★ Where have we learned to doubt ourselves? Who has taught us that we are prettier when we are quiet? In what school have we graduated cum laude in low self-esteem and insecurity?

This book is about those capable, highly educated and talented women who, if they could choose a superpower, would choose invisibility. They are their own worst enemies. They doubt their knowledge, they are convinced that anyone can do it better, they imagine hell as a place where you have to speak in front of a large audience. Are you one of them? If every time someone talks to you about the impostor syndrome you feel seen, if you think you have a defect, this is your book.

This book takes us out of the closet and invites us to get angry together, going through all the places and circumstances in which, since we were very young, we have learned to sabotage ourselves. No one here will teach you how to shake off the monster of imposture, but you are offered something better: a good dose of rage and a magnifying glass.

Emma Vallespinós
Emma was born in Barcelona. She has a degree in Humanities and Journalism and a master’s degree in Journalism. She has spent her entire professional career as a broadcaster in cultural programmes on the main Spanish radio stations. Literature, motherhood, mental health and feminism are her main interests. I’m not up to it is her first book and was born from the need to find an answer to women’s insecurity and the impostor syndrome, so frequent nowadays.