How To Beat Impostor Syndrome
The Singapore Women's Weekly|February 2018

Even the formidable Meryl Streep admits she suffers from negativity, self-doubt and feeling like a fraud. Here’s how to access confidence and boost your self-esteem for good

Helen Foster
How To Beat Impostor Syndrome

Does your subconscious constantly whisper you’re not good enough at work and you will get found out – and soon? That insidious voice is a confidence drain, yet it seems far too many of us aren’t able to dial down its volume or even switch it off completely.

Even Meryl Streep says she sometimes feels like a fraud. “I have varying degrees of confidence and self-loathing,” the 20-time Oscar nominee has said. “You can have a perfectly horrible day where you doubt your talent – or that you’re boring and they’re going to find out that you don’t know what you’re doing.”

So why is the inner mean girl voice getting the better of so many of us? “We’re simply too hard on ourselves,” says Dr Vesna Grubacevic, a clinical hypnotherapist and trainer in neurolinguistic programming (NLP), “Some women strive for an unrealistic or unattainable perfection. It’s known as Imposter Syndrome – the inability to recognise accomplishments, and a fear of being exposed as a fraud.”

Here’s how to switch off the negative inner monologue, face the “I’m not good enough” fears and instead plug into “I’ve got this” confidence.

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