Sometimes our thoughts about what's going on are actually more stressful than what's going on.

Hey everybody, welcome back to the Primal Potential Podcast I'm Elizabeth Benton

this is our consistency 365 series mini episodes that air between our regular full-length episodes on Mondays and Saturdays

that are meant to help you take a few minutes out of your day to reconnect to what you're doing and why

so you don't continue on autopilot showing up day after day

executing the same patterns of behavior that you really want to change. So much of

what we do flows from how we think and we can feel limited in our capacity to make

great decisions when we're stressed. But the truth about stress is that often our

thoughts about what's going on add to the challenge and maybe even are more difficult than the situation itself.

And I think that this isn't true some of the time.

I think this is true a lot of the time.

The other night, our kids ate early they were having leftovers and my

husband and I were going to order food out from a restaurant and he was getting

irritated that the places he wanted to order from, I didn't want to order from.

And I said to him, you know, choosing a place where we ordered dinner from even if we don't agree on the first

five ten even twenty places it doesn't have to be a stressor there's nothing

inherently stressful about not knowing what restaurant to order your Saturday

night meal from, but his thoughts about that situation were more stressful than the situation itself and you might think oh that's

silly getting irritated over something like that but we all get irritated over

silly things I think about moments when my kids are acting up.

Maybe they're all fussing, they all want mom

at the same time in three different ways.

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