Why Do Compliments Make Us Cringe?

We’ve all been there… 

Someone comes up and says “Oh my gosh, I love your pants, they’re so cute!”

Then we all the sudden feel awkward. 

Sometimes we’ll say something like “Ah! Thanks yes I got them on sale only $10!” Or maybe along the lines of “These pants? Thanks just trying to distract from how I haven’t had a pedicure in 3 months.”

Or we say anything except a plain “Thank you.” 

I realized this a few months back when in a group setting and this topic came up - we went around the room and each answered “what do you do or how do you feel when someone gives you a compliment?” - most everyone admitted to feeling super weird and not knowing what to do next.

But why is that???

Are we afraid to take in the compliment and become conceited? 

Or do we actually not believe what they’re saying?

Perhaps it’s because we don’t trust the person saying it?

I wanted to dive a bit more into why compliments seem to make most of us cringe SO I asked one of my friends who was in that group (👋🏻 Robbie Aholoka) to come join me on the pod to talk about it more!

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