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. 352. Divorce Recovery Isn't Just Healing or Understanding. It's Learning to Surrender.
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You've done the therapy.
Listened to the podcasts.
Read the books.
So why are you still hurting?
In this special episode, Dawn shares why understanding alone isn't always enough to create change—and why true healing sometimes asks us to lift our gaze beyond ourselves.
As someone with a history of religious trauma, Dawn never expected prayer to become part of this podcast. But after years of healing, she discovered that there are moments when insight, effort, and self-awareness reach their limits.
Sometimes healing requires surrender.
Not giving up.
Not checking out.
Trusting that you don't have to carry everything alone.
Whether you call it God, Creator, Love, Source, or something else entirely, this episode offers a simple prayer for the woman who is tired, overwhelmed, and ready to receive support.
Take a breath.
Lift your gaze.
And remember:
I trust that I am not walking alone.
Welcome And Show Mission
SPEAKER_00Hi, 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.
Why Add Prayer Sometimes
SPEAKER_00We're doing something a little different today, in full acknowledgement that I am someone who has experienced a lot of religious trauma. But I've asked Joy to pray with us. And I want to share why we're introducing this new format from time to time. Don't worry, we will not become a religious podcast. That's not a thing. The three of us come from different backgrounds and have taken different paths in our healing journeys.
When Information Stops Working
SPEAKER_00But there is one thing that we have all agreed on: that at some point information wasn't enough, understanding wasn't enough, trying harder wasn't enough. That each of us eventually reached moments where we had to lift our gaze beyond ourselves and trust that there was something bigger helping carry us forward. Call that God, call it creator, call it the universe, call it love, call it the wisdom that connects all of us living things. The name matters less than the posture, the willingness to look up when life has brought you to your knees.
Prayer As Relationship And Support
SPEAKER_00Prayer at its heart is relationship. It's a conversation with something greater than ourselves. A moment of remembering that we do not have to carry every burden alone. So wherever you are today, in your car, on your walk, doing the dishes, lying awake, wondering what comes next, we want to invite you to borrow our faith for a few moments. Take a breath, lift your gaze, and receive today's prayer.
Premium Subscription And Where To Go
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