Ep. 288 - Calming Public Grief After Divorce: A Quick Nervous-System Reset (Grocery Store or Family Bathroom Edition)

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 there, in public, while your heart is racing and your manager parts are trying to keep it all together.

Inside, Dawn guides you through:

• A My Body Said No moment — how to recognize it and respond without shame
• A sensory grounding ritual you can use anywhere (yes, even aisle 7)
• Gentle IFS language for your Manager, Firefighter, and Exile parts
• A somatic breath pattern (“baking bread + blowing on soup”) that brings your body back online
• A quiet reconnection to the truth: you belong to yourself, even while you’re not okay

This is your pocket guide for public panic — steadying, human, and deeply regulating.
 Come back to it anytime your nervous system needs someone to sit with you and help you breathe again.

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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

SPEAKER_00 (02:40):
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

(03:00):
confidence after divorce.
I know your manager part, theone that tries to stay composed,
scanning for what to fix.
It's she's doing her job rightnow.
I want you to notice how hardshe's working in this moment.

(03:22):
I want you to take a breath andallow her to not hold it all
together in this moment.
I want you to take a breath andgive her permission for it to be
a little extra messy right now.
In this grocery store aisle, inthis target parking lot.

(03:42):
Let your shoulders drop and letthat manager part take one deep
breath with you.
Give her permission to be thetiniest bit human.
Allow her to feel seen andunderstood for how tired she is
of having to manage it all thetime.

(04:04):
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(04:31):
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