by Valerie Young | Jun 2, 2026 | Newsletter
Issue 23 | June 3, 2026 IN THIS ISSUE PERSONAL FROM VALERIE The strange request from Nepal (and why I said NO) FEATURED ARTICLE Impostor Syndrome and Procrastination FEATURED RESOURCE NEW Racialized Impostor Phenomenon Scale NEW HUMBLE REALIST™ REFRAME The Strange...
by Valerie Young | Feb 17, 2026 | Articles
If you don’t feel like an impostor, that means you are one. Presumably, this news is intended to reassure those of us who’ve experienced that “I’m in over my head and they’re going to find out” feeling popularly known as impostor syndrome. There’s just one problem....
by Valerie Young | Jun 23, 2025 | Articles
I’d just finished speaking at the University of British Columbia (UBC) when a doctoral student approached me and whispered, “I only believe half of what you said.” The part he believed was that the hundreds of students sitting with him in the auditorium that day...
by Valerie Young | May 27, 2025 | Articles
One of my clients had spent years lovingly caring for an ailing parent. After “Kim’s” mother passed, she began to write a play about her experience. Then she stopped. “What if my play is a hit?” she said, “Then I’d have to play big.” Kim wasn’t afraid of failure;...
by Valerie Young | May 1, 2025 | Articles
Valerie Young, Ed.D. Co-Founder, Impostor Syndrome Institute It’s been well over 20 years since I identified the five types of impostor syndrome. The Perfectionist, Expert, Natural Genius, Soloist, and Superhuman each reflect an extreme view of what it means to be...
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