Imposter Syndrome

With thirty-five years of experience between us, and thousands of hours spent working with senior leaders, the most common theme that rears its head time and again is imposter syndrome, or some version of it. We find even those at the very top battle regularly with feelings of not being up to the job. Blessed […]

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Whose life are you living?

Echoism – A life dominated by the other. Psychotherapists Mark Linington, Chair of the Bowlby Centre, Elisa Morris and Nell Montgomery offer a reworking of the myth of Narcissus and Echo to illustrate a common theme in their clients, where sense of self and identity have been sacrificed for the sake of the another. It […]

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Walking on Stilts – The Fate of High Fliers

Cindy was an irresistible referral, on paper, perhaps the most exotic and cosmopolitan backstory I had ever seen. 23 years old, an only child of an Asian mother and South American father, she had been brought up in Taiwan until the age of 11, with batches of time spent in family apartments in New York, […]

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Walking on Stilts – The Fate of High Fliers

Cindy was an irresistible referral, on paper, perhaps the most exotic and cosmopolitan backstory I had ever seen. 23 years old, an only child of an Asian mother and South American father, she had been brought up in Taiwan until the age of 11, with batches of time spent in family apartments in New York, […]

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