Peace-keeping wives keep everyone happy—except themselves. Divorce forces the silence to break, and that’s when real healing begins.
You’ll Learn
- The hidden cost of people-pleasing in marriage.
- Why peace-keeping creates burnout and quiet resentment.
- How to reclaim your voice and your boundaries after divorce.
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and learn to rebuild with safety, boundaries, and freedom.
So many women spend years smoothing things over, avoiding conflict, and carrying the weight of everyone else’s comfort. But in divorce, silence doesn’t protect—it suffocates. In this episode, I uncover the silent epidemic of peace-keeping wives, why it feels safer to appease than to speak, and how to finally let your truth breathe. Real recovery isn’t about keeping the peace—it’s about finding your peace.
Breaking free from people-pleasing is essential to post-divorce healing.
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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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Episode Transcript
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
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confidence after divorce.
I'm starting to understand.
Maybe it wasn't just him and Idon't mean I was awful or
anything, but I think I might'vebeen toxic in my own way, not
(00:46):
the screaming or cheating kind,but in a way where I sort of
disappeared.
I kept quiet, I went along withthings.
I told myself I was beingeasygoing for a lot of years,
and now I'm not so sure.
Maybe I was abandoning myselfand calling it love, maybe I
thought being needed was thesame as being loved.
(01:06):
And now, all these years later,I'm only just now connecting
the dots.
In today's episode, we are goingto witness the woman who wrote
this, who has been married for avery long time and has lost an
identity and an understanding ofwhere she fits anymore in our
(01:27):
society, who values youth andbeauty and virility over and
loyalty and abiding.
We're going to talk about thekind of grief that goes so far
beyond the loss of a marriage ora role, but around an identity
what happens when we divorcedourselves from ourselves before
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we got divorced?
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Dear Divorce Diary is a podcastby MyCoachDawn.
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You can find more atMyCoachDawncom.
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