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.
Dear Divorce Diary: A Fresh Approach To Healing Grief & Building A Life Of Confidence After Divorce
EP. 244 - I Know What’s Healthy for Me, So Why Can’t I Choose It After Divorce?
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In today's episode we dive deep into why women fresh out of divorce struggle to choose what supports their healing, even when they know what to do.
We're going to unpack the sneaky emotional loops that make short-term relief like numbing, people-pleasing, getting into a fight with your ex feel safer than long-term healing, and how your nervous system is often still in survival mode, prioritizing comfort over growth.
We're also going to talk about why you're more afraid of being rejected by others than you are aware of how often you're rejecting yourself. This episode isn't about shaming yourself for not doing enough. It's about understanding why it feels so hard and what to do differently.
I'm going to give you a very specific calendar task plus a three-question prompt to guide you in that exact moment when you feel the urge to avoid the thing you know would help you heal. You can access the full episode by becoming a premium subscriber, which is just $5 a month.
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A podcast exploring the journey of life after divorce, delving into topics like divorce grief, loneliness, anxiety, the impact of different attachment styles and codependency, setting healthy boundaries, energy healing with homeopathy, managing the nervous system during divorce depression, understanding the stages of divorce grief, and using the Law of Attraction and EMDR therapy in the process of forgiveness and letting go.
Welcome to Dear Divorce Diary
Speaker 1Hi 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
Knowing vs. Choosing What's Good
Speaker 1after divorce . You are a woman who already knows what's good for you and , if not in every way , you're learning it and you're invested in learning it . But knowing and choosing are two different beasts . Maybe it's the yoga class you keep skipping the boundary you avoid setting , or the journal collecting dust they call that shelf esteem , lol . Maybe you say I'll do it tomorrow or I don't have the energy . But what if the real reason you're not choosing what's healthy isn't laziness or a lack of willpower , but it's hidden grief , maybe with a side of shame ?
Unpacking Emotional Healing Barriers
Speaker 1In today's episode we dive deep into why women fresh out of divorce struggle
Calendar Task and Healing Prompts
Speaker 1to choose what supports their healing , even when they know what to do . We're going to unpack the sneaky emotional loops that make short-term relief like numbing , people-pleasing , getting into a fight with your ex feel safer than long-term healing
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Speaker 1, and how your nervous system is often still in survival mode , prioritizing comfort over growth . We're also going to talk about why you're more afraid of being rejected by others than you are aware of how often you're rejecting yourself . This episode isn't about shaming yourself for not doing enough . It's about understanding why it feels so hard and what to do differently .
Speaker 1I'm going to give you a very specific calendar task plus a three-question prompt to guide you in that exact moment when you feel the urge to avoid the thing you know would help you heal . You can access the full episode by becoming a premium subscriber , which is just $5 a month . Scroll down to the show notes and click the link where you'll get your very own individualized RSS feed for your podcast app . You deserve to stop abandoning yourself , and this episode will help you connect with how Dear Divorce Diary is a podcast by MyCoachDawn . You can find more at MyCoachDawncom .
