The Trauma Diaries
Claire ElleryA space for shared reflection on trauma and its afterlives, grounded in lived experience and informed by a clinical lens. Not confession or instruction, but careful noticing—of nervous systems, behaviors, beliefs, and the strategies people develop to stay
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I was Raised to be a Trad Wide
I finished Yesteryear the other day, and it left me sitting with something I have known for a long time but perhaps have never said quite this plainly: I was raised to be a trad wife.
Not the internet version of one, because there was no I...
When Clients Grieve the Loss of Their Own Mind
Disclaimer: This reflection is drawn from my clinical work with multiple clients navigating severe trauma-related fragmentation, including presentations consistent with dissociative processes such as Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID). De...
From a Still Forming Mother
I sometimes say, quietly, that I became a mother too soon.
Which makes no sense on paper.
I was in my thirties. I had wanted this. I had worked for this. I had tracked menstrual cycles with the devotion of a scientist and the hope of a pi...
When the Night Hums too Loud
I am a vessel
made of nerves and echoes,
a body stitched together
with thread pulled from old wounds—
threads that hum
when the room is too bright,
too loud,
too full of need.
My child cries
with the sound of a storm
searching for...
The One Who Holds
I am the therapist.
The weary interpreter of fragments.
People come to me carrying pieces of themselves they can no longer recognize—shards wrapped in tissue, stories told sideways, memories that arrive like smoke instead of flame. They p...
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Claire Ellery is a mental health clinician and writer with academic training in theology, philosophy, and religious studies. She writes reflective essays on embodiment, authority, and the long aftermath of religious formation.
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