The degree to which a person can grow is directly proportional to the amount of truth they can accept about themselves without running away.

Hey everybody, welcome back to the Primal Potential Podcast.

I am Elizabeth Benton.

Hope you're having a great day today.

Thanks so much for joining me for another episode in our consistency 365 series.

I saw this actually in a comment of a thread on Instagram I believe and there was no attribution to the quote but man it is a

good one the degree to which a person can grow is directly proportional to the amount of truth they can accept about

themselves without running away. The post was about this woman who is a fitness coach and had lost a

tremendous amount of weight and then kind of hit a plateau and she came forward and

said hey I'm at this plateau and I have been here for a while

and I need to push myself.

I've been complacent and I need to finish what I started.

And it aroused this great conversation

about how so often we just aren't honest and we hide.

We hide in different ways from other people, we hide from ourselves, and we especially

hide from a truth that might be uncomfortable to acknowledge.

And I love this notion that the degree to which we can change is directly proportional to the amount of truth we can accept about ourselves without running away.

What do you need to face? This is one of the reasons that I've loved this

challenge I gave myself of weighing every day and I've talked at length about how

I don't recommend it for everybody, but it is a way to face a truth about yourself.

Because you can't hide behind, well, I'm doing better than I was before or doing pretty good or I'm trying. You're

you're faced with a reality every day and there are many ways to go about this and I want to challenge you to really think about how can you be more honest with

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