1304: The Truth You’re Avoiding Is Keeping You Stuck

Primal Potential

Elizabeth Benton

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

5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

We have to stop giving ourselves a pass with vague, soft language.

“Emotional eating.”
“Self-sabotage.”
“Checked out.”
“Comfort food.”

These phrases sound like awareness — but most of the time, they’re actually avoidance. They’re smokescreens that help us label the pattern without actually examining it. But if we want to get out of the cycle, we’ve got to stop naming things in a way that lets us off the hook.

In today’s episode, we’re getting real. I’ll walk you through:

Why vague labels keep us stuck
How to replace them with specific, honest observations
The role clarity plays in breaking patterns
And how this one shift alone can change everything — without needing more willpower or motivation

If you’ve ever said, “I just keep sabotaging myself,” this one’s for you.

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The Consistency Course: Real-time coaching, honest daily practices, and a support system that helps you drop the vague and build the momentum.

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DM or email me and let’s talk about joining The Consistency Course. You’re not alone in this — and you don’t have to figure it out solo.

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. Hello everybody.
0:31.0	Welcome back to the primal potential podcast. I am Elizabeth Benton. Thanks so much for joining me today.
0:36.2	I recently challenged a few of my clients
0:39.3	to completely stop using the phrases in their thoughts or in their words. Emotional eating,
0:47.9	comfort eating, self-sabotage. And here's why. First, let me say this.
0:58.9	I don't think you're feeling stuck because you're lazy or you lack willpower.
1:09.4	I know that one of the primary reasons people feel stuck is that they continue to use vague language,
1:14.6	comfortable language that gives them a pass. And change gets way easier when you drop the label and the generalities and you start dealing with the truth.
1:23.4	Let me just touch on the problem with labels and the lie of comfort.
1:28.5	A client recently told me we were doing her check-in inside the consistency course.
1:33.7	We do those every week and she said that she had had a long day of work and that she was
1:38.7	comfort eating after work.
1:41.0	And she used that phrase a couple of times like, yeah, it's just this, it's like a comfort
1:45.4	crutch. And it's, it's something that I do when I'm having a hard time. I just turn to food for
1:51.4	comfort. And I said, hey, I love you. You're not comfortable. This is not making you comfortable.
1:59.5	I understand you've labeled it that and in your
2:02.8	generality you accept it as that, but that doesn't make it the truth because if you were doing
2:07.7	this for comfort, you would be comfortable, but you're not comfortable. You're not comfortable
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