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Dear Divorce Diary: A Fresh Approach To Healing Grief & Building A Life Of Confidence After Divorce

This isn’t a breakup pep talk. It’s a full-body recalibration for women navigating life after divorce. Dear Divorce Diary is a podcast for women dealing with grief, loneliness, anxiety, anxious or avoidant attachment, and identity loss after divorce — especially when quick fixes, positivity, and spiritual fluff no longer work.I’m Dawn Wiggins, therapist, coach, and homeopath, and this show goes where most divorce advice won’t: into your nervous system, your unspoken grief, your buried rage, and the

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Ep. 386 A Sleep Meditation for When You Need Support...

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2026/10/08

Need emotional support after divorce, but feel guilty asking? This 10-minute guided sleep meditation offers a gentle space to acknowledge your needs and explore what makes receiving care difficult. You could use someone checking in. Someone listening. Somewhere to say, “I’m having a hard time,” without immediately assuring everyone you’re fine. But then comes the guilt. They have enough going on. You’ve already talked about your divorce so much. You don’t want people to get tired of you. You ...

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385. I’m Tired of Figuring Everything Out After...

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2026/10/06

You held it together at work. Handled the responsibilities. Gave everyone what they needed. Now you’re home—and you have nothing left for the woman who’s still hurting. You want to feel better after divorce. But choosing another book, finding another practitioner, or figuring out which healing tool to use feels like another job. Can someone please just tell you what to do next? In this episode of Dear Divorce Diary, Dawn, Joy, and Coach Tiffini talk about the overwhelm and decision fatigue th...

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Ep. 384 - I Want to Feel Beautiful Again After...

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2026/10/01

Wanting to feel beautiful again after divorce isn’t shallow. After heartbreak, stress, body changes, and years of living in survival mode, sometimes you just want to look in the mirror and think: There she is. You want your confidence back. Your energy back. Your swagger back. You want to feel sexy, desirable, and at home in your body again. But if you’ve been trying to get there through weight loss, harder workouts, restriction, or criticizing yourself into changing, you may be working again...

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383. I Was a Marriage Therapist & Still Couldn’t...

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2026/09/29

I was a trained marriage and family therapist when I got divorced. I understood attachment theory. I knew the language of relationships. And I still couldn’t prevent my own divorce. For a long time, that felt embarrassing. But it taught me something I needed to understand about divorce healing: knowing what’s happening in your mind is different from feeling safe enough to live differently. In this episode, Joy, Coach Tiffini, and I get personal about the gap between insight and change. We tal...

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Ep. 382 - The Divorce Healing Tool You Probably...

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2026/09/24

Some moments in divorce just feel dark. Your heart hurts. Your mind keeps circling the what-ifs. You’re thinking about him, what he’s doing, what you lost, and what your life is supposed to look like now. And underneath all of that is the part no one really prepares you for: Letting go can feel terrifying. In this VIP episode, I’ll walk you through a simple 9-minute EFT tapping practice for moments when you feel stuck, heartbroken, alone, overwhelmed, or disconnected from the strong part of y...

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Why Your Love Language Could Never Make You Feel...

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2026/09/22

You knew your love language. You told him exactly what you needed—so why did it still never feel like enough? In this episode, we’re looking at what love languages can miss when attachment wounds, codependency, emotional safety, abandonment fears, and your nervous system are actually driving what happens inside your marriage. Because your love language may have been describing the behavior that temporarily soothed the wound—not the wound itself. Words of affirmation may feel wonderful—but why...

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Ep. 380 The Emotional Skill That Could Change Your...

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2026/09/17

What if the emotion itself isn’t what’s keeping you stuck after divorce? What if it’s the story you immediately attach to it? He did this. She said that. This ruined everything. I can’t have the life I want because they keep doing this. In this tactical VIP episode, Dawn teaches you how to separate the physical sensation of an emotion from the thoughts, interpretations and negative beliefs that keep reopening the wound. You’ll practice noticing where grief, anger, anxiety, shame or inadequacy...

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379. Why wasn't I worth it to him? Why This Question...

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2026/09/15

Why wasn’t I worth it to him? Why wasn’t I worth changing for? Why wasn’t I worth getting sober for, telling the truth for, going to therapy for, fighting for? Why could I love him that much, sacrifice that much, try that hard—and still not be enough to make him choose differently? It is one of the most painful rabbit holes after divorce. And it can keep you stuck because every time you ask the question, you are still making his choices the evidence of your worth. Maybe you’re waiting for the...

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378. I Want Love, Support & Good Things…But I Expect...

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2026/09/10

You want love. You want support. You want good things to happen to you. So why does some part of you still tense up when they actually arrive? Because when love has historically come with conditions, disappointment, betrayal, obligation or loss, receiving something good can feel surprisingly vulnerable. You may find yourself wondering: What’s the catch? What will this cost me? What are they going to want from me? What if I let myself depend on this and it disappears? What if opening myself up...

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377. Why Your Nervous System Resists the Life You...

