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

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  • 252. When Comfort Comes From Your Ex's Best Friend and Other Post Divorce Secrets We Carry

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    Would you ever confess to sleeping with your ex’s best friend before your divorce was finalized—or would you keep that secret buried forever?

    Divorce is messy enough, but what happens when real human needs for comfort, connection, and validation push us toward choices we never pictured ourselves making? 

    If you’ve ever worried that your own healing process might be "too messy" or that your search for pleasure and being seen makes you less deserving of compassion, you’re not alone. This episode dives deep into the shame, loneliness, and judgment women so often face after divorce, especially when it comes to reclaiming their pleasure and self-worth in ways society doesn’t always approve of.

    In this honest, no-holds-barred listen, you’ll discover:

    • How moments of vulnerability—like sleeping with someone unexpected—are often more about healing loneliness and feeling truly seen than about reckless decisions.
    • Why women are judged so harshly for seeking pleasure or comfort, and the layers of jealousy, insecurity, and societal expectation at play.
    • Real stories and confessions from women who have stood in their truths, moved through shame, and learned to embrace every complex, imperfect part of their journey.

    Ready to feel seen, supported, and inspired to embrace your own messy, honest healing after divorce? Hit play and join the conversation with women who get it.

    Post Divorce Roadmap - 21 Days of Guided Journaling

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    A podcast exploring the journey of life after divorce, delving into topics like divorce grief, loneliness, anxiety, 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 forgiveness and letting go.

    Post Divorce Road Map : 21 Days of Journaling

    Promo Code: MAGICDROP

    14 min
  • 251. Guilt, Healing, and Kids: What to Do When Your Child Acts Like Your Ex After Divorce

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    Have you ever heard your child use your ex’s hurtful words—and felt a wave of dread because it sounds just like them all over again?

    As a divorced parent, nothing stings quite like realizing your child is picking up the same language, tones, or behaviors that once caused you pain. If you’re triggered when your kid starts echoing your ex—or even acting out patterns you’re desperate to leave behind—you’re not alone, and you don’t have to stay stuck in shame, guilt, or confusion.

    In this episode, you’ll discover why this emotional gut-punch is so common for co-parents and single moms, how your own triggers say more about your unhealed wounds than your child’s choices, and what to do in the moment to avoid projecting old pain onto your kid—while still holding healthy boundaries and compassion. You’ll also learn how to reframe these moments as powerful invitations to break the cycle, model emotional honesty, and create a more secure, attuned bond with your child.

    Listen now for real talk, practical healing tools, and some much-needed permission to feel it all—because navigating this pain can become one of the bravest, most transforming steps on your divorce recovery journey.

    Post Divorce Roadmap - 21 Days of Guided Journaling

    Join The list for A Different D Word, our personalized healing program.

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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.

    Support the show

    Join Cocoon VIP - "The Room Where Support Without Guilt Happens"

    For just $5 a month, you can access all thursday eps where we apply the concepts we cover on Tuesday. You will also be invited to attend monthly live workshops with Coach Tiffini and other exclusive content. Can't attend the live workshop? No problem! You'll get access to all the recordings plus handouts that help you DO the healing work you need!

    Real Conversations. Real Regulation. Real Relief.

    29 min
  • Ep. 250 - Releasing Grief & Rage: How Your Hips Hold What Your Mouth Never Said During Divorce

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    Have you ever wondered what happens to all the rage, fear, and heartbreak you push down when you don’t feel safe to leave—but know you can’t keep staying?
    If you’re walking on eggshells in your relationship, disconnecting from your truth just to keep the peace, you’re not alone. 

    Dawn guides beyond “leave or stay” by showing how emotional pain, when suppressed, gets trapped in your body—especially your hips—and keeps you feeling frozen and powerless.

    This episode will help you unlock:

    • A powerful, practical somatic exercise you can do at home to process anger and grief (without leaving your marriage or partner).
    • Insight into why your body holds emotional pain and how releasing it helps break cycles of self-abandonment.
    • Simple ways to reconnect with the parts of you that feel silenced, so you can reclaim your voice and start healing—one breath, one push, one truth at a time.

