Thriving From Within Part 4: Healing Anxiety With Insight - by Clare Downham

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Thriving From Within Part 4: Healing Anxiety With Insight

With Clare Downham

There are moments when the anxious feelings seem too loud to ignore. You might find yourself scanning your body for symptoms, avoiding things that once felt normal, or wondering if you’ll ever feel fully calm again. If that’s where you are, this course is a gentle place to begin. Rather than offering more tools to fix anxiety, it invites you to see it in a new way. Through the lens of the 3 Principles, you’ll explore how your experience is created and how anxiety, though uncomfortable, is not a sign that anything is wrong with you. Together, we’ll look at the subtle ways fear of the feeling keeps it alive, how control and avoidance shrink our lives, and how a simple pause can allow your nervous system to reset. You’ll meet metaphors, stories, and insights that gently shift your perspective, moving you away from pressure and closer to peace. This course is especially supportive if you feel caught in the cycle of overthinking, if you’ve grown tired of trying to manage your emotional world, or if you’ve been looking for a kinder way to meet anxiety without adding more to your to-do list. It’s not about becoming unshakable. It’s about realising that even when you shake, you’re still whole. The teachings here don’t require effort or mastery. They ask only for a little space, a little listening, and the willingness to look in a new direction. If something in this feels like a relief or a curiosity, you’d like to follow you’re warmly invited to begin.


Meet your Teacher

Clare helps high-achieving professionals and business owners break free from the inner critic, overthinking, and the relentless pressure to do more. Through her transformational content and one-to-one coaching, she helps ambitious individuals stop being ruled by self-doubt so they can lead with confidence, clarity, and ease. Unlike traditional mindset strategies that rely on tools and techniques, Clare’s approach isn’t about fixing yourself or trying to silence your inner critic. Instead, she helps you see self-doubt differently, so it no longer leads your life. This shift creates lasting confidence, clarity, and ease, without the need for constant effort or self-management. Her unique Thriving Life Approach shifts people from being stuck and hesitating to making bold, aligned decisions without the constant need for external validation. Instead of battling their inner critic, Clare’s clients learn how to stop letting it lead so they can create success on their own terms. Those who work with Clare experience real, lasting transformation. They: - Trust themselves deeply so they can make clear decisions without second-guessing. - Break free from overthinking so they can move forward with ease. - Set boundaries without guilt so they can create space for fulfilment, success, and balance. - Lead with confidence in their careers, businesses, and personal lives.

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8 Days

151 students

5.0 stars

7 min / day

Anxiety

English


Lesson 1

What If Anxiety Isn’t A Problem To Fix

Most people come to courses like this hoping to get rid of anxiety. But this course is not about fixing anything. It’s about seeing it differently. In this first lesson, we question some of the beliefs that keep anxiety in place and open up to the possibility that we are not broken. When we stop trying to manage or suppress anxiety, it begins to lose its grip.

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Lesson 2

The Submarine Sonar And The Fear Of Feeling

Have you ever scanned your body the moment you wake up to check if anxiety is still there? You’re not alone. In this lesson, we explore how the anxious mind becomes like a submarine sonar, constantly sweeping for threat. The more we fear the sensations, the more we feel them. But what if the feeling itself was never the problem?

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Lesson 3

Shrinking Your World Without Realising

When we believe our anxiety comes from situations outside us, we begin to avoid them. That avoidance, over time, shrinks our world. This lesson reveals how the comfort zone is imaginary and how understanding where our experience really comes from sets us free.

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Lesson 4

Why Control Makes Anxiety Worse

Trying to control our internal sensations or external life to avoid anxiety actually feeds it. In this lesson, we explore why control backfires and how trust opens up a gentler, clearer way to live so we can feel less exhausted and more calm.

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Lesson 5

Pausing, Breathing, And Letting The Body Lead

Deep breathing tells the nervous system we are safe and curiosity invites us into presence. Childlike language softens the experience. In this lesson, we learn how pausing, breathing and observing our experience lets the system reset.

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Lesson 6

Let The Feeling Pass Without Joining In

This lesson is about allowing emotion to pass without adding to it. You’ll hear the story of how I crossed stepping stones, stayed present through fear, and discovered that feelings can pass if we don’t resist them.

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Lesson 7

Gratitude For Anxiety Might Sound Mad But It’s Possible

What if anxiety was a signpost, not a problem? A moment of awareness showing us that we’re believing something untrue or that we’re on the edge of growth. In this lesson, we flip the narrative and find the gold.

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Lesson 8

It’s Not Serious. You’re Safe. You’re Human.

In this final lesson, we look at the gift of lightness. When we stop taking every anxious thought seriously, something powerful happens. You are not broken. You are just human. Let’s laugh together because it helps more than you might think.

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Ask your teacher

This course includes 9 community questions and 9 audio replies from Clare Downham. The community classroom and teacher audio replies are only available via the app.

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Recent Reviews

Diane

January 16, 2026

It's not that serious. Fear is just a memo that may or may not need a responce.

Patricia

Patricia

December 28, 2025

Absolutely loved this course. Will be sharing

Lesley

October 1, 2025

So helpful. Stop worrying and know it's just a feeling, not an ailment - love it!

Joe

September 24, 2025

Very useful class with ideas I can apply in daily life.

Hannah

September 19, 2025

I loved this so much!! Learning to approach anxiety ( breathless betty) with humour and grattitude. I can’t wait to implement these teachings as I walk in this funny world. Thankyou 💙💙💙

Jo

September 16, 2025

Another wonderful course from Clare (as all her courses are!), full of great advice that is explained well with examples from her own experience, & which make perfect sense & can be put into action to make real differences. I am so very grateful for your dedication to creating these invaluable courses which help so many people, thank you!

Lynn

Lynn

August 19, 2025

I found this course enlightening in how to approach our thoughts and fears. The insights into how to manage our thoughts and feelings are appreciated and I will definitely be using them to help me in my daily struggles with an over thinking mind

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