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. 350 - I Know the Divorce Was Necessary... So Why Do I Still Feel Guilty? | Guided Meditation
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Divorce guilt has a way of showing up long after the paperwork is signed.
Maybe you feel guilty about ending the marriage.
Maybe you feel guilty for staying too long.
Maybe you feel guilty for being angry, setting boundaries, disappointing people, or wanting more for your life.
And sometimes the hardest part is that guilt can feel like proof that you're still a good person.
In this guided healing meditation, Coach Tiffini helps you gently explore the deeper purpose guilt may be serving inside your nervous system. Through compassionate self-inquiry and parts-based reflection, you'll be invited to connect with the part of you carrying guilt and discover what it has been trying to protect all along.
This isn't about forcing forgiveness.
It's not about pretending everything is okay.
And it's definitely not about toxic positivity.
It's about creating enough safety to ask a different question:
Is this guilt showing me that I've violated my values—or is it simply reacting to discomfort, grief, change, or old programming?
If you've been carrying the weight of divorce guilt, self-blame, people-pleasing, or emotional responsibility for everyone around you, this meditation offers a gentle space to set some of that weight down.
Put on your headphones.
Find somewhere quiet.
And give yourself permission to receive the compassion you so freely offer everyone else.
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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 And What We Offer
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.
Guided Meditation On Guilt Begins
Hey gorgeous, Coach Tiffany here, and I am back this Thursday again for another guided meditation on guilt. Before we start, I just want to say this. If guilt has been following you around lately, you are so not alone in that. Honestly, guilt is one of the most common things women carry after divorce. And not just guilt about the marriage ending, guilt about the kids, about being angry, about staying too long, about leaving, about not healing fast enough, about setting boundaries, about disappointing people, about wanting more peace, and just about wanting more. It's
Reframing Guilt With Curiosity
a lot. And so many women end up carrying guilt like it's proof that they're still loving, still good, and still caring. But tonight we're not here to shame your guilt. We're not here to force it away. We're not doing toxic positivity. We're just gonna get really curious. Because underneath guilt, there's usually a part of you trying really hard to protect something. So get comfortable.
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