There’s a particular kind of exhaustion that high achievers know well. Not the tiredness that comes from a genuinely demanding period – that kind makes sense, and it passes. This is something different. It’s the exhaustion of someone who can’t stop, even when they know they should. Who starts early and finishes late not because […]
When people come to therapy feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or caught in a loop of self-doubt, they often expect change to follow a neat, linear path. In reality, the process is much more fluid. You move between awareness, understanding, skill-building, and action in a way that matches your situation, your values, and whatever life throws at
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Part of the Awareness to Action Framework: four steps to working with imposter feelings. If you’ve followed this series from the start, you’ve already developed three essential foundations. Awareness, recognising the patterns that fuel imposter feelings. Understanding, making sense of why the mind reacts the way it does. And Skills, learning how to steady yourself
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Part of the Awareness to Action Framework: four steps to working with imposter feelings. If you’ve followed the first two steps of this series, Awareness and Understanding, you’ll have a clearer picture of what keeps imposter feelings alive and why your mind works the way it does. But awareness and understanding only take you so
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When people come to therapy for imposter feelings, they usually want to jump straight to the solution. How do I stop feeling this way? How can I finally feel confident? It’s completely understandable, because feeling like a fraud is exhausting. But we can’t change what we don’t yet understand, and that’s why the first step
Ever felt like you’re doing well on paper, but quietly waiting for someone to realise you don’t quite deserve it? Maybe it shows up before a big meeting, when you get positive feedback you can’t quite accept, or when you take on more responsibility and find the self-doubt gets louder rather than quieter. From the