Ruth Clare

Articles

Here you’ll find an ever-growing resource of mental health and self-development articles to help you tap into your potential for growth and change.

9 things to remind yourself when you are going through a tough time

Sometimes keeping your head above water and making it through the day takes every ounce of your energy. Now is…

The life changing experiment #2

TEST QUESTION: Can changing your beliefs change your life? Fact or belief? We often blame things beyond our control for…

Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs)

Content warning: If you have had a crap childhood this material can feel confronting (At least it was for me…

The Life-changing experiment #1

Welcome to The Life Changing Experiment. While there is no quick fix, exact formula or guaranteed path to mental health,…

3 tools to instantly reduce stress and overwhelm

When you start to feel stressed you can use these three easy techniques to help you shift to a calmer,…

Dealing with your inner critic

We all have an inner critic. It’s the voice that tells us our work is no good, our bum is…

The value of speaking the unspeakable

I speak about things like growing up with violence and addiction because these things are not often spoken and I…

The Life Lab fundamentals

We all deserve medals for dealing with our issuesDealing with your issues takes courage and humility. It involves developing new…

We need to talk about class…

When I was told I was school captain when I was eleven years old, nobody knew that I rushed home…

Ruth Clare is an award-winning author, TEDx and motivational keynote speaker, professional actor, qualified scientist and authenticity, resilience and change expert who learned by necessity, first to survive, then to thrive. Ruth weaves research and hard-won lessons with powerful, relatable stories from her lived experience overcoming adversity, to help others find the courage to own the stories that are holding them back so they can rewrite their lives. With a rare knack for distilling the neuroscience and psychology of human behaviour into simple ideas and practical strategies, Ruth shows people how to embrace uncertainty, stay hopeful when times are tough and harness their potential for growth and change. Ruth’s TEDx talk, The Pain of Hiding Your True Self, has had over half a million views.