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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.
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This Thursday, you’re invited into something sacred and real. One of our most cherished community members — the one who shows up honest, even when life feels like a rocket ship up her ass — sat down with Coach Tiffini for a live, unfiltered IFS coaching session. She came in carrying the familiar post-divorce exhaustion: extra work responsibilities dumped without warning, barely time to eat, resentment simmering… yet underneath it all, a new kind of calm she hadn’t felt in years. What rose to ...
Hi, love—welcome to Dear Divorce Diary, where midlife women move beyond talk therapy to process grief held in the body, release what's braced inside, and reclaim the confidence divorce tried to steal. I’m Dawn Wiggins, therapist, coach, integrative healer, and the woman who once lay awake thinking, “I should feel better than this… but my body never got the memo.” Toothpicks holding your eyelids open. Moving through molasses. Wired-tired even after more sleep, fewer spirals, all the supplement...
Thursday episodes are for when your body won’t do what your mind understands. If you’re exhausted after divorce but still feel like you can’t drop the ball… If rest makes you anxious instead of relieved… If part of you believes that if you stop managing everything, it will all fall apart… This episode gives you something to do in that moment. Not a mindset shift. Not a pep talk. Not “just rest more.” In this premium episode of Dear Divorce Diary, Dawn guides you throug...
After divorce, women are often told to “step into their masculine energy” — be strong, decisive, productive, self-sufficient. But what if you’re not choosing strength at all? What if your body simply doesn’t expect help to arrive? And, do you know what to do about this? In this episode of Dear Divorce Diary, we talk about why so many women feel stuck in over-functioning after divorce — and why what looks like competence is often a nervous system stuck in survival mode. You’ll learn: Why safet...
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 surf...
If you’re in divorce recovery and keep reaching for food, screens, or emotional numbness, it’s easy to assume the problem is discipline. It’s not. In today’s episode, we talk about what’s actually running underneath those patterns: everyday dissociation — the high-functioning, easy-to-miss kind that hides inside coping, productivity, and “getting through the day.” Divorce doesn’t just end a relationship; it changes how present you are able to stay with your own life. This matters because diss...
If you’ve been holding yourself together because it feels like the only way to stay functional, this guided reset is for you. Divorce anxiety and overwhelm don’t come from weakness or lack of coping skills....they come from carrying too much responsibility for too long (often without enough support). This Thursday, Premium Healing Tool offers a gentle, body-based reset designed to help you release internal pressure without forcing calm, bypassing fear, or risking emotional collapse. You won’t...
Hypervigilance doesn’t come from wanting control. It comes from realizing—often too early—that no one else was going to handle it. After divorce, many women find themselves overanalyzing everything: conversations, tone shifts, finances, social dynamics, parenting decisions, other people’s moods. Not because they’re anxious by nature—but because their bodies learned that vigilance was the price of stability. In this episode of Dear Divorce Diary, we name the real cost of being the only adult i...
If someone has ever told you to calm down after divorce—and it made everything inside you feel louder, sharper, or more volatile—you’re not broken. You’re responding to a loss of connection. In this Thursday Panel Rant, Dawn and the crew get cheeky, honest, and deeply real about why “calm down” is one of the fastest ways to shut a woman down—and why it so often backfires in relationships after divorce. This episode explores: Why being told to calm down often feels like being told your feeling...
What if this life after divorce never gets better? What if this is just how it is now? What he ruined everything? What if I can't be healed? If those thoughts have been looping in your mind after divorce, this episode is for you. In the Season 5 premiere of Dear Divorce Diary, we’re opening a powerful six-week series devoted to naming the thing under the thing—the deeper, often invisible forces that keep women stuck in anxiety, overthinking, and emotional exhaustion after divorce. And today, ...
