Hello, everybody. Welcome back to the Primal Potential Podcast and our consistency 365

series. I'm Elizabeth Benton. I hope you're having a great day today. I think it was Tony

Robbins that I first heard say something like bringing a pillow to a knife fight. And

the things that we do that we think are solutions that are completely ineffective. For me, when

I first heard that phrase, bringing a pillow to a knife fight, I realized that's what

emotional eating was doing. I told myself that I'm just an emotional eater. That's how

I deal with stress. That's how I self-soothe. But self-soothing with food is the equivalent

of bringing a pillow to a knife fight because there's really not anything it can do to

soothe me. And it was that line of thinking that realized that made me realize this is

a distraction. This is not a solution. This is running. This is not in any way coping or

solving or growing or addressing. This is just an escape. And it's a temporary escape.

And not only is it a temporary escape, it's a temporary escape that actually creates

other problems on top of the problems that are stressing me out. So when I would turn

to food in response to stress or loneliness or anger or frustration, I was actually creating

more stress. I was actually creating more frustration while telling myself that it was my coping

mechanism while telling myself that it was how I dealt with these things. It might make

me feel better for a minute, but it's not going to end well. It's not going to end well

and it's going to create more problems. And it's going to bring me further down a road

that I don't want to go down. And it seems so obvious when we're not in the heat of

the moment. It seems so obvious that it's ineffective. It seems so obvious that it's

creating other problems. But then there we are in the heat of the moment, talking ourselves

into the fact that this is a good option. One of the things that I talk about constantly

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