This is Thinner Piece of Menopause and Beyond with Dr. Deb Butler.

This is episode number 267.

Welcome to Thinner Piece and Menopause and Beyond.

This is Dr. Deb Butler, master life and weight coach, and as always, your coach.

If you're a woman and you're smart and your coach, and as always, your coach. If you're a woman and you're smart and you're successful and you've been struggling with

weight your whole life and now menopause is making it harder than ever, and you are ready

to make this the last time you ever have to go on a diet again, then this podcast is for you.

Stay tuned.

Hello, all my dear friends. How are you today? Spring is here. Summer is coming. How are you?

How are you? If I would be sitting with you right now,

are talking to you on the phone like I do with my clients, or if I'm doing a Zoom call and

looking at you directly, and I looked at you and I said to you, how are you feeling? What would

you say right now? I'd like you to just think about

that for a minute, to go inside your body and just see what you're feeling and where you're

feeling it at. And you have probably heard me talking over these last few episodes all about processing emotions.

And one of the things that I talk a lot about in my groups and with my individual clients

is this whole concept of self-compassion.

And basically, compassion is being able to feel and be empathetic with somebody else's suffering.

And self-compassion is being able to recognize your own suffering and to be empathetic about that.

And what I find for most of us and most of my clients is that it's very easy to be compassionate

for other people because I think we've been taught how to do that.

In fact, I was speaking with one of my dearest friends who's 97 years old and I was talking

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