Freedom From Self-Consciousness - by Clare Downham

COURSE

Freedom From Self-Consciousness

With Clare Downham

Are you tired of how often your thoughts come back to you, how you're doing, what others think, whether you're enough? Constant self-focus feels productive, but it actually feeds stress, indecision, and burnout. This course offers a powerful shift: one that doesn't require more effort or self-improvement. Instead, you’ll discover a quieter truth. Peace begins not by fixing yourself, but by looking in a new direction. You’ll explore how self-consciousness and overthinking become patterns, not personal flaws, and how to release their grip without needing to fight them. Grounded in the inside-out understanding and Clare’s Thriving from Within framework, this course supports high achievers in shifting from being led by the inner critic to being guided by inner knowing. The result is greater peace, confidence, clarity and presence. You’ll learn how to spot and soften the inner critic, stop managing your identity, trust a deeper knowing, and find freedom from the loop of constant self-monitoring. Each session includes reflection, practical insight, and a calming invitation to pause. Whether you’re struggling with decision-making, perfectionism, or pressure to perform, this course will support you in a radical new way: by helping you see that you are already whole. This approach doesn’t require force, discipline or hours of work. Just a willingness to see things differently. Learners often report feeling relief after just one session, with deeper shifts unfolding naturally over time. If you’ve had enough of thinking about yourself, this course will help you remember what’s always been here: peace, presence, and the power of simply being.


Meet your Teacher

Clare Downham is a teacher, guide, and mentor for high achievers who are tired of pressure, overthinking, and self-criticism. Her work is grounded in the inside-out understanding and her signature Thriving from Within framework, which helps people shift from being led by the inner critic to being guided by inner knowing. Clare supports those ready to stop managing, fixing, or proving themselves and instead reconnect with their natural clarity, confidence, and calm. Her courses are an invitation to return to what’s already here beneath the noise without techniques, timelines or pressure. Alongside her Insight Timer courses, Clare offers one-to-one support, deeper group programs, and a growing library of transformative resources to help you live with more peace, ease and presence, no matter how busy or noisy life feels.

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6 Days

197 students

5.0 stars

10 min / day

Awakening

English


Lesson 1

The Cost Of Self-Focus

High achievers often believe that the way forward is to think more, analyse better, and improve constantly. But what if the very act of focusing on ourselves, our thoughts, our performance, our self-worth, is what keeps us stuck? In this opening lesson, we explore the mental exhaustion caused by self-referencing, and how stepping outside of this loop is the beginning of real peace.

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Lesson 2

The Illusion Of The Inner Critic

The inner critic often seems like a voice of truth. It feels familiar, persuasive, and strangely necessary, especially for high achievers. But what if it’s just a looping pattern of thought with no real wisdom? In this lesson, we’ll uncover the illusion of the inner critic and begin to gently loosen its grip, without needing to fight it.

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Lesson 3

Beyond Identity Management

We spend so much of our energy trying to be the right version of ourselves. Pleasing, successful, confident, or spiritual. In this lesson, we look at how identity management keeps us trapped in stress, and how letting go of these roles opens up authentic, effortless living.

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Lesson 4

Living From Something Deeper

Beneath the inner critic, beyond identity and striving, there is a quieter knowing. In this lesson, we explore how to reconnect with the deeper intelligence within us. A space of insight, clarity, and intuitive guidance that doesn’t come from thinking.

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Lesson 5

Freedom From “Me”

When we stop focusing on ourselves, our identity, progress, or perfection, we begin to experience the ease and openness that were always here. This lesson explores the joy and simplicity of no longer being the main character in your own thinking.

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Lesson 6

Living From Presence In A Noisy World

The world won’t stop spinning, and the inner critic may return. But your relationship to all of it can change. In this final lesson, we explore how to live from presence in the middle of real life and how this gentle shift supports sustainable peace, clarity, and connection.

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Recent Reviews

Jeff

Jeff

November 23, 2025

This was a great course! Thank you for sharing your wisdom and I look forward to exploring more of it.

Jenny

October 1, 2025

Exceptional, I honestly felt better, more alive and present each day. Thank you for your insights

Tanya

Tanya

September 29, 2025

Thank you. Practical and deep, will definitely check out your other courses.

Allison

Allison

June 26, 2025

Straightforward, accessible, and relatable. I appreciate your conversational approach to the lessons and your realism. My favorite takeaway made its way into my list of favorite intentions. To paraphrase it, “I will not try to manage other people’s thoughts or feelings or emotions; I will not try to manage what is NOT mine to manage.” A wonderful reminder! Thank you.

kelani

kelani

May 8, 2025

thank you! so beautiful, helpful and affirming! loved it and love YOU! k

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