Are you running from trauma or are you running towards joy? Are you running away from

insecurity or are you running toward health?

Because they're not the same thing.

They feel different and the outcome is different.

Hey, everybody, welcome back to the Primal Potential

Podcast and to our consistency 365 series.

I'm Elizabeth Benton. This series are many episodes in between our full length Monday and Saturday

episodes so that we can all take just a few

minutes out of every day it doesn't take long to remind ourselves to seek and

seize opportunities in this day every single day to make a little progress towards our goal

because there is always something we can do. We just have to become the kind of

people who always look for it and take full advantage of the opportunity.

I was thinking about this because I saw a post from John A-Cuff where basically he was talking

about some of the motivational gurus that we see online and how some of them aren't so much pursuing success.

They're running from trauma and it just looks like they're chasing success, but that doesn't feel the same.

Running from trauma is not the same thing as pursuing joy or building a life that you love.

A lot of people who look like they're doing great things are actually running from something,

and because of that they're pretty miserable. So I want you to think about it. I know for me, most of my years pursuing weight loss, I wasn't chasing health. I was fleeing insecurity.

I had this notion that being overweight was awful and that I wouldn't have friends or I wouldn't have romantic relationships if I was so overweight and I wanted to get as far away from that as possible. I was not pursuing health, I was not pursuing

happiness, I probably couldn't have even told you what those things looked like at that time,

I was running from being overweight and I think that that happens a lot. We are running from fear or we're

running from unhappiness and so that isn't as sustainable, it isn't as fulfilling as

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