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.
Welcome to Dear Divorce Diary—the only podcast for women navigating the messy aftermath of divorce who are done with quick fixes and spiritual fluff.
I’m Dawn Wiggins, therapist and homeopath, and I’m here to give you something the divorce advice space rarely does: real healing.
Through somatic therapy, EMDR, IFS, and homeopathy, we go deeper—into your nervous system, your unspoken grief, and your buried rage.
Every week, we hold the tension: the body-based anxiety you can’t shake; the hormonal upheaval no one warned you about; the unresolved longing for identity.
You’ll hear raw solo episodes, real voice notes from women in the trenches, and intimate interviews with experts who do more than perform healing.
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Dear Divorce Diary: A Fresh Approach To Healing Grief & Building A Life Of Confidence After Divorce
Ep. 272. The Secrets Divorced Moms Carry: Shame, Silence, and the Search for Freedom
Divorced moms carry secrets no one talks about.
The things their ex did behind closed doors.
The moments with their kids they can’t admit out loud — not because they’re weak, but because protecting their children comes first.
In this premium episode of Dear Divorce Diary, we crack open the hidden stories that weigh the heaviest:
- His secrets you’ve protected — and the resentment that builds from carrying them.
- Your own secrets — the rage, the shame, the things you fear make you a “bad mom.”
- The deeper secret about secrets — why it’s rarely the story itself that keeps you stuck, but the shame welded to it.
What if true freedom isn’t about being believed… but about finding peace without anyone else’s validation?
Let’s dig in.
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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.
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Divorced moms keep secrets that no one talks about. The things their ex did behind closed doors, the moments with their kids they can't admit out loud, not because they're weak, but because protecting their children comes before calling out the truth. And in this episode, we are cracking open those hidden stories and asking, what if freedom isn't about finally being believed about those secrets, but about finding peace without anyone else's validation? How do you do that? 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, Don Wiggins, a therapist, coach, integrative healer, and divorcee. Join me for a fresh approach to healing grief and building your confidence after divorce. Okay, today's episode is intense. We are going to talk about his secrets that you're keeping. It's not, it's the secrets that you carry, you hide what really happened, and people who would be shocked if the truth slipped out, right? There's these things that you don't know if or when or how to say them to your kids, and you often want to blurt them out, but you just, you know, are invested in protecting your kiddos. So first we're gonna talk about his secrets. Then we're gonna talk about your secrets and your own shame, right? Because we all have our own secrets, the things that we are terrified if other people saw us or knew we did this thing or that thing, that they would be for sure that we are a bad mom. And those secrets feel really, really heavy, and we carry those as well. And then we're gonna talk about the secret about secrets, because that is really the key to unlocking all of this, right? The part that no one tells you is the secret itself is rarely the problem. Rarely. Every now and then, but not typically. It's actually the shame welded to it, and the shame shame in general is the one thing that you cannot heal in the dark. Let's dig in. You can access the full episode by becoming a premium subscriber, which is just five dollars 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 can find more at mycoachdawn.com.
