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MOMENT | You need to know this about imposter syndrome with Dr Jessamy Hibberd

Motherkind

Zoe Blaskey

Kids & Family, Parenting

4.8863 Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2022

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

This Moment is with the wonderful Dr Jessamy Hibberd. Dr Jessamy is a clinical psychologist, author and mother of three. She has written eight books, including The Imposter Cure described by the Sunday Times as “the definitive guide to tackling and understanding the psychological mind trap” of imposter syndrome. I hope you enjoy this Moment and find it inspiring for your week ahead. You can listen to the full episode here. Come engage with Zoe and our community over on Instagram @zoeblaskey for inspiration, tips, and sometimes a bit of humour to get us through our day. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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We tend to think of imposter syndrome, I guess, from probably most famously Cheryl Sandberg,

0:51.6

who really bought this into the lexicon with her book Lean In.

0:54.9

We tend to think of it with a work lens, or certainly I do. If I think about this with a

1:00.6

parenting, a mothering lens, it's just fascinating, isn't it? Particularly new motherhood. Like,

1:06.9

is there an experience with arguably higher stakes? And if you're a first-time mother, you don't have that experience.

1:14.6

And when you said the expert, I was thinking, gosh, I know a lot of my friends who took that into their parenthood and just thought if they read every single book, that would prepare them or the perfectionist who, you know, the baby's not

1:28.6

allowed to cry and nothing's allowed to go on the floor. Tell us a bit about your experience

1:33.4

being a parent of three and with clients manifest in that way. Like you say, it doesn't just

1:38.9

belong in the works for it and it's most understood in that area, but it can apply to your

1:43.8

confidence as a parent,

1:45.1

you know, your friendships and relationships.

1:48.2

And I suppose in terms of parenting, it makes me think about, you know, turning up at the

1:52.3

school gates and you've got to get everybody out the front door with their bags, you know,

1:58.1

to school on time.

1:59.6

And yet most mothers then get to school and see

2:01.7

everybody else there and imagine they've had a kind of morning that hasn't involved any upsets

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