If you’re in divorce recovery and keep reaching for food, screens, or emotional numbness, it’s easy to assume the problem is discipline.

It’s not.

In today’s episode, we talk about what’s actually running underneath those patterns: everyday dissociation — the high-functioning, easy-to-miss kind that hides inside coping, productivity, and “getting through the day.” Divorce doesn’t just end a relationship; it changes how present you are able to stay with your own life.

This matters because dissociation doesn’t feel dramatic...it feels normal. And when it’s running, healing stays intellectual instead of embodied. You can understand your patterns, do the work, and still feel stuck because the part of you that needs to feel and integrate isn’t fully online.

We unpack how dissociation shows up as overeating, doom scrolling, brain fog, emotional flatness, and burnout — and why learning to spot what happens before those behaviors is often the difference between staying in cycles and actually moving forward.

We also share practical ways to recognize dissociation in real time, plus listener Small Wins, Big Shifts that show what changes when you stop managing your healing and start experiencing it.

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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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If you’ve been holding yourself together because it feels like the only way to stay functional, this guided reset is for you.

Divorce anxiety and overwhelm don’t come from weakness or lack of coping skills....they come from carrying too much responsibility for too long (often without enough support).

This Thursday, Premium Healing Tool offers a gentle, body-based reset designed to help you release internal pressure without forcing calm, bypassing fear, or risking emotional collapse.

You won’t be asked to relax.
You won’t be asked to stop worrying.
And nothing needs to be “fixed.”

Instead, you’ll be guided through a slow, contained experience that helps your body learn something new:
What it feels like to let go a little without falling apart.

In this episode, you’ll be supported to:

• Stay with anxiety without fighting it or trying to push it away
• Work with overwhelm in a paced, grounded way that respects your nervous system
• Use a simple butterfly tap to reduce bracing and internal tension
• Explore—without pressure—what your system believes would happen if you stopped holding everything together
• Experience relief while staying intact, present, and in control of your own pace

This is not about calming down or making anxiety disappear.
It’s about helping your body recognize that you are SAFE TO HEAL.

Even a few minutes of this kind of contact can soften the grip of overwhelm and change how much your system believes it has to carry.

You can return to this reset anytime anxiety spikes, responsibility feels heavy, or rest feels unsafe.

Nothing needs to resolve.
Nothing needs to be perfect.
Staying with yourself is the work.

We’re with you.

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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, 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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Hypervigilance doesn’t come from wanting control.
It comes from realizing—often too early—that no one else was going to handle it.

After divorce, many women find themselves overanalyzing everything: conversations, tone shifts, finances, social dynamics, parenting decisions, other people’s moods. Not because they’re anxious by nature—but because their bodies learned that vigilance was the price of stability.

In this episode of Dear Divorce Diary, we name the real cost of being the only adult in the room.

You’ll hear why:

• Hypervigilance is a role your body took on when things became unstable
• Overanalyzing doesn’t calm anxiety—it quietly feeds it until it erupts later
• Control is often a substitute for safety, not a sign of strength
• Letting go isn’t about trust-falling into uncertainty—it requires somewhere safe to land
• Exhaustion, resentment, and panic are downstream effects of never being able to stand down

We also talk honestly about why healing can’t happen in isolation—and why many women have to outgrow environments, relationships, and identities that once felt necessary but now feel depleting.

To close the episode, we share Small Wins, Big Shifts—real listener moments where control loosened just enough for relief, clarity, and trust to return. Not because everything worked out—but because they stopped carrying it alone.

If you’ve been living in constant readiness…and rest feels unavailable…if your mind never fully turns off…

This episode will help you understand why—and what it actually takes to change it.

If you’re craving a room where you don’t have to explain yourself, you’re invited to join Cocoon, our free community on the Heartbeat app. The link is in the show notes.

You don’t need more control.
You need support.

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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, 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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