Your nEXt Chapter with Dr. Nicole | Healing From Divorce and Traumatic Life Transitions
Welcome to the Your nEXt Chapter podcast w/ Dr. Nicole, where we explore the challenges and breakthroughs high-achieving women of faith experience as they reclaim joy, reimagine the future and redefine their identity after divorce and other unexpected life transitions. Whether you're navigating divorce, a life-altering medical diagnosis, a career transition, an empty nest, middle age, or the loss of a loved one, you deserve support on your healing journey. Through riveting conversations with survivors and experts, Dr. Nicole normalizes vulnerability, transparency, healthy boundaries, and the brave steps we take to create the lives we desire and deserve. Join us every Monday for the transformation your soul has been waiting for!
Episodes
Staying in an unhealthy relationship is not always as simple as knowing you should leave.
In this episode, Dr. Nicole shares why she stayed in an emotionally abusive and toxic marriage for almost 30 years. We explore the reasons that can keep women in these relationships, including hoping things will change, feeling responsible for fixing or saving their partner, unhealthy attachment, trauma bonding, religion, financ...
Receiving can be just as difficult as giving, especially when you've spent years believing you have to earn everything people give you.
In this episode, I share why so many high-achieving women struggle to accept help, compliments, generosity, and support without feeling the need to repay it. We explore how worthiness, childhood conditioning, fear, and scarcity can shape the way we receive, along with practical ways ...
Life can change in an instant, and sometimes you're left rebuilding from the ground up without the chance to prepare.
In this episode, I sat down with Susan Brown, speaker, author, and founder of Women Who Rise. Susan shares how she rebuilt her life after the sudden end of her 25-year marriage and why resilience grows through faith, resourcefulness, and the willingness to start again.
Together, we explore how to...
After the paperwork is signed and the hardest days begin to pass, many women expect life to automatically feel better. But for many, that's when a different question begins to surface: "Now what?"
In this episode, I sat down with Danielle Boucree, a licensed psychotherapist, relationship expert, and founder of Hope Station and the Hope Coaching Collective. Danielle shares how women can move from feeling stuck after d...
Many women leave a difficult marriage determined never to depend on anyone again. After carrying so much on their own, receiving support can feel harder than providing it.
In this week’s conversation, I sat down with D'Ionna Washington, relationship coach, founder of Love Coverage, and creator of the "Kept Wife" movement. After experiencing divorce herself, D'Ionna now helps women rethink what healthy partnersh...
Loneliness is more common than many of us realize, especially during seasons of divorce, grief, caregiving, illness, and other major life transitions.
In this week’s solo episode, I talk about the growing epidemic of loneliness and the ways high-achieving women often unintentionally isolate themselves. Drawing from my own experiences, I share how pride, perfectionism, and the belief that we have to handle...
"Dating after divorce can feel complicated, especially when you're trying to figure out who you are outside of the marriage you once thought would last forever."
In this week’s solo episode, I share five things I believe are worth considering before stepping back into the dating world after divorce. Drawing from my own experience, I talk about the importance of healing before seeking a new relationship, underst...
"When a major chapter of life comes to an end, the hardest part is often figuring out who you are on the other side of it."
In this week’s conversation, I sat down with Olivia Howell, co-founder of Fresh Starts Registry, to talk about divorce, rebuilding, and navigating an unexpected life transition. Olivia shares how her own divorce inspired her and her sister to create a resource that helps people access supp...
“Life does not always unfold according to our plans, but that does not mean we are headed in the wrong direction.”
In this week’s conversation, I sat down with Dr. Sherita Gaskins-Tillett to talk about expectations, reinvention, and the unexpected turns that often shape our lives. Dr. Sherita shares her journey of building a successful medical career and becoming a wife and mother later than expecte...
“One of the hardest parts of healing is continuing to believe that better days are still possible while you are living through the heavy ones.”
In this week’s solo episode, I share an honest conversation about trials, heartbreak, and the seasons that can leave you feeling exhausted and ready to give up. Reflecting on my own journey through divorce, grief, disappointment, and rebuilding, I talk about...
“Sometimes the most healing moments come from simply being seen and met with care in your most vulnerable state.”
In this week’s solo episode, I share a personal story about infidelity, healing, and the compassion that met me during one of the hardest seasons of my life. After discovering my husband’s serial infidelity and filing for divorce, a vulnerable moment in a doctor’s offic...
In this week’s conversation, Dr. Nicole sits down with dating and relationship expert Bela Gandhi to unpack the realities of dating in midlife and after divorce. From unlearning fairy tale narratives to confronting the beliefs that keep women stuck, this discussion challenges the idea that love is something you wait for instead of something you intentionally choose.
Together, they explore how mindset shapes rel...
In this week’s conversation, Dr. Nicole sits down with physician, coach, and communication expert Dr. Maiysha Clairborne to unpack the emotional and practical realities of co-parenting after divorce and separation. Dr. Maiysha shares her journey of becoming a single mother and how acceptance became a key turning point after separation.
Together, they explore moving through disappointment, redefining expectation...
“A long marriage is not the same as a healthy marriage.”
In this week’s conversation, Dr. Nicole sits down with attorney, policy consultant, and advocate Sudria Twyman to unpack the deeper truth behind no-fault divorce and the freedom it represents. Sudria offers both historical and legal context, revealing how marriage has not always been rooted in love, but in contracts, control, and preservation ...
“Sometimes the loudest truth in your life doesn’t shout. It whispers until you’re finally ready to listen.”
In this week’s episode, Dr. Nicole shares a powerful solo reflection on the stages of knowing, the quiet internal journey that happens long before any life-changing decision is made. She opens up about her personal story, revealing how intuition, surrender, and subtle shifts in beh...
In this week’s conversation, Dr. Nicole sits down with Dr. Melba Mota, educator, author, and founder of Called and Kept Collective LLC, to talk about the cost of staying silent and the journey back to your voice. Dr. Melba shares how being silenced from a young age shaped her life, and how years of doing everything for everyone else left her tired, empty, and unseen.
Song of the week: The Voice Within by Christ...
In this week’s conversation, Dr. Nicole sits down with Kim Costa, award-winning realtor, speaker, and CEO of Lifestyle Foundations, to talk about alignment, authenticity, and the powerful connection between your inner life and your physical space. Kim shares her personal journey through misalignment in her career, relationships, and environment and how a series of wake-up calls led her to rebuild her life arou...
Constantly putting others first can look like love, but over time, it can cost you your well-being.
In this week’s conversation, Dr. Nicole sits down with Dr. Jattu Senesie to talk about pathological altruism and how the habit of always saying yes can lead to burnout, exhaustion, and self-abandonment. They unpack how high-achieving women are often conditioned to prioritize everyone else, how this behavior is re...
*Disclaimer: The opinions shared in this episode are rooted in lived experience and are not intended to diagnose any individuals mentioned or not mentioned.
Trying to make sense of a relationship that feels confusing, draining, and inconsistent can leave you questioning everything, including yourself. And if you’re honest, you may have called it love when it was really survival.
In this bonus “reflections&...
Being stuck between staying and leaving can feel like living in constant tension within yourself.
In this week’s conversation, Dr. Nicole sits down with Betsy Pake, certified master coach and host of The Art of Living Big podcast, to talk about the clarity needed to make life-changing decisions in relationships. They unpack why high-achieving women can lead powerfully in their careers yet feel stuck in their pe...
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