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Dear Divorce Diary: A Fresh Approach To Healing Grief & Building A Life Of Confidence After Divorce
This isn’t a breakup pep talk. It’s a full-body recalibration for women navigating life after divorce. Dear Divorce Diary is a podcast for women dealing with grief, loneliness, anxiety, anxious or avoidant attachment, and identity loss after divorce — especially when quick fixes, positivity, and spiritual fluff no longer work.
I’m Dawn Wiggins, therapist, coach, and homeopath, and this show goes where most divorce advice won’t: into your nervous system, your unspoken grief, your buried rage…
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- Dear Divorce Diary: A Fresh Approach To Healing Grief & Building A Life Of Confidence After Divorce
331. “You're Not Crazy": Why Your Body Feels Off After Divorce (Even When Labs Say You're Fine)
Your labs are “fine.” But your body feels anything but. If you’ve been feeling exhausted, foggy, inflamed, or just… not like yourself after divorce—this…
- Dear Divorce Diary: A Fresh Approach To Healing Grief & Building A Life Of Confidence After Divorce
Ep. 330 Behind the Mic: The Parts of Post-Divorce Sex & Desire We Usually Hide
This Behind the Mic episode goes deeper than Tuesday’s conversation ever could. Once the public recording stopped, the three of us got brutally honest about…
- Dear Divorce Diary: A Fresh Approach To Healing Grief & Building A Life Of Confidence After Divorce
329. Divorce Grief & Loneliness: That “I Just Want to Feel Wanted” Feeling
There’s a kind of loneliness after divorce that no one really prepares you for. Not just emotional loneliness… but physical loneliness. The absence of touch…
- Dear Divorce Diary: A Fresh Approach To Healing Grief & Building A Life Of Confidence After Divorce
Ep. 328 Divorce Anxiety: When You Can’t See Your Future, Do This
There’s a moment after divorce that almost no one prepares you for. Not the chaos. Not the legal process. Not even the grief. But the moment when everything…
- Dear Divorce Diary: A Fresh Approach To Healing Grief & Building A Life Of Confidence After Divorce
327. Divorce, Litigation, and the Nervous System: Why You Feel Like You’re Falling Apart
Divorce isn’t just emotional. It’s legal. It’s procedural. And for many women… It’s where everything starts to feel like it’s unraveling. In this episode of…
- Dear Divorce Diary: A Fresh Approach To Healing Grief & Building A Life Of Confidence After Divorce
Ep. 326 - Why So Many Divorced Women Don’t Trust Their Own Intuition
Many divorced women quietly carry the same fear: “What if I can’t trust my own judgment?” After a relationship ends, it’s common to question everything — your…
- Dear Divorce Diary: A Fresh Approach To Healing Grief & Building A Life Of Confidence After Divorce
325. Divorce and the Death of the Future: Grieving What Was Supposed to Be
Divorce grief isn’t always about the person. Sometimes it’s about the future you thought was guaranteed. In this episode, Dawn, Producer Joy, and Coach Tiffini…
- Dear Divorce Diary: A Fresh Approach To Healing Grief & Building A Life Of Confidence After Divorce
Ep. 324 - The 10 Women Living Inside Your Divorce - Which One Are You?
