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

This is episode number 351, which was done last year and is considered one of my most valuable

podcasts. Enjoy. Welcome to Thinner Piece of 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 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 than this podcast is for you stay tuned.

Hi everyone. Today, the only thing I really want to do is I want to share and give you the gift of having a little more faith and a little more joy through the holiday seasons and beyond.

And I think the best way to do that is first, I'd like to share one of my very favorite

teacher and authors, Pema Children.

I'd like to share an excerpt from her book called Awakening Loving Kindness. It's a small little red book that you can get

on Amazon and it is filled with nuggets. And so I'm going to read that to you first. After I read that,

I'm then going to share one of my very, very favorite quotes that I found on Facebook. I have no idea

who the author is. I wish I knew so I could thank her. But it's all about faith. And I'm going to

read that to you next. And my gift to you for this podcast and for this holiday is the gift of joy and faith. It's what I teach every day. It's what I hope

that you learn how to create for yourself. And so here are two of my very favorite ways of

expressing it. From Pema, she talks about a story about a woman running away from tigers. She runs and she runs,

and the tigers are getting closer and closer. When she comes to the edge of a cliff,

she sees some vines there, so she climbs down and holds on to the vines. Looking down,

she sees there are tigers below her as well.

She then notices that a mouse is gnawing away at the vine to which she is clinging.

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