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. 280. The Ache of Alone: A Guided EFT Practice to Remember You Belong After Divorce
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There’s a kind of loneliness that doesn’t just live in your thoughts — it lives in your body...It’s the ache in your chest when you see another couple holding hands.
The quiet in the house that feels too loud.
The impulse to pour a glass of wine or take something to help you not feel so much.
In this episode of Dear Divorce Diary, Dawn, Joy, and Tiff guide you through a custom EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) tapping practice designed to help you release the nervous system pain of being single in a couple’s world — and remember that belonging starts within.
Before the guided sequence, you’ll learn how EFT actually works:
Why we tap on certain meridian points, what each one helps release (grief, shame, resentment, fear), and how those points help regulate your nervous system when loneliness hits hard.
Then, together, they lead you through a real-time tapping meditation to help your body feel safe again — safe to feel, safe to rest, and safe to belong to yourself.
✨ In this episode
- What EFT really does to calm the post-divorce nervous system
- The nine meridian points and the emotions they help release
- A step-by-step guided tapping sequence for the ache of being single in a couple’s world
- A nervous system reframe that turns “alone” into “at home in myself”
🧘♀️ Try it now
Find a quiet space.
Take a deep breath.
Tap along as Dawn leads the practice and notice your body start to soften — the exhale that says, I’m okay. I belong here.
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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.
Welcome And Episode Focus
SPEAKER_00If you have been feeling the pain, the visceral pain of being single in a couple's world and known you need to break the pattern of using an ambient or a glass of wine to distract yourself, this episode is for you. 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. Today's episode is so powerful because it has the ability to fundamentally begin to rewire what you experience when you're feeling lonely, when you are feeling the pain of singleness. And while we talk a lot about EFT around here, we haven't always talked about how it works, what it does, and the places where we physically tap the body, why we use those spots and what they do. So I'm gonna walk you through today. The ladies and I are gonna tap with you together, but before that, we're gonna talk a little bit about how EFT works. And then we're gonna go straight into a custom EMT EFT tapping sequence specific to helping you release the pain of feeling single in a couple's world. Ladies, welcome. We love talking about this shit. Yes. Hello, hello. Producer Joy specifically was like, we have never talked about what the meridians are. And I was like, good point. Let's do that. So producer Joy for the win. So what is EFT? It's actually known as emotional freedom technique. It combines principles of modern psychology and ancient Chinese acupressure. So during a session, the point is to focus on what's causing you the stress, the pain, or the discomfort while tapping specific sets of you know, acupressure points on the body. The EFT points correspond to traditional Chinese medicine. And when we tap on those points, it sends calming signals to the nervous system and the brain, letting it know that it's safe to relax, feel the feelings, and release whatever is driving the stress in the body. So it allows you to release, to find more balance, to find more peace in the body, and help ease you forward from a nervous system standpoint. So there are nine meridians that we tap on. 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.com.
