Welcome to THE Compliment Clinic
What is the Compliment Clinic?
This scenario may resonate with you:
You are at a social event. Someone says something nice to you, and you freeze. It feels like your high school English teacher called on you in class, and you didn’t know the answer. Sometimes, when this happens, you are able to string together words that resemble gratitude. Other times, your response may sound more neurotic.
On the surface, what was said were kind words offered to you by another human. Nothing extraordinary is required in response. Accepting a compliment is not complicated; we just need more practice.
At the Compliment Clinic we practice giving and receiving compliments with other people who need to practice the same skill. We spend so much of our everyday life allowing people’s negative judgements to affect us and almost instinctively reject their compliments. Let’s try switching that pattern. As you continue to practice receiving compliments, you may notice other areas in your life where you reflexively deflect other positive interactions. You may build deeper connections with others, increase self confidence, or give more compliments to others.
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At the Compliment Clinic we make receiving compliments feel more comfortable and easy.
Hi! I’m Stephanie, and I am a compliment deflector. The Compliment Clinic was a creation of necessity. I noticed that whenever I received a compliment, I immediately felt uncomfortable or “squirmy.” My natural reaction was to freeze and then awkwardly negate, minimize, or completely reject what was said. But why?
In theory compliments are harmless interactions between two people. Someone says something nice to someone else. Seems simple, right? But so many of us freeze or fumble when we encounter these well intended interactions. I thought I could use a place to practice receiving compliments so the next time it happened, I could feel more comfortable. This is how the Compliment Clinic was created.