Divorce doesn’t create just one version of you. It creates many. One moment you’re grieving. The next you’re furious. Then suddenly you’re nostalgic for a…
- Dear Divorce Diary: A Fresh Approach To Healing Grief & Building A Life Of Confidence After Divorce
323. There Is No Meal Train for Divorce Grief: Grieving Someone Who’s Still Alive
When someone dies, there’s a script. When you get divorced, there isn’t. No ritual. No defined role. No socially approved space to grieve someone who is still…
- Dear Divorce Diary: A Fresh Approach To Healing Grief & Building A Life Of Confidence After Divorce
Ep. 322 - They Only Hear Me When I’m Angry: Codependency, Suppressed Rage & Healthy Conflict After Divorce
Hi love. Have you ever felt like no one listens…until you lose it? You ask calmly. You explain clearly. You regulate yourself. And nothing changes. But the…
- Dear Divorce Diary: A Fresh Approach To Healing Grief & Building A Life Of Confidence After Divorce
321. The Divorce Diet: From Midnight Bingeing to Appetite Loss - What Your Body Is Really Asking For
You’re either eating everything in sight to numb the ache… or staring at food like your body forgot how to be hungry. Welcome to what so many women quietly…
- Dear Divorce Diary: A Fresh Approach To Healing Grief & Building A Life Of Confidence After Divorce
Ep. 320 - Brené Brown’s Shame Question That Changed My Divorce Healing Forever
One line from Brené Brown’s Atlas of the Heart hit me like lightning during my own post-divorce unraveling—exposing the exact shame trigger I’d carried for…
- Dear Divorce Diary: A Fresh Approach To Healing Grief & Building A Life Of Confidence After Divorce
319. Divorce Wake-Up Call: Why Your Marriage Ended & How Masculine-Feminine Polarity Can Heal the Next Chapter – GS Youngblood Interview
Divorce isn’t just an ending—it’s a sacred disruption, a call to reclaim what’s been missing: true polarity, grounded masculine leadership, and the feminine…
- Dear Divorce Diary: A Fresh Approach To Healing Grief & Building A Life Of Confidence After Divorce
Ep. 318 - Divorce Unfairness: The Lie We Tell Ourselves That Keeps Us Stuck & Resentful (Premium Panel Rant)
This is us. Moms who’ve lived it — sitting together having a real, unfiltered conversation about the one thing that keeps so many of us stuck: the feeling that…
- Dear Divorce Diary: A Fresh Approach To Healing Grief & Building A Life Of Confidence After Divorce
317. Divorce Co-Parenting Anxiety: Why Being the Bigger Person Is Killing Your Healing (And What to Do Instead)
You keep it together. Calm texts. Steady schedules. Polite handoffs. But every time his car pulls up, your body betrays you: heart races, chest tightens…
- Dear Divorce Diary: A Fresh Approach To Healing Grief & Building A Life Of Confidence After Divorce
Ep. 316 - After Divorce: The Part of Me That Keeps Accepting Less Than I Deserve
This Thursday, you’re invited into something sacred and real. One of our most cherished community members — the one who shows up honest, even when life feels…
- Dear Divorce Diary: A Fresh Approach To Healing Grief & Building A Life Of Confidence After Divorce
315. Divorce Left You Toothpick-Eyelid Tired? Why Sleep Doesn’t Recharge Your Cells Anymore
Hi, love—welcome to Dear Divorce Diary, where midlife women move beyond talk therapy to process grief held in the body, release what's braced inside, and…
- Dear Divorce Diary: A Fresh Approach To Healing Grief & Building A Life Of Confidence After Divorce
Ep. 314 - What to Do When You’re "Divorce Exhausted" but Can’t Drop the Ball
Thursday episodes are for when your body won’t do what your mind understands. If you’re exhausted after divorce but still feel like you can’t drop the ball… If…
- Dear Divorce Diary: A Fresh Approach To Healing Grief & Building A Life Of Confidence After Divorce
313. Divorce, Faith, and the Cost of Marrying an Under-Functioning Man
After divorce, women are often told to “step into their masculine energy” — be strong, decisive, productive, self-sufficient. But what if you’re not choosing…
- Dear Divorce Diary: A Fresh Approach To Healing Grief & Building A Life Of Confidence After Divorce
EP. 312 - Behind the Mic: Divorce, Dissociation & Trauma...What Happened to Us?
Behind the Mic is where we slow the conversation down. In this premium episode, we speak candidly about dissociation during and after divorce—not in clinical…
- Dear Divorce Diary: A Fresh Approach To Healing Grief & Building A Life Of Confidence After Divorce
