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. 301 - Day 7: Loneliness After Divorce | When the Wave Hits
How ya doing babe? We're on day 7 of "The 12 Days of Becoming HER Again" and it's all pretty raw.
Today we’re talking about loneliness after divorce...not as something to fix or outrun, but as something that moves in waves.
For many women, loneliness doesn’t stay constant.
It rises.
It crests.
And when it hits, it can feel overwhelming.
In this episode, Joy and I talk about:
- Why loneliness after divorce often comes in waves
- How many women try to drown it out instead of ride it
- The difference between feeling lonely and being unsafe
- What actually helps when the wave rises
- Why resisting loneliness often makes it stronger
- How to stay present without collapsing into it
This conversation is about learning how to ride the loneliness wave — letting it move through you without letting it take you under.
You don’t have to force yourself to feel better.
You don’t have to make it mean something about your worth.
You just need a way to stay with yourself when it shows up.
If loneliness has been hitting hard this holiday season, this episode is for you.
🎄 About the 12 Days of Divorce Christmas
The 12 Days of Divorce Christmas is a daily series supporting your nervous system and your heart through the holidays after divorce.
✨ Days 1, 2, and 9 are available on the public feed.
✨ The full series is available inside Dear Divorce Diary Premium.
If today’s episode helped you feel less afraid of the loneliness — or less alone inside it — the rest of the series is there to keep supporting you.
Join Dear Divorce Diary Premium to access the full 12 Days of Divorce Christmas.
Or stay with us here today — and come back tomorrow.
Capacity builds in connection. Hugs ❤️
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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. Welcome to day seven of the 12 Days of Divorce Christmas, aka the 12 Days of Becoming Her again. Today we are talking about the loneliness wave. We want you to ride it and not drown in it. Most of us drown in it. I don't know about you. What do you think, Joy? Especially when we link it together, right, with not having your kids or the loss of friends. Yeah. So we're throwing you a lifeline so you don't drown in your loneliness. And instead, you ride it. And the first thing I want to really address here is that loneliness, the sensation of being disconnected outside, not a part of, alone, is truly, truly, truly a symptom of 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
