Emee Vida Estacio - Imposter Syndrome Remedy: How to improve your self-worth, feel confident about yourself, and stop feeling like a fraud! (Psychology in your life Book 2)

I dont deserve this job. I just got lucky.

I cant believe they trusted me. I am not good enough to do this.

I managed to pull it off today. But sooner or later, they will find out that I am just faking it!

Sound painfully familiar?

Then you might be experiencing Imposter Syndrome.

Imposter Syndrome is a persistent feeling of self-doubt, incompetence and inadequacy, despite evidence that reflects otherwise. Sure, we all feel self-doubt from time to time, and in moderate amounts, it can be good for you.

However, imposter syndrome is a whole new level of self-doubt. Its like self-doubt on steroids! It makes you feel as if you dont deserve any of your accomplishments because you cant shake off the feeling that you are not good enough at what you do. Its almost as if you are just winging it and you are lucky that people are fooled by the results.

You are not the only one who has felt this way.

In my experience as a community and health psychologist, I have worked with doctors, nurses, community leaders, teachers, managers, health and social workers who have expressed that they feel incompetent at what they do, that sometimes they cant believe how people could trust them with the responsibilities they are given.

As a university lecturer, I have also seen how fully qualified graduates, who passed rigorous assessments of knowledge and competence, still feel as if they are unprepared for the job market, despite years and years of training and hard work. Astonishingly, even my most experienced colleagues, despite holding international expertise in their respective fields, still express feelings of intellectual phoniness and inadequacy.

Although self-doubt can keep our ego in check and remind us of our own fallibility, too much self-doubt, which is a classic sign of Imposter Syndrome, can have detrimental consequences on our ability to find satisfaction in what we do at work, and in life in general.

Being able to manage imposter syndrome can help you to appreciate your true worth and fulfil your potential. Understanding and handling self-doubt effectively will enable you to flourish.

The aim of this book is to help readers become aware of imposter syndrome and the consequences of mismanaging it so they can help themselves and others to remedy its symptoms before it gets worse. It draws upon evidence-based research from psychology and follows the PAME Code of Purpose, Action, Momentum, and Energy as its structure.

PAME comes from the Greek word, phmeh and it means, lets go together . PAME will be a reminder that, whatever we want to pursue in life, we need to have a clear purpose, first and foremost. We need to follow this up with real action, maintain our momentum, and keep up the energy to sustain progress. You can learn more about the PAME Code from Book 1 of this series.

In this book, you will learn about:

• What Imposter Syndrome is and what it is not
• The characteristics and symptoms of Imposter Syndrome
• Factors that contribute to the development of Imposter Syndrome
• How mismanaging Imposter Syndrome can be harmful to you and others around you
• The 4-must-do preparatory steps for lasting change
• How to use the PASTLE technique and mental imagery to melt away feelings of worry, fear and self-doubt
• Effective strategies from applied psychology to overcome the 5 most common Imposter Syndrome excuses that stop you from taking action (and the one excuse that makes you do too much!)
• The TLC questioning sequence to counter self-defeating messages that fuel Imposter Syndrome and other techniques to help you keep the positive energy up.

This book also comes with a 30-day action plan and a FREE bonus workbook so you can take small, actionable steps every day to help you stop feeling like a fraud.

Click here to download the free PAME Code Workbook to Remedy Your Imposter Syndrome in 30 Days.

Are you ready to remedy Imposter Syndrome and stop feeling like a fraud?

Then PAME!

(Lets go together!)

WHAT IS IMPOSTER SYNDROME

IMPOSTER SYNDROME (a.k.a. the imposter phenomenon), is a term that was first coined by clinical psychologists, Pauline Clance and Suzzane Imes in 1970. They described it as an internal experience of intellectual phoniness and a persistent feeling of being a fraud. It is rooted in a nagging belief that you personally lack the skills, knowledge or competence to fulfill your job, despite external recognition and evidence of good (and often, excellent) work.

According to Harvey and Katz (1985), there are three core characteristics of Imposter Syndrome:

1. Denial of competence and inability to internalize success
2. Feeling of phoniness
3. Fear of being exposed as a fraud

Denial of competence and inability to internalize success

Those with Imposter Syndrome have difficulty receiving praise or recognition for their accomplishments because they feel they dont deserve what they have accomplished.

The reason for this is that they often attribute success to external factors, such as luck, a charming personality, or knowing the right people, instead of acknowledging internal factors, such as their skills, knowledge, and expertise. And when they perform certain tasks with ease, owing to their professional training and experience, they may also falsely assume that these tasks are probably easy for everyone, even those who do not possess their special skills or training. They also tend to set very high expectations for themselves and make unreasonably low assessments of their performance when these are completed.