Ep. 256 - Sacred Spaces or Shackles: Women’s Stories of Religious Trauma in Marriage & Divorce

For some women, faith communities feel like sacred spaces. For others, they become shackles. Divorce makes the cracks impossible to ignore.

You’ll Learn

• The hidden trauma many women face inside religious marriage.
• How faith and shame can become tangled in divorce recovery.
• What it takes to reclaim spirituality without control or fear.

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Religion is supposed to comfort, but for many divorced women, it amplified shame and silence. In this episode, I highlight real women’s stories of religious trauma, how spiritual spaces can become controlling, and the process of separating your soul from dogma. Healing doesn’t mean abandoning faith—it means reclaiming it in a way that nurtures, not controls.

Religious trauma after divorce can transform into spiritual freedom.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:05):
Hi, love.
Welcome to Dear Divorce Diary,the podcast helping divorcees go
beyond talk therapy to processyour grief, find the healing you
crave and build back yourconfidence.
I'm your host, dawn Wiggins, atherapist, coach, integrative
healer and divorcee.
Join me for a fresh approach tohealing grief and building your

(00:25):
confidence after divorce.
Maybe it wasn't the yelling,the isolation or the fear that
finally broke you.
Maybe it was being told youwere the problem for wanting to
leave.
In this week's premium episode,we're breaking down what the

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spiritual trauma actually lookslike in the body and why so many
Christian women gaslightthemselves before anyone else
does.
We're talking about howbypassing becomes bondage, how
trauma gets confused withobedience, and how to finally
reclaim a faith that doesn't askyou to bleed to be believed If

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your body is still carrying theguilt the church gave you.
Come join us.
You are not too sensitive,you're awake.
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