Lindsay C. Gibson: (This Book) Will Fix Your Life
When emotionally immature parents don’t make you feel like enough, it’s a long road back to self-love.
Imposter syndrome is real and it can be vicious. Not feeling good enough. Feeling like at any moment everyone will discover just how weak, bad, damaged, or unlovable you are and snatch their love away. When emotionally immature parents don’t make you feel like enough, it’s a long road back to self-love.
It took me too long to write my first book. Far longer than had been expected of me by the people in my life.
Did you finish that thing you were working on, they’d ask.
Not yet, I’d respond, shuffling my feet, a chamber full of excuses ready to be fired off.
What about the…
No, not that one either.
The worst part is, they all knew why.
I was too scared.
It made me feel vulnerable. Too exposed. Terrified of putting myself on the shelf next to the people I looked up to, next the writers who saved me, and have the audacity to say I’m one of them.
And now that the book is out… to be honest, it still feels pretty much the same.
Scary. Vulnerable. Unsafe.
Like I said, it’s a long road back to self-love, and the path is rarely straight.
Fortunately, I've been blessed to be surrounded by truly remarkable people in recent years who have carried me forward. Their wisdom and insight have taught me that in the work of inner growth, freedom is always preceded by fear.
They’ve shown me that the more risks any of us take in honor of our authenticity - the quieter the voices in our heads, those instilled in childhood by wounded, angry and themselves scared people, become.
And so, as vulnerable as it still feels after all these steps, I know now that the only way to drown out the voices shouting IMPOSTER is to take a deep breath and continue marching right past them.
So here I am, happily exposed and grateful for the spiritual practice of continuing to move ahead. Thank you deeply for being part of that journey, and for allowing me to be a small part of yours.
If you choose to read it, I truly hope the ideas in As Far As I Can Tell will be as healing for you as they've been for me.
Let this book transform you by reminding you of who you really are; you will be as grateful as I was for experiencing these thoughts. I recommend it without reservation: it will fix your life.
-Dr. Lindsay C. Gibson, Adult Children Of Emotionally Immature Parents
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