Welcome to Thinner Peace in Menopause, the mindful management of your mind and body with Dr. Depp.

Episode 11, creating joy in your everyday life is not dependent on what happens to you.

It's what you think about. You know, notice what happens every day

and in every present moment. Be in the moment. Mindfulness. She's helped me learn to create it in my

own life and now she's helping others. And now here's Dr. Deborah. And hello, hello, hello to all my dear, dear friends. How are you today? I got to tell you right now,

I'm sitting in a pretty dark room and it looks like we're getting ready for a thunderstorm here in

St. Louis, Missouri. So I'm hoping that you're not going to hear any thunder,

and I'm hoping that nothing is going to go out. And I can keep up all my connections.

But today, I've got something really exciting that I want to talk to you about. And it's all

about joy. I love the feeling of joy. And I love to teach joy because joy is not something that falls from the clouds.

Joy is something that comes from your mind.

And I have so many clients that think that they'll feel joyful and happy when they lose the weight.

And what I'm here to tell you today is you can feel joyful and happy when they lose the weight. And what I'm here to tell you today is you can feel joyful and

happy now. And the more joyful and happy you feel now, the easier it is to lose the weight. Right. So

positive actions come from positive feelings. You cannot hate yourself then. I know I've said

this to you a million times, but it's the truth. You got to love yourself then. And I think part of

loving yourself is feeling joyful. And joyful comes from what you create in your own mind.

And I love this quote from Richard Wagner.

And I have no idea who this guy is, but I'm quoting him because it's his quote.

But joy is not in things.

It is in us.

And that's what we're talking about today is joy comes from within. Joy does not come from without.

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