By Milda Urban, Summersalt Yoga founder Is it ironic that it took me a while to write a post about Impostor Syndrome, because well, I suffer from it?! It’s been acting up recently (probably relating to certain work related stress at the moment) and only with some constant repetition of “I have to do it” I have finally managed to sit down and start typing. What is impostor syndrome? For those who still haven’t heard about it, Carl Richards, a writer from The New York times describes it quite clearly “Two American psychologists, Pauline Clance and Suzanne Imes, gave it a name in 1978: the impostor syndrome. They described it as a feeling of ‘phoniness in people who believe that they are not intelligent, capable or creative despite evidence of high achievement.’ While these people ‘are highly motivated to achieve,’ they also ‘live in fear of being “found out” or exposed as frauds.'” Even though both genders experience it, it has been noted that women feel like impostors more often than men and it doesn’t surprise anyone (it is said that about 70% of women experience it!!!). We are more likely to question ourselves and be less confident, we raise […]

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