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, and the parts of you that shut down just to survive.
Through honest conversation, somatic tools, EMDR- and IFS-informed work, and nervous-system support, each episode helps you feel instead of perform healing — and rebuild safety, confidence, and self-trust from the inside out.
You’ll hear raw solo episodes, real voice notes from women in the trenches, and intimate conversations with experts who don’t just talk about healing — they embody it.
If you’re tired of being told to “move on” while your body is still bracing, this podcast is your place to land. Your nervous system already knows the truth — it just needs a space that can hold it.
Episodes
462 episodes
380. The Emotional Skill That Could Change Your Entire Divorce Recovery & Stop the Spiraling
What if the emotion itself isn’t what’s keeping you stuck after divorce?What if it’s the story you immediately attach to it?He did this.She said that.This ruined everything.I can’t have the life I want because they kee...
Ep. 380 The Emotional Skill That Could Change Your Entire Divorce Recovery & Stop the Spiraling
What if the emotion itself isn’t what’s keeping you stuck after divorce?What if it’s the story you immediately attach to it?He did this.She said that.This ruined everything.I can’t have the life I want because they kee...
379. Why wasn't I worth it to him? Why This Question Keeps You Stuck After Divorce
Why wasn’t I worth it to him?Why wasn’t I worth changing for?Why wasn’t I worth getting sober for, telling the truth for, going to therapy for, fighting for?Why could I love him that much, sacrifice that much, try th...
378. I Want Love, Support & Good Things…But I Expect Them to Cost Me, Trap Me or Hurt Me | A Guided Meditation for Divorce Recovery
You want love.You want support.You want good things to happen to you.So why does some part of you still tense up when they actually arrive?Because when love has historically come with conditions, disappointment, betr...
377. Why Your Nervous System Resists the Life You Want After Divorce
You can know exactly what you need to do next—and still feel every part of you screaming, nope.Set the boundary. Ask for help. Leave the relationship. Start dating differently. Choose yourself. Let someone really see you. Take the...
376. Softening What Divorce Grief Has Hardened in You: A Yoga Nidra Practice
Divorce grief can harden you in ways you don’t always notice.You brace more.You anticipate more.You hold tighter.You get really good at pushing through.Sometimes that hardness was necessary. It helped you survive what ...
Ep. 376 Softening What Divorce Grief Has Hardened in You: A Yoga Nidra Practice
Divorce grief can harden you in ways you don’t always notice.You brace more.You anticipate more.You hold tighter.You get really good at pushing through.Sometimes that hardness was necessary. It helped you survive what ...
375. Good News and Bad News About Why You Can’t Let Go After Divorce (Pt. 2)
You’re doing the therapy.You’re listening to the podcasts. You understand your attachment style. You’ve journaled, processed, learned the language, set the boundaries, and tried really fucking hard to move on.So why do you still f...
374. Sleep Meditation for Deep Healing After Divorce: Let Go While You Sleep
There’s something especially cruel about being completely exhausted after divorce… and then climbing into bed only to have your brain decide now would be a great time to think about everything.What happened. What you should have s...
373. Good News and Bad News About Why You Can’t Let Go After Divorce (Pt. 1)
You’re tired of healing.You’ve listened to the podcasts. You understand your attachment style. You know about boundaries and nervous system regulation. Maybe you’ve done therapy, read the books, journaled, meditated—and you’re still wond...
372. The Divorce Money Blocks You Don’t Know You Have: How Loss Changes Your Relationship With Money
Divorce changes your relationship with a lot of things.Love. Trust. Safety. The future.And sometimes… money.Because money isn’t just money. It can represent security, freedom, worthiness, belonging—and whether or not...
371. What Are You Still Carrying That Doesn't Belong in Your Life After Divorce?
There are things you learned to carry because, at one point, you had to.The responsibility. The mental load. Other people's expectations. Keeping everyone okay. Being the strong one. Being the woman who could handle it.But just be...
370. Dating After Divorce: The Questions You Need to Ask Before You Get Attached
Dating after divorce is a whole different world.Dating apps. Men holding fish. Men who apparently have never taken a decent selfie. Threesomes. Ethical non-monogamy. And the occasional man who looks way better in person than his...
Ep. 370 Dating After Divorce: The Questions You Need to Ask Before You Get Attached
Dating after divorce is a whole different world.Dating apps. Men holding fish. Men who apparently have never taken a decent selfie. Threesomes. Ethical non-monogamy. And the occasional man who looks way better in person than his...
369. A Year After Divorce: 3 Women Tell Us What It Took to Become Themselves Again
What does it actually take to become yourself again after divorce?Today, Dawn is away—which means Joy and Coach Tiffini have been left unsupervised. And they invited three women from the current A Different D Word cohort to take over the...
368. 10 Things Nobody Ever Taught You About Emotions (And It's Making Divorce So Much Harder)
Learn more about A Different D Word and apply here ✨Divorce has a way of exposing everything you were never taught.Not because you're broken.Not becaus...
Ep. - 368 10 Things Nobody Ever Taught You About Emotions (And It's Making Divorce So Much Harder)
Learn more about A Different D Word and apply here ✨Divorce has a way of exposing everything you were never taught.Not because you're broken.Not becaus...
367. Will I Ever Be Done Healing After My Divorce... or Does My Ex Get to Haunt Me Forever?
Learn more about A Different D Word and apply here ✨Have you ever caught yourself thinking..."I'm so tired of healing."You went to therapy. Y...
Ep. 366 - Why Can't I Hear What I Really Need After Divorce? (A Guided Journaling Exercise)
Learn more about A Different D Word and apply here ✨Have you ever asked yourself what you really need... and drawn a complete blank?After divorce, many wom...
366 - Why Can't I Hear What I Really Need After Divorce? (A Guided Journaling Exercise)
Learn more about A Different D Word and apply here ✨Have you ever asked yourself what you really need... and drawn a complete blank?After divorce, many wom...
365. Why You Can't Trust That Everything Will Be Okay After Divorce (Yet)
A Different D Word apply here ✨You keep telling yourself that everything is going to be okay...So why doesn't your body believe you?If you've read the boo...
364. One Day, This Could Be You | What Building Secure Attachment Actually Feels Like
Secure attachment isn't a feeling you suddenly arrive at.It's something you build.It's discovering that you can be overwhelmed, uncertain, emotional, imperfect... and still let yourself lean on other people.In this week's A...
364. One Day, This Could Be You | What Building Secure Attachment Actually Feels Like
Secure attachment isn't a feeling you suddenly arrive at.It's something you build.It's discovering that you can be overwhelmed, uncertain, emotional, imperfect... and still let yourself lean on other people.In this week's A...
363. Dear Divorce Diary... I Said Yes Again - Even Though I Promised Myself I'd Say No
Have you ever heard yourself say "Sure!"... while every part of you was screaming "Absolutely not."You promised yourself you wouldn't text him.You wouldn't overcommit.You wouldn't rescue everyone.You wouldn't ha...
362. Why Does Everything Good for Me Feel Like a Chore After Divorce?
You know the things that would probably help.The walk.The boundary.The therapy session.The earlier bedtime.The journal sitting untouched on your nightstand.So why does it feel so hard to actually do them?If ...