    Press play now and discover how to gently, safely, and physically move the pain out of your body—so you can finally stop leaving yourself behind.

    Post Divorce Roadmap - 21 Days of Guided Journaling

    Join The list for A Different D Word, our personalized healing program.

    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MyCoachDawn
    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dawnwiggins/
    On the Web: https://www.mycoachdawn.com

    A podcast exploring the journey of life after divorce, delving into topics like divorce grief, loneliness, anxiety, 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 forgiveness and letting go.

    Support the show

    Join Cocoon VIP - "The Room Where Support Without Guilt Happens"

    For just $5 a month, you can access all thursday eps where we apply the concepts we cover on Tuesday. You will also be invited to attend monthly live workshops with Coach Tiffini and other exclusive content. Can't attend the live workshop? No problem! You'll get access to all the recordings plus handouts that help you DO the healing work you need!

    Real Conversations. Real Regulation. Real Relief.

    2 min
  • 250. Releasing Grief & Rage: How Your Hips Hold What Your Mouth Never Said During Divorce

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    Have you ever wondered what happens to all the rage, fear, and heartbreak you push down when you don’t feel safe to leave—but know you can’t keep staying?

    If you’re walking on eggshells in your relationship, disconnecting from your truth just to keep the peace, you’re not alone. Dawn guides beyond “leave or stay” by showing how emotional pain, when suppressed, gets trapped in your body—especially your hips—and keeps you feeling frozen and powerless.

    This episode will help you unlock:

    • A powerful, practical somatic exercise you can do at home to process anger and grief (without leaving your marriage or partner).
    • Insight into why your body holds emotional pain and how releasing it helps break cycles of self-abandonment.
    • Simple ways to reconnect with the parts of you that feel silenced, so you can reclaim your voice and start healing—one breath, one push, one truth at a time.

    Press play now and discover how to gently, safely, and physically move the pain out of your body—so you can finally stop leaving yourself behind.

    Post Divorce Roadmap - 21 Days of Guided Journaling

    Join The list for A Different D Word, our personalized healing program.

    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MyCoachDawn
    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dawnwiggins/
    On the Web: https://www.mycoachdawn.com

    A podcast exploring the journey of life after divorce, delving into topics like divorce grief, loneliness, anxiety, 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 forgiveness and letting go.

    Post Divorce Road Map : 21 Days of Journaling

    Promo Code: MAGICDROP

    11 min
  • 249. When You Know It’s Over but You Stay- The Divorce Dilemmas No One Talks About

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    Have you ever felt sure your relationship is over, but just can’t seem to leave, and then wondered what’s wrong with you for staying?

    If you’re quietly battling the should-I-stay-or-should-I-go debate or feeling trapped by the complex realities of divorce, you’re not alone. All those well-meaning voices telling you to “just leave” or “do what’s right for the kids” rarely acknowledge the real safety fears, financial worries, or emotional roadblocks that keep you frozen in place.

    In this episode, you’ll learn why “Should I stay or should I go?” is the wrong question for people in your shoes, discover how to recognize and support the protector parts of you that are keeping you stuck (without self-blame), and get practical strategies for caring for yourself—body and mind—until you really are ready to take action.

    Let this episode be your permission slip to stop beating yourself up and finally start building the clarity, self-belief, and inner safety you need—press play now to learn how to navigate the messy middle of the divorce process with self-compassion and renewed strength.

    Journal Prompts:

    • "What part of me is afraid to leave?"
    • "What is that part afraid will happen if I leave?"
    • "What part of me is afraid to stay?"
    • "What is that part afraid of if I stay?"
    • "How can you choose to stay, without disappearing?"

    Post Divorce Roadmap - 21 Days of Guided Journaling

    Join The list for A Different D Word, our personalized healing program.

    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MyCoachDawn
    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dawnwiggins/
    On the Web: https://www.mycoachdawn.com

    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.

