Stop doing leaf and branch work when you need to be doing root work.

Hey everybody welcome back to the Primal Potential Podcast I am Elizabeth Benton.

This is our consistency 365 series.

I wrote a whole chapter, maybe multiple chapters in my first book, Chasing

Cupcakes, about the difference between smoke and fire in our lives and essentially

I tell a story in chasing cupcakes about how for the longest

time I thought food was my issue and and from the outside it looked like food was

my issue I weighed 350 some odd pounds and I was binge eating regularly and I

was always looking to eat less, to cut out the junk, to stop eating sugar, to reduce carbs, and I was just consuming all of these

strategies and cookbooks and diet books and all of these things thinking that I needed to get food

under control but the thing is the food was the smoke but it wasn't the fire

see the food was what I could see. It was what was obvious.

It was the result of the fire and so I thought it was the problem.

But it wasn't the actual problem, it was the sign of the

problem, it was the symptom of the problem, and really the fire for me was multifaceted, but a lot of it had to do with boredom and

loneliness and the way that I was turning to food to escape to respond to stress to

to

from uncomfortable feelings of rejection and self-loathing

but for so long I was just chasing the smoke and the thing that happens

when you chase the smoke is that your work never stops because until you put out the

fire there's always gonna be more smoke and that's what my life

really reflected well the other day I was scrolling on Instagram and I saw a quote

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