Instant imposter syndrome: Jeanette was good at her job, but she felt like a fake, a pseudoadult, an incomplete version of a human being incapable on the deepest, most personal level of believing in her own value. This is such a universal female experience, the lack of self-worth and the rage that simmers underneath it, and we both shook our heads. Jeanette said, “I used to feel so unanchored. So . . .” Her voice trailed off and a hundred different adjectives seemed to linger in front of us: ill formed, inadequate, uncertain, lonely, angry.
