Ep. 294 - Divorce Anxiety 😟 Calming an Overloaded Nervous System with EFT Tapping and IFS

After divorce, many women aren’t just grieving...they’re carrying too much in their nervous system.

Too much responsibility.
Too much self-doubt.
Too much pressure to hold it together.

That load doesn’t live in your thoughts. It lives in your body.

In this episode, Dawn guides a somatic practice that blends EFT tapping with IFS-style parts work to help the nervous system release what it’s been holding. This is not about insight, fixing, or doing it right. It’s about staying in the body long enough for real relief to happen.

The focus is simple: meet the overwhelmed part with compassion, let go of what was never meant to be carried alone, and restore capacity one layer at a time.

If this created even a small shift, there are three ways to continue:

• Take the Divorce Recovery Nervous System Quiz to understand how your system is organized after divorce and where it’s getting stuck.
• Join Dear Divorce Diary Premium for deeper nervous system support, guided practices, and behind-the-scenes conversations.
• Join the Cocoon Community for ongoing (free), structured support that integrates somatic work, regulation, and real-life healing.

This isn’t about becoming stronger.
 It’s about carrying less.

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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 (02:24):
If you reached for this episode today, it's because
there's something inside of you,a part of you, that is carrying
too much, too much emotionalweight, too much responsibility,
too much fear, too much of thestory that says, I can't, I'm
stuck, I don't have what ittakes.

(02:46):
And that story isn't you.
It's a burden, a block, adepletion, a freeze.
Today we're gonna do somethingpowerful.
Something that blends EFTtapping with IFS parts work to
help you unburden one piece ofwhat is draining your capacity.

(03:09):
And you're not gonna think yourway through this.
You're going to feel the shiftin your body.
Hi, love.
Welcome to Dear Divorce Diary,the podcast helping divorcees go
beyond talk therapy to processyour grief, find the healing you

(03:30):
crave, and build back yourconfidence.
I'm your host, Don Wiggins, atherapist, coach, integrative
healer, and divorce.
Join me for a fresh approach tohealing grief and building your
confidence after divorce.

(03:51):
All right, I'm gonna walk youthrough a little bit of what
we're gonna do today becausevery often what brings people
out of their body, away from thesomatic reprocessing, is hopping
into their mind and askingthemselves if they're doing it
right.
So, to all of my perfectionistsout there who are worried about
performing this episodecorrectly, please shake that out

(04:13):
right now.
The most important thing thatyou're going to do is be with my
voice, drop into your body, andfeel into this process.
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