ABOUT CLARE
In my early childhood in Africa, who I was spiritually was as close to me as my breath, although of course I didn't recognize it as such. Communing with God and Nature was just who I was. Because of that, I always pictured myself being a nun because that was the only box my little brain could fit around the spirit world I loved so much.
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In truth, I actually wanted to be a priest, but women couldn't be priests back then.
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This taught me two things: First, that the world didn't necessarily care about your dreams; and second, if your heart wanted something, it was up to you to make it happen. If the world said "no," you found a way to make it say "yes."
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None of this was conscious, of course, and so I spent my 20s and 30s floundering, as many of us do, trying to find myself. Along the way, I studied many different forms of spirituality - not in search of God, but rather because I wanted to experience God and other cultures' experience of God in as many forms as I could.
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I was lucky because my dad, who was a bishop in the Episcopal church, was also incredibly open minded. He encouraged me every step of the way and taught me a lot about the bigness of God - whom he liked to refer to as "She/Her" in his later years.
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And so in the process and across the continents, I dived into the more traditional religions (Christianity, Judaism, Islam) as well as Eastern philosophies (Buddhism, Taoism, Sikhism) and Native Spiritualities (North and South America, Africa, China). I studied meditation, shamanism, intuitive medicine, energy healing of various forms, and Chinese Medicine, and ended up practicing Chinese Medicine for many years.
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And what I found in the end was exactly what I had known in the beginning: That the Creator, in all His/Her/Their forms, is bigger than all of us and encompasses all differences and similarities; and that there is nothing on this earth, no matter how simple or complex, that isn't spiritual in origin.
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Understanding this, I started working on a deeper, more spiritual level with my clients to help them with their issues, whatever their nature, and I soon found that this work was what I had yearned for all along.
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My work started intuitively - first with energy healing and then with more focused intuitive work in the forms of readings and intuitive development workshops. Over the years, the readings turned into mentorships, as well as circles and retreats. Today, I feel so profoundly blessed to be sitting in the center of my calling, which is that of a spiritual teacher.
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Working with women in particular is so powerful for me. Women are the creators of the world; when a woman transforms, the world transforms around her in a very profound way. Today, I work with highly motivated women who have a mindset that allows for significant personal and global change on a spiritual level. This is the kind of change I have been called to since I started this journey as a young child
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One of the topics that I am most drawn to is that of religious wounding and spiritual identity. Having had an extremely positive religious upbringing myself, I can firmly say that not one of us gets out unscathed; we are all affected by the religious cultures of our upbringing, for better and definitely for worse. The religious messages we are raised with affect our views on God, spirituality, money, relationships, women, marriage, work, love, career, success, failure, and so much more. I firmly believe that if we want to access our deepest power, we need to work through our own religious/spiritual upbringings in order to extract what does and doesn't work for us. And it goes without saying that many of us need to experience deep healing in this area.
Working with my clients to dive into their religious and/or spiritual upbringings enables them to work through a lot of their pain, discomfort, and lack of joy in ways they may never have considered. Addressing a woman's religious wounding helps create/define their personal spiritual identity, which then serves as a springboard for monumental changes both in their own life as well as in the lives of all those they are connected to.
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With Gandhi, I believe we all need to be the change we want to see in the world. I also believe firmly that by not using our own gifts and talents, we head down the path to disease, dysfunction, and depression. Because of this, I believe very deeply in this work and trust in the women who find their way to me that they, too, want to be world changers in a profound way, and that they, too, will do what it takes to get there.
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