321. The Divorce Diet: From Midnight Bingeing to Appetite Loss - What Your Body Is Really Asking For

Dear Divorce Diary: A Fresh Approach To Healing Grief & Building A Life Of Confidence After Divorce

Dear Divorce Diary: A Fresh Approach To Healing Grief & Building A Life Of Confidence After Divorce
321. The Divorce Diet: From Midnight Bingeing to Appetite Loss - What Your Body Is Really Asking For
Feb 24, 2026 Season 5 Episode 321
My Coach Dawn

You’re either eating everything in sight to numb the ache…
or staring at food like your body forgot how to be hungry.

Welcome to what so many women quietly call the divorce diet.

After divorce, your nervous system is on high alert. Grief, resentment, fear, and mental load don’t just affect your thoughts — they change your biology.

In this episode of Dear Divorce Diary, we unpack:

• Why cortisol and adrenaline shut digestion down — or drive intense sugar and carb cravings
 • How heartbreak, betrayal, and chronic stress deplete specific organs in the body
 • The Traditional Chinese Medicine organ–emotion connection (liver resentment, spleen worry, kidney fear, heart heartbreak, lung grief)
 • Why therapy alone sometimes doesn’t “stick”
 • And the nourishment layer most women are missing

This isn’t about willpower.
It’s not about discipline.
And it’s definitely not about another diet.

It’s about survival physiology.

Your body has been keeping the score — and it may be asking for deeper nourishment, not more control.

We also share a whole-food approach to rebuilding from the inside out using grass-fed beef organs, collagen, and colostrum — ancestral nutrients that support the exact systems divorce stress depletes. 

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When the organs are nourished, resentment softens.
Worry quiets.
Energy returns.
And appetite stabilizes naturally — because your body finally feels safe again.

Divorce recovery is holistic — mind, body, spirit.

When we nourish the body, the spirit exhales.

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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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