Why You Can't Accept a Compliment -- And What It's Doing to Your Brain Chemistry
About this episode
Jahmaal Marshall explores the psychological and physiological impacts of deflecting compliments and the underlying beliefs that contribute to this behavior.
You call it humility. Your nervous system calls it a threat response. Jahmaal Marshall unpacks the root-cause belief behind compliment deflection, high-functioning codependency, and the burnout it quietly manufactures; plus the empathy that's actually self-abandonment in disguise.
People in this episode
Host: Jahmaal Marshall
Topics covered
- compliment deflection
- brain chemistry
- codependency
- burnout
- self-abandonment
Keywords
- compliments
- humility
- nervous system
- codependency
- burnout
- empathy
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