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The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

273 | The Roots of Imposter Syndrome - Part 2

The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

Meg LeFauve & Lorien McKenna

Tv & Film

4.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

In Part 2 of our conversation with counselor and healer Madaline Blau, we move from understanding imposter syndrome to learning how to work with it in the body. Madaline guides us through grounding practices and shares a powerful 10-minute guided visualization designed to help you return to your truth, your courage, and the deeper steadiness beneath your storytelling. If you haven’t heard Part 1, start there for the full arc of this conversation. Then come back for this beautiful, restorative close to the episode. --- Looking for more support on your writing journey? Join Meg and Lorien inside ⁠⁠TSL Workshops⁠ ⁠- use code HOLIDAY25 for 50% off your first month. Episode Links: Letter to Agnes De Mille from Martha Graham Check out the ⁠TSL merch shop⁠ TSL on ⁠Instagram⁠, ⁠TikTok⁠, and ⁠Bluesky⁠ The Screenwriting Life is produced by ⁠Jonathan Hurwitz⁠ and edited by ⁠Kate Mishkin⁠. Email us at ⁠thescreenwritinglife@gmail.com⁠. --- Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome back to the screenwriting life.

0:06.8

If you haven't heard part one of our conversation with counselor and healer Madeline

0:10.9

Blow, we recommend starting there.

0:14.0

It lays the emotional and creative foundation for what you're about to hear.

0:18.2

In the second part, we move deeper into the body, the nervous system,

0:21.7

and the subconscious patterns that shape imposter syndrome. This half of the conversation gets

0:26.3

incredibly practical as Madeline walks us through grounding work, how to recognize self-sabotage,

0:31.7

and how to return to our creative center. We're picking right up where we left off in a moment

0:36.4

where everything we were talking about started to register physically for me.

0:40.2

Let's jump in.

0:43.6

I'm aware that probably other people might be feeling this as well listening to this.

0:47.6

And, you know, I've worked with you before.

0:49.0

So I'm, I sort of knew what to expect.

0:51.0

So I just want to pause here for a second and recalibrate because I feel like

0:58.0

I took a lot in intellectually, emotionally, psychologically. And so I need to figure out how to do that

1:04.6

so I can keep listening. So when you feel that everything going up, that's adrenaline, right?

1:12.7

Shooting up, the next stage is to get out of the body to be able somewhere to feel safe.

1:18.8

So when that's happening, if you're in a meeting and that happens, right?

1:24.5

You're doing a pitch.

1:25.8

You're doing any time that happens begin to widen your eye sight which means

1:35.5

start you can look ahead but you look more to the side the peripheral vision because what happens when we become adrenalized is we become in eyed.

1:48.7

We only are looking forward because we're looking to either fight or flee to get away.

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