Ep. 2 | How I Discovered I Was a Medium + Intuitive

In this episode, Claire takes a deep dive into how she discovered she was a medium and intuitive. Claire shares all the tea including topics like:

• How her journey through being bullied in school became a huge part of how she uses her intuition for readings and day to day life
• Her first spirit encounter as a child
• The first spiritual awakening she experienced and the very first reading she gave
• How her love for sharing drove her to want to start a podcast despite her fear of public speaking and rejection

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but I somehow just kind of lean into this space. This like, This veil is almost like lifted and I'm able to communicate and it really is just like a shift of my energy. Like I just shift myself over and there they are, What if I told you that you have extraordinary one of a kind gifts just waiting to be uncovered? I'm Claire Kellems, psychic Medium intuitive Guide and Animal Communicator, and I'm here to share my personal journey of spiritual growth and healing in the hope that my true lived experiences will ignite something inside you. Empowering you to embrace your truest, most aligned self. In this podcast, we'll dive deep into all things. Spiritual development, manifestation, breaking generational cycles, aligning your life with limitless abundance and so much more. I am beyond excited to go on this transformative journey with you and witness your growth as you expand into the person you were always destined to be. I wasn't put on this earth to play small, and neither were you. Are you ready? Let's get aligned. Hello everyone and welcome back. I am so excited to finally be back with you all. On today's episode, we are actually going to dive into how I discovered I was a psychic medium, so let's just go ahead and get right to it. When I was a little girl, probably around five or six years old, I saw my first spirit. It was actually in my parents' bedroom. So at that time I used to sleep in my parents' room, and I woke up one night because I just honestly felt the presence of someone there. And when I rolled over, I saw the silhouette of a man. He was probably six foot four, and he was a pretty solid build, and I remember it scared the crap out of me. I was terrified, so I rolled back over and just hoped and prayed it would go away. And this happened probably five or six times. I, remember being very scared at the time, even though I knew. It couldn't hurt me. However, it was still a lot for a young child to process, I guess. So one night he honestly just went away. And. From that point on, I have never seen Spirit objectively again. However, after that night, everything turned more into knowingness for me. So when I connect Mediumistic, I get information coming through. It's just like a thought, like a knowledge, and I just know the information and I have no other better way to explain that than. It'll just be in my head and I know the information and I know the message that needs to be shared. So that's how it started to come through. More so after that night. Now, throughout most of my life, I would say I, well, one, I didn't know I was a medium until much later on in my life, but I wasn't connecting. Mediumistic my entire leap. Either not, not to my knowledge. I might have had messages here and there, but mostly throughout my life it was more of an intuitive, psychic based experience. I can remember being, I can remember it was like the little things, you know, I can remember. I would know. What the next episode of like the cartoon I was watching. I knew what was gonna come on, or I knew it was getting ready to come on within the next few episodes and then it, you know, it went to, I would, the phone would ring and I would be like, oh, that's my grandma. I would just somehow know what was happening and that really was how. The majority of my life went now over time, and as I got into school and into junior high and high school, that intuitive nature really grew for me, and I didn't know what I was doing and I didn't know what it really was at all, but. I knew just to trust it. And I'll be honest, there were a lot of times I didn't trust it and it bit me in the bud. I am not kidding. I would get the biggest gut feelings. It would all be like, Claire, come on. And I would ignore it and sure enough. Something would happen, and if I just listened to my gut, we all have that feeling or we all have that, you know, that experience, I'm sure at least most of us do. But it really was that intuitive nature that I really honed in on and didn't even realize I was doing it. And so when I started to figure out who I really was, that's when I started really pursuing and really nurturing that intuition. Now. let's go back to the elementary school days'cause this is where, this is where a lot happened for me. I was bullied pretty heavily in elementary school, honestly throughout school. It wasn't always over one specific thing, but I found myself at the, but end of a lot of jokes that weren't really jokes, that they just really hurt my feelings. in elementary, I, I was just a little bit heavier than, than you know, the other girls in my class. And I can remember it was fifth grade. And I can remember where I was standing on the playground and one of the girls was having a sleepover and I wasn't