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. 270 - Married to Grief After Divorce...Why Letting Go Feels So Hard
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For many women, divorce grief doesn’t just fade with time — it loops. You revisit the what-ifs, you cling to the ache, you replay the story until it feels less like healing and more like obsession. In this subscriber-only episode, we dive into why grief after divorce can feel like something you’re “married” to and what it really takes to break free.
Inside this episode:
- Why grief sometimes becomes an identity you can’t shake.
- How the looping “obsession” keeps you tethered to the pain.
- What it takes — from nervous system support to trauma-informed tools — to finally loosen grief’s grip.
If you’ve felt secretly bound to your grief, know this: you’re not broken, you’re caught in a pattern that can shift. Take the Divorce Recovery Nervous System Quiz to discover how your nervous system type feeds the loop — and get tailored practices, resources, and episodes that help you move forward with confidence.
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A podcast exploring the journey of life after divorce, delving into topics like divorce grief, loneliness, anxiety, manifesting, 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 building your confidence, forgiveness and letting go.
The Secret Addiction of Grief
Speaker 1Some people hide their lovers, but you love hide your grief. You sneak off to visit it when no one's looking. Your chest aches, your throat tightens and for a moment you're not numb and you tell yourself it's about remembering. But the truth is you're also addicted to the hurt. It's like grief is your secret lover and you're not sure who you'd be without it. And this week on Dear Divorce Diary for subscribers only we're talking about the way grief can feel addictive and what it takes to walk away from the one thing that helps you feel alive.
Growing Life Around Unchanging Grief
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 after divorce. One of the things we talked about when we were getting ready to record this episode is this idea that we've run into that grief actually doesn't get smaller necessarily as life goes on, but that life gets bigger. And as life gets bigger we perceive that the grief is smaller, but for very, very many women recovering from divorce in a modern age, that doesn't seem to be happening, and it sometimes feels like the grief is looping and that it's something that you're getting stuck in or maybe addicted to, and so we're going to witness the woman today who is in this process, and by the end of the episode, I believe wholeheartedly that you will understand why you're stuck in this and what needs to shift in order to help your life grow bigger around the grief, even if it doesn't grow smaller.
Speaker 1You 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. Dear Divorce Diary is a podcast by my coach, john. You can find more at mycoachjohncom.
