Hello and welcome to the Teen Life Coach podcast.

I'm your host, Mikkel, and today we are talking about compliment addictions.

Hey guys, what is up?

How is everybody doing?

It's almost summer, which is really, really, really fun.

I know you guys probably have a few more weeks of school left, so that's exciting.

I know a lot of things might kind of still feel the same right now, but I today wanted to talk

to y'all about being addicted to compliments. So this is something I personally dealt with a lot.

And it's like the need to have compliments to feel better about yourself.

And when people say nice things about us, then we feel good about ourselves.

And I have definitely been in a space where I loved and lived for compliments, where

compliments would literally affect the things that I chose to do.

Like I had clothing items that I didn't necessarily love that much, but I would keep and hold

on to because someone had complimented me on it.

So I thought that it was cute.

Or I would try to dress better or like do my hair a certain way in order to get

compliments and i actually have like colored my hair or made changes to my hair and had people not

notice and then be like kind of disappointed about it like oh no one compliment on me on it so it must

not be that good or maybe i don't really like it and it was so interesting how i based what i thought

about myself on what other people told me i even feel like sometimes noticing it with work or school, like doing something and thinking

I did a good job on it and basing my sense of a good job on whether or not my boss or my teacher

noticed and said like good job on it. Another form of compliment addiction, I think, can be not only

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