The Courage To Be Real: Find Confidence Through Authentic Self-Expression - by Clare Downham

COURSE

The Courage To Be Real: Find Confidence Through Authentic Self-Expression

With Clare Downham

You don’t need to fix yourself. But you may need to stop editing yourself. If you often overthink what to say, shrink your ideas to sound acceptable, or delay action until things feel perfect, this course is for you. High-performing professionals and business owners are often praised for their poise and control, but underneath, many feel disconnected from their true voice. That inner tension creates stress, hesitation, anxiety, and self-doubt. This course offers a gentle shift from self-correction to self-expression. You’ll learn to quiet the inner critic, stop performing for approval, and reconnect with the inner knowing that already lives within you. There are no mantras to memorise, no extra time required, and no effort to become something more. The work is in remembering who you already are. Throughout this insight-based course, you’ll explore how to: • Recognize when the inner critic is editing your truth • Follow your intuitive guidance even when fear is present • Speak and act from authenticity in your work, relationships, and creative expression • Release the need to control outcomes or prove your worth • Build confidence by being real, not by getting it right Each audio lesson blends personal stories, practical experiments, and powerful inside-out teachings to help you shift from self-doubt to self-trust. The course is structured to support deep insight in just a few minutes each day. No pushing. No performing. Just truth. Past clients have described this approach as life-changing, freeing, and the missing link in their personal growth. Whether you’re navigating leadership, launching something new, or simply tired of hiding behind polished versions of yourself, you’ll find clarity and calm right here. With even one small insight, you’ll begin to feel the difference. Less fear. More presence. Less pressure. More power. This journey doesn’t take much effort. It takes more honesty. And that starts now.


Meet your Teacher

Clare supports high-achieving professionals and business owners who feel caught between success and self-doubt. Her work helps people stop overthinking, quiet the inner critic, and reconnect with the deeper truth that lives within them. Rather than managing mindset or performing confidence, Clare invites a more profound shift where clarity, calm, and authentic expression arise naturally. Through transformational courses, live sessions, and private mentoring, Clare guides ambitious individuals to stop editing themselves and start showing up as they truly are. Her unique approach is not about effort or self-improvement. It is about seeing thought for what it is, so you are no longer led by fear, pressure, or perfectionism. Those who work with Clare learn to: • Trust their inner knowing instead of second-guessing every decision • Move through doubt and hesitation with greater ease • Speak and lead with the confidence that comes from the presence, not performance • Create success on their terms without sacrificing their wellbeing This is not about becoming someone new. It is about returning to the clarity, courage, and authenticity that have been there all along.

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9 Days

100 students

5.0 stars

7 min / day

Authenticity

English


Lesson 1

The Cost Of Hiding Your Truth

You’ve worked hard to build a life others admire but is it true to you? Many high-achievers become experts at looking the part while quietly editing themselves to stay safe, liked, or successful. In this first lesson, we explore how hiding our truth, even in subtle ways, creates stress, disconnection, and a growing sense of “something’s missing.”

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Lesson 2

The Inner Critic That Keeps You Small

That second-guessing, self-correcting voice in your head isn’t your truth, it’s your conditioning. The inner critic thrives on comparison, caution, and control. It tells you to wait, to tweak, to stay quiet until it’s perfect. In this lesson, we explore how the inner critic shows up, why we mistake it for wisdom, and how to begin creating space between you and that voice.

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Lesson 3

Trusting Intuitive Guidance And The Present Moment

Your intuition isn’t loud. It doesn’t shout, push, or convince. It speaks in clarity, simplicity, and quiet knowing. In this lesson, we explore how to recognize and follow your inner guidance instead of dismissing it in favor of logic, fear, or external validation. The more you listen, the more life begins to unfold with ease and truth.

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Lesson 4

Speaking The Truth That’s In Your Heart

You’ve felt the nudge. You’ve heard the insight. Now comes the moment of choice: will you say it, share it, or hold back? In this lesson, we explore the courage it takes to speak your truth in real-world moments and how staying silent often comes from misunderstanding fear as a stop sign, rather than a signal to move.

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Lesson 5

Sitting With Fear, Not Silencing It

Every time you lean into truth, fear may rise. That doesn’t mean you’re wrong. It means you’re growing. In this lesson, we explore how fear and emotional resistance are not signs to stop but invitations to stay. You’ll learn how to sit with discomfort instead of avoiding it and how truth often lives just beyond the feeling you want to escape.

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Lesson 6

Letting Go Of The Need To Get It Right

If you’re always preparing, perfecting or rehearsing, it’s hard to be real. In this lesson, we explore how the pressure to say or do it “right” creates distance from what’s alive and true. You’ll learn to move from performance to presence, and discover how what’s real lands far more powerfully than what’s polished.

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Lesson 7

Living Unedited – Authenticity In Action

Authenticity is not something you prepare. It is how you meet the moment without filtering or performing. In this lesson, we explore what it looks like to live unedited in your work, relationships, and creativity. When you stop managing how you're received, you make space for connection, clarity, and calm.

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Lesson 8

You Already Know

There is a place in you that already knows. You do not need more confidence or clarity. You need less interference. This final lesson invites you to keep coming home to your inner knowing, trusting that what is real is already within you and ready to be lived.

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Lesson 9

Living The Practice Of Authenticity

This is not a one-time shift. It’s a way of meeting life. In this final integration lesson, we explore how to keep showing up from your inner knowing in everyday moments. You’ll be reminded of the simplicity of returning to presence, the freedom of expressing without a filter, and the peace of trusting what you already know.

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Recent Reviews

Jules

Jules

August 27, 2025

I am so inspired by Claire’s content and am becoming more aware of the sensations in my body that take me away from the here and now. I love being present in my body. I’m getting to know the real me.

Sheila

Sheila

June 28, 2025

Super relatable. Easy to follow and understand. Real life examples shared. I’m going to make some changes in how I respond to the inner critic and feelings.

Jo

May 1, 2025

Another wonderful course, thank you! Some really useful tips, particularly to notice the feeling of tension stopping you but also not to be critical if that occurs again. And the importance of taking a pause when feeling tense. I also really valued the reflection prompts at the end of each day, & have enjoyed & gained a lot from journalling on them, & really appreciated your encouragement to journal, I'm finding it a very valuable tool. I also very much appreciated the recap of the reflexions written down on the classroom introduction, that was really useful to flick back to. Thank you, I can't wait to start another of your courses!.

kelani

kelani

April 27, 2025

wonderful! so helpful and supporting! thank you! ❤️k

Aviva

April 20, 2025

An incredibly beautiful and helpful course. I am doing it again right after completing it. Thank you!

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