Compliment You Couldn't Hold

17 min

Best for: deflecting compliments and self-worth

For the compliment you never quite kept, kind words you heard but handed back before they could land. This session returns to one such moment, not to force acceptance, but to notice the old reflex that intercepts praise, and to let the words move one careful inch closer than they usually get. A patient practice for anyone who finds kindness easier to give than to receive.

← Back self confidence
Saoirse Quinn
Your storyteller
Saoirse Quinn
Soft, spacious, calm

Soft and spacious, with room between every line, lets a busy mind settle in its own time, never pushed.

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About this session

Compliment You Couldn't Hold is a guided audio session from Salūs, part of the self confidence collection, narrated by Saoirse Quinn.

Salūs is an ad-free sleep and meditation app for iOS and Android, hundreds of guided sessions, long bedtime stories for adults and 325 free sleep sounds. Hear the full session with a 7-day free trial. Every session is signed off by our BSc (Hons) & MSc Psychology team.