Claire Frances Turner: Writing & Work
Supplementary Materials ... .. Readings & Consultations ... .. About Me & Contact ... .. Writing Portfolio
December 2025 Update: I'm moving into 2026 with the full intention to show up for my clients again and again, in a sort of every day ritual. I'm cultivating a calm mundane life, so that I can do my best to meet people where they are, free from any unspoken expectations or control, with the goal to glow with love for myself and for others.
I've been constantly updating my knowledge of spiritual theory, psychology, relationships, and trauma recovery. Most of my personal education has come from introspection, personal suffering, and lots of carefully selected education from experts.
I do my best to balance out teacher's perspectives with voices advocating for alternative perspectives, to develop a pluralistic understanding of what people may need at different times.
I'm regularly reevaluating how I can improve my readings and consultations. I'm currently intentionally creating more space in my readings to personally aid in somatic processing, when I'm merged with a client's soul. This is part of why my readings are two hours long - I'm building more space into them, for real-time reflection and processing, while we're spiritually linked up in the records.
Conscious Self-Transformation: Psychic Readings in the Akashic Records and Personal Support Calls
Information: live and written psychic readings and consultations
You're very much welcome to book a live reading or consultation with me!
Supplementary Materials for My Latest Videos
Spiritual Sovereignty and The Mastery of Love (YouTube video, posted December 18, 2023)
Thoughts on applying lessons about love from Don Miguel Ruiz's book The Mastery of Love to mindsets for the spiritual seeker in navigating the self, spiritual teachers, and finding the true source of revelation, wisdom, and love.
- The difference between hearing spiritual advice and personally experiencing revelation
- Is it loving to try to control someone else's inner experience? Especially to blame or shame them for failing to meet your expectations or to assimilate your advice?
- Sources of perceived spiritual authority: Are they true sources? Do they recognize and honor your sovereignty?
Reflection Questions
These are absolutely not meant to have right or wrong answers. These are simply meant to help direct your attention to areas of your experience where the above discussion might be relevant, and to invite reflection, if you wish to engage in this way.
What was a time in my life when I experienced a personal revelation?
- How did it feel?
- What words are closest to describe what I learned?
- Do these words match commonly spoken teachings?
- If so, how do I understand these teachings better after my own personal revelation?
- Had I heard these words before my personal revelation?
- How much of my personal revelation came from having heard these words, and how much came from my inner process?
When was a time in my life when someone tried to control my inner experience by forcefully giving me advice?
- What did they tell me to do, to stop doing, to think, or to stop thinking?
- What aspect of my circumstances prompted them to say these things to me?
- How did I feel when they said these things to me?
- Did I think I should listen to their advice?
- Did their advice feel possible? Did it seem possible but feel impossible somehow? Did I feel shame around that?
- Did it seem like my fault if I didn't assimilate their advice?
- Possibly, was it actually helpful? Did I receive the advice with gratitude?
- Do I feel like I should receive the advice with gratitude? Do I think I'm being difficult if I resist the advice?
- Do I sense that this person's effort to help me innately controlling? Do I think it was loving?
- How did this experience affect my relationship with my own sovereignty?
What do I honestly perceive as the sources of spiritual authority in my life?
- What are the attitudes I've been exposed to around sources of spiritual authority? (As in, sources of truth, the places where truth is shared)
- What attitudes and beliefs do I feel most influenced by? Do I feel most influenced that spiritual truth comes from gurus? From religious texts? From modern day people with large followings? From my inner knowing?
- Have I been told that it's in my best interest to "relax my mind" and to just soak up teachings from another person?
- Have I been told that my thoughts are part of my ego and need to be released so I can let go of trying to control?
- Have I been given spiritual teachings and told that "this is the path" and to not stray from the path otherwise I'll get lost?
This can sometimes be painful to consider. I've been in groups that have seriously bruised my sense of sovereignty. Please go lightly with yourself.
Of course, there's often some truth in the teachings that are also undermining sovereignty. We probably don't want to try to control everything. We probably want to relax our minds to open ourselves up to more spiritually true ways of thinking. Of course, finding guidance and wisdom in spiritual teachers is so important.
