I'm Dr. Deb Butler and you are listening to Thinner Piece and Menopause and Beyond.

This is episode number 315.

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

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Well, hello, all my dear friends, all over the world.

How are you today? I myself am getting ready

for a holiday weekend. I'm going to go down to the lake. We call it the lake. It's the lake of

the Ozarks. And my in-laws and my son and his wife, who is like my daughter and my three grandchildren,

we are all gathering together and we are having a little party. And these are like my favorite

things to do. As you know, being with my family and feeling the love is my favorite thing. And, you know, it doesn't get past me,

and I don't want it to get past you that spring is here and that there's a lot of interesting

holidays around this time too, regardless of your religion. There seem to be holidays for all

religions, and they're all quite miraculous.

And I find it interesting that it all happens in spring. Spring is renewal. And what do we as

human beings do to bring spring on? The answer to that, my friend, is we do nothing because we have got nothing to do with it,

but every year around this time, spring springs up, and all the things that are supposed to happen

happen without any of us, pointing our fingers, making a list.

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