That feeling makes sense, but it shouldn't make decisions.

Hey, everybody, welcome back to the Primal Potential Podcast.

I'm Elizabeth Benton this is our consistency 365 series mini

episodes just a few minutes every day between our regular full-length

Monday and Saturday episodes to help you reconnect to what you want most

and what you can do today to get there because otherwise it's easy to just get

distracted by the comings and goings of daily life and before we know it we're

living out of habit, creating what we've always created before, instead of being intentional

about creating the future that we want for ourselves.

A challenge in this pursuit of change in any arena of life is managing your reaction to your feelings and your emotions. It's not that any feeling

or emotion is bad and it's certainly not that we want to snuff them out. I think running

from your feelings is a big part of the problem. There's nothing wrong with

feeling sad. There's nothing wrong with feeling stressed. In fact, I think that it's instructive and gives

us a lot of insight into what needs to shift and change in our circumstances. But when our feelings drive our decisions,

especially when our feelings drive our decisions

and their decisions that run counter to what we want for our health or our

relationships or our home life that's when it becomes a problem. I was talking

about this on social media the other day how in my second book Tools for the

trenches I shared that a tool that helped me tremendously after the death of my daughter was

telling myself that my emotions could ride with me, but they couldn't drive.

I wasn't trying to feel less sad.

I wasn't trying to reframe my anger. It's okay to be angry. It was

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