But, it's not truly loving to use language that directs people's attention away from their own sovereignty and towards an external authority that's been deemed all-mighty and the source of salvation.
We ultimately can't find salvation outside of ourselves. We won't be satisfied in this way. And believing that we don't have access to the things we need within ourselves makes us more vulnerable to unhealthy relationships, whether romantic or spiritual.
Regulating
Here are some ideas for self-care, if these discussions are dysregulating for your nervous system, and just in general:
- a daily writing practice for nervous system regulation by an expert in complex PTSD whom I trust, Anna Runkle (this isn't writing for journaling or analysis; it's a way of soothing the nervous system)
- a nervous system discharging workshop by a somatic therapist with grounding, nurturing, and non-judgmental energy, Elisha Tichelle
Resources
- The Mastery of Love by Don Miguel Ruiz
- Your own beautiful heart and conscience
... ..
The Importance of Mind in Spiritual Development (YouTube video, posted December 4, 2023)
This is my first spiritual YouTube video. I recorded this to get into the flow of speaking and sharing, and I discuss what might be happening behind the scenes for me in terms of struggling to get to a point where I can speak about my spiritual ideas. I encourage you, too, to share the ideas you've been holding in your heart, which you feel you must share in order to move along your path in life.
This video is a warm-up, a preamble to my series I'm preparing to share on here, called Grounding into Divine Orientation. We'll be discussing grounding and the spiritual column in greater depth, for those who already have a grounding practice to have some fun exploring the philosophy and theory around these universal ideas and practices.
Digging deeper
Mind, thoughts, and ideas... are these enemies to spiritual development? Or might they serve as the actual spiritual avenue to the embodiment of wisdom, love, and universal truth?
There are so many spiritual teachings centered around the mind, because the mind is spirit, and the mind is powerful. Working with our thoughts on a day-to-day basis, we might perceive our thoughts to be the root of our spiritual problems. But, does that mean the mind itself is a spiritual obstacle?
As healers, meditators, spiritual practitioners, mystics, seekers, witches, psychics, energy workers... we can view spiritual study as an ever-unfolding, mysterious process of entraining the mind to the thoughts and ideas that resonate as most true within our inner and outer cosmos.
I've found that a great way to work on this is to set the intention during my spiritual practice that my entire mind may harmonize with spirit-mind in the way that's most appropriate for my soul evolution.
Supplemental Prompt
Our minds filter our entire experience of life into our consciousness. We can ponder how the "enlightened" mind could employ ideas and thoughts that resonate as most true within our inner and outer cosmos.
How can we tell if an idea and thought resonates with more spiritual truth?
What might you experience within your soul (feeling / perceiving body) that would indicate you're employing a way of thinking that resonates as more spiritually true?
I imagine that I can recognize I'm "onto something" when my thinking results in feelings of expansiveness, relaxation (releasing tension), energization, regulation, compassion, and understanding.
You're welcome to sign up for my emails.
About Me & Contact
You can contact me at clairefrancesturner@gmail.com
I'm a spiritual philosopher and psychic, a vegetable gardener and amateur herbalist, a musician and poet, and a member of a living co-op. Disability activism and mutual aid are close to my heart, and I also write about the intersection of chronic illness, activism, and mysticism. I've personally coded my website from scratch, because I think it's fun and I wanted it to look like this. :)
For those who want to support my work, I offer a choose-what-you-pay system on Patreon. You can also make a one-time donation through Stripe or buy me a coffee. I am honored to receive your support for this work and appreciate any amount you are able to contribute. <3
Sign up for my email community to access my free webinars, musings, writings, and to get my latest public materials about spiritual philosophy and practice all in one place!
In harmony and friendship,
Claire
A Manifesto for Citizens of Earth
Love Letter to the Aching Soul
Fine Art of the Nervous Breakdown
Chaconne in the Key of Omnicentrism (Audio)
For Stress: Cooling Healing Light of Blue Meditation (Article and Audio)