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. 312 - Behind the Mic: Divorce, Dissociation & Trauma...What Happened to Us?
Behind the Mic is where we slow the conversation down.
In this premium episode, we speak candidly about dissociation during and after divorce—not in clinical terms, and not from a distance, but from inside our own lived experience.
This is a quieter, more intimate conversation about the ways women cope when life becomes overwhelming… and how easy it is to miss what’s really happening while you’re busy surviving.
We talk about:
- The moment you realize something has been operating under the surface
- Why certain habits, patterns, and “coping strategies” feel hard to change
- The difference between functioning and actually being present
- How the body protects us long before the mind understands what’s happening
This episode isn’t about fixing anything or tying it up neatly.
It’s about noticing.
Getting curious.
And letting yourself hear something you may not have had words for yet.
If you’ve ever felt like you’re doing all the right things after divorce but still feel oddly disconnected…
If you’ve ever wondered why certain patterns keep repeating…
If you sense there’s more happening beneath the surface than you’ve been able to name…
This conversation is for you.
As always, Behind the Mic is raw, personal, and meant to be experienced—not skimmed.
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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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Stress-Less Flower Essence
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. Loves, we made a decision to do this behind the mic episode where we talk more intimately about number one, our personal experiences with disassociation. Number two, the tools we use for ourselves, with each other, with our communities, with our families to deal with disassociation. I personally didn't understand for a very long time in my healing journey. I did not understand when I was getting divorced that this was the thing. I think it's very cool that we're talking about these things these days because I think gone are the times where you could get to an advanced level of EMDR training before you realized, you know, it's me. I'm the problem. It's me. Whether we call it addiction or we call it disassociation, it's an attempt to distance ourselves from what we're feeling or what we're experiencing because it's overwhelming. I want people to hear that it doesn't matter how complex or how overwhelming this sounds, there's always a solution. 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