invited. And one of the other girls asked the girl who was having sleepover why I wasn't invited. And I don't remember how it exactly happened, but the next thing I know, all of the girls in the class who were invited to this sleepover were like. Joining up in a little circle and they were voting on whether or not I should be invited to the party. And keep in mind, I was literally just, I don't know, probably 20 yards away watching this all happen. I had to sit there and wait for their decision to know if I was allowed to go to the sleepover. so this is where the horses and the animals really come into play. I didn't obviously know at the time how to describe it, but I knew what I was feeling. I really didn't like school. School really brought out a lot of anxiety in me, especially from a young age. I did not wanna leave home. And when I was at school, it was, it was so overwhelming because there were so many emotions and so many feelings, and I could, I could pick up on what someone was feeling or what someone was, maybe what their intention was. And it was really hard. Again, I didn't know what I was doing, but that's what I was doing. Looking back, it makes me really sad for her, for that little girl because she was literally, she literally just didn't understand what was happening. But I would, I would pick up on a lot of things, and now I know that that term is called an empath, and I was extremely, extremely empathic. And it was almost like the emotions that I would feel off someone. Would magnify like a hundred times more in me. You know, someone could be feeling really sad that day, but to me, I was feeling like I just needed to cry hysterically. Like it was the end of the world, like it was next level, and I really struggled with making friends and having friends because it was honestly all just like too much like what I was feeling all the time. I could pick up so many things. And like for example, I could really pick up on intentions and I could pick up on when someone was talking poorly about me or had recently been talking poorly about me, I could just walk up to them and I could just feel their intentions towards me that weren't pure or weren't kind. And it was really, really hurtful. And it was like, how do you explain that to someone like. I know you were talking about me, but I, but I didn't see it and I didn't hear you do it, but I know you were, and it's so hurtful. How do you explain that to someone? And so I really struggled with this you pretty well throughout my school years. And it wasn't until around 14, 15 years old that I started seeing a medium, and she was a family friend. I know, right? Like we have a family friend that's a medium. Like, come on, it's awesome. But. I started seeing her and she started telling me, like right from the get go, she was like, you are really intuitive. Like you are really empathic. Like these, this is what you're experiencing. And she was like, you know, you absolutely have these abilities like, like you have the ability to read people. And I was like, no, I do not. That's the craziest thing I've literally heard yet today. And I just did not believe it. I believed that I was an empath. I believed that I was an intuitive. And you know, possibly psychic, but I did not think for one second I was a medium. I just, I remember thinking, I don't have the abilities that she does. I can't do what she does, and how wrong was I? But at the time I didn't know. So it wasn't until 2022 that I had like the grand spiritual awakening. Now again, these journeys happen differently for everyone, and I can remember starting this journey and thinking to myself. why wasn't I born a medium and start giving readings like Tyler Hendry at like eight years old? You know, whatever it may be, you find that you start comparing yourselves to others, and we all do it, and it's really hard not to do it, but try so hard not to do it because your path is beautiful. And magical just the way it is, there is literally nothing more magical than the light that you give off. That very special uniqueness about you. That makes you who you are. Don't ever forget that. So I had this big spiritual awakening in the summer of 2022, which is fitting because I was getting married that fall. And so at this time, I didn't want to tell anybody. I didn't want anyone to know, because I have a few family members kind of talk ugly about mediums and it was really hard. To be able to trust anyone because I was so scared. Someone was gonna be like, you're really weird, or you're really crazy. And you know, I have like that history of being bullied and I just didn't wanna be bullied again, so I didn't tell anyone and I went through that entire experience. Uh, just kind of by myself, and that was really hard because I had these crazy, magical experiences happen and had no one to share it with because I didn't feel comfortable sharing with anyone. And so I started looking into podcasts because I just needed someone to tell me. Like what the hell was going on? I didn't know how to navigate anything. I didn't know if I should start reading people, but I didn't know how to read for people. So I ended up, I was listening to a few podcasts and found a lady who was offering a course on developing mediumship. So I took the course and in that course I read for my first, sitter, and it was. It was magical. I