S1, Ep 4 Best Friend Therapy: Imposter Syndrome - What is it? How does it show up? Are we the only ones who feel it?
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Emma Reed Turrell
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🗓️ 18 April 2022
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
This week we're talking about Imposter Syndrome and why, if you've ever felt like the odd one out, you're in good company.
Join us on an Inception-like head-scratcher as we experience Imposter Syndrome whilst talking about Imposter Syndrome in an attempt to make the episode "good enough", learn why tennis remains Elizabeth's Achilles heel and why Emma will never have a job as a pizza chef.
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Malcolm Gladwell talks about 10,000 hours of practice is his fantastic book, 'Outliers'.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Outliers-Story-Success-Malcolm-Gladwell/dp/0141036257
Emma and Elizabeth talk about the original study into Imposter Phenomenon, for which the reference is: Clance, P. R., & Imes, S. A. (1978). The imposter phenomenon in high achieving women: Dynamics and therapeutic intervention. Psychotherapy: Theory, Research & Practice, 15(3), 241–247.
Brene Brown speaks about belonging versus fitting in within her book 'The Gifts of Imperfection'.
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The School of Life has produced a great video on Imposter Syndrome: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqhUHyVpAwE
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Best Friend Therapy is hosted by Elizabeth Day and Emma Reed Turrell, produced by Chris Sharp. To contact us, email contact@bestfriendtherapy.co.uk
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Best Friend Therapy. I'm Elizabeth Day, author and |
| 0:05.8 | podcaster and for over 20 years I've been best friends with a therapist. |
| 0:10.3 | That's me. Hello, I'm Emma Reed-Tarell and I'm a psychotherapist. In my private |
| 0:15.2 | practice I talked to clients about the challenges they face in daily life and |
| 0:18.5 | we work together in a non-judgmental supportive space to increase their |
| 0:22.0 | sense of well-being. And as her BFF I get all the benefit of her expertise and |
| 0:27.0 | wisdom for free. Emma makes me feel better about life but also helps me to |
| 0:31.8 | understand why I act the way I do. Ah, thanks Liz. She's also one of the only |
| 0:37.2 | people allowed to call me Liz. We wanted to open the doors to our friendship and |
| 0:41.8 | throw a light on the therapy we all need in our everyday lives. Each week we'll |
| 0:46.4 | be chatting about a different topic. From coping with anxiety to setting healthy |
| 0:50.8 | boundaries, from misplaced guilt to people pleasing and plenty more besides. We |
| 0:56.0 | chat about what's on our minds to get deeper in our minds. Two best friends, one |
| 1:01.4 | therapist, no filter. That's Best Friend Therapy. |
| 1:07.2 | Welcome to today's episode of Best Friend Therapy and we are going to be |
| 1:12.2 | talking all about imposter syndrome. What it means, how to tackle it, whether it's |
| 1:18.8 | really a thing. What is imposter syndrome Emma? What's your understanding of it |
| 1:24.8 | from a therapeutic perspective? I mean, are you even qualified to ask me that |
| 1:29.1 | question? That was so good didn't even plan that. I'm not qualified. Okay, but I'm |
| 1:37.3 | just an interested amateur. Okay, that's good. Imposter syndrome, I mean we all have |
| 1:43.6 | imposter thoughts, don't we? They're those ones where we think, really this is |
| 1:47.6 | just luck. I'm absolutely winging it. I'm recording a podcast with my best mate |
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