um, I know I asked on Instagram, but I would love if you guys could email me any topic ideas or discussions or thoughts on episodes because that will help me create more episodes. The more engagement that I get from you guys, the more that it helps me create and have ideas and kind of create a narrative and conversation that I can talk about on the podcast. So please email me your thoughts on the episodes, opinions, even if you disagree with me. Probably if you, if you disagree with me, that would make, I mean, respectfully, if you can send a great dialogue or you disagree with me, let's talk about it. That makes great conversation that I would love to be able to discuss on the podcast. And, yeah, if you have any new ideas of things I haven't discussed, I wanna hear, I wanna hear all of your suggestions. I'm excited that you're here and. Yeah, I'm gonna wrap it up here. This is gonna be, this is super short. I know, but we're just gonna flow with what feels organic. So that will be it for now, and I will, um, be back to talk more things estrangement and really how God's moving and all of it. I will say this, I will leave you with this. I am not a therapist. I am not a counselor. I'm none of those things, I'm not somebody who will be able to tell you what you should or shouldn't do for reconciliation. I don't have a how to guide. There is great people out there that do and, but I am a mom who's walked through it I have crawled through the valley floors of desperation and pain. And I am sharing the journey along the way. I'm in a different season of it now where I'm reaching back to you saying. There's hope ahead and that hope is in Jesus and he is the source of our joy and our worth, and when we can realign and find that in him, it makes walking through this journey a little bit easier. And that's my hope as we walk this journey together, that I will point you. To the source of where our joy and our peace and our healing can come from. Um, so that when reconcile does happen, you are in such a good place that it's a cherry on top of where you're at. It will be evident that the Lord will have done work in you and to prepare you for when that happens. So that's my goal here, is to point you to him. I'm happy you're here. I'm sorry. It's under these circumstances. I sure wish it was something else that connected us, but God is good. Even in this heartbreak. He will make good of all of the pain that we walk through. So. Have a wonderful day. I don't quite know how to close these things yet. I'm sure I will get better at it. It's a little awkward just talking to yourself, you guys. Okay? Love you all. We'll talk later. Bye-bye.
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