    Support the show

    Join Cocoon VIP - "The Room Where Support Without Guilt Happens"

    For just $5 a month, you can access all thursday eps where we apply the concepts we cover on Tuesday. You will also be invited to attend monthly live workshops with Coach Tiffini and other exclusive content. Can't attend the live workshop? No problem! You'll get access to all the recordings plus handouts that help you DO the healing work you need!

    Real Conversations. Real Regulation. Real Relief.

    19 min
  • EP. 248 - Guided Back to Yourself: An IFS Meditation to Build Confidence After Divorce

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    Ever feel like there’s a part of you that’s been neglected or unseen since your divorce, no matter how much you try to move forward?

    Navigating the fallout from divorce can leave you carrying old wounds—like loneliness, abandonment, or a sense of being unheard. What if you could actually meet those hurting parts of yourself with compassion, rather than pushing them away or just “powering through”?

    In this episode, listeners will discover a gentle meditation guided by Dawn using Internal Family Systems (IFS) principles to help you finally tend to those abandoned or unseen parts of yourself. You'll learn to reconnect with your body and breath as an anchor for healing, develop self-compassion as you sit with the parts of you carrying pain, and discover practical ways to release emotional burdens so you can reclaim a sense of belonging and wholeness.

    Press play now to experience a deeply restorative IFS meditation that will leave you feeling lighter, safer, and more rooted in self-love.

    Post Divorce Roadmap - 21 Days of Guided Journaling

    Join The list for A Different D Word, our personalized healing program.

    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MyCoachDawn
    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dawnwiggins/
    On the Web: https://www.mycoachdawn.com

    A podcast exploring the journey of life after divorce, delving into topics like divorce grief, loneliness, anxiety, 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 forgiveness and letting go.

    Support the show

    Join Cocoon VIP - "The Room Where Support Without Guilt Happens"

    For just $5 a month, you can access all thursday eps where we apply the concepts we cover on Tuesday. You will also be invited to attend monthly live workshops with Coach Tiffini and other exclusive content. Can't attend the live workshop? No problem! You'll get access to all the recordings plus handouts that help you DO the healing work you need!

    Real Conversations. Real Regulation. Real Relief.

    2 min
  • 248. Guided Back to Yourself: An IFS Meditation to Build Confidence After Divorce

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    Ever feel like there’s a part of you that’s been neglected or unseen since your divorce, no matter how much you try to move forward?

    Navigating the fallout from divorce can leave you carrying old wounds—like loneliness, abandonment, or a sense of being unheard. What if you could actually meet those hurting parts of yourself with compassion, rather than pushing them away or just “powering through”?

    In this episode, listeners will discover a gentle meditation guided by Dawn using Internal Family Systems (IFS) principles to help you finally tend to those abandoned or unseen parts of yourself. You'll learn to reconnect with your body and breath as an anchor for healing, develop self-compassion as you sit with the parts of you carrying pain, and discover practical ways to release emotional burdens so you can reclaim a sense of belonging and wholeness.

    Press play now to experience a deeply restorative IFS meditation that will leave you feeling lighter, safer, and more rooted in self-love.

    Post Divorce Roadmap - 21 Days of Guided Journaling

    Join The list for A Different D Word, our personalized healing program.

    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MyCoachDawn
    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dawnwiggins/
    On the Web: https://www.mycoachdawn.com

    A podcast exploring the journey of life after divorce, delving into topics like divorce grief, loneliness, anxiety, 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 forgiveness and letting go.

    Post Divorce Road Map : 21 Days of Journaling

    Promo Code: MAGICDROP

    15 min
  • 247. What Happens When You Stop Holding It Together After Divorce: A Live IFS Session Between Producer Joy & Coach Tiffini

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    Ever wonder why people-pleasing feels so impossible to break—and what it would take to finally let yourself be seen and heard?

    If you’re stuck in cycles of making yourself small to keep the peace—whether at work, with your ex, or even around your kids—this episode is for you. We were taught early on that our value depended on how well we cared for everyone else, and those old stories keep running the show long after childhood. 

