There's a real difficulty internalizing their successes and accepting praise as valid. Perfectionists will often set these excessively high unrealistic goals but then experience self-deceiving thoughts when they can't reach those goals because they're so beyond their limits. Even if an individual is competent, smart and highly accomplished having a maladaptive perfectionist tendencies can contribute to this feeling.
On this weeks episode we discuss imposter syndrome; where it comes from, why we feel it and why society wants to convince women it’s a gendered problem.
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