311. Overeating, Screen Time, and Emotional Numbing Aren’t the Problem During Divorce But This Is...
If you’re in divorce recovery and keep reaching for food, screens, or emotional numbness, it’s easy to assume the problem is discipline. It’s not. In today’s…
- Dear Divorce Diary: A Fresh Approach To Healing Grief & Building A Life Of Confidence After Divorce
Ep. 310 - Divorce Anxiety & Overwhelm: A Guided Reset for Letting Go Without Falling Apart
If you’ve been holding yourself together because it feels like the only way to stay functional, this guided reset is for you. Divorce anxiety and overwhelm…
- Dear Divorce Diary: A Fresh Approach To Healing Grief & Building A Life Of Confidence After Divorce
309. Divorce Hypervigilance & Overanalyzing: The Cost of Being the Only Adult In the Room
Hypervigilance doesn’t come from wanting control. It comes from realizing—often too early—that no one else was going to handle it. After divorce, many women…
- Dear Divorce Diary: A Fresh Approach To Healing Grief & Building A Life Of Confidence After Divorce
Ep. 308 Divorce Panel Rant: If You Tell Her to Calm Down… You’ve Missed the Point
If someone has ever told you to calm down after divorce—and it made everything inside you feel louder, sharper, or more volatile—you’re not broken. You’re…
- Dear Divorce Diary: A Fresh Approach To Healing Grief & Building A Life Of Confidence After Divorce
307. What If This Is My Life Now? Divorce Anxiety, Trust Wounds, and Your Nervous System
What if this life after divorce never gets better? What if this is just how it is now? What he ruined everything? What if I can't be healed? If those thoughts…
- Dear Divorce Diary: A Fresh Approach To Healing Grief & Building A Life Of Confidence After Divorce
306. Day 12: A New Year Blessing for the Part of You That’s So Tired Of Divorce
This is not a lesson about divorce healing. It’s not advice. It’s a pause. Day 12 of the 12 Days of Divorce Christmas is simply a blessing—offered to you…
- Dear Divorce Diary: A Fresh Approach To Healing Grief & Building A Life Of Confidence After Divorce
Ep. 305 Day 11: After Divorce, New Year’s Resolutions Don’t Work — Here’s What Does
If New Year’s resolutions have never worked for you...especially after divorce, it’s not because you lack discipline, motivation, or follow-through. It’s…
- Dear Divorce Diary: A Fresh Approach To Healing Grief & Building A Life Of Confidence After Divorce
Ep. 304 Day 10: Why You’re So Hard on Yourself After Divorce (Especially on New Year’s Eve)
New Year’s Eve has a way of turning self-criticism up to full volume after divorce. The comparisons. The sense that you should be further along. The quiet…
- Dear Divorce Diary: A Fresh Approach To Healing Grief & Building A Life Of Confidence After Divorce
303. Day 9: Divorce & the Holidays | Why Asking For Help Feels So Threatening
The holidays after divorce don’t hurt because you’re single. They hurt because they force you to confront how unsafe it feels to need support. In this Day 9…
- Dear Divorce Diary: A Fresh Approach To Healing Grief & Building A Life Of Confidence After Divorce
Ep. 302 - Day 8 - Divorce, Holidays & New Years: Why Recreating Traditions After Divorce Backfires
In this Day 8 episode of 12 Days of Divorce Christmas, Coach Tiffini joins me to unpack what actually happens inside your nervous system when you try to bring…
- Dear Divorce Diary: A Fresh Approach To Healing Grief & Building A Life Of Confidence After Divorce
Ep. 301 - Day 7: Loneliness After Divorce | When the Wave Hits
How ya doing babe? We're on day 7 of "The 12 Days of Becoming HER Again" and it's all pretty raw. Today we’re talking about loneliness after divorce...not as…
- Dear Divorce Diary: A Fresh Approach To Healing Grief & Building A Life Of Confidence After Divorce
Ep. 300 - Day 6: Feeling Like an Outsider After Divorce | Christmas Cards & Comparison
Today's convo is about a specific kind of holiday pain after divorce... the Christmas cards knowing exactly how to **send you. The smiling families. The…
- Dear Divorce Diary: A Fresh Approach To Healing Grief & Building A Life Of Confidence After Divorce
Ep. 299 Day 5: Missing My Kids During the Holidays After Divorce
If you’re here today, it means your kids aren’t with you...and that absence lands in the body, not just the heart. This episode is for the moms navigating…
- Dear Divorce Diary: A Fresh Approach To Healing Grief & Building A Life Of Confidence After Divorce
Ep. 298 Day 4: Christmas + Divorce | A Quantum Meditation to Shift Loneliness in Your Nervous System
