Blogmas 2025: Dealing with Imposter Syndrome

Welcome to another blogmas post! Today’s post is about something a little different. During my time at university as a law student, I suffered with imposter syndrome. I wanted to share my experiences with you all and offer some advice on how to deal with it. Let’s get to it!

What is imposter syndrome?

Imposter syndrome is described as feeling inadequate in a particular area of life. This is despite there being evidence of success.

For me, this is feeling like I didn’t belong at university or wasn’t good enough to study law or be in that particular career field. It’s not a nice feeling at all, with doubts constantly appearing every so often.

So how do you deal with it?

There are various ways in which to deal with imposter syndrome. Here are my ways to cope with it. I hope these are helpful to you!

Know you are not alone

This is an important thing to realise from the get go. There are so many people that go through imposter syndrome in all walks of life. Everyone experiences doubt at some point. Knowing that some people are going through the same makes it feel less lonely.

Be kind and caring to yourself

One thing I will always say is don’t be hard on yourself. It’s very easy to criticise yourself when these feelings occur. Being kind to yourself gives you time to breathe and get through these moments of doubt. If you’re not kind, getting through these moments might be more difficult.

Remind yourself that you are where you are for a reason

This is probably the most difficult thing to do in order to deal with imposter syndrome. After all, you think that you shouldn’t be where you are.

In order to best explain this, let me use myself as an example. I mentioned previously that I suffered with imposter syndrome as a law student at university. I felt like I wasn’t good enough to study law and didn’t belong at that level of education. However, I kept reminding myself that I belonged there. I got into university because they accepted me. I was good enough to study law because I got accepted onto that particular course. Constantly reminding myself of these different things allowed me to push through instances where imposter syndrome occurred.

Talk to others about how you’re feeling

This sort of links back to the first point I made. Others will be going through the same thing as you. In addition though, expressing your feelings out in the open will allow you to deal with them.

And that’s it! Thank you so much for taking the time out of your day to read this post and I will see you tomorrow for another one!

Beth