295. Day 1: Divorce During the Holidays | Nervous System Support When You Feel Like You Can’t Do This

Dear Divorce Diary: A Fresh Approach To Healing Grief & Building A Life Of Confidence After Divorce · Dec 22, 2025 · 14m · transcript

Welcome to Day 1 of the 12 Days of Divorce Christmas...also known as the 12 days of becoming her again.

If you’re listening today, there’s a good chance part of you feels like:

“I can’t do this.”

Not the holidays.

Not the decisions.

Not the weight of doing this alone.

This episode isn’t here to convince you otherwise.

It’s here to help you understand that when you feel like you can’t, it’s not weakness or victimhood — it’s a capacity issue, not a character flaw.

In today’s episode, we talk about:

Why feeling like “I can’t do this” often means your system is depleted, not broken

How divorce…