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

This is our consistency 365 series. Thanks so much for spending a little time with me.

I was just thinking about, I had a picture of it in my camera roll and I think it must

have popped up in my memories, but years ago, maybe like six or seven years ago, I went

to one of those pottery places with my sister, my mom, I think, and I made a mug and

on it, I put sit, stay, heal, like the dog commands, but heal wasn't the dog following you

heal. It was heal as in get better. Sit, stay, heal, H-E-A-L. I never brought the mug

home. I think it broke in transit. I think my mom dropped it when she went to pick it up

or something like that. Sit, stay, heal. I loved it and wanted it on a mug because I have

a tendency to want to just run to the next thing instead of staying with what's going

on. And I believe that a lot of us struggle with spending or eating, overeating, drinking,

all of these escape things, social media, because we are not content to stay with what

we are feeling. And I believe that one of the most effective ways to get through a tough

emotional spot, whether that's aggravation, overwhelm, sadness, is to stay with it. I've

talked about this in parenting before how a lot of times when my kids are upset, my instinct

is to distract them. You know, Romans crying because he wants to go outside. He can't go outside

at that time. And so I say, hey, come, let's read a book. But I believe that one of the most

effective things that I can do for him is just let him be disappointed. And he's not going

to stay disappointed forever. But I don't want to train him to feel like he can't just be

disappointed and we need to spin it or escape it or or lure him away from that with something

else. Because as adults, I see that constantly where you're stressed or you're frustrated.

And therefore you turn to food. You turn to alcohol. You have to distract yourself from

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