can remember going into it and I thought we were just gonna like learn some stuff here and there. I didn't know we were actually going to read, I don't know, hindsight 2020. Why wouldn't we? Because it was a mediumship development class. But I didn't, I guess I just like didn't think about it and so like I just didn't. No, but anyway, she was like, all right, let's partner up. Let's read for people like each other. And I was like, um, hi. I literally don't know how to do this. And she was like, just say whatever comes to mind. Whatever you feel, anything. I started and immediately I was drawn to my right side. And all of a sudden I just felt this connection and I just started talking and I started describing this man who ended up being this lady's ex-husband, and I got through how he passed. I got through why he passed. I got through a lot of detailed information and I was like, holy crap. How did I even just do this? And so I was really hooked from there. I was like, I gotta do it more. I wanna do more. And then the next girl I read it for, again, like the, like stuff that I, I didn't have, this is how I can best describe how it happens and how quickly it comes in. I literally wouldn't have time to make it up. It comes in that fast, it comes in that strong, and I just know the information. It would take me so long to come up with the stuff like that they were showing me like I would never get there on my own. Just like make this stuff up by chance. It comes through that fast and I really noticed for me a lot of the time when the sitter would ask me a question, I would have the answer before they finished the question. And that's how I knew it was from Spirit is because it just came in so fast. And so I read it For this girl, it was, you know, I got a lot of stuff through, again, a lot of validating info, validating information, and there was one bit of information that she couldn't quite place, and I just felt really strongly about it. And I, she couldn't quite place it, but whatever. We finished the reading. She emails me two days later and she was like, you're not gonna believe this. And then placed the information She was like, I didn't know. And I went home and my, and I asked my mom about this and she was like, yeah, that literally happened and I'm not gonna share it on here'cause I don't have her permission to share it. So I, and I don't want to, you know, obviously share information that's not mine to share, but. That was the coolest experience by far. Like at that time I was like, oh my God, I'm actually doing this. How am I even doing this? I don't know. I'm just doing it like this is the coolest thing ever. And so it was really After that we got married the next month and then. I found out shortly after I was pregnant with my son August, and his, how I came to found find out that I was pregnant with him will forever be one of my favorite stories, and I am gonna save it for another episode because it is pretty lengthy. And it's one of my favorite, favorite stories and it has, you know, everything to do with signs and validations from the universe. So I'm gonna leave you on a cliffhanger on that one because it is phenomenal. I love it. I love, now that I share with people what I do, I'm like, you have to, you have to hear this story about how I found out I was pregnant with my son. It is mind blowing. So. I'll save it for another episode, but yeah, so after I found out I was pregnant with my son, I took, a pretty long break. The entire time I was pregnant with him, and then about when he was about eight to nine months old, I got that call again and it came in so strong. I literally woke up one day and I was like. I'm gonna start practicing reading for people again. It was so strong I couldn't ignore it. And that happens, I think, to a lot of us, and we might not exactly know it, or we might not know what it's, what the calling is, but we have it and it's strong and it's like, Hey, wake up. We're gonna do this now. And it's hard to navigate when you don't know what the, thing is that you're trying to navigate. So, back to what I was talking about, I get sidetracked. I'm so sorry. I have a DHD and I literally am kind of all over the place, but I'm, I'm trying to reel myself back in here. So again, back to. The summer of 2023. That's really when I started My actual pretty serious journey, and I've been on that journey now ever since I started reading for people, I joined a community that I absolutely love. If you have heard of the Squamish Medium, she has a free online community. It's through her spirit school. She also has a collective, which is a paid. Like monthly subscription that you can join, like a specific group of mediums, psychics, reiki, masters. I mean literally there are literally anyone you can think of is there. It's pretty cool. But if you're not willing to pay that right now or you're not developing right now and you wanna just join her free community, it's honestly really, really amazing to be part of something. That has so many like-minded people like yourself and like myself. Okay, so I will share a little bit with you now about how I read and how information comes through. I've kind of shared a little bit with you, but I will take you through a session with me, essentially. So it's gonna look different for everyone. It really depends on. Why the sitter is there and the