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230. From Anger & Insomnia To Clarity: How Detoxing The Liver Kicked Off My Divorce Recovery
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Could the secret to breaking through your anger, insomnia, and post-divorce mental fog be hiding in your liver?
During divorce, emotional healing often feels impossible because your mind is exhausted and your body can’t seem to rest, no matter what you do. If you’re waking up at 2am, feeling stuck in resentment, or struggling to see a hopeful future, you’re not alone—these are all signs your liver and emotional well-being might be more connected than you think.
This episode reveals how a gentle, homeopathic liver detox can help you finally release anger, sleep more soundly, and regain the clarity you need to start manifesting the next chapter of your life.
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Put down a finger. If you struggle with anger or resentment, put down a finger if you struggle with restlessness or insomnia at all at night you wake up too many times in a night, struggle to get back to sleep Put down a finger if you often struggle to visualize your future, if it feels unclear or uncertain or foggy and you're not even sure what you want or how you're going to get there sometimes. What if I told you that a gentle, homeopathic liver detox could address all of those things, clear out those emotional blocks, improve your sleep and restore your clarity and restore your clarity. Hi love, welcome to Dear Divorce Diary, the podcast helping divorcees go beyond talk therapy to process your grief, find the healing you crave and build back your confidence. I'm your host, dawn Wiggins, a therapist, coach, integrative healer and divorcee. Join me for a fresh approach to healing grief and building your confidence after divorce.
Speaker 1:If you've been a longtime listener, you know that all the way back in December of 2022, episode 30, we talked about how to heal heartbreak and divorce grief. But we looked at it that whole episode is through the lens of looking at how the body is your key to healing the mind and the heart during divorce. Right. So that was back in season one, episode 30, but we're going to do that again today, looking at how to manifest your future during divorce by looking at the body, specifically the liver, in particular two things. We are going to take a look at how anger and frustration and resentment all those things settle deep in your body, specifically the liver, how that affects you, what could be contributing to it and how to start walking that out right, what the consequences that are long-term, how it impacts your nervous system and all that. And then, secondly, we're going to talk about my favorite go-to solution, what I would use if it were me and I were going through this all over again, and how you can access that.
Speaker 1:In traditional Chinese medicine, the organ systems correlate to emotions in the body right, the heart correlates to grief, the lungs correlate to grief, kidneys correlate to worry, the liver correlates to anger, the gallbladder correlates to decision-making right and so on and so forth. And so once you start to understand that by understanding your body you can help heal your emotional and mental body right, things start to get a lot easier. So if you've been struggling to let go of resentment, of anger, if you feel like you have a short fuse or short temper. So much of that is about liver stagnation. Very, very often I will hear women tell me that they wake up multiple times in the night and they struggle to get back to sleep. You've maybe listened to the episode where I talked a bit about insomnia and the different times of the night that you wake up indicates a different organ system. Right, that is affected. So the liver is specifically like that 2, 3 am time, right, that says, oh, there's liver stagnation.
Speaker 1:Now, what I know about women going through divorce is you have more than liver stagnation. We know you have heart-lung stagnation also, right, that energetically your heart has been broken or has been closed off. That your lungs you probably, when you get sick or when you have COVID like, you notice it really in your lungs. You need a lot of cough medicine or whatever cough drops like, of course, because grief in the lungs are connected, right, like heartbreak and closed heart. Energy is connected. Kidneys are often inflamed if you find that you're peeing a lot or that kind of thing. Right, kidneys are inflamed because when you're going through a divorce it feels very much like you're helpless sometimes and like you cannot set boundaries, or maybe you've been coming out of divorce where, no matter how many boundaries you set, they were always violated. That's going to inflame or stagnate your kidneys, right? So we just know that there is multi-organ system effectiveness, and so we're.
Speaker 1:This particular episode is looking at the liver and how that specifically affects your life and what we can do about it. But one of the reasons why I mentioned in the previous episode that I don't love herbs as the answer for anger detox, liver detox, is because I know those other organ systems are also taxed herbs and we don't know for sure that those are the herbs that your body is calling for. If we're not using muscle testing or we haven't looked at using a bioresonance scan or something that is very unique and specific to you, you could be giving your body more work than it is capable of producing right now, and very often we have just sort of come out of like functional medicine era where functional medicine gave us all of these beautiful natural ways to treat our medical issues. But a lot of that functional medicine sort of really worked to suppress symptoms much like mainstream Western medicine did, and it really stressed our bodies in its own ways, using herbs and supplements, and all of that right so many women have gone through this phase where they've had all these supplements on their counter but they're not getting profoundly better right, and then they start to doubt whether or not supplements work. Supplements are amazing when they're finely tuned to what your body is calling for and it's in the correct dose and potency that your body can handle right.
Speaker 1:So we want to look, for this episode for the sake, at liver, to help you clear the emotional block of anger, so that you can be calming your nervous system, so that you're sleeping better and so that you can visualize your future and you can start manifesting and shifting your mindset. Now, obviously, you've heard me say if you're struggling with worry, then that means we probably need to take a look at your kidneys also. But again, for this episode, we are really looking at the liver. So check in with yourself. Where do you think you are with your liver and its needs right now? How much stress do you think you're putting on it in the foods that you're choosing, the drinks that you're choosing, the supplements that you're taking that includes your CBD gummy at night and are those things really giving you the bang for the buck you're looking for? So, are you still struggling with sleep? Are you still struggling with anger, you know? Is your hair still falling out, like all of those things? Constipation even can often be a liver, a toxic liver symptom. So if you're sort of giving yourself an honest grade on that, awesome.
