Anxiety specialist Caroline Cavanagh reframes imposter syndrome as something to befriend rather than fight. She shares how overworking led to hospitalizations and how spending time in nature transformed her productivity and happiness.
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But my imposter would have never allowed me to be walking at 10 o'clock on a Friday morning in the beautiful countryside where I live, because she'd have been saying, you're slacking, that's not good enough, get back to work, get back to the grindstone. But that led me to end up in hospital not just once but twice, and so I'm not doing it 3 times. You will have possibly seen seen lots of stuff on the internet, on Google, on all of the digital sites saying about how imposter is a bad thing, fight it. But no, we're going to look at it from a very, very different angle into how that you can make your imposter your friend that isn't going to beat you up but is actually going to make you a heck of a lot stronger. And I can tell you with absolute confidence that by me spending time out in nature, I am more productive, more effective, and an awful lot happier.