This isn’t a breakup pep talk. It’s a full-body recalibration. Welcome to Dear Divorce Diary—the only podcast for women navigating the messy aftermath of divorce who are done with quick fixes and spiritual fluff. I’m Dawn Wiggins, therapist and homeopath, and I’m here to give you something the divorce advice space rarely does: real healing. Through somatic therapy, EMDR, IFS, and homeopathy, we go deeper—into your nervous system, your unspoken grief, and your buried rage. Every week, we hold the tension: the body-based anxiety you can’t shake; the hormonal upheaval no one warned you about; the unresolved longing for identity. You’ll hear raw solo episodes, real voice notes from women in the trenches, and intimate interviews with experts who do more than perform healing. Here, you won’t be asked to “just move on.” You’ll be asked to feel. If you’re tired of tutorials that leave your nervous system humming and your heart disconnected, hit subscribe. Your nervous system already knows the truth—it just wants a safe space to embody it.
Today’s episode is personal, unpolished, and happening in real time.
This is the first in our new premium series, Behind the Mic—where we take you into the conversations that usually happen off-air. And this week, I’m sharing something I’m still moving through: a recent miscarriage.
Inside this conversation, we talk about how this loss collided with my lifelong pattern of staying in masculine energy—overfunctioning, overproducing, an...
If the holidays feel heavier this year—even the tiny decisions that shouldn’t take this much out of you—there’s a reason. After divorce, women carry an invisible load no one prepares us for. The planning, the negotiating, the managing, the remembering, the holding-it-all-together… it piles up until your body feels like it’s running on fumes.
And that overwhelm you keep blaming on weakness or poor coping?
It’s not that.
It’s ...
Letting go after divorce isn’t about willpower.
It’s about physiology.
Your body won’t release someone until it feels anchored somewhere safer than the place it’s been clinging.
And that’s why cord-cutting rituals, no-contact declarations, and “I’m done for real this time” moments almost never stick.
In this guided premium episode, we’re not letting go into emptiness...we’re letting go into self-belonging, the only place your...
If you’ve ever felt that tug toward your ex...not the man, but the idea of him...we've got you. That pull is your nervous system trying to finish a story it never got closure on. And after divorce, that pull gets loud.
In this episode, we break down why trauma bonds feel like soul ties and why your body keeps reaching for someone who couldn’t give you safety. You’ll learn what’s actually happening in your brain, why familiar pa...
Sometimes panic doesn’t wait for privacy.
It hits in the grocery store aisle, the Target parking lot, or right between the pasta sauce and the paper towels — the places where your body finally says, “No. I can’t hold this alone anymore.”
This premium episode is your real-time grounding track for those moments.
A full nervous-system reset you can use while you’re actively panicking — not later, not in hindsight, but right the...
...and then there’s the moment you’re just standing in the pasta sauce aisle, realizing your life doesn’t come in a set of two anymore.
No one warns you about that part of life after divorce.
The everyday grief.
The way your stomach drops when you reach for a family-size anything and remember: it’s just me now.
In this episode, Dawn, Joy, and Tiff unpack why the tiny, ordinary moments hit harder than the big ones — and why the gr...
Ep. 286 - A Holiday Loneliness Reset: A Nervous-System Ritual for Divorce Nights That Feel Too Quiet
If you pressed play on this tonight, it probably means the quiet hit differently.
Not the peaceful kind — the kind that presses against your ribs and makes your chest feel too small for your own heart.
The kind of quiet that shows up after divorce, when the world is flashing warm twinkle-light romance and happy-family commercials, and you're sitting in a room trying to remember how to breathe in your own life.
This episode i...
The holidays don’t just remind you who’s at your table...
They remind you who isn’t.
When you’re divorced, that quiet has a sound.
It’s the clink of one mug instead of two.
The solo grocery run.
The ache of seeing everyone else’s “perfect” family photos.
And the part no one talks about?
Your nervous system feels all of it long before your mind catches up.
In this episode, Dawn, Joy, and Tiff walk you through w...
You can talk about healing all day long…
But until you learn this kind of forgiveness, you’ll keep carrying him—
in your body, your triggers, your next relationship.
In this Dear Divorce Diary Premium episode, we get real about the difference between talking about forgiveness and actually feeling it.
