Everything Happens with Kate Bowler Listen Again: Nikki DeLoach on a Not-So Hallmark Christmas
Dec 3, 2025
Nikki DeLoach, an actress and advocate known for her Hallmark Christmas roles and work around Alzheimer's, shares her life experiences with host Kate Bowler. They dive into the profound challenges she's faced, including her son's congenital heart defects and her father's aggressive dementia diagnosis. Nikki reflects on how to find beauty in uncertainty, the significance of small joys during the holidays, and her journey through postpartum depression. Together, they explore ways to navigate emotional crises while maintaining hope.
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Predictability As Emotional Refuge
- Kate Bowler and Nikki note that Hallmark stories' predictability offers safe escape for people living with unresolved pain.
- These tidy plotlines provide trust and a temporary sense that good things happen to good people.
The Snow Globe That Nearly Broke Production
- Nikki describes fighting to include a snow globe storyline about divorced parents reuniting, and the production hassles to get the prop right.
- She recounts shooting the insert on the last day after multiple failed snow-globe attempts.
Name Postpartum And Get Help
- Nikki urges women to speak up about postpartum depression and seek help rather than hide shamefully from neighbors.
- She stresses that postpartum is common, treatable, and not a moral failure.
