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Hi everyone, I'm Kai Dickens and welcome to the Talk Tracks brought to you weekly by TTT Media.
“In this series, we explore the threads that weave together our understanding of reality.”
Science, spirituality, consciousness, and even unexplained phenomena. Because every era has ideas once dismissed as impossible until someone was willing to investigate them seriously. And on this show, we do just that. I'm so happy to share a preview with you from our backstage past bonus episode.
If you listen to our last episode with Anna Naturalista, you heard us explore the different languages of intuition, which are often called the Clares, and the many ways those signals might show up through seeing, hearing, knowing, feeling, taste, and smell. Anna also talked about something I found really interesting. The idea that intuition may be less about acquiring a new ability and more about learning
to recognize and strengthen signals that are already there. So for this bonus episode, we wanted to take that idea in a slightly different direction. Our producer, Selena Kennedy, sat down with Kate Trotter and Jennifer Lansing, the authors of Claire and her magical friends, a children's book, that introduces four of the Clares in a playful and accessible way.
Their work looks at how we can become more aware of these intuitive signals in ourselves, but also what it might mean to support that awareness much earlier in life. Because children often describe unusual feelings, noings, dreams, imaginary friends, or things they see and hear that adults might be quick to dismiss, simply because we do not have a framework for talking about them.
So this conversation is really about both sides of that question. How can we become more open to our own intuition and how giving children language and curiosity
“around those experiences might help them to stay connected to theirs?”
So here's Selena with Kate and Jen. Hi Jen, hi Kate. Hi. How are you, Selena? I'm well.
Yeah, it's so wonderful to meet you both. I mean, we hear from our listeners all the time asking how they can connect to these innate abilities, and I think that Claire and her magical friends, this book, is a really beautiful entry point, and I'm excited for people to learn about it, but maybe first you guys could just introduce yourselves.
Yes, I'm Jen. I first and foremost am a mom to Teal. She is a magical, incredible, ten-year-old with disabilities. I know you guys use different words on the podcast, but for me, she tries deeply to communicate and she does use sounds and words, so she's verbalish.
I'm a host of a podcast called For Our Special Kids, where we celebrate the magic and the mess of raising a child with disabilities.
It's not easy, and yet I would never change a single moment of what she has brought to my world.
My background is in communications and psychology and clinical trials, and I moved into a much more spiritual, higher vibration world, because I had to, because Teal required me to raise my vibration to be her mom. Beautiful, and what about UK? I'm Kate. I'm a licensed massage and archivated practitioner.
I've been working in the holistic healing field since 2009. I decided to delve into more of the more subtle healing modalities, specifically getting the certification in the caustic record reading, and so that was my calling. That's my passion. That's my background. Yeah, that's great. I mean, you two created a book to help people connect to their own
clairs, and you actually met sort of developing some of these abilities yourselves, right? Yes. Kate and I met actually at a medium-ship training course.
I always thought it was this special, very far away gift, and I put that in quotes.
I didn't think I had it. I didn't think it was something that you could develop or train. I always knew that I had extreme empathy. I had a very clear clear cognizance. And so when COVID hit, there was just time, right? Maybe like, well, I'm totally going to take this risk. And if I'm wrong, I'm wrong. It doesn't matter, right?
And so Kate and I were practicing on one another, because our teacher Donis Carroll
“talks about it all the time. You have to flex the muscle.”
We all have the muscle, but if you don't train it, and if you don't teach it, you lose those abilities. And so children are brought in with so much intense connection to the universe or God or spirit, whatever you decide to call it, shining so brightly from them. And then we don't have them flex those muscles, and so many parents shut it down and say, stop having that imaginary front,
or stop talking to your stuffed animals, stop daydreaming. All of that stuff shuts it down.
And so when I started flexing my muscle, that's when I realized I always had it,
and I started working with it. Yeah, I love that idea that it's a latent ability we all have, and we just need to sort of activate it. What about you, Kate, had you always been training these muscles? Well, I was similar to Jen or thought, you know, you had to be special or already be
On the path, and it was always so overwhelming that I just didn't allow mysel...
and I believe that when I was a child, I really shut it down within me. I can go ahead,
“things coming in, and I wasn't taught at an early age to set boundaries. And so it scared me,”
so I shut down completely. So I was really scared to open up to see what would come in. And the beautiful thing about that course was being safe within that when you're bringing in different energies, different entities to make sure that you have control. You can say no,
you're not being inundated by energies that aren't welcome. So that was really instrumental,
and the opening up was removing that blockage that I had naturally kind of put up as a young child. Yeah, that seems to be a common fear that people have, and sort of the remedy we hear time and time again is establishing that firm boundary. So you're not porous just to all of the energy out there.
“It's really important. So I'm so glad you had that experience. And it sounds like maybe both of”
you had these experiences earlier in life. Or you didn't really either understand these abilities or have language for them. Was that part of maybe the inspiration for creating something kind of geared for children? Yeah. In my 20s, I started reading, you know, doing a strategy wanting to build my psychic development. But at that point, there wasn't social media. There weren't podcasts. I was having to look for a physical book on the topic. But all the books that I ran across were just
“like these thick tombs that they just were very limiting for me. Instead of making it feel accessible,”
it made me feel more like, oh, I can't do this. This isn't for me. It was just too much. So that was another reason why this book was such a passion for me was making it accessible. Like if I had had this book when I was in my 20s, a children's book making it light and easy and breaking it down into digestible bite size, the four clairs, it would have really helped me at that time. And that's my hope is that this book will help children and adults to really see that everyone has this
this ability. Yeah. And so that brings us to the book itself. And for those who haven't read it, can you maybe just give us a quick walkthrough of clarin her magical friends and how you turn these four clairs into characters that children can relate to. So the book on the surface level is really simple. It introduces kids to a little girl that is struggling with self-doubt and things that she's hearing the world say to her that our causing her to just step out and say, well, what's wrong with
me? And she introduces you to the four primary clairs, which is Claire sentians, so she introduces you to senti, Claire audience, where she introduces you to audience, Claire voice, which is Claire singing and Voia, and then Claire cognizants, which you get to meet Cogny. And they in a very approachable bite size way with rhymes and fun cadence, introduce everyone that's reading to these parts of ourselves
that are inside that are magical and incredible and when we tap into them, we are a more connected
individual. I love that. So Claire sentians, Claire audience, Claire voice, and Claire cognizants, maybe can you just walk us through a bit about what each of those mean? Yeah.
