Reframing Impostor Syndrome as a Self-Deficiency Syndrome
We’ve been calling it the wrong thing.
Impostor Syndrome suggests you’re faking it. You’re not.
That impostor feeling isn’t lying to you — it’s just telling you the wrong story. It’s not that you don’t belong.
It’s that you’re disconnected — from the part of you that was always real, always capable, always enough.