Welcome to Thinner Peace and Menopause and Beyond.

This is Dr. Deb Butler, Master Life and Weight Coach, and as always your coach.

Today is episode 108.

I have been talking to you for 108 episodes. And boy, have I got some good stuff for you? Stay tuned.

Hi, all my dear friends, how are you today? It's a beautiful day in St. Louis, Missouri. I'm looking out,

I live in the woods. So whenever I'm

talking to you now, remember when I lived in Belize and I would tell you how I'm looking out

at the Caribbean Sea and how gorgeous it was? Let me tell you how beautiful it is to look out at my

woods and to see little buds all over the place on these trees. And it still looks pretty brown. And to know

then in about two or three weeks without any help from me, my whole forest or woods is going to be

green. That is totally a miracle to me and totally amazing to me. But what I really want to talk to you about today

is something I've been thinking about. I work with a lot of smart, brilliant women, as you know,

and you know I love all my clients dearly because I do. They open up to me. They tell me what's in

their hearts. We talk, we laugh, we cry. But one of the things that is probably the most exhilarating to me

is when I can watch them go through something that's really, really hard that they might

consider a failure and come out of it on the other end and realize that it was just a learning experience

and how much they learned from either messing up, failing, whatever you call it.

Whatever you call it when you're doing something to take care of yourself and it doesn't

go the way you want it.

You can call it falling off the tracks. What is it? Falling off the tracks, something like that.

But anyway, what I want to talk to you about today is the whole idea of what success really means

when it comes to really learning how to connect to yourself, really learning

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