This is Primal Potential and I am your host, Elizabeth Benton.

Through education, motivation, and implementation, we will bridge the gap between knowing and

doing so we can master fat loss naturally and help you reach your highest potential.

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Hello everybody and welcome back to the Primal Potential podcast.

I am Elizabeth Benton and today we are going to talk about the shame spiral.

I started writing a blog about this and when I finished it up I thought, nope, I got to share

this on the podcast because while my experience might not be your experience,

I really believe that so many of us can relate to this cycle and many of us are still stuck in it.

And I want to help you break free from this shame cycle and this is what I hope we're going to do

today in a few minutes that we spend together because we have this terribly inefficient habit.

And that habit that is terribly inefficient is that we keep returning to and investing in

approaches that don't work. Maybe it's approaches to weight loss, maybe it's approaches to dealing

with conflict or dealing with emotion or dealing with fear or approaches when we are overtired.

But it is very efficient to continue to return and invest in and engage in approaches that don't

work. So as we talk today I want you thinking about this question, do you need a different approach?

What approaches in your life do you need to change? Do you need to change the way you approach weight loss?

Do you need to change the way you approach being over emotional or being overtired or feeling

overwhelmed? What strategies are not working for you yet you continue to return to them?

For years I would say to myself this time is going to be different but nothing was different.

The approach was the same, my mindset was the same, I was the same, the results were the same,

the cycle always looked the same and it would go like this. This is when I talk about the shame spiral,

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