You're listening to the Confidence Podcast. Your favorite coaching podcast oozes in with motivation, inspiration, and confidence to help you boldly take action on your dreams.

On your host, Trish Blackwell, internationally recognized Confidence Coach, best-selling author, and founder of the College of Confidence, the most encouraging place on the Internet.

I teach go-getters in life how to take their thoughts captive, how to step out of the shadows of self-doubt, and how to courageously step into their purpose with confidence.

It's time to pump our confidence muscles and train our thoughts y'all. Let's get started.

Hey, guys, it's Trish Blackwell, and you're listening to the Confidence Podcast. I am delighted to spend time with you. This is a such a powerful topic.

Because if you've ever felt uncomfortable receiving you a compliment, this show is for you. If you've ever felt unsure of what to say back, or felt like your brain goes into this weird place of like, explain away the compliment,

or maybe your compliments make you put more pressure on yourself. You feel more anxiety. You're not sure what to do about them. You want to say thanks, but you want to be humble.

Look, if you want to learn how to accept a compliment, this episode is for you. Also, though, we're not just talking compliments. We're talking about criticism as well, because here's the deal.

The two areas that people struggle with communication the most is to accept compliments and receive criticism.

The beautiful thing is that when you learn how to accept compliments, you end up appearing more confident, more humble, and open, and yet most people resist them, and they downplay themselves.

So it's time to pre-prioritize the art of accepting compliments, which in turn will empower you to be more generous in the compliments you give, both to others.

But, guys, also, to yourself, there needs to be a continual internal dialogue of self-compliance going on, a self-validation that we've already talked about in previous episodes.

Specifically, in this episode, we're going to give you 20 practical and very humbly confident answers that you can say the next time you receive a compliment.

I'm going to talk about the number one reason you want to prioritize this, but also how compliments are jewels. They are gold, and we have the ability to give them away to others.

And then, also to ourselves, you want to tap into the power of compliments. You really open up new levels of confidence, also though.

What will cut you off at the knees is if you don't know how to receive criticism, if you personalize criticism, or if you take what is considered to be constructive feedback, and you think it means something about ourselves.

Often, we make criticism about us, rather than about opportunity to see something new that we might have missed. We all have blind spots, and criticism doesn't necessarily have to be a bad thing.

Often, even if it's criticism from a critical judging standpoint, there's always still room to say, is there some truth here?

Is there some truth here? And even if there is, how do I receive it? Or if there's not, how do I receive it and not get triggered or responsive in a way, how can I be emotionally mature so that this criticism doesn't catch my attention or side real my emotions?

So this episode, you want to listen, if you struggle to accept compliments or if you resist them, or if you have a hard time complimenting yourself and building yourself up, if you want to know how to prioritize working on this, you want to know 20 things you can actually say to practice accepting some compliments.

But then also, how to work on being on receiving criticism? What happens when we're criticized? How to reframe the criticism in a place that's empowering for you and that you don't feel overwhelmed by?

So guys, such a good episode. Thank you as always for being part of the podcast family. Let's hit our review of the week. This is Sierra Dante, and it was such a sweet, sweet review, which is why I highlighted it.

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