The Happya Life with Clare Deacon
What if thriving isn’t about having it all together but finally feeling at home in your own skin?
Welcome to The Happya Life with Clare Deacon, the podcast for women ready to move from survival mode to self-worth, nervous system healing, and emotional freedom.
If you feel stuck in people-pleasing, overwhelmed by self-doubt, or burned out from always doing more, you’re not alone. And you’re in the right place.
💬 We talk boundaries, burnout, emotional regulation, trauma recovery, nervous system work, and creating a life that actually feels good (not just looks good).
I’m Clare Deacon, trauma-informed therapist, positive psychology coach, and Amazon #1 bestselling author of Blooming Happya. I combine science, soul, and strategy to help women stop performing and start becoming.
In each episode, you’ll get:
- Practical tools and nervous system insights
- Real talk on trauma, boundaries, and rebuilding your self-worth
- Coaching grounded in neuroscience, embodiment, and positive psychology
This is where self-help meets self-connection.
🎧 Ready to heal the patterns holding you back and start living from your truth?
Press play. This is where your transformation begins.
Episodes
104 episodes
Your Emotions Feel Out of Control But There's a Reason
Nobody prepares you for what menopause does to how you feel about yourself.The physical symptoms get talked about, occasionally. But the emotional shifts, the loss of your old patience, the going from calm to overwhelmed in moments, the rea...
You Don't Feel Like Yourself Anymore But Nothing's Wrong
There is a version of this that so many women quietly live with. Life, on the surface, looks fine. You are functioning, getting things done, showing up. But underneath that, something is not sitting right. And the harder you try to identify it,...
Series Special Happya Ever After: Living Forward After Loss
What does “ever after” really mean after the death of a partner?In this final episode of Happya Ever After, Clare Deacon reflects on what it means to live forward after loss not with fairytale endings or forced positivity, but w...
Series Special Happya Ever After: Finding Meaning After the Death of a Partner
After the death of a partner, life can lose its sense of direction.In this episode of Happya Ever After, Clare Deacon explores what it means to find meaning after loss without confusing meaning with happiness, positivity, or mov...
Series Special Happya Ever After: Post-Traumatic Growth After Grief
Post-traumatic growth is often misunderstood especially after grief.In this episode of Happya Ever After, Clare Deacon explores what post-traumatic growth actually means after loss, and what it very much does not. This is...
Series Special Happya Ever After: When Survival Stops Working
There often comes a point after loss when simply surviving is no longer enough.In this episode of Happya Ever After, Clare Deacon explores the moment when coping mechanisms begin to collapse not because you’re failing, but becau...
Series Special Happya Ever After: Therapy After Loss: What Actually Helps
Therapy is often suggested quickly after loss but it doesn’t always help in the way people expect.In this episode of Happya Ever After, Clare Deacon explores therapy after loss honestly and compassionately, looking at when thera...
Series Special Happya Ever After: Comparison and Judgement in Grief
Grief doesn’t just hurt it is often judged.In this episode of Happya Ever After, Clare Deacon explores the comparison and judgement that so many people face after loss, particularly widows navigating life in the aftermath of los...
Series Special Happya Ever After: Other's Reactions to Grief
One of the most painful parts of grief is often not the loss itself but how other people respond to it.In this episode of Happya Ever After, Clare Deacon explores the impact of other people’s reactions to grief, and why navigati...
Series Special Happya Ever After: Who Am I Now? Identity After Loss
After the death of a partner, grief doesn’t just affect how you feel it can change how you experience yourself.In this episode of Happya Ever After, Clare Deacon explores the often-unspoken impact of loss on identity, and why so...
Series Special Happya Ever After: Why You Feel Stuck After Grief
Feeling stuck after grief can be deeply unsettling especially when you’re no longer in crisis, but life still isn’t moving forward.In this episode of Happya Ever After, Clare Deacon explores why so many people feel stuck after l...
Series Special Happya Ever After: What Grief Does to Your Nervous System
If you’ve been feeling constantly on edge, exhausted, numb, foggy, or unable to switch off after loss, this episode is for you.In this episode of Happya Ever After, Clare Deacon explains what grief actually does to your nervous ...
Series Special Happya Ever After: Guilt After Loss: Wanting More From Life
Guilt after loss can be confusing especially when it appears just as life begins to feel slightly lighter.In this episode of Happya Ever After, Clare Deacon explores the often-unspoken guilt that arises after the death of a part...
When the Old Version of You Doesn’t Fit: Outgrowing Who the World Expects You to Be
What happens when you’ve changed internally… but the world still expects the old version of you?In this episode of The Happya Life Podcast, Clare Deacon explores the emotional and psychological tension that arises when you begin...
Series Special Happya Ever After: Loneliness After the Death of a Partner
Loneliness after losing a partner is not always about being alone.In this episode of Happya Ever After, Clare Deacon explores the specific and often misunderstood loneliness that follows the death of a partner the kind that can ...
Series Special Happya Ever After: Life After Loss: When the World Moves On
After the initial shock of grief fades, something else often begins.The world carries on. Support quietens. And you’re left standing in the aftermath surviving, functioning, but feeling unseen, forgotten, or unsure why ...
Rebuilding a Sense of Self: When You Don’t Know Where to Start
What happens after the roles loosen, the old ways of coping fall away, and you realise you can’t go back but you also don’t know what comes next?In this episode of The Happya Life Podcast, Clare Deacon explores what it really me...
Series Special Happya Ever After: My Story: From Survival to Happya Finding a Way Forward After Losing My Husband
In this opening episode of Happya Ever After, Clare Deacon shares her personal story of life after the sudden death of her husband not by retelling the traumatic event, but by speaking honestly about what came after.This episode is about...
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Wellbeing Without the Wellness Industry
If you’ve ever felt disconnected, irritated, or quietly resistant to mainstream wellness culture, this episode is for you.In this episode of The Happya Life Podcast, Clare Deacon explores what wellbeing really means once you str...
Who Am I Without the Role I Used to Play?
What happens when the role you’ve always played the strong one, the reliable one, the one who always copes starts to feel too heavy?In this episode of The Happya Life, Clare Deacon, trauma-informed therapist and positive psychology coach...
The Hidden Cost of Always Holding It All Together
If you’re the one who’s always coped, always stayed strong, always kept things running this episode is for you.In this episode of The Happya Life Podcast, Clare Deacon explores the hidden psychological and nervous system cost of always h...
If You’re Waiting for Permission to Choose Yourself… Here It Is
Do you feel like you’re functioning well on the outside, but something inside you is quietly pushing back?In this episode of The Happya Life Podcast, Clare Deacon explores why so many intelligent, capable people feel like they’re waiting...
Beyond Survival A Hopeful Reflection for the Holidays
As the year draws to a close, many women find themselves caught between two worlds:the life they survived… and the life they’re quietly longing to step into.In this gentle, reflective episode of The Happya Life, trauma‑informed ther...
Surviving the Holidays Without Losing Yourself
It’s Christmas Eve and while the world sparkles with joy, for many women it’s a day filled with emotional overload. If you’re feeling overwhelmed, lonely, numb, or like you're slipping into old family roles you’ve worked hard to outgrow, this e...
Calm in the Chaos: Nervous System Tools for the Festive Season
The festive season is meant to feel magical but for many women, it feels more like emotional overload. If December leaves you feeling anxious, overstimulated, exhausted or like you’re performing joy instead of feeling it, this episode is for yo...
