Life After Leaving a Job, with Kessonga

(calm music) Headspace Studio. (calm music continues) Hi everyone, it's Corey here, and I am one of the mental health coaches here at Headspace and also one of the hosts of "Dear Headspace." While we are on a mental health break, I wanted to share one of my favorite episodes that I got to be on. Here's me, Kessonga and Robin answering questions about how to take compliments, how to put intention into practice, and we also have a question about when you're thinking about the next phase in your life after quitting a job. Enjoy and we're back rested, refreshed, and renewed with episodes on September 10th. Have you ever wished you had a wise, meditation teacher on speed dial? Someone you can call after a long day. Someone you could lean on for their advice. Someone to listen and help you to see things differently. Welcome to "Dear Headspace," a podcast where I sit with a meditation teacher and we answer your questions. (upbeat music) All right, Kass and Corey in the house. Was that was too much? I know. I couldn't help it. It was all the K alliteration. The sound made me do it. How are you guys? Doing well. Doing well, Robin. Always looking forward to this opportunity to sit with you. And now we have Corey. I know! Hi Corey. Hi everyone. I'm doing well. I am happy to be here. I'm happy to be a part of the team and happy to get started. Does everybody call you Coach Corey? Like do you have T-shirts that say Coach Corey? (everyone laughing) If you don't, we should get you one. The moment you said it, I said maybe I should. Maybe I should brand that, make some extra money. Sparkling letters, a whole thing is coming. (laughs) All right, you too. Are you ready for some questions? Because we are gonna kick it off with Martha who has trouble taking compliments. You ready? Sounds interesting. Let's get into it. Okay. Hello "Dear Headspace." My name is Martha and I live in London. I recently started realizing that I have a problem with taking positive feedback and compliments and not twisting it upside down and making it sound into something that's negative. I realized that somebody compliments my work and says, "Well done." And I'd be like, "Is it well done? Why is it not great? Why is it not amazing?" And so I was wondering if you've got any advice on how not to spiral in those negative thoughts when somebody says something positive about you, if that makes sense. Oh Martha, it does make sense. It makes perfect sense. It makes a lot of sense, right? Yeah. I mean like, I love this because I know that that's something that like, I usually just try to turn it back around to the other person. I'm like, no, no, but let's talk about what great things you've been doing. So we all have a...