messages that need to come through for the sitter's highest good. And I can't stress that enough. A lot of people will come to a reading because they want to hear from a certain person, or they wanna know if they're gonna move to Arizona or if they're going to buy a new car. And a lot of the time, sometimes those will, those answers will come through. But A, but the majority of the time. The, messages that come through are some that you wouldn't expect to hear, and that is because they are for your highest good. Spirit is really good about bringing through information that you truly. Whether you know it or not, need to hear in that moment. And that is something that I really do love about reading and about communicating, is that a lot of the times my sitter will be like, oh my gosh, I literally wasn't coming here for this today and I can't believe you brought this up, but this just like opens new doors for me or it, it reminds me of something that I need to work on or it. Opened something up for me that I wanted to forget about, but now I really wanna heal this thing that happened and it's, it really is beautiful. I had a sitter who, I won't get too specific, but this person had some childhood trauma around her parents and she came for an entirely different reason. But her parents came through and I just felt this overwhelming sorrow. And I kind of started getting that knowingness that she had had some poor childhood experiences and she, you know, I shared what I had, what was coming through, and she thanked me and she was like, you know, I didn't even. I didn't even think about that, or I tried to forget it and I really don't want it to be something that weighs me down anymore. So again, when I'm sitting in a reading a lot of the time. All the information comes through me on my right side. So this is gonna be maybe hard to explain over a podcast episode, but I'll do the best I can for like visual visualization purposes. So imagine, you know, wherever you are, wherever you're sitting, imagine looking up to your right, kind of, not straight up, but kind of just in the upper right hand corner of wherever you are. That area is where grandparents come in for me. So that higher hierarchy level of, of like the grandparent level, and this is in relation to the sitter and then to the right directly below where the grandparents come in, that's where parents come in directly to my right. So if you were to stick your arm straight out to the right. That is where siblings, cousins, friends, and people of the same age as the sitter when they passed, will come in directly to my right. Aunts and uncles will come in directly to my right, but just a couple inches back behind me, and then pets will come in. More so on the ground to the right, but kind of directly behind me. And then spirit babies will come in directly like right next to my face, like literally so close to my face. I can almost feel like they're just like touching me. And it's a beautiful rainbow of colors that are, are around them, and they are just like these glowing orbs of beautiful rainbow light. They're literally so beautiful. So that's kind of where everyone comes in for me. And this is all happening in my like, energetic field. And so when I get information, I, I get it in a few different ways. So I have my clear cognizance, that's my, that's that clear knowing. So I will just know the information or it'll come through as thoughts that it, it's almost like I'm having the thoughts, but it's information that I literally couldn't have come up with on my own. So that is the strongest for me. Another one that I get is the CLA sentience, which is a clear feeling. So that'll come through if I'm feeling very anxious, if the sitter was very anxious, or if the spirit had a more anxiety, more anxious tendencies, or I could feel sorrow or anger or immense love. And see that's where. That empathic feeling way back in childhood helped me out a little bit because it's so magnified when I feel it. I recognize that now and I don't let it take over as much. I know what it is now and I'm better able to. Control it. So I will feel these really, really intense emotions. Sometimes I will actually physically feel things in my body sometimes, like if there, there was something with the throat or if someone didn't speak a lot, or if someone. Anything kind of directly related to speaking or the throat of some nature, my throat will kind of close up and I'll start coughing. So it's things like that. Another one I use is Claire audience. And Claire audience. Is that clear hearing? I don't hear externally. I hear internally. So imagine if you're sitting here completely quiet and say your name in your head, you can hear it. But you don't, but you don't hear it outside externally. It comes in internally and it actually comes in at the center of my brain, if that makes any, any sense. If, if you're familiar with anatomy and you know where the pituitary gland is, that's honestly kind of where it comes in for me, and that's where I get all my information to. And so I will hear. In the center of my head and I will get the information into the center of my head. I will also see, so that clear or that, um, clear voyance, sorry. I see clairvoyance in two different places, so I will see them, like I said earlier, up in the corners, like wherever they are in that hierarchy. But I