Life after Trauma with Clare Egan

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Essays on grief, trauma & recovery

I'm heartbroken 💔
RIP Budino
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Clare Egan
51
🎄 Notes on spending Christmas alone
From my couch to yours on this difficult day
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Clare Egan
13
Bad Faith
On Catholicism, trauma and how I left my faith
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Clare Egan
20
The deep retreat of Winter
My to do list for life’s difficult moments
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Clare Egan
17
Hope exists no matter who wins
Beautiful things grow out of shit (aka notes from me to you on election day)
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Clare Egan
💍 I’m engaged!
I never thought I’d get married, but something changed
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Clare Egan
39
Reasons I’m Glad I Lived
A short list of things that give my life meaning
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Clare Egan
9
How I spent my summer growing a social enterprise
🎓 Graduating from The Ideas Academy & an opportunity to input on what happens next
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Clare Egan
10
Seventeen years
Some things that help me feel less alone in my grief
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Clare Egan
18
The night my mother died, I was washing dishes
My Dublin Storyslam performance
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Clare Egan
6:18
What I learned from my first live storytelling event
TL;DR: You have to stay alive long enough for your life to change
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Clare Egan
15
🏳️‍🌈 I shared my coming out story with the Huffington Post.
"'This is who I am,' I thought. ... It was one of the happiest moments of my life."
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Clare Egan
31
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