From Bound & Brittle to Blessed & Released

An 8-week private podcast experience for the estranged mama who is done white-knuckling her way through May.

You know it's coming.

You don't need the calendar to tell you. You feel it in your body weeks before it arrives - that low hum, that quiet brace, that specific kind of dread that doesn't have a name at a dinner party.

Mother's Day.

And here is what nobody says out loud: it's not just one hard day. It's the weeks of anticipation that wind you tighter and tighter. It's the cultural noise - the flower commercials, the brunch reservations, the Instagram posts - that holds up a mirror to everything you fear is true about yourself. It's the grief that has nowhere clean to go. It's the hope you can't quite put down and the brace you can't quite stop doing.

And then it's the day itself. And then it's the aftermath - the story you build in the silence after, the one that whispers see, nothing will ever change.

You have done this alone long enough.

What if this year was different?

Not because your child called. Not because the estrangement was resolved. Not because someone finally understood what you've been carrying.

But because you moved through it differently. Because you arrived on that Sunday and left it as a woman standing in herself rather than a wound waiting to be reopened.

That is what The Mother's Day Reset is built to do.

The Mother's Day Reset is an 8-week private podcast experience designed exclusively for estranged mothers. Starting the first week of April, a new episode drops to your private feed every Monday straight to your phone, straight to your ears, wherever you are.

This is not a course. It is not a workbook. It is not a group program where you have to show up live and perform okayness.

It is you, your earbuds, and eight weeks of real, honest, trauma-informed teaching built around the one question that actually matters right now:

What is keeping you bound and how do you begin to release it?

I have been doing estrangement-specific coaching work for nearly a decade.

In that time I have watched something happen again and again that never gets old - the moment a person begins to feel lighter. When something that has been locked tight inside them starts to move. When the gold AHA moment arrives and their whole face changes. When they show up to our next session just a little bit brighter than the last.

That is not reconciliation. Sometimes it leads there. Sometimes it doesn't. But that shift - that internal movement from stuck to something - that is what I am here for.

And I take that responsibility seriously. More seriously than most people in this space will tell you.

Every month I work with a licensed therapist - not as a client, but in professional consultation. To make sure I am not crossing the line into therapy. To maintain the integrity and ethics of the coaching work I do. To ensure that the people who trust me with their most painful experiences are not being inadvertently harmed by my blind spots or limitations.

I also continue to pursue ongoing education and training in estrangement, trauma, and relational dynamics because this field is evolving and the people I serve deserve a guide who is still learning.

I practice what I preach. I am still walking this path. And I will never pretend otherwise.

We don't skip the grief. We don't rush past it. We don't hand you a coping strategy list and call it healing. We go through it. Together. Week by week.

Week 1:  Bound to the Calendar We start with what's actually happening in your nervous system when Mother's Day approaches and why this one day carries the weight of your entire identity as a mother. We normalize the wave, reduce the panic, and begin to loosen the story you've been telling yourself about what this day means about you.

Week 2: Bound to What Is Unreachable The grief of ambiguous loss - she's here but she's gone. And underneath that specific ache lives something else: anger with nowhere clean to go, and shame that moved in and made itself at home. We name it all. We decode it. Because what goes unnamed keeps us bound.

Week 3:  Bound to the Mother She Was Supposed to Be This is the grief nobody prepares you for. Not the relationship exactly but the mother you believed you were. The mother you so desperately wanted to be. The mother the world told you you should be by now. We grieve the identity, not just the relationship.

Week 4:  Bound to the Dream The holidays. The grandchildren. The version of your own life that included your child nearby. These are enormous losses and they are often never grieved because they haven't technically happened yet. This week we grieve for them fully and stop being held hostage by a picture that causes pain every single day it doesn't arrive.

Week 5 - Regulating Before the Day Arrives You've done four weeks of real grief work. Now we prepare your nervous system because all the insight in the world won't help if your body hijacks the day before you get out of bed. Real tools. A decision plan made in advance. A media boundary plan that protects your peace.

Week 6:  The Day Itself (drops the Monday before Mother's Day) We are not pretending this day won't hurt. We are building your personal protocol for moving through it with your dignity intact, your nervous system supported, and a 48-hour aftercare plan in your pocket.

Week 7:  What the Day Actually Was She survived. Now comes the moment that does the most quiet damage - the story built in the aftermath. This week we separate what actually happened from what you made it mean, and we begin to rebuild the thing estrangement most quietly erodes: your trust in yourself.

