The Antidote to Imposter Syndrome

Three years and a handful of months ago I started a new journey with God. An unexpected one.

I was coming off a mountaintop experience and was more confused about my faith than ever before. Just months before this invitation, I had received the new job I prayed for and decided to move forward with publishing my first book. But it was nothing like I thought it would be.

Instead of running across mountain tops, I quickly descended into a valley of fear, self-doubt, and faith-testing like I had never known before. Instead of walking confidently into my new job and publishing my first book, I always seemed to walk through failure after failure. Doubts plagued me, and I was sure I would be found out for the fraud I felt I was.

And God felt far away.

I was suffering from a nasty case of imposter syndrome.

But it wasn't just because I had a new job and calling to write. I had experienced these debilitating symptoms my whole life. Self-doubt, fear of failure, and a deep sense of unworthiness were so consistent in my life that I couldn’t remember living without them. Simply believing in myself and continuing to achieve was not working. These tactics never had, and I was certain they never would.

Something deeper was at play here. Something God wanted me to know, but I was not. Something that would reveal one of the deepest wounds in my heart and radically change how I lived my life.

I knew it was an invitation to a journey to find the answers. Months later, I realized that the imposter syndrome symptoms were evidence of a much deeper heart problem: a deep sense of unworthiness. I had carried this unworthiness around since childhood and learned to perform for my worth. This performance-based acceptance was a wrongful way of living I had picked up from the culture around me. I had to learn to go a new way. God’s way.

So I did, and three years later I am excited to share that I have learned the antidote to imposter syndrome and a deep sense of unworthiness is an intimate relationship with God.

Three years and a handful of months ago I started a new journey with God. An unexpected one.
I was coming off a mountaintop experience and was more confused about my faith than ever before. Just months before this invitation, I had received the new job I prayed for and decided to move forward with publishing my first book. But it was nothing like I thought it would be.

Instead of running across mountain tops, I quickly descended into a valley of fear, self-doubt, and faith-testing like I had never known before. Instead of walking confidently into my new job and publishing my first book, I always seemed to walk through failure after failure. Doubts plagued me, and I was sure I would be found out for the fraud I felt I was.
And God felt far away.

I was suffering from a nasty case of imposter syndrome.

But it wasn't just because I had a new job and calling to write. I had experienced these debilitating symptoms my whole life. Self-doubt, fear of failure, and a deep sense of unworthiness were so consistent in my life that I couldn’t remember living without them. Simply believing in myself and continuing to achieve was not working. These tactics never had, and I was certain they never would.

Something deeper was at play here. Something God wanted me to know, but I was not. Something that would reveal one of the deepest wounds in my heart and radically change how I lived my life.

I knew it was an invitation to a journey to find the answers. Months later, I realized that the imposter syndrome symptoms were evidence of a much deeper heart problem: a deep sense of unworthiness. I had carried this unworthiness around since childhood and learned to perform for my worth. This performance-based acceptance was a wrongful way of living I had picked up from the culture around me. I had to learn to go a new way. God’s way.

So I did, and three years later I am excited to share that I have learned the antidote to imposter syndrome and a deep sense of unworthiness is an intimate relationship with God. When we learn His truths and rest in His love for us we can break up with performing for our worth and learn to walk in our rightful heirship. But it is a journey to get there.

If you are suffering from imposter syndrome, or worse, a deep sense of unworthiness please join me on this journey!

Over the next few months, while the book is finishing up, I have many things to share with this group.

I know God wants better for you than striving for worth and never measuring up.

Listen to what apostle Peter, a man who had to learn to lay down performing for worth, learned and preached:

You are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. (1 Peter 2:9)

Child of the highest King, you have been called out of darkness and into light.

You are the rightful heir.

But to claim our inheritance, we must discover what we believe and allow God to transform our hearts so we can boldly walk in our divinely appointed significance and purpose.

Let's Go!

But it is a journey to get there.

If you are suffering from imposter syndrome, or worse, a deep sense of unworthiness please join me on this journey!

Over the next few months, while the book is finishing up, I have many things to share with this group.

I know God wants better for you than striving for worth and never measuring up.

Listen to what apostle Peter, a man who had to learn to lay down performing for worth, learned and preached:

You are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. (1 Peter 2:9)

Child of the highest King, you have been called out of darkness and into light.

You are the rightful heir.

But to claim our inheritance, we must discover what we believe and allow God to transform our hearts so we can boldly walk in our divinely appointed significance and purpose.

Let's Go!