Christmas after divorce can hit your body before your mind ever catches up. You can know logically that other people’s celebrations have nothing to do with…
- Dear Divorce Diary: A Fresh Approach To Healing Grief & Building A Life Of Confidence After Divorce
Ep. 297 - Day 3: Going to the Holiday Party Alone After Divorce | How to Prepare Without Losing Yourself
Welcome to Day 3 of the 12 Days of Divorce Christmas...also known as the 12 Days of Becoming Her Again. Today we’re talking about one of the hardest moments…
- Dear Divorce Diary: A Fresh Approach To Healing Grief & Building A Life Of Confidence After Divorce
296. Day 2: Quiet House After Divorce | Nervous System Relief When the Silence Feels Too Loud
Welcome to Day 2 of the 12 Days of Divorce Christmas...also known as the 12 Days of Becoming Her Again. Today we’re talking about something no one prepares you…
- Dear Divorce Diary: A Fresh Approach To Healing Grief & Building A Life Of Confidence After Divorce
295. Day 1: Divorce During the Holidays | Nervous System Support When You Feel Like You Can’t Do This
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…
- Dear Divorce Diary: A Fresh Approach To Healing Grief & Building A Life Of Confidence After Divorce
Ep. 294 - Divorce Anxiety 😟 Calming an Overloaded Nervous System with EFT Tapping and IFS
After divorce, many women aren’t just grieving...they’re carrying too much in their nervous system. Too much responsibility. Too much self-doubt. Too much…
- Dear Divorce Diary: A Fresh Approach To Healing Grief & Building A Life Of Confidence After Divorce
293. Feeling Stuck After Divorce — Nervous System Patterns That Leave You Scattered and Unsafe
The holidays can make everything feel heavier — especially when you’re freshly divorced or still deep in the weeds of it all. In this episode of Dear Divorce…
- Dear Divorce Diary: A Fresh Approach To Healing Grief & Building A Life Of Confidence After Divorce
Ep. 292 - Behind the Mic: My Recent Miscarriage, Masculine Energy & Learning to Receive
Today’s episode is personal, unpolished, and happening in real time. This is the first in our new premium series, Behind the Mic—where we take you into the…
- Dear Divorce Diary: A Fresh Approach To Healing Grief & Building A Life Of Confidence After Divorce
291. Holiday Decision Fatigue After Divorce And The Hidden Reason You’re So Overwhelmed
If the holidays feel heavier this year—even the tiny decisions that shouldn’t take this much out of you—there’s a reason. After divorce, women carry an…
- Dear Divorce Diary: A Fresh Approach To Healing Grief & Building A Life Of Confidence After Divorce
Ep. 290 - Why Cord Cutting Doesn’t Work After Divorce (And the Practice That Actually Breaks the Nervous-System Grip)
Letting go after divorce isn’t about willpower. It’s about physiology. Your body won’t release someone until it feels anchored somewhere safer than the place…
- Dear Divorce Diary: A Fresh Approach To Healing Grief & Building A Life Of Confidence After Divorce
289. Trauma Bond After Divorce — Nervous System Signs and What to Do When Your Body Wants Him Back
If you’ve ever felt that tug toward your ex...not the man, but the idea of him...we've got you. That pull is your nervous system trying to finish a story it…
- Dear Divorce Diary: A Fresh Approach To Healing Grief & Building A Life Of Confidence After Divorce
Ep. 288 - Calming Public Grief After Divorce: A Quick Nervous-System Reset (Grocery Store or Family Bathroom Edition)
Sometimes panic doesn’t wait for privacy. It hits in the grocery store aisle, the Target parking lot, or right between the pasta sauce and the paper towels —…
- Dear Divorce Diary: A Fresh Approach To Healing Grief & Building A Life Of Confidence After Divorce
287. Loneliness After Divorce — Why Everyday Moments (Like the Grocery Store) Hurt So Much
...and then there’s the moment you’re just standing in the pasta sauce aisle, realizing your life doesn’t come in a set of two anymore. No one warns you about…
- Dear Divorce Diary: A Fresh Approach To Healing Grief & Building A Life Of Confidence After Divorce
Ep. 286 - A Holiday Loneliness Reset: A Nervous-System Ritual for Divorce Nights That Feel Too Quiet
If you pressed play on this tonight, it probably means the quiet hit differently. Not the peaceful kind — the kind that presses against your ribs and makes…
- Dear Divorce Diary: A Fresh Approach To Healing Grief & Building A Life Of Confidence After Divorce
285. Holiday Grief During Divorce — Nervous System Support When You Feel Alone & They Look Happy
