The Divorce Recovery Story You Have To Hear: Nikki Spoelstra on Faith & Rebuilding

About this episode

Nikki Spoelstra shares her journey through grief, divorce, and recovery, emphasizing the importance of self-trust and faith in rebuilding one's life.

When everything falls apart at once, grief, divorce, addiction, and motherhood, how do you find the strength to rebuild? In this moving episode of The Moving On Method® with Michelle Dempsey-Multack, Nikki Spoelstra shares her powerful journey through loss, sobriety, and renewal. From the depths of despair to founding the Becoming Her community, Nikki reveals how radical self-trust, faith, and emotional recovery can transform the most painful moments into the foundation for an extraordinary new life. What You’ll Learn: The “Victor, Not Victim” Mindset: How reframing pain changes your entire healing trajectory. The Truth About Sobriety and Survival: Why Nikki says recovery was “divine preparation” for life’s hardest storms. Emotional Self-Trust: Learning to make decisions that honor your peace, even when others don’t understand. How to Rest, Rebuild, and Rise: Why rest isn’t weakness, it’s a necessary part of transformation. Breaking Cycles of Shame and Control: How to stop carrying what isn’t yours and start caring without over-functioning. Episode Highlights: 00:00 – When life collapses: navigating grief, loss, and survival 05:40 – The “victor or victim” decision that changed…

People in this episode

Host: Michelle Dempsey-Multack

Guest: Nikki Spoelstra

Topics covered

• divorce recovery
• faith
• self-trust
• sobriety
• emotional healing
• motherhood

Keywords

• divorce
• recovery
• sobriety
• self-trust
• emotional healing
• motherhood
• faith