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. 305 Day 11: After Divorce, New Year’s Resolutions Don’t Work — Here’s What Does
If New Year’s resolutions have never worked for you...especially after divorce, it’s not because you lack discipline, motivation, or follow-through.
It’s because the version of you who survived divorce is not wired to safely become the woman you’re trying to create.
After divorce, most women try to change their lives by changing their behavior.
But behavior never sticks when the nervous system doesn’t feel safe expanding.
In this New Year’s Day episode, we break down why resolutions fail specifically after divorce—and what actually creates change instead.
We talk about:
- Why “New Year, New You” language backfires on a nervous system shaped by loss
- How inherited roles, survival strategies, and emotional suppression block capacity
- The real reason desire alone isn’t enough to create change
- Why your brain will offer a thousand excuses—and why that doesn’t mean you’re failing
- What permission has to do with confidence, worthiness, and follow-through
You’ll be guided through a powerful journaling exercise we call the New Year Permission Slip—not focused on what you want, but on who you’re willing to become to receive it.
Because the woman who calls in a fuller life after divorce:
- has more capacity
- feels safer being seen
- trusts herself more deeply
- and no longer abandons herself to stay comfortable
And she doesn’t arrive by accident.
🎯 Your Invitation
Ask yourself:
- What am I calling in this year?
- And what am I willing to put on the line to become the woman who can hold it?
We believe in you.
The real question is—will you give yourself permission to believe in you too?
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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 to day 11 of the 12 days of Divorce Christmas. We are getting down to it here. Happy New Year's Day. We are so excited to be kicking off a new year with you. We have exciting things planned for this year, and we are just like gangster about doing it with you, doing it together, being on the team together. Like you have no idea. We just are so excited. So, happy New Year's. Let's dig in. Let's dig into New Year's New Year bullshit, right? Like, let's just get on that. Get on the wagon. Let's go. Oh, get on or get out. 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 divorce. Join me for a fresh approach to healing grief and building your confidence after divorce. All right, loves. It is a new year. And so we're gonna, we're gonna become more of ourselves this year, right? That is, it's not a different you, it's we are gonna become more of you because there is so many layers of crap that have piled up on you. You were born with the sins of the father, right? You were born with energetic inheritance that was not yours that was piled on you, and then you lived your life in a way that more crap got piled on you, and then you know, like we gotta dust off all those layers. So we are gonna step in and we're gonna step in strong. So today's mission is for you to grab your journal and to write yourself a new year permission slip. 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