The holidays don’t just remind you who’s at your table... They remind you who isn’t. When you’re divorced, that quiet has a sound. It’s the clink of one mug…
- Dear Divorce Diary: A Fresh Approach To Healing Grief & Building A Life Of Confidence After Divorce
Ep. 284 - You Can’t Heal From Divorce Without This Kind of Forgiveness
You can talk about healing all day long… But until you learn this kind of forgiveness, you’ll keep carrying him— in your body, your triggers, your next…
- Dear Divorce Diary: A Fresh Approach To Healing Grief & Building A Life Of Confidence After Divorce
283. When Divorce Resentment Won’t Let You Breathe
You swore you were past it. You journaled, forgave, meditated, did the work. But then a photo shows up, or someone says his name, and your chest tightens…
- Dear Divorce Diary: A Fresh Approach To Healing Grief & Building A Life Of Confidence After Divorce
282. The Missing Link in Perimenopause & Divorce Recovery
When your hormones and your heartbreak start tag-teaming your sanity, it can feel like your body and your emotions are working against you. You’re exhausted…
- Dear Divorce Diary: A Fresh Approach To Healing Grief & Building A Life Of Confidence After Divorce
281. When Menopause Meets Divorce: Hot Flashes, Heartbreak & Rebuilding Your Identity
What happens when the biggest emotional transition of your life — divorce — collides with the biggest physical one — menopause? It’s not just about hot flashes…
- Dear Divorce Diary: A Fresh Approach To Healing Grief & Building A Life Of Confidence After Divorce
Ep. 280. The Ache of Alone: A Guided EFT Practice to Remember You Belong After Divorce
There’s a kind of loneliness that doesn’t just live in your thoughts — it lives in your body...It’s the ache in your chest when you see another couple holding…
- Dear Divorce Diary: A Fresh Approach To Healing Grief & Building A Life Of Confidence After Divorce
279. Single in a Couple’s World: Healing the Lonely, Left-Out Feeling After Divorce
Have you ever noticed the world is built for couples? Dinner for two, “plus-one” invites, family discounts — even the way people glance at you when you’re…
- Dear Divorce Diary: A Fresh Approach To Healing Grief & Building A Life Of Confidence After Divorce
Ep. 278 Why You Still Text Back: Healing the Trauma Bond After Divorce.
You could be a therapist, a coach, or the friend who swears she knows better—and still fall for an avoidant man’s games after divorce. In this Dear Divorce…
- Dear Divorce Diary: A Fresh Approach To Healing Grief & Building A Life Of Confidence After Divorce
277. Divorcing an Avoidant Man: Decode His Tactics and Take Back Your Power.
He disappears, then drops a “just checking in” text. He remembers the good old days, then ghosts again. That push–pull dance isn’t love — it’s control. In this…
- Dear Divorce Diary: A Fresh Approach To Healing Grief & Building A Life Of Confidence After Divorce
276. Decision Fatigue After Divorce — Why You Don’t Trust Yourself and How to Start Rebuilding It
You’ve read the books, gone to therapy, tried to make the “right” choice… and still feel like you’re second-guessing everything. After divorce, even simple…
- Dear Divorce Diary: A Fresh Approach To Healing Grief & Building A Life Of Confidence After Divorce
275. Manifesting Money After Divorce: The Energy, Faith, and Physics Behind Abundance
You say you’re ready for more — but your energy still whispers “not enough.” In this powerful rebroadcast from the Immersive Manifestation Series, Dawn exposes…
- Dear Divorce Diary: A Fresh Approach To Healing Grief & Building A Life Of Confidence After Divorce
274. Feeling Numb After Divorce — Nervous System Protection and Why Healing Feels Out of Reach
Denial isn’t just pretending things are fine — it’s the story your nervous system tells so you don’t have to feel the full truth yet. In this episode, we talk…
- Dear Divorce Diary: A Fresh Approach To Healing Grief & Building A Life Of Confidence After Divorce
273: Relationship Patterns After Divorce — When What Felt Like Love Was Really Fear
Some relationships end, but their patterns keep living in your body long after the divorce papers are signed. In this rerelease, we talk about the hidden…
- Dear Divorce Diary: A Fresh Approach To Healing Grief & Building A Life Of Confidence After Divorce
Ep. 272. The Secrets Divorced Moms Carry: Nervous System Costs of Knowing Too Much & Saying Nothing
Divorced moms carry secrets no one talks about. The things their ex did behind closed doors. The moments with their kids they can’t admit out loud — not…