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

This is