will also see them. In the center of my brain, but also, or in the center of my head, but also kind of to the right side of my head. It's really hard to explain. I know, but I'm trying the best I can here. But I will see them almost like behind my eyes, if that makes sense. But that's kind of how it works for me. And I really, it's really dependent on myself, spirit, and the sitter, which. Of the Claire's I use that day. Sometimes I hear a lot of stuff. Sometimes I see a lot of stuff. Sometimes I'll get names, sometimes I'll get dates. Sometimes they'll just flash images and signs really quickly. It really is just dependent on the sitter, again, sitter spirit in myself that day. If I'm having an off day where I don't think I can feel a whole lot that day, or I'm just like overstimulated, you know, whatever it is, and I'm just like, Hey, spirit, like. I can't, I can't feel, because the cla, the cla sentience, the clear feeling, it drains me very quickly, um, out of the other Claires. So I use it as sparingly as possible, and I think Spirit knows that too. So I don't use it a whole whole lot unless it's absolutely necessary. Because like, for example, I had a, a reading where. Um, uh, the sitter's sun came through and all I could feel was the most like insane, intense love that I have ever genuinely felt in my entire life. And afterwards, I, I mean, I was on a high, it was euphoric. It was absolutely insane. That feeling that I felt. But then afterwards, you know, after an hour or two had passed, I was so tired I could hardly hold my head up. It really, really does drain me. So I used my other clears a little more. And I think Spirit knows that too, just because they don't drain me as quickly. So again, that's kind of how I, that's kind of how I operate. That's kind of how. It works for me, um, when I do connect. So when I start connecting, there is no real, um, I mean, I guess there is kinda like an on and off switch. I don't know how I'm using it, but I somehow just kind of lean into this space. This like, almost like this. Like this veil is almost like lifted and I'm able to communicate and it really is just like a shift of my energy. Like I just shift myself over and there they are, and that's the best way I know at this current moment in time. That is the best way I know how to explain that. I'm, I'm sure in the future at some point I might be able to explain that a little bit better and go into more depth about that, but that truly is how it works for me now. It works differently for everyone that's not, it might work really similar for another medium, but another medium might only use clairvoyance or only use Clare Cognizance. It's, it's really, it's really specific medium to medium. And with that being said, I am gonna go ahead and close out this episode for today. Again, thank you so much for being here and for listening to this podcast I appreciate you all more than anything because this is such a dream of mine and I do have a fear of public speaking and even though I'm literally staring at my computer right now. I know that I am speaking to someone, so it is really, really hard for me to speak. Not freeze. And not clam up. And not freak out because I struggle. I've always struggled with public speaking. It is, it's, it's not my strongest suit. So I wanted to do this podcast. It's, you know, it was a dream of mine to do it in the first place, but I really wanted to push myself and stretch myself and see how far I could go with it, because I wanted to be able to better communicate to you all and to feel more comfortable and more confident in myself. I have had visions, dreams, that I am speaking in front of. A lot of people and it, it keeps coming and it keeps coming and I keep having this repeat over and over and over, and I have had that for, for a couple years now. And so I know that I will be speaking to the masses one day essentially. I just know that, and I, I want to be able to start practicing now, so I'm ready for that time when it does come. So again, I just wanna say thank you. Thank you for believing in me, and thank you more importantly for believing in yourself. And if you don't feel like you're quite there yet, you'll absolutely get there. I believe in you so, so immensely. You are a hundred percent going to be in that place. If I can sit here in front of this computer and make this podcast, I absolutely know without a doubt that you can do whatever you set your mind to because you are here for a purpose. You are here for a reason. This life was not meant to go to work. To go home, to go to bed, to wake up, to go to work. You were meant for more. You were meant for more. And do not think for one minute that you weren't because you absolutely were. Okay. I'm gonna go ahead and hop off here guys again, have an amazing rest of your day, wherever you are, and just stay well. All right, bye friends. Did you love this episode of the Ultra Aligned Podcast? If so, I would be so incredibly grateful if you could leave a glowing review and five stars. Your support helps this podcast reach even more people who are ready to step into their light. Have questions or suggestions for topics you'd like me to dive into. I'd love to hear from you. Just shoot me an email at the Ultra Aligned podcast@gmail.com. Thanks for sharing. I love you all. I'll see you next time on the Ultra Aligned Podcast.