When Life Isn’t What You Wanted: Trusting God Through Loss | Nichole Langman

How do you trust God when the life you planned falls apart?

Christian therapist, speaker, and author Nicole Langman joins Melinda Estabrooks to share her experience of an unwanted divorce, the loss of her parents, and learning to surrender the story she thought she would have.

In this opening conversation of See Hear Love’s Joy Anyway series, Nicole reflects on grieving unmet expectations, feeling let down by others, and finding hope in God’s presence. She also shares the heart behind her book, This Isn’t the Story I Wanted.

In this episode:
• Grieving losses that others may not recognize
• Supporting someone without rushing their grief
• Letting go of comparison and unmet expectations
• Choosing to trust God without having every answer
• Making room for both sorrow and joy

If you’re living a story you never expected, this conversation offers encouragement: your pain matters, and you don’t have to face it alone.

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See Hear Love | Season 12, Episode 6