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 practice designed to help you release the nervous system pain of being single in a couple’s world — and remember that belonging starts within.
Before the guided sequence, you’ll learn how EFT actually works:
Why we tap on certain meridian points, what each one helps release (grief, shame, resentment, fear), and how those points help regulate your nervous system when loneliness hits hard.
Then, together, they lead you through a real-time tapping meditation to help your body feel safe again — safe to feel, safe to rest, and safe to belong to yourself.
✨ In this episode
- What EFT really does to calm the post-divorce nervous system
- The nine meridian points and the emotions they help release
- A step-by-step guided tapping sequence for the ache of being single in a couple’s world
- A nervous system reframe that turns “alone” into “at home in myself”
🧘♀️ Try it now
Find a quiet space.
Take a deep breath.
Tap along as Dawn leads the practice and notice your body start to soften — the exhale that says, I’m okay. I belong here.
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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
If you have been feeling the pain, the visceral
pain of being single in acouple's world and known you
need to break the pattern ofusing an ambient or a glass of
wine to distract yourself, thisepisode is for you.
(00:20):
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, Don Wiggins, atherapist, coach, integrative
healer, and divorcee.
Join me for a fresh approach tohealing grief and building your
(00:41):
confidence after divorce.
Today's episode is so powerfulbecause it has the ability to
fundamentally begin to rewirewhat you experience when you're
feeling lonely, when you arefeeling the pain of singleness.
(01:05):
And while we talk a lot aboutEFT around here, we haven't
always talked about how itworks, what it does, and the
places where we physically tapthe body, why we use those spots
and what they do.
So I'm gonna walk you throughtoday.
The ladies and I are gonna tapwith you together, but before
that, we're gonna talk a littlebit about how EFT works.
(01:26):
And then we're gonna go straightinto a custom EMT EFT tapping
sequence specific to helping yourelease the pain of feeling
single in a couple's world.
Ladies, welcome.
We love talking about this shit.
Yes.
Hello, hello.
Producer Joy specifically waslike, we have never talked about
what the meridians are.
(01:47):
And I was like, good point.
Let's do that.
So producer Joy for the win.
So what is EFT?
It's actually known as emotionalfreedom technique.
It combines principles of modernpsychology and ancient Chinese
acupressure.
So during a session, the pointis to focus on what's causing
you the stress, the pain, or thediscomfort while tapping
(02:08):
specific sets of you know,acupressure points on the body.
The EFT points correspond totraditional Chinese medicine.
And when we tap on those points,it sends calming signals to the
nervous system and the brain,letting it know that it's safe
to relax, feel the feelings, andrelease whatever is driving the
stress in the body.
(02:29):
So it allows you to release, tofind more balance, to find more
peace in the body, and help easeyou forward from a nervous
system standpoint.
So there are nine meridians thatwe tap on.
You can access the full episodeby becoming a premium
subscriber, which is just fivedollars a month.
Scroll down to the show notesand click the link where you'll
(02:49):
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