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. 342 - I Keep Abandoning Myself When I Hurt | A Sleep Meditation for Divorce Anxiety & Heartbreak
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If you’ve been trying to hold it all together while quietly falling apart inside…
this episode is for you.
Because sometimes after divorce, the hardest part isn’t the heartbreak itself.
It’s realizing how quickly you leave yourself when the pain gets too big.
You disconnect.
Overthink.
Obsess over your ex.
Numb out.
Push through.
Care for everyone else while abandoning the parts of you that are hurting the most.
And eventually, your nervous system starts living in survival mode.
This Cocoon VIP episode is a guided sleep meditation designed to help you gently come back home to yourself.
To stay.
To breathe.
To stop emotionally disappearing every time grief, loneliness, rejection, anxiety, or heartbreak rises to the surface.
This is not about “fixing” yourself.
It’s about learning how to remain emotionally present with yourself in moments that normally trigger self-abandonment or dissociation.
Inside this guided healing track:
– Gentle nervous system regulation for divorce anxiety and emotional overwhelm
– Repetitive subconscious re-patterning affirmations
– Grounding support for dissociation and emotional shutdown
– A sleep-friendly meditation to help calm heartbreak and racing thoughts
– Support for rebuilding emotional safety and self-trust after divorce
This is the kind of episode you return to over and over again — especially on the nights when your body feels heavy with grief and your mind won’t stop spinning.
