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  Ep. 380 The Emotional Skill That Could Change Your Entire Divorce Recovery & Stop the Spiraling 17.09.2026 2dk

  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 Keeps You Stuck After Divorce 15.09.2026 42dk

  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 Them to Cost Me, Trap Me or Hurt Me | A Guided Meditation for Divorce Recovery 10.09.2026 13dk

  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 Want After Divorce 08.09.2026 37dk

  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 You: A Yoga Nidra Practice 03.09.2026 2dk

  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 Go After Divorce (Pt. 2) 01.09.2026 41dk

  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 Go After Divorce (Pt. 1) 25.08.2026 1sa 6dk

  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 Have: How Loss Changes Your Relationship With Money 20.08.2026 25dk

  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 in Your Life After Divorce? 18.08.2026 1sa 5dk

  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 to Ask Before You Get Attached 13.08.2026 5dk

  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 Took to Become Themselves Again 11.08.2026 52dk

  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 Emotions (And It's Making Divorce So Much Harder) 06.08.2026 3dk

  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... or Does My Ex Get to Haunt Me Forever? 04.08.2026 44dk

  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 Divorce? (A Guided Journaling Exercise) 30.07.2026 3dk

  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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  365. Why You Can't Trust That Everything Will Be Okay After Divorce (Yet) 28.07.2026 45dk

  A Different D Word apply here ✨ You keep telling yourself that everything is going to be okay... So why doesn't your body believe you? If you've read the books, listened to the podcasts, repeated the affirmations, and you're still waiting to feel calm, you're not failing. Your nervous system simply doesn't heal through information alone. In this episode, we're unpacking why uncertainty feels so terrifying after divorce, how hypervigilance disguises itself as responsibility, and why tryin...
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  364. One Day, This Could Be You | What Building Secure Attachment Actually Feels Like 23.07.2026 5dk

  Secure attachment isn't a feeling you suddenly arrive at. It's something you build. It's discovering that you can be overwhelmed, uncertain, emotional, imperfect... and still let yourself lean on other people. In this week's After the Mic, we're reflecting on what happened during our annual A Different D Word retreat—not because we want you to wish you had been there, but because we want you to know what's possible. We talk about what it was like to be held by a room full of women while also ...
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  363. Dear Divorce Diary... I Said Yes Again - Even Though I Promised Myself I'd Say No 21.07.2026 47dk

  Have you ever heard yourself say "Sure!"... while every part of you was screaming "Absolutely not." You promised yourself you wouldn't text him. You wouldn't overcommit. You wouldn't rescue everyone. You wouldn't have sex just to keep the peace. You wouldn't keep saying yes when your body was begging you to say no. And then... you did it anyway. If you've ever walked away from a conversation wondering, "Why do I keep doing this?" this episode is for you. Today, we're unpacking why saying yes ...
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  Ep. 362 Why Does Everything Good for Me Feel Like a Chore After Divorce? 16.07.2026 3dk

  You know the things that would probably help. The walk. The boundary. The therapy session. The earlier bedtime. The journal sitting untouched on your nightstand. So why does it feel so hard to actually do them? If you've ever found yourself reaching for your phone instead of your healing, texting your ex when you knew better, pouring another glass of wine, avoiding the hard conversation, or putting off the very thing that might help you feel better... this episode is for you. In this conversa...
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  361. Three Core Ingredients of Letting Go, Moving On & Manifesting a Life You Love After Divorce 14.07.2026 23dk

  You thought healing would mean feeling better by now. Maybe you've been to therapy. Read the books. Listened to the podcasts. Journaled your heart out. Maybe you've done everything you're "supposed" to do after divorce and you're still wondering: Why do I feel so stuck? In this episode, Dawn shares the three core ingredients she believes every woman needs to truly let go, move on, and begin creating a life she loves after divorce. Because healing isn't just about understanding what happened. ...
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  Ep. 360 - The Deep Rest Your Divorce Recovery Needs | Retreat Yoga Nidra 09.07.2026 3dk

  What if the most healing thing you could do today wasn't another journal prompt, podcast episode, or breakthrough conversation? What if it was rest? In this special Dear Divorce Diary VIP episode, we're sharing one of the most requested practices from our Myrtle Beach retreats: a guided Yoga Nidra experience designed to help your nervous system soften, settle, and remember what safety feels like. This isn't yoga. You don't need flexibility. You don't need experience. You don't even need to st...