    Producer Joy gets real about the roots of her own people-pleasing patterns, and Coach Tiffini walks her through a powerful IFS (Internal Family Systems) session—live and unscripted—that helps link past experiences, somatic sensations, and the beliefs still holding you hostage.

    By tuning in, you’ll discover how to recognize the exact moment your people-pleaser takes over, what it means to use somatic tools and EMDR to free yourself from old memory loops, and why integrating body-focused healing (not just talk therapy!) can rewire your responses for good. 

    You’ll walk away with compassion for your old survival strategies, real-life techniques to set boundaries and speak up, and brand-new ways to actually embody your authentic self instead of just talking about it.

    Ready to experience your own breakthrough? Press play now to witness this transformative session—and start giving your inner child permission to run wild.

    Post Divorce Roadmap - 21 Days of Guided Journaling

    Join The list for A Different D Word, our personalized healing program.

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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.

    Support the show

    Join Cocoon VIP - "The Room Where Support Without Guilt Happens"

    For just $5 a month, you can access all thursday eps where we apply the concepts we cover on Tuesday. You will also be invited to attend monthly live workshops with Coach Tiffini and other exclusive content. Can't attend the live workshop? No problem! You'll get access to all the recordings plus handouts that help you DO the healing work you need!

    Real Conversations. Real Regulation. Real Relief.

    24 min
  • EP. 246 - Still Holding On To Hope He Will Change Or Regret Divorce

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    Why does it feel so impossible to let go, even when you know your relationship is built on broken promises and “almosts”?

    If you find yourself stuck replaying old messages, hoping for another sign, or endlessly waiting for your ex to finally change, you’re not alone—so many of us are trapped in the addictive cycle of “maybe,” clinging to hope rather than facing the deep fear of being alone.

    Listen in to discover why your brain keeps chasing breadcrumbs of hope, how your nervous system gets hooked on the cycle of waiting and disappointment, and why holding on to fantasy actually blocks you from future happiness.

    Become a premium subscriber to finally understand and break free from the addiction of “almost,” and find the peace and self-worth you deserve.

    Post Divorce Roadmap - 21 Days of Guided Journaling

    Join The list for A Different D Word, our personalized healing program.

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    On the Web: https://www.mycoachdawn.com

    A podcast exploring the journey of life after divorce, delving into topics like divorce grief, loneliness, anxiety, 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 forgiveness and letting go.

    Support the show

    Join Cocoon VIP - "The Room Where Support Without Guilt Happens"

    For just $5 a month, you can access all thursday eps where we apply the concepts we cover on Tuesday. You will also be invited to attend monthly live workshops with Coach Tiffini and other exclusive content. Can't attend the live workshop? No problem! You'll get access to all the recordings plus handouts that help you DO the healing work you need!

    Real Conversations. Real Regulation. Real Relief.

    2 min
  • 246. Still Holding On To Hope He Will Change Or Regret Divorce - How To Escape This Cycle

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    Why does it feel so impossible to let go, even when you know your relationship is built on broken promises and “almosts”?

    If you find yourself stuck replaying old messages, hoping for another sign, or endlessly waiting for your ex to finally change, you’re not alone—so many of us are trapped in the addictive cycle of “maybe,” clinging to hope rather than facing the deep fear of being alone.

    Listen in to discover why your brain keeps chasing breadcrumbs of hope, how your nervous system gets hooked on the cycle of waiting and disappointment, and why holding on to fantasy actually blocks you from future happiness.

    Hit play now to finally understand and break free from the addiction of “almost,” and find the peace and self-worth you deserve.

    Post Divorce Roadmap - 21 Days of Guided Journaling

    Join The list for A Different D Word, our personalized healing program.

    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MyCoachDawn
    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dawnwiggins/
    On the Web: https://www.mycoachdawn.com

    A podcast exploring the journey of life after divorce, delving into topics like divorce grief, loneliness, anxiety, 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 forgiveness and letting go.

    Post Divorce Road Map : 21 Days of Journaling

    Promo Code: MAGICDROP

    12 min

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

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