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.
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Dear Divorce Diary: A Fresh Approach To Healing Grief & Building A Life Of Confidence After Divorce
288. Calming Public Grief After Divorce: A Quick Nervous-System Reset (Grocery Store or Family Bathroom Edition)
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Exclusive access to premium content!Sometimes panic doesn’t wait for privacy.
It hits in the grocery store aisle, the Target parking lot, or right between the pasta sauce and the paper towels — the places where your body finally says, “No. I can’t hold this alone anymore.”
This premium episode is your real-time grounding track for those moments.
A full nervous-system reset you can use while you’re actively panicking — not later, not in hindsight, but right there, in public, while your heart is racing and your manager parts are trying to keep it all together.
Inside, Dawn guides you through:
- A My Body Said No moment — how to recognize it and respond without shame
- A sensory grounding ritual you can use anywhere (yes, even aisle 7)
- Gentle IFS language for your Manager, Firefighter, and Exile parts
- A somatic breath pattern (“baking bread + blowing on soup”) that brings your body back online
- A quiet reconnection to the truth: you belong to yourself, even while you’re not okay
This is your pocket guide for public panic — steadying, human, and deeply regulating.
Come back to it anytime your nervous system needs someone to sit with you and help you breathe again.
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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.
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. Hey, it's okay to panic. In fact, I'd love for you to notice that you're okay even while you're panicking. Just notice that. That panic you can accept while you also notice that you're actually safe in this moment in the grocery store. And the panic is coming from an older place. Hear the sound of my voice and know I'm right here. Reaching for a breath. Look around and inside of your mind, name three things that stand out and grab your attention in the aisle. Good. Now take a deep breath like you're smelling a loaf of fresh breaking bread. And then exhale like you're blowing on soup. Oh yeah, that was good. Can you actually smell the bread in the grocery store? Do it again. Nice deep inhale. Landing in your body. Even while you're panicking, that's okay. Noticing the delicious smell. And then exhale like you're blowing on soup. I don't care who's around. I don't care who can see you. I can see you. And I know this is what you need right now. Your body is asking for safety. And it's your job, it's our job to provide it. Feel your feet right here on the ground. Notice those cute sneaks you're wearing. The earth is holding you. Let it hold you for a moment. I know your manager part, the one that tries to stay composed, scanning for what to fix. She's doing her job right now. I want you to notice how hard she's working in this moment. I want you to take a breath and allow her to not hold it all together in this moment. I want you to take a breath and give her permission for it to be a little extra messy right now. In this grocery store aisle, in this target parking lot. Let your shoulders drop and let that manager part take one deep breath with you. Give her permission to be the tiniest bit human. Allow her to feel seen and understood for how tired she is of having to manage it all the time. She doesn't want anybody in town to see her struggle right now. I get it. I can feel the firefighter part too. The part that wants to run right now, distract, scroll, grab, disappear. It's okay. The building isn't actually on fire. Maybe place one hand on your chest and connect. Connect with the idea of safety in the body, not safety from people's approval outside of you. Even this is a new concept. Connect with your body. Call self forward. Acknowledge the panic the firefighter part is feeling. It's okay to feel it all. And take a deep breath with that firefighter part. In with the smell of baking bread. Out with the blowing on the soup. And somewhere deep inside of you is the exile, the one who originally experienced the overwhelm, who feels small and forgotten. But she's stirring with your acknowledgement. Let her know she's not alone. Let your body rock just a little, a little side to side. You can pretend you're moving with the music that's playing on the system overhead. And let that movement say, I'm with you, sweet girl. I'm with you. I'm rocking with you right now, too. And take a deep breath with her with the exile while you rock her gently. In with the baking bread. Out with the soup. You don't have to rush out of the store. You don't have to pretend nothing is happening. You don't have to have it all together. You're allowed to feel. And you're doing it. Look at you. Whisper this if you can. I belong to myself right now. I belong with me. You're okay. Even while you're not okay. And I'm so proud of you. On this next breath, I want each part of you to breathe together in unison, in harmony. Big breath in. Every part of you expanding. Feeling seen and acknowledged. And exhale it all out. That was amazing. Let's do it again. Every part breathing together. Feeling the power of internal unity, acknowledgement, validation, support. Breathing in with the bread. Exhaling with the soup. And when you're ready, you can finish this aisle at your own pace. You don't owe anyone speed or perfection. There's so much power in owning that it's okay to not be okay. You're learning how to be here in your body again. All of your parts together. And that matters more than anything. Come back to this track over and over again every time you need it when you're in public and you feel that panic coming on. I love you so much. You can find more at my coach on my
