187: Having fierce loyalty to yourself with Claire Frances Turner
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episode summary
This week I'm joined by one of our fabulous Rebel Creators Claire Frances Turner! Claire is a writer, spiritual philosopher, and a creative advocate for disabled young adults.
In this episode, Claire shares her journey of conscious transformation and we chat bout how hard it can be to move on from dreams, either through choice or circumstance. Claire shares her process of controlling her own narrative, and how others can do that too. We dive into life living with chronic illnesses and disabilities, and Claire's words of wisdom and compassion for people feeling alone and in similar circumstances. We also chat about the very real need for self-validation and the opposite of gas-lighting!
In this episode we chat about:
Claire's journey of controlling her own narrative
Chronic illness and disability
Self validation and the opposite of gaslighting
about claire frances turner:
Claire specialises in conscious self-transformation.
You can explore Claire’s writing and spoken poetry and sign up for her Monday moment emails through her website.
Claire is working on a project series called Illness my Teacher, beginning with Soul Evolution via Illness: awareness, identity, and formal and informal meditation. You can listen to Intro to Illness my Teacher: A Spiritual Exploration to learn more, or search for Claire Frances Turner on Spotify, etc. Someone told Claire it was the best podcast episode she's ever heard!
Alongside Claire’s writing and spiritual work, she’s studying web development. Claire has to work from home due to her disability, but it's important to Claire to get out of the house on a regular basis. She decided to feed her adventurous spirit by studying in 101 different places in the area, and her project 101 Spaces was born! Claire’s writing about each place she visit, and it's turned into a casual anthropological survey of how Claire as a chronically ill young white woman in Cambridge Massachusetts, get on in different spaces in her surrounding area.
When Claire’s not musing about human nature and metaphysics, writing, or studying, you can find her tending to the tiny indoor farm in her bedroom, going on long walks, and studying sacred geometry.
You can read about how Claire’s psychic readings center around transformation of the soul; she also offers live and written options for her readings.
connect with CLaire:
Claire’s Website
Sign up to Claire’s newsletter!
Claire’s Instagram
If you’d like to get in touch, you can email her here!
resources mentioned:
It's Not Always Depression, Hilary Jacobs Hendel
Hilary Jacobs Hendel The Change Triangle
About Meg & The Couragemakers Podcast
I’m Meg and I’m the host of The Daily Pep! and The Couragemakers Podcast and founder of The Rebel Rousers. I’m a coach, writer and all-round rebel-rouser for creative and multi-passionate women to do the things only they can do and build a wholehearted life.
When I'm not recording episodes, writing bullshit-free Letters of Rebellion to my wonderful Rebel Rousers community or hosting workshops/group programmes, I'm usually covered in paint or walking my wonderfully weird cockapoo Merlin.
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