HeyJaredLife after Trauma with Clare Egan
🏳️🌈 Queer writer exploring trauma recovery, creativity & community. Intimate essays + resources for finding your way back 📍Dublin, Ireland
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🤯 Things I can't stop thinking about (part 4) (opens the original)
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Welcome to Life after Trauma; I’m Clare Egan. Every now and again, I like to share a few snippets from my ‘How to Live’ file. I started this running document during a really painful chapter of life. I was grieving my mother, trying to come to terms with the sexual abuse I’d experienced as a child and scrambling to establish my career.
Reading about collapse while breastfeeding my daughter (opens the original)
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“I’ve never said this before to the media, but it is too late to stop climate change. The fight is lost. It’s time to hunker down and prepare for what’s coming.”– David Suzuki, activist and academic, quoted in ’s latest book “I Eat The Stars”. “Be joyful, even though you have considered all the facts.” &
Link roundup: August 2026 (opens the original)
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Thanks for all the love on last month’s round up of cultural favourites. After writing about how I’m trying to balance caring for a tiny baby with writing, I hit a rough patch. I got a bout of heat exhaustion (throwing up, cold sweats, calls to emergency doctor..) I do not recommend it, especially if you’re breastfeeding. This leads me to what may be the best thing I’ve consmed this month:
How I’m making space for creative work while parenting a newborn (opens the original)
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My daughter was 7 weeks old when I started missing my creative work. My wife had returned to her job and I envied how she got to be part of the world beyond our newborn bubble. Much as I love my daughter, she can’t be my whole world. I don’t want to lift my head in five years and realise that I haven’t written a thing. I don’t want to be so swallowed by motherhood that I stop being myself.Newborn care is a deeply embodied experience. Pregnancy rewired my brain and body so that my
Cultural Care Package: July 2026 (opens the original)
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Thanks for all the lovely responses to my recent baby news! It was a lovely reminder of life beyond the newborn bubble. I’m finding this season of life quite isolating, and your support from afar means a lot. 💕<div class="im
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