Archive - Life after Trauma with Clare Egan

👋🏻 See you on the other side!

Signing off for maternity leave with some real talk & things to read!

Mar 31 • Clare Egan

“It was the material that I felt most capable of rendering interestingly” A conversation about writing trauma with Esmé Weijun Wang

On writing rituals, therapy and the things we keep for ourselves.

Mar 24 • Clare Egan and Esmé Weijun Wang

Re-defining ambition, with Clare Egan of Life After Trauma

On healing ourselves and helping our communities vs. simply making money

Published on In Tending • Mar 17

Resources for the Dead Moms club

Books, articles and poems that capture the raw agony of losing a mother

Mar 10 • Clare Egan

How I’m planning to keep writing through my pregnancy and maternity leave

Practical advice for staying connected to your creative self through life’s busiest seasons

Mar 3 • Clare Egan

February 2026

Cultural Care Package: February 2026

What I've been reading, writing and consuming over the last month

Feb 24 • Clare Egan

“Reading authentic survivor texts can change the world.” A conversation about writing trauma with Shawna Ayoub

On comfort reading, writing as emotional release and the power of survivor stories

Feb 17 • Clare Egan and Shawna Ayoub

On sliding doors, trauma and big life transitions

Plus my unfiltered Proust Questionnaire from 2014

Feb 10 • Clare Egan

The results are in: community perspectives on surviving sexual violence

Sexual violence destroys lives, but more than three-quarters of respondents have also experienced post-traumatic growth

Feb 3 • Clare Egan

January 2026

Cultural Care Package: January 2026

On the importance of creative inputs, not just outputs

Jan 27 • Clare Egan

“The page was the only place that didn’t punish me for telling the truth” A conversation about writing trauma with Michelle Dowd

On staying with triggers, the land’s “indifference to ambition” and how the body always tells the truth before the mind does.

Jan 20 • Clare Egan

My biggest creative project yet...

I’m having a baby 👶

Jan 13 • Clare Egan

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