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Why Is It So Hard to Accept a Compliment?
Why can something as positive as a compliment make us feel so uncomfortable?
In this episode of Love the Body You Have, that is the question I want you to think about for yourself.
I think sometimes the problem is not actually the compliment. The compliment may simply challenge a story we have been telling ourselves for a very long time.
We can turn opinions about ourselves into statements that feel almost factual. “That’s just the way I am.” “I’m not attractive.” “I’m not confident.” “I’m not good at that.”
Then someone comes along and tells us something that does not fit that story.
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