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Primal Potential

1297: Emotional Spiral vs. Emotional Sobriety

Primal Potential

Elizabeth Benton

Money, Self-improvement, Inspiration, Transformation, Motivation, Affirmations, Health & Fitness, Mindset, Selfhelp, Weightloss, Education, Loseweight, Goals, Nutrition

52.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

We’ve all been there — an emotion hits hard, and before we even realize it, we’ve abandoned our plan, quit on the day, or convinced ourselves that we’re off track.

But what if there’s another way?

In this episode, I’m breaking down the difference between emotional spiral and emotional sobriety — and how emotional leadership is the missing link for so many people struggling with inconsistency. You’ll hear real-life examples, practical reflection questions, and simple steps to start shifting your patterns right now.

If you’re ready to stop following your feelings and start leading yourself through them, this one’s for you.


🔑 In this episode:

  • Why emotional spirals feel true (but usually aren’t)

  • Real examples of what emotional sobriety looks like in everyday life

  • How to stop letting your feelings be your decision-making criteria

  • A step-by-step breakdown to get your emotions out of the driver’s seat


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Transcript

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0:00.0

If you want to be more consistent, you're in the right place. I'm Elizabeth Benton. Welcome to

0:07.1

Consistent, a podcast by Primal Potential that is for all of you who feel frustrated by your lack of

0:13.3

progress or overwhelmed by all the change that you want to make in your life. Here, we stop frantically

0:20.5

chasing new habits and start

0:22.6

strategically building a structure of consistency. Let's get into it.

0:28.8

Hello, everybody. Welcome back to the primal potential podcast. I am Elizabeth Benton.

0:34.8

Super excited to chat with you today about shifting from a place where we

0:39.8

emotionally spiral and that erodes our consistency to a place where we can operate from emotional

0:47.1

sobriety. And that does not in any way mean dialing down or muting emotions or resisting emotion. I think emotion is healthy. But I think

0:58.2

it can quickly become unhealthy when we don't recognize that we've let how we feel become our

1:03.6

decision-making criteria. When we let the fact that we're stressed or we're overwhelmed get in

1:08.5

the driver's seat and then we wonder why we're not consistent.

1:12.6

Now, before we get into all of that, I want to do something I haven't done in a while.

1:15.6

I've been meaning to bring this back. I think we got away from it when we were doing the

1:19.5

chasing cupcake series, but it's been too long. I want to give something away.

1:24.1

And because we've been having a lot of talk about protein came up a lot on that free

1:28.4

carbohydrate series that I did on YouTube, I want to give away my daily protein powder. I use this.

1:35.6

I'll put a scoop in my Greek yogurt for breakfast. If it's a day where my protein's a little

1:40.3

bit lower, I might make myself a shake. I do what we call milkshakes in my house for my kids.

1:46.1

Oftentimes, if it's one of those days where it's like, oh, we don't really have breakfast

1:49.8

options this morning. It almost always happens at the end of the week. I'll say milkshakes,

1:53.8

and they get very, very excited about it. Or if they're having a meal that's maybe not of the

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