Speaker 1:Now what can you immediately shift? Like warm lemon water in the morning, doing some gentle yoga twists. You do not have to go do a whole hour long yoga class in order to get the benefits from some gentle yoga twists. Right, just doing some cat-cows and then, you know, laying on your back and doing some gentle twists, like your knees, to the left side, then to the right side, even some seated twists. These are things that can really, really and let's say you do that in the hot shower or after a hot shower like man. Those are beautiful choices, right.
Speaker 1:Adding some castor oil to that liver area, really focusing on upping your water intake and reducing other forms of liquids, whatever things that might be clogging your liver. Really noticing if you've been drinking more to make a conscious choice to dial that back because it's just really, really hamstringing your capacity for manifestation. Yeah, and keeping you sort of in that stuck cycle. A lot of people will notice, like if you have a couple of glasses of wine or whatever at night, then you're automatically up at 2, 3 am, right, and it's because that is the time of night where your liver is focusing on metabolizing all the toxins it's taking in in the day and it's got too much to do. It can't metabolize all of those things in time and so it's getting stressed and you're waking up.
Speaker 1:Now many people during divorce are taking sleep aids. I think many people are taking sleep aids period. Divorce is just the thing that feels like it sends us over the edge, right? And so then, depending on how strong your sleep aid is, maybe you're sleeping through that time, like maybe you are because you've just knocked yourself the F out, but know that if that's the case and you're still struggling with anger and not being able to manifest or shift your mindset and this, and that that just because you're sleeping through that zone doesn't mean your liver isn't stressed and we have to look at how your sleep aids are actually contributing to your liver toxicity.
Speaker 1:Now, what's a better choice and what would I recommend if I were doing this all over again? Oh, my word, if I had today's tools to give to past me to do this all over again, like, forget about it. I would have manifested all of this so much faster. It would be bananas. So what I would do is I would go to order this very particular homeopathic liver detox blend that I have come to use and I would put a couple of drops of it in a cup on my bedside table and before I go to sleep, I would take a sip. And then every time I wake up in the night, I would take a sip and what I would have seen happen at that time? That I would have fallen asleep easier, that over time I would have woken up less and that when I woke up, I wouldn't have had the same unbelievable like persistent racing thoughts that I could not interrupt. That would have flowed away and I would have, over time, gotten so much less angry and would have had a much easier time shifting my thoughts.
Speaker 1:And why would I use homeopathy and not herbs? Well, you heard me why. Already I know the herbs. Because you would have these downstream effects right when the rest of the body stuff was getting clogged in different organ systems, and why I love homeopathy more. And listen, I'm using Chinese herbs right now for my kidneys, because you've heard me talk about rehabbing my kidneys, but I am muscle testing every day. They were prescribed by a practitioner and I am muscle testing every day. The dose so there are some days I can't take the herbs because I know my body can't metabolize them. There are some days I take one capsule. There are some days I take four capsules. So again, it's about having a bespoke system that your body can handle in the dose and potency today, right. So why I love homeopathy more and it's my first line of defense and herbs are second is because homeopathy is energy medicine, so it's clearing blocks from the body without adding to its load. Right. And also, herbs may start to clear your stagnant liver, but it's not going to give you the same mental emotional benefits of the homeopathy, because homeopathy works first on the mental emotional plane and then trickles down into the body. So you get this double whammy benefit from homeopathy, whereas I'm sure, as I mentioned earlier, you've experienced having all these supplements and being like but are they really working?
Speaker 1:If you would like to try this liver detox blend that I would be using if I could do the whole thing over again, send me a DM right on Instagram at Dawn Wiggins, and I will send you a link to try this remedy. It is $14.99. It comes in a five milliliter bottle. I ship it straight to your door and as part of it, right, you come into our free divorce recovery community. You may already be in there and, you know, get to be in there and using a remedy with other women who are also using homeopathic remedies to get the results working through divorce. So if this is something that interests you or something that you're like man, yes, I am angry and restless and having trouble visualizing my future or impacting my manifestation, my faith, right, these things are feeling stuck, stagnant, clogged, like this is a no-brainer to choose.
Speaker 1:Why I love this blend more than just recommending. There are lots of times where I've dropped a link in the show notes to Boyron brand homeopathic remedies. Why I am particularly recommending this blend with me today rather than just dropping you a link is because when you buy one of those Boyron homeopathic remedies, they're absolutely right. Right, but you get one potency one time in a vial and in this blend you get multiple potencies, multiple remedies, in a vial, so it will be more effective for you for longer, rather than when you do the single Boyron tube or Oleos, whichever the brand is, you know, if you want to step up in potency, you have to buy a new one. If you want to try a different remedy, you have to buy a new one. So to match what I've created in this blend, in this five milliliter bottle, you would probably have to buy up to 12 different tubes, which would be upwards of $120. For $14.99. You get to have this one blend that has all of those things in it and you are just going to get more profound movement both in your mind and your body.
Speaker 1:Pretty cool, right, all right. Cannot wait to get your DMs body. Pretty cool, right, all right. Cannot wait to get your dms. Have a beautiful time with your lemon water tomorrow morning. I believe in you. Peace, dear. Divorce. Diary is a podcast by my coach, john. You can find more at mycoachjohncom.