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2026/09/08

You can know exactly what you need to do next—and still feel every part of you screaming, nope. Set the boundary. Ask for help. Leave the relationship. Start dating differently. Choose yourself. Let someone really see you. Take the next step in your healing. Why can the thing that might actually change your life feel so threatening? Because your nervous system doesn’t automatically choose what’s best for you. It often chooses what it already knows how to survive. In this episode, Dawn and Joy...

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Ep. 376 Softening What Divorce Grief Has Hardened in...

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2026/09/03

Divorce grief can harden you in ways you don’t always notice. You brace more. You anticipate more. You hold tighter. You get really good at pushing through. Sometimes that hardness was necessary. It helped you survive what was happening. But eventually, the armor that protected you can start making it harder to feel safe enough to soften again. This week’s Cocoon VIP is a gentle yoga practice followed by Yoga Nidra designed around that exact idea: softening what divorce and grief have hardene...

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375. Good News and Bad News About Why You Can’t Let...

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2026/09/01

You’re doing the therapy. You’re listening to the podcasts. You understand your attachment style. You’ve journaled, processed, learned the language, set the boundaries, and tried really fucking hard to move on. So why do you still feel stuck? In Part 1, we started asking a different question: Is your healing plan actually big enough for what you’re carrying? Today, we finish the checklist. Because sometimes the problem isn’t that you’re resistant to healing. It’s that you don’t have the right...

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373. Good News and Bad News About Why You Can’t Let...

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2026/08/25

You’re tired of healing. You’ve listened to the podcasts. You understand your attachment style. You know about boundaries and nervous system regulation. Maybe you’ve done therapy, read the books, journaled, meditated—and you’re still wondering why you can’t just let go and move on. Here’s the good news: letting go may not actually be the problem. The bad news? You may be carrying a hell of a lot more than you realized—and the support you have may not be big enough for all of it. In Part 1 of ...

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372. The Divorce Money Blocks You Don’t Know You...

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2026/08/20

Divorce changes your relationship with a lot of things. Love. Trust. Safety. The future. And sometimes… money. Because money isn’t just money. It can represent security, freedom, worthiness, belonging—and whether or not you believe there will actually be enough. In this VIP re-release, we’re digging into the subconscious money beliefs you may not even realize you’re carrying: scarcity, feeling ineligible for more, inherited beliefs about wealth, and the complicated feelings that can come with...

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371. What Are You Still Carrying That Doesn't Belong...

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2026/08/18

There are things you learned to carry because, at one point, you had to. The responsibility. The mental load. Other people's expectations. Keeping everyone okay. Being the strong one. Being the woman who could handle it. But just because you needed that version of yourself then doesn't mean you have to keep being her now. This week, Dawn sits down with Alexis Contos, founder of The Breadwinners, a community redefining what it means to be an ambitious, successful woman—and creating spaces wher...

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Ep. 370 Dating After Divorce: The Questions You Need...

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2026/08/13

Dating after divorce is a whole different world. Dating apps. Men holding fish. Men who apparently have never taken a decent selfie. Threesomes. Ethical non-monogamy. And the occasional man who looks way better in person than his profile would have you believe. But underneath all of the chaos is a much more important question: How do you know who you're actually dealing with before you get attached? With Dawn away, Coach Tiffini and Joy are joined again by Christianna, Kelly, and Jo from our ...

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369. A Year After Divorce: 3 Women Tell Us What It...

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2026/08/11

What does it actually take to become yourself again after divorce? Today, Dawn is away—which means Joy and Coach Tiffini have been left unsupervised. And they invited three women from the current A Different D Word cohort to take over the mic with them. Christianna, Kelly, and Jo came into this year in very different places. One was in free fall after the end of a 30-year marriage. One was already in therapy but felt like she spent every session catching her therapist up instead of actually m...

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Ep. - 368 10 Things Nobody Ever Taught You About...

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2026/08/06

Learn more about A Different D Word and apply here ✨ Divorce has a way of exposing everything you were never taught. Not because you're broken. Not because you're "too emotional." And certainly not because you're failing at healing. The truth is, most of us were never taught how emotions actually work. We were taught to push them down. To "be strong." To stop crying. To get over it. To keep the peace. To believe that having big feelings somehow meant we were too much. In this episo...

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367. Will I Ever Be Done Healing After My Divorce......

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2026/08/04

Learn more about A Different D Word and apply here ✨ Have you ever caught yourself thinking... "I'm so tired of healing." You went to therapy. You read the books. You journaled. You listened to the podcasts. You learned about attachment styles, your nervous system, boundaries, and trauma. So why does it still feel like your ex is taking up space in your mind? In this episode, Dawn, Coach Tiffini, and Joy unpack the quiet resentment so many divorced women carry: the feeling that you...

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Ep. 366 - Why Can't I Hear What I Really Need After...

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2026/07/30

Learn more about A Different D Word and apply here ✨ Have you ever asked yourself what you really need... and drawn a complete blank? After divorce, many women become experts at anticipating everyone else's needs while slowly losing touch with their own. The voice that plans, solves problems, overthinks, and keeps everything together gets so loud that the quieter parts of us barely get a chance to speak. In today's VIP episode, I'm guiding you through a powerful non-dominant hand j...

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