You’ll walk through three powerful journal prompts that expose the exact places you’re still holding on—
and teach your bod...
You swore you were past it.
You journaled, forgave, meditated, did the work.
But then a photo shows up, or someone says his name, and your chest tightens again. That’s resentment — the emotion that doesn’t move out just because you tell it to.
In this episode, we stop pretending it’s gone.
We talk about what keeps it alive, why it feeds on validation, and what’s hiding under all that anger.
Joy shares the text that broke her c...
When your hormones and your heartbreak start tag-teaming your sanity, it can feel like your body and your emotions are working against you. You’re exhausted, irritable, sleepless, and half the time you can’t tell if you’re healing or falling apart.
In this episode, Dawn, Tiffini, and Joy unpack the missing link that brings your body and emotions back onto the same team. Together, they break down:
✨ Why somatics matter — and how real ...
What happens when the biggest emotional transition of your life — divorce — collides with the biggest physical one — menopause?
It’s not just about hot flashes or sleep loss.
It’s your identity, libido, mood, memory, confidence, and worth all shifting at once.
And when menopause arrives during or after divorce, it can feel like:
💔 Am I still desirable?
🤯 Why can’t I think straight?
🔥 Is this rage normal or am I losin...
There’s a kind of loneliness that doesn’t just live in your thoughts — it lives in your body...It’s the ache in your chest when you see another couple holding hands.
The quiet in the house that feels too loud.
The impulse to pour a glass of wine or take something to help you not feel so much.
In this episode of Dear Divorce Diary, Dawn, Joy, and Tiff guide you through a custom EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) tapping practi...
Have you ever noticed the world is built for couples?
Dinner for two, “plus-one” invites, family discounts — even the way people glance at you when you’re alone after divorce. It can feel like every billboard is whispering: you don’t belong.
In this episode of Dear Divorce Diary, Dawn, Coach Tiffini, and Producer Joy get brutally honest about what it means to be single in a couple’s world. They unpack:
💔 Why loneliness after di...
You could be a therapist, a coach, or the friend who swears she knows better—and still fall for an avoidant man’s games after divorce.
In this Dear Divorce Diary Premium episode, Dawn, Joy, and Tiffini get brutally honest (and hilariously real) about the ridiculous ways smart women stay hooked—the late-night texts, the lies we half-believed, the crumbs we treated like connection.
Then they flip the script with five raw, transformativ...
He disappears, then drops a “just checking in” text.
He remembers the good old days, then ghosts again.
That push–pull dance isn’t love — it’s control.
In this episode of Dear Divorce Diary, Dawn, Tiffini, and Joy unpack the hidden cost of divorcing an avoidant man — the paranoia, the false connection, the endless emotional labor — and teach you how to finally flip the script.
You’ll learn:
💔 How avoidant behavior actua...
You’ve read the books, gone to therapy, tried to make the “right” choice… and still feel like you’re second-guessing everything. After divorce, even simple decisions can feel like emotional quicksand.
In this episode, Dawn introduces Human Design—a quantum-meets-psychology framework that reveals how you were built to make decisions, manifest, and recharge your energy. Whether you’re wired for logic, emotion, gut instinct, or reflect...
You say you’re ready for more — but your energy still whispers “not enough.”
In this powerful rebroadcast from the Immersive Manifestation Series, Dawn exposes the hidden belief systems that keep women under-earning, under-receiving, and over-giving. You’ll unpack the roots of scarcity — from ancestral conditioning to quiet fears of losing love if you have more — and experience a live quantum healing sequence to rewire your ne...
Denial isn’t just pretending things are fine — it’s the story your nervous system tells so you don’t have to feel the full truth yet.
In this episode, we talk about how denial shows up in subtle ways:
...staying busy so you don’t feel,
...justifying behavior that hurts you,
...and, convincing yourself “it’s not that bad.”
And why breaking through it isn’t about shame — it’s about safety.
This is one of those episodes that’s worth h...
Some relationships end, but their patterns keep living in your body long after the divorce papers are signed.
In this rerelease, we talk about the hidden patterns that you thought were love — but were really fear. The ways you chased safety, approval, and control when what you actually craved was connection. The push-pull of attachment styles, codependency, and nervous system survival strategies that kept you looping in anxiety and ...
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