Happy Girl Winter: How to Overcome Seasonal Depressive Disorder
‘You Feel Like a Fraud, a Fake’: Fighting Imposter Syndrome
Imposter syndrome is loosely defined as doubting your abilities and feeling like a fraud. It disproportionately affects high-achieving people, who find it difficult to accept their accomplishments. Many question whether they're deserving. It involves feelings of self-doubt and personal incompetence that persist despite your education, experience, and accomplishments…
It Isn’t Just the Plague Year: Working Through Imposter Syndrome During a Global Pandemic
2020 saw what seemed to be a lot of people falling to one side. The pandemic was getting to them. They were drowning. Failing. Others, though, were thriving. I watched as people that I knew began developing dream projects, starting businesses, diving into passion projects. I would like to believe it was a sudden surge of motivation that prompted me to share my writing, but in truth, it was severe anxiety of being left behind…