This is not a lesson about divorce healing. It’s not advice. It’s a pause. Day 12 of the 12 Days of Divorce Christmas is simply a blessing—offered to you exactly as you are. If these last 12 days stirred grief, relief, exhaustion, hope, or something you can’t quite name, this episode is here to hold that with you. No fixing. No reframing. No pushing forward. Just a few quiet moments of being witnessed. You’ve been strong longer than you should have had to be. You’ve carried more than most peo...
If New Year’s resolutions have never worked for you...especially after divorce, it’s not because you lack discipline, motivation, or follow-through. It’s because the version of you who survived divorce is not wired to safely become the woman you’re trying to create. After divorce, most women try to change their lives by changing their behavior. But behavior never sticks when the nervous system doesn’t feel safe expanding. In this New Year’s Day episode, we break down why resolutions fail spec...
New Year’s Eve has a way of turning self-criticism up to full volume after divorce. The comparisons. The sense that you should be further along. The quiet question of what’s wrong with me that this still hurts? If you find yourself being unusually hard on yourself today, this episode isn’t here to tell you to “think positive” or try harder. It’s here to explain why this happens—and what your nervous system is actually doing when self-doubt takes over. In this episode, we talk about: Why divor...
The holidays after divorce don’t hurt because you’re single. They hurt because they force you to confront how unsafe it feels to need support. In this Day 9 episode of 12 Days of Divorce Christmas, we talk about the hidden, hardest part of life after divorce—asking for help. Not logistically, but emotionally. Not politely, but vulnerably. If feeling safe, seen, and supported came naturally to you, this wouldn’t be the relationship you ended up in—and it wouldn’t be how it ended. So when the h...
In this Day 8 episode of 12 Days of Divorce Christmas, Coach Tiffini joins me to unpack what actually happens inside your nervous system when you try to bring old traditions into a new life after divorce...especially in this in-between week between the holidays and the New Year. Through an IFS (Internal Family Systems) lens, we talk about the protective parts that step in when traditions carry grief, memory, and expectation. Not because you’re doing it wrong—but because your system may not fe...
How ya doing babe? We're on day 7 of "The 12 Days of Becoming HER Again" and it's all pretty raw. Today we’re talking about loneliness after divorce...not as something to fix or outrun, but as something that moves in waves. For many women, loneliness doesn’t stay constant. It rises. It crests. And when it hits, it can feel overwhelming. In this episode, Joy and I talk about: Why loneliness after divorce often comes in wavesHow many women try to drown it out instead of ride i...
Today's convo is about a specific kind of holiday pain after divorce... the Christmas cards knowing exactly how to **send you. The smiling families. The matching outfits. The quiet comparison that starts to creep in and makes you feel like you no longer belong to the world you used to be part of. In this episode, Joy and I talk about: Why Christmas cards trigger comparison so deeply after divorceHow performance culture keeps women disconnected from themselvesThe grief of rebuilding your...
If you’re here today, it means your kids aren’t with you...and that absence lands in the body, not just the heart. This episode is for the moms navigating holidays, weekends, or long stretches without their children after divorce. The quiet. The ache. The way your nervous system doesn’t know where to settle when the people you’re bonded to aren’t home. Joy shares from lived experience what it’s like to be deeply, trauma-bonded to your children — through pregnancy, birth, illness, caregiving, ...
Christmas after divorce can hit your body before your mind ever catches up. You can know logically that other people’s celebrations have nothing to do with you—and still feel the ache, the comparison, the quiet grief in your chest when you wake up. Today’s episode is different. This is a short quantum healing track designed to help your nervous system release the emotional charge that gets activated when you imagine other families celebrating—and then turn back toward your own reality. Quantu...
Welcome to Day 3 of the 12 Days of Divorce Christmas...also known as the 12 Days of Becoming Her Again. Today we’re talking about one of the hardest moments after divorce: going to the holiday party alone. The explaining. The questions you don’t want to answer. The way your body tightens when you walk into a room where you used to belong as part of a couple. For many women, this isn’t just social anxiety — it’s identity grief. You were someone’s wife. You had a role. You had...
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