Ruth Clare

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No matter how big your challenges or how unlikely you dreams, where there is a will there is a way. Here you will find courage-building strategies, tools and resets to support you on your journey. 

Why the most at-risk children keep falling through the gaps

Growing up with no system of support I grew up with a PTSD-impacted father who was often violent, and a…
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Why We Refuse to Ask the One Question That Could Actually Reduce Domestic Violence

There is a strange, persistent reluctance in the domestic violence sector to explore the most obvious question: What drives perpetrator…
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Psychological safety from the inside out

Psychological safety = performancePsychological safety isn’t a nice-to-have. It’s a performance and health imperative. A psychologically safe culture allows people…
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The hidden benefits of childhood trauma

As someone who experienced a lot of adversity as a child, and who advocates for childhood trauma and its impacts…
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Living with complex PTSD

Complex PTSD is more than just a response to trauma. It’s a response to trauma that is repeated again and…
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The misunderstanding of ADHD and Complex PTSD

In recent years, awareness of both Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (c-PTSD) has grown rapidly. While…
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What happened when I disclosed

When I was 14, I told a teacher at my school that my dad had broken into our house, tried…
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How to help child victims of family violence

(From grand round speech I gave at the Melbourne Royal Children’s Hospital in 2017…) Today I am going to be…
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What are adverse childhood experiences (ACEs)?

If you have had a crap childhood this material can feel confronting (At least it was for me the first…
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We need to talk about class…

When I was told I was school captain when I was eleven years old, nobody knew that I rushed home…
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Ruth Clare is an author, TEDx speaker, and intergenerational trauma educator whose work breaks silences and drives system change, especially for military families.

Developer of the Parenting After Trauma (PAT) program, Ruth's award-winning memoir, Enemy, was published by Penguin in 2016. Her TEDx talk, The Pain of Hiding Your True Self, has been viewed more than 600,000 times.

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