Week 8 - Blessed & Released She came in bound. She leaves as herself. We name what shifted, close with the full Bless & Release practice, and look forward - at her life, her direction, who she is becoming on the other side of this.

Every single episode closes with a Bless & Release practice - a short, intimate ritual. Just enough to loosen the grip. Over eight weeks this becomes your practice. Something you own long after May is over.

THIS IS FOR YOU IF:

  •  Mother's Day has become something you dread rather than something you simply feel sad about

  • You are exhausted by the cycle of hoping, bracing, and surviving

  • You have been carrying grief that has nowhere clean to go

  • You are tired of feeling like the estrangement has stolen not just your child but yourself

  • You are ready to do something real - not to fix the relationship, but to come back to you

THIS IS NOT FOR YOU IF:

  • You are looking for strategies to get your child back 

  • You want someone to tell you everything is going to be okay 

  • You are not willing to feel some things that have been waiting to be felt

WHAT'S INCLUDED

  • 8 weekly Monday episodes delivered to your private podcast feed

  • 8 Saturday Q&A episodes answering your submitted questions

  • The Bless & Release practice - yours to keep

  • Lifetime access to the private feed

THE INVESTMENT:

$88

Because this work matters. Because you matter. And because the door into something bigger - a community, deeper support, real ongoing coaching matters.

WHAT HAPPENS AFTER:

The Mother's Day Reset is the beginning, not the end. When you complete the program you will be invited to explore The Heart Collective - Kreed's community for estranged and reconciling mothers - where the work continues, the community holds you, and you are never doing this alone again.

Kreed Revere CMC, CFEC

I am an estrangement consultant & coach, mediator, and the host of The Estranged Heart podcast and a practice built entirely around parent and adult child estrangement.

But here is what makes me different from almost everyone else in this space:

I have been on both sides of this. I was an estranged mother. And I was an estranged adult child. And I am now reconciled in both relationships.

I am not speaking to you from theory. I am speaking to you from the inside of this - from the dread and the grief and the bound and brittle place, and from what it actually took to get to the other side of it.

My approach is trauma-informed, curiosity-driven, and rooted in compassion - for your child, yes, but first and most urgently, for you.

You have been waiting for someone who gets it.

I get it.

Mother's Day is coming whether you are ready or not.

You can white-knuckle through it again this year. Or you can do something different.

Eight weeks. Your phone. Your earbuds. $88.

From bound and brittle to blessed and released.

You don't have to do this alone, mama.

Questions? Reach me at www.theestrangedheart.com

From Both Sides of Estrangement

Kreed’s personal journey as both a daughter and a mother gives her a unique perspective to guide others through healing, understanding, and reconnection.

I’ve Walked This Path As A Daughter

My estrangement experiences began for me as a daughter, separated three different times from my mother. I’ve felt the tremendous pain, longing, and confusion that come with a deep wound of never feeling seen or truly heard. This experience shaped my understanding of what it truly takes to navigate the emotional barriers that keep us apart.

I’ve Felt the Heartbreak As A Mother

Later in life, I experienced estrangement again - this time from my own daughters. This was an entirely different kind of pain - one filled with shame, anger, feelings of abandonment and deep rejection. I know firsthand what it's like to carry the weight of wanting to fix the relationship and reconnect while also feeling significant loss.

My Journey Led Me to This Work

These two perspectives, as both an adult child and a mother, gave me a unique understanding of estrangement. They fueled my passion to study and develop the skills to help others. Now, I combine my lived experiences with professional expertise to guide families through the complexities of estrangement.

Working with Kreed has been life-changing in my estrangement and reconciliation journey. I discovered her through The Estranged Heart podcast during one of the darkest times in my life. Her words felt like a life raft in a sea of despair, offering hope when I needed it most.

I began one-on-one coaching with her and later joined her support groups. The tools I’ve learned from her have been invaluable and feel like a compass guiding me through the difficult and often uncertain terrain of this journey. Kreed has a straightforward yet compassionate way of shedding light on the things I couldn’t see, including the choices I was making that were holding me back.

Through it all, I have never felt judged or dismissed, only deeply understood in my imperfect humanness. Through Kreed’s guidance, I have been able to connect with my courage and curiosity when reconnecting with my formerly estranged child, and today, we are reconciled and have made tremendous progress in our relationship. I truly don’t think we would be where we are today if I hadn’t taken that first step and asked for her help.

