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Clare L Campbell is a published author, writer, and advocate with decades of experience working across government, policy, and community services. Her professional expertise sits alongside a deeply personal journey that includes surviving domestic violence, navigating serious health challenges, rebuilding after trauma, and rediscovering herself as a woman, mother, and partner and then soon to be divorcee in midlife.
Her writing blends warmth, humour, and historical context with a trauma-informed lens, allowing her to speak to complex issues in ways that are deeply relatable and accessible. Clare brings an authentic voice to the page – one that acknowledges life’s hardest truths while pointing toward resilience, healing, and hope.
This is not her first book. But this memoir/self help guide is written for midlife women facing the challenges that this period brings and supports and guides the reader through the journey of learning the art of ‘Putting Me First’.
‘Putting Me First – The Reckoning, The Reconciling and Rebirthing will also resonate with readers who enjoy memoirs that offer both honesty and uplift. It bridges self-help and memoir, offering practical strategies without sacrificing story, warmth, or humour.
We are in the middle of a cultural shift. Women are no longer willing to disappear quietly as they reach midlife. Conversations about perimenopause, menopause, mental health, trauma, and the reinvention of self are gaining momentum, but there is still a gap for books that combine lived experience with compassion, insight, and practical tools.
Putting Me First fills that space. It acknowledges the pain, the exhaustion, and the invisible labour carried by so many women, while providing hope, laughter, and strategies for beginning again. It is timely, necessary, and deeply human.
Written with warmth, humour, and a trauma-informed lens, the book blends personal narrative with psychological insight, cultural context, and practical reflection exercises. It speaks directly to women in their thirties, forties, fifties and beyond who are ready to stop living as an afterthought in their own lives and start putting themselves first as they navigate, empty nest, lost love, perimenopause, menopause and the promise that they could have it all was hollow and left an entire generation of women feeling unfulfilled and unsatisfied.
At its heart, the book is about resilience and renewal. It acknowledges the chaos and pain of lived experience, while celebrating the possibility of rebirth – of living boldly and unapologetically in midlife and beyond.

The future awaits…

Completion, Closure and then Clarity

What a year it has been, the incredible clearing away of all that no longer served me, making space on my path for a brand new destiny I believe was always written in the stars.

It’s been a year of challenge and change, heartache and healing, clearing and clarity.

There are so many people who have walked this path with me and helped me on my journey from a broken mess to the courageous warrior now ready to take on the world.

To each and everyone of you there are no words, no gifts, no prayers to repay to debt of gratitude I owe you all.

And to those who left my life thank you too. The toxicity you were bringing was wearing me down, breaking my spirit and holding me back from living my dreams and potential.

So genuinely I thank you for departing and freeing me to reclaim myself to begin a whole new start and chapter as a new version of myself, one that is no longer defined by you but is true to me.

These coming years are going to be amazing, I already know that. The freedom, the abundance in all areas of my life, the success, the wonder, the happiness, the fulfilment, the contentment. Everything I dreamed of and more is on its way to me now and my arms are wide open, my heart bursting, my soul awake as I await its arrival.

The past is gone, it’s over, it has been written, documented and will be published one day for my voice, my truth and my experience to finally to told.

But the future, that is mine and it is coming in with such beautiful energy and glorious promise that I truly cannot wait to live every single moment.

Love

Clare xoxo

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