1312: Feel Like You're Drowning? You Still Have to Swim

Primal Potential

Elizabeth Benton

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

5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Episode Summary:
In this powerful solo episode, Elizabeth gets real about what it means to feel like you're drowning—in grief, in overwhelm, in apathy—and why that doesn't mean you get to stop. With raw stories from parenting, business, and everyday life, she dismantles the lies we believe when we're stuck and reminds us that swimming doesn't require strength—it just requires movement.

Whether you're spiraling in “I don’t care” or paralyzed by “I don’t know what to do,” this episode will call you up—not out—and show you exactly what it looks like to keep going when you're not sure you can.

What You’ll Hear in This Episode:

Why panic makes you sink—and how to stop it
The difference between being stuck and choosing stillness
The real reason “I don’t care” and “I don’t know what to do” are lies
Practical ways to “swim” even in your hardest moments
Why resourcefulness is your most underused superpower
What Elizabeth tells herself when she’s tempted to shut down

Powerful Quotes:

“You don’t need all the answers. You just need your next question.”
“If you didn’t care, it wouldn’t feel like a problem.”
“No one is coming to swim for you. But help is everywhere if you reach for it.”
“The very feeling that makes you feel stuck is the very reason you need to do something.”

Resources & Links:

If this episode spoke to you, share it with a friend who’s in deep water. Or screenshot and tag @elizabethbenton on Instagram—I want to hear what your next swim stroke is. 💬

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.
0:29.0	Hey, everybody, welcome back to the primal potential podcast. I am Elizabeth Benton. Thanks so much
0:35.8	for hanging out with me, spending a little bit of your time with me today.
0:39.5	Here's what I want to say right off the bat.
0:41.7	And then I'm going to tell you a little story.
0:44.4	It's okay to feel like you're drowning, but you still have to swim.
0:51.1	I told one of my clients that the other day, and then I was like, funny how life imitates life
0:57.0	because we have a pool. And of course, at this time of year, it's the only place my kids
1:04.5	want to be and my twins who are two and a half, they have been learning to swim without their
1:10.4	little floaty backpacks.
1:12.3	And they know how to swim.
1:15.1	They know how they've practiced.
1:17.0	They've got the strength.
1:18.0	They understand kicking.
1:20.3	They understand paddling.
1:21.9	They can swim across the whole pool without their pack.
1:25.1	But here's what happens when they get overwhelmed or tired or
1:30.0	scared. They don't swim and they sink. It's like they forget that they even know how to swim.
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