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Let It Count: Why women keep looking for more proof before trusting themselves
Why can the evidence be there and still not feel like enough?
Let It Count is a short, personal and practical guide to self-doubt, imposter feelings and the older beliefs that can keep women looking for more proof before trusting themselves.
The book includes the six-step Let It Count Practice, completed examples and a personal plan to help you recognise and work through recurring patterns of self-doubt.
Imposter feelings can make you question whether you deserve what you have achieved. Self-doubt can make it difficult to trust your judgement, feelings, needs and choices.
This book is for you if
Dismiss what you have done or feel that your achievements are never enough.
Prepare far more than you need to or hold back what you think.
Replay conversations to work out whether you were wrong.
Overthink decisions or question yourself when someone disagrees.
Wait until you feel completely ready before speaking up, making a choice or trying something new.
The book explores how old beliefs can shape the meaning of present evidence. Success may be explained through luck, timing or other people's kindness. Your own feelings and judgement may be given less weight than someone else's view, while one mistake, rejection or difficult conversation is accepted as proof that the doubt was right.
The responses that follow can look sensible. Overpreparing, holding back, delaying, overexplaining, people pleasing and seeking reassurance may reduce anxiety for a while. They can also keep the doubtful belief going because you never discover what might have happened without them.
Drawing on her own experiences, research-informed ideas and interviews with seven women across different roles and industries, Sara Mani explores where these patterns may have begun, what they gradually cost, how relationships, workplaces and cultural expectations can reinforce them, and what can help women respond differently.
What's inside
The six-step Let It Count A practical way to recognise a recurring pattern of self-doubt and understand what may be driving it.
Completed Illustrations of how to work through the practice.
A personal Questions to help you apply what you have learnt to one pattern that keeps repeating in your life.
Guidance for difficult How to respond when things do not go well, so that a mistake, rejection or disappointing outcome does not become proof that the doubt was right.
A 10-page printable and fillable companion worksheet is available to help you work through the questions and create your own plan.
About the author
Sara Mani is a psychosocial researcher and writer with a PhD in Health Sciences. Her work includes psycho-oncology research, alongside research, policy and frontline experience focused on violence, abuse and women's safety.
Let It Count goes beyond telling you to “believe in yourself.” It explains why doubt can remain convincing even when there is evidence against it and offers a way to build self-trust without needing to know that every choice will be right.
Building self-trust means learning to take your feelings, needs, experiences and judgement seriously, allowing them to inform what you say and do, and trusting yourself to respond when things don't go as you hoped.
If you are tired of doubt deciding what you do next, I wrote this book for you.
Let It Count is a short, personal and practical guide to self-doubt, imposter feelings and the older beliefs that can keep women looking for more proof before trusting themselves.
The book includes the six-step Let It Count Practice, completed examples and a personal plan to help you recognise and work through recurring patterns of self-doubt.
Imposter feelings can make you question whether you deserve what you have achieved. Self-doubt can make it difficult to trust your judgement, feelings, needs and choices.
This book is for you if
Dismiss what you have done or feel that your achievements are never enough.
Prepare far more than you need to or hold back what you think.
Replay conversations to work out whether you were wrong.
Overthink decisions or question yourself when someone disagrees.
Wait until you feel completely ready before speaking up, making a choice or trying something new.
The book explores how old beliefs can shape the meaning of present evidence. Success may be explained through luck, timing or other people's kindness. Your own feelings and judgement may be given less weight than someone else's view, while one mistake, rejection or difficult conversation is accepted as proof that the doubt was right.
The responses that follow can look sensible. Overpreparing, holding back, delaying, overexplaining, people pleasing and seeking reassurance may reduce anxiety for a while. They can also keep the doubtful belief going because you never discover what might have happened without them.
Drawing on her own experiences, research-informed ideas and interviews with seven women across different roles and industries, Sara Mani explores where these patterns may have begun, what they gradually cost, how relationships, workplaces and cultural expectations can reinforce them, and what can help women respond differently.
What's inside
The six-step Let It Count A practical way to recognise a recurring pattern of self-doubt and understand what may be driving it.
Completed Illustrations of how to work through the practice.
A personal Questions to help you apply what you have learnt to one pattern that keeps repeating in your life.
Guidance for difficult How to respond when things do not go well, so that a mistake, rejection or disappointing outcome does not become proof that the doubt was right.
A 10-page printable and fillable companion worksheet is available to help you work through the questions and create your own plan.
About the author
Sara Mani is a psychosocial researcher and writer with a PhD in Health Sciences. Her work includes psycho-oncology research, alongside research, policy and frontline experience focused on violence, abuse and women's safety.
Let It Count goes beyond telling you to “believe in yourself.” It explains why doubt can remain convincing even when there is evidence against it and offers a way to build self-trust without needing to know that every choice will be right.
Building self-trust means learning to take your feelings, needs, experiences and judgement seriously, allowing them to inform what you say and do, and trusting yourself to respond when things don't go as you hoped.
If you are tired of doubt deciding what you do next, I wrote this book for you.
63 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 12, 2026
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