My life has changed so much since working with her. She has given me the strength to face hard truths and move forward with clarity and hope. I will always be grateful.

- Jessie.

Private Client: Reconciled MoM

"I would NOT be where I am today without the support, encouragement and guidance which I have received from Kreed"


The 1st year that I was estranged from my adult son was filled with pain, shame, anger, confusion and an overwhelming feeling of being alone. It was one of the darkest times of my life.


I came to the realization that I could not figure out or fix this relationship on my own - everything that I had tried: reaching out, gifts, family therapy did not bring my son back into relationship with me. Some of what I tried even made things worse. My son kept saying "You're not ready" and "I need to time to heal". I did not understand at all what he meant by these statements.

Not until I found the Estranged Heart Podcast, over a year later, did my thinking about estrangement shift. After bingeing on episode after episode, I didn't feel so alone and became brave enough to reach out to Kreed.


Kreed gave me many options to work with her and I decided to enter into individual coaching. She has been an unwavering source of support, encouragement and guidance on this journey called Estrangement.


With Kreed's guidance I no longer see myself as a victim. I learned to give my son the gift of space and patience. I decided to immerse myself in my own healing and through the process learned better communication skills, wrote a genuine and heartfelt Amends letter to my son, learned to be a consultant instead of a manager in all of my relationships, and importantly to pause, breathe and reflect before taking action.


This journey is slow and arduous, but I'm happy to share that I'm now reconciled with my son and have been for over a year.
It's now been 3 and a 1/2 years since this journey began and I am NOT the same person that I was. I have grown in many ways and am now more open and curious than in the past.


I know that I continue to need support through the reconciliation process as being reconciled has it's own challenges. Mostly, I don't want to fall back into old habits with my son. I therefore attend the Reconciled Mother's Group which Kreed offers, thankfully. My journey is NOT over and more than likely, never will be.

- Sue.M

Private Client and Group Coaching: Reconciled MoM

I have had the very good fortune of working individually with Kreed over the past few months. I sought out a specialist in estrangement, as I was experiencing this with my mother at the time.

I wanted someone who specialized in the subtlety and complexity of working through reestablishing healthy boundaries, as an adult child, with a parent. I'm so grateful that I found Kreed. Over the course of 10 sessions, she consistently provided me with a safe and supportive space where I could talk through all of my thoughts and feelings about the relationship and how I was seeking to have it be transformed.

I've experienced the power of “no contact” as a tool to reestablish a healthy dynamic between parent and child. One of the most helpful insights for me working with Kreed was the consistent reinforcement of prioritizing my own self-care in as a loving and respectful means to show up in relationship.

I also recognized self trust as an essential ingredient to continue progressing on my journey. I would highly recommend Kreed to any potential clients. You will find each session valuable and helpful.

Private Client: Reconciled Adult Child, Mental Health Professional

"I discovered Kreed's Facebook group when I was in tremendous pain and stress over some of my kids not speaking to me. I had tried other online support groups but was disillusioned by the anger and vitriol on those groups. It just made me feel worse.

At first, Kreed's group threw me off and I couldn't relate to this new outlook of trying to look inside of me to understand better what had happened and what I could do to fix myself. But with time, this method grew on me and I began to understand and accept it. After a year of listening to Kreed's podcasts, I finally decided to hire her for coaching.


We went through two rounds of coaching. Kreed helped me take an in-depth look at my own upbringing, which brought to light some interesting discoveries about my parents, and gave me so much insight into why I react in some of the ways I do. She helped me over and over to see my situation with my kids differently; to pause and reflect and get curious instead of reacting; to put myself in their shoes (as best I could); to have grace and forgiveness in my heart for them and for myself.

Kreed is a very understanding, gentle, and caring coach, who has been through the same things her clients have been through, so she really gets it in a very deep way. She even had a session with my husband and brought him fully on board with parts of estrangement that he couldn't understand.

After 9 months, I knew that I was ready to gently bid Kreed goodbye when I didn't have anything further to talk about in our sessions! I've learned a tremendous amount and am truly a different mother to those of my kids who never estranged, to my two formerly estranged sons, and even to my one remaining estranged son. I understand the dynamics of estrangement so much more fully now and I am stronger, more empathetic, and more curious than I've ever been in my life.

Kreed's guidance and advice has even helped strengthen my personal relationships with my husband and friends.

If you are still on the fence, climb down and sign up with Kreed today! She has been a Godsend!

- Davii.M

Private Client: Reconciled Parent

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