Ep. 342 - I Keep Abandoning Myself When I Hurt | A Sleep Meditation for Divorce Anxiety & Heartbreak

About this episode

This episode addresses the challenges of self-abandonment during the emotional turmoil following a divorce and offers a sleep meditation for healing.

If you’ve been trying to hold it all together while quietly falling apart inside… this episode is for you. Because sometimes after divorce, the hardest part isn’t the heartbreak itself. It’s realizing how quickly you leave yourself when the pain gets too big. You disconnect. Overthink. Obsess over your ex. Numb out. Push through. Care for everyone else while abandoning the parts of you that are hurting the most. And eventually, your nervous system starts living in survival mode. This Cocoon V...

People in this episode

Host: Dawn

Topics covered

• divorce
• anxiety
• self-care
• meditation
• heartbreak
• mental health

Keywords

• divorce anxiety
• sleep meditation
• self-abandonment
• heartbreak
• mental health
• nervous system
• survival mode

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