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This book should be a MUST read.

📚 Exciting News: Discover "The Least of Us" by Alani Bankhead, PCC, ELI-MP! 🚀 I wanted to share something truly special with all of you today. Alani Bankhead, someone I greatly admire, has just released her first book, "The Least of Us: How Your Imposter Syndrome Points To Your Greatest Power," and it's an absolute game-changer! 📖 Imposter syndrome is something that many of us grapple with, especially when starting our professional journeys. It's that nagging feeling that we're not qualified, that we don't belong, or that we're just not good enough. But here's the thing, Alani's book is NOT your typical self-help guide. It's not full of empty platitudes or unrealistic promises. It's the honest, no-BS guide that I wish I had when I was just starting out. Having experienced imposter syndrome myself, I can genuinely say that Alani's insights and strategies are a breath of fresh air. She doesn't just tell you to "believe in yourself" and leave you hanging. Instead, she provides actionable steps and real-world advice that can help you conquer your imposter syndrome and tap into your true potential. 🌟 My goal has always been to ensure that others don't have to suffer the way I did, because I now realize how unnecessary it was. If you or someone you know is struggling with imposter syndrome, I wholeheartedly encourage you to pick up a copy of "The Least of Us." It's a roadmap to unleashing your greatest power by overcoming self-doubt and embracing your unique talents. Let's support Alani on her incredible journey and help each other rise above imposter syndrome. 💪 Together, we can achieve amazing things! #ImposterSyndrome #PersonalGrowth #TheLeastOfUs #BookRecommendation #ProfessionalDevelopment #BelieveInYourself

Mental Health is a high priority for me! A few years ago some thoughts on a page got published and has helped 100’s of people work through emotional, relational, spiritual and physical pain. I hope this little book will bring you HOPE too! #ThroughThePain #Book Through The Pain: Reflections from the Life of Job https://a.co/d/irOU25o

Excerpt from my upcoming male BPD book!

Stress is the body’s natural response to change, and slowing down is the gentlest, most efficient stress-management technique available. ‘As soon as you feel the urge to speed up, that’s exactly the point when you need to slow down,’ said Julie Gurnell, an art and trauma therapist I consulted when my daughter was little and throwing tantrums. Years later her words linked to a comment by reconciliation facilitator Rob McLeod: ‘Problems arise when you put efficiency ahead of relationships.’ When it comes to your relationships, your physical and mental health, and your sense of meaning in life, this one piece of counter-intuitive advice will keep you afloat: SLOW DOWN. You may gain satisfaction from achieving goals, ticking items off a list and fulfilling other people’s needs, but the key to well-being is knowing when to move into Mode B—that under-utilised part of yourself that lives entirely differently. Though your circumstances, supervisor or personality may be goading you to go faster and faster, ask yourself: is it really necessary? Paradoxically, slowing down rather than speeding up is what often gives you the clarity of mind to complete the task before you. You need not cram everything into now, into today. There will be time to get what you need done. Start relying more on the wisdom of universal timing, where the right time and opportunity for something to occur always arrives (and when it arrives, that’s when you need to act). Cultivate trust in this universal timing, while learning to attune yourself to the mood or energy of your current situation and adjusting your mode of being until it feels right. The pace will differ in various situations, but mostly it will be slower than you think. You’ll sense when you’ve hit the sweet spot—it’s a soft clicking into place as you slot into your surroundings. Perhaps it’s the fine attuning of you, bundle of energy that you are, to the pace of energy movement in the cosmos, or simply the preferred operating pace of your unique brain and body. Who knows? Whatever it is, operating at the correct speed for you produces an open, relaxed, stimulated frame of mind—and when you’re in this mental space, helpful patterns form. Slowing down doesn’t only make life more pleasurable; it helps events unfold with fewer problems, which makes it ultimately more efficient. This is an excerpt from my work-in-progress book, ‘Vital Sight: Ten Radical Views for a Richer Life’. #mentalhealth #motivational

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝘀𝘆𝗻𝗱𝗿𝗼𝗺𝗲? Imposter syndrome is the condition of feeling anxious and not experiencing success internally, despite being high performing in external, objective ways. This condition often results in people feeling like "a fraud" or "a phony" and doubting their abilities. 𝗕𝗲𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘀𝗲 𝗳𝗲𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗮𝗰𝘆 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘀𝗲 𝗺𝘂𝘀𝘁-𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗯𝗼𝗼𝗸𝘀! #impostersyndrome #mustreadbooks #personalgrowth https://lnkd.in/gV4K_rw2

How do imposter feelings show up when you are writing? That feeling that you haven’t read enough? Frustration that you haven’t outgrown the need for the writing strategies you teach your students? Frustration that it’s taking longer than you planned or hoped? This is a feature of scholarly work, not a personal failing. You know things other scholars don’t know. They know things you don’t know. You will always be learning and expanding your knowledge. And as much as you wish it were otherwise, your first draft will always be disappointing. Each new writing project will throw up intellectual challenges that take time to figure out. You *do* belong! Your imposter feelings are normal, but you don’t have to let them derail you. For more on Imposter Syndrome see this Spotlight collecting several of my posts on the topic, including 3 that directly address these specific manifestations of it. You can listen or read for free here: https://lnkd.in/e-8jtG3D

📰 Today's read: "Afraid: Understanding the Purpose of Fear and Harnessing the Power of Anxiety" author Arash Javanbakht pens a piece in The Washington Post on how fear and anxiety can be helpful and offers tips on how to manage it to your benefit. 📗 Find the book: https://lnkd.in/dY3T2QXe https://lnkd.in/e8W-H6BN

There is innate wisdom in burnout and breakdown. A result of prolonged exposure to stress and conflict, a breakdown is a self-regulating tool. When you’ve strayed too far from your centre and been overwhelmed, the body and mind shut down partially to keep you alive and intact. There is sense in withdrawing from the world at such times: stimuli remain at bay while the core of you rests and is gradually restored. After some time, inner life stirs. The creative well begins to fill again, a trickle at first. The process has its own schedule and can’t be rushed. And then, once you have returned to yourself, you get to start again. You get to decide where to put your energy. Dr Dina Glouberman, psychotherapist and author of The Joy of Burnout: How the end of the world can be a new beginning, unequivocally regards burnout as a healing agent: 'It is a sign that you have come to the end of a particular road, and you haven’t fully acknowledged it. Rather than being cured, it needs to be listened to. Burnout happens at work or at home when the meaning has gone out of what you are doing, but you have too much invested to stop and take notice. Your soul is whispering but you are not listening.' ‘Fearing to step back and review your situation, you drive yourself forward willy nilly, divided against yourself, until you crash,’ she wrote in response to an email I sent her. ‘Burnout forces you to stop, and in that space you now have, gives you the opportunity to let go of an old way of being that no longer works for you. Then you are free to find out who and what you are becoming, and where your real joy lies.’ This is an excerpt from my short read ‘Epic Comebacks: From Breakdown to Breakthrough: Four Tales of Post-Traumatic Creative Triumph, from Rachmaninoff to Radiohead’. The e-book is available free on Amazon (along with five of my other books) from today until Sunday: https://lnkd.in/dzqCYbkm #mentalhealth #motivational

The Toxic Mold Solution by Author Laura Linn Knight Author Laura Linn Knight brings us The Toxic Mold Solution, which can be purchased on Amazon below. Keep reading to learn more about her book and Laura, a former school teacher and current writer. #lauralinnknight #thetoxicmoldsolution #authorlauralinnknight