Dear Divorce Diary: A Fresh Approach To Healing Grief & Building A Life Of Confidence After Divorce
We are on a journey to get into the nitty gritty of divorce recovery and reveal why your divorce healing journey is still not working for you–even after you’ve tried therapy and read all the books.
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I’m Dawn Wiggins, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and EMDR specialist. I draw on decades of experience to help women navigate the emotional rollercoaster after ending a marriage. Using a little bit of science, a few alternative remedies and emotional release techniques, a whole lot of love, and zero BS, we step out of the victim mindset and into building a new life after divorce.
We emphasize nuance because overcoming challenges after divorce means questioning everything that got us here and using your divorce as a springboard to a better, more resilient (and certainly happier!) you.
On Tuesday, we have our listener segment called: "Getting Unstuck," where we anonymously unpack a difficult situation a listener is going through in their divorce healing journey.
And, on Thursday, we explore a "Hidden Healing Gem," which is a healing product or process we've tried and tested personally and/or professionally and are sharing our results and observations with you!
We cover essential life after divorce topics like grief, anxiety, codependency, loneliness, boundaries, nervous system health, attachment styles, the Law of Attraction, and homeopathy.
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Dear Divorce Diary: A Fresh Approach To Healing Grief & Building A Life Of Confidence After Divorce
232. How to Support Your Kids Through Divorce—Even If Therapy Isn’t an Option
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Struggling to connect with your kids after divorce, no matter how hard you try? What if there were a way to bridge the communication gap and heal together, even when words are hard to find?
If you feel lost trying to support your child’s emotional needs through separation, you’re definitely not alone. The upheaval of divorce touches every conversation, every silence, and often leaves both parents and children feeling invisible, unsure how to process or share what’s really happening inside. But as Dawn shares in this episode, co-parenting doesn’t have to be a guessing game—there are tools that honor connection and intimacy, even when spoken conversations fall short.
By listening to this episode, you’ll discover how a shared parenting journal can radically improve emotional communication with your children post-divorce, practical activities that foster closeness and safety without requiring extensive time or energy, and ways to create a nurturing environment for your child’s healing—even if you missed out on this yourself as a child.
Hit play now to learn how to make love, support, and connection truly accessible during your family’s biggest transitions.
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I came across a tool recently that stopped me in my tracks. It's a shared journal for parents and children, and I felt it in my bones. This is the kind of tool that could truly shift your healing process while co-parenting. Hi love.
Speaker 1: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. Here's the thing I see every day, both in my therapy practice, where I'm working with couples who often choose to get divorced, or with women in our programs here from Dear Divorce Diary, or with women in our programs here from Dear Divorce Diary. Divorce changes the way you communicate with your children, and I have seen it countless times that even the most well-intentioned parents struggle to bridge the gap between what you want to communicate to your kids, what you want them to know or understand or believe about you and your experience and their experience and what your kids actually need to hear and feel, and this journal that I stumbled across steps right into that space with so much wisdom. The journal is called Bound and it's written by Reem Rauda, who was trained by Dr Shefali, who is a parenting expert, and as soon as I saw it, I ordered my own copy and I have it here in the office, and I was blown away by how much it was in line with everything I shared with you on Tuesday about what is important during divorce when working with kiddos.
Speaker 1:What I love about it is this it's not about fixing your kiddos or fixing you as a parent. It's about cultivating your relationship. It's about cultivating and honoring intimacy, connection, attunement, the attachment style that is unfolding between you and your kiddos, and it's guiding you as a family to connect, to share, to slow down, as I mentioned on Tuesday, and to be able to communicate so much with each other without even saying a word out loud, because you and I both know that it can be very hard to get your kiddos to actually talk to you during this season, and especially if you have adolescence, and so it's profound to have a tool that helps you explore, communicate, share without even having to speak necessarily, and as someone who works with parents post-divorce every day, I know how badly you want to support your kids emotionally, but you don't always know how and you just don't always have the energy or the bandwidth. But in this journal, all the inquiries, the ideas for activities, it's all just right there laid out for you. And it's beautiful, this journal. It gives you the how and it does it with grace and safety and emotional brilliance. She has Reem, has thought of it for you so that you do not have to think about it.
Speaker 1:And what really struck me as I was flipping through the pages and thinking about recording this episode is I wish something like this had existed when I was going through divorce as a child of divorce right, when my parents were getting divorced During that season, like they separated once when I was in middle school and then they ended up getting divorced when I was in high school and we lived in a very rural area and obviously mental health was not a hot topic then. That it is today, right, but there wasn't like an expert. There was hardly even a therapist in town, let alone someone who was an expert in family work, right. And I felt so invisible and so lost. And it's where I just started experiencing profound dissociation and resentment and started having chronic stomach aches and allergies and like started experiencing disease as a result of my dis-ease, and so there were so many moments where I didn't have the words to explain what was going on for me to my mom.
Speaker 1:I do think she had a sense that that my stomach aches were emotional, but she didn't have the skills or the ability to help me process that or to work through it. She would very often like give me scripture to read or she would pray, but that wasn't creating the relationship component, the ability to process what both of us were going through in this you know horrible marriage and divorce situation. But I think she wanted to support me and I was desperate to be supported but there wasn't. There just wasn't a tool for it. And so I think this journal bound creates that space. It helps keep love accessible, even when the words are hard to find, or when vulnerability is hard to find, or when you're just shut down or afraid to say or do the wrong thing or make it worse.
Speaker 1:I think about, wow, I may go through bound myself as my young self, just to do a little more healing work from going through that as a child of divorce. I think that would be a beautiful application. Ooh, reem, what do you think about that? So, reem, if you're listening. Thank you for creating something so tender, so intentional and so needed.
Speaker 1:I'd love to have you here on the pod and talk more about your story, your work and the heart behind Bound. Let's have a conversation here because I know so many of our listeners and parents are craving a better way to stay emotionally connected with their kiddos, and together I think we can help them find that. And to everyone listening, check out Bound. The link to purchase is in the show notes. I am not an affiliate Like there's no. Reem has not put me up to this but I believe in it that much. So, whether you're co-parenting, solo parenting or just trying to do right by your kiddo while healing your own heart, this is definitely a bridge that you've been looking for. I love you so much. Talk soon, peace.
