I dreamt that you were twisting through seven suns of gold and the gypsy was insisting

that story must be told I came two in the morning but I took it as a warning that you might be a treasure.

I could touch but never hold.

Hi, everybody.

Welcome back to the Sober Four podcast.

I'm Veronica.

And I'm Chip.

Good to have you with us.

We are going to be talking about imposter syndrome today. It's another topic

that I just can't believe we haven't got to in the six years we've been doing this, but it came

up recently in a couple of my sessions and I thought, oh, we must do that. Yeah. No, it's a good

one. It's a good one. I think everybody, I mean, I don't know about everybody, but I certainly know that everybody with alcohol problems in their life suffer from this to varying degrees. But, you know, it's a sort of, it's almost like a symptom, an additional symptom of alcohol dependency

and alcohol problems, this whole thing, you know, as is low self-esteem and things like that,

but imposter syndrome is definitely one that keeps on cropping up over and over again.

Yeah, and I've got a definition here that was

defined by two clinical psychologists, Pauline Rose Clance and Suzanne Imis, and this was back in

1978. So what is imposter syndrome? Imposter syndrome is the condition of feeling anxious and not experiencing success internally,

despite being high performing in external objective ways.

This condition often results in people feeling like a fraud or a phony and doubting their

abilities.

And I think these two female psychologists kind of developed

some work around it because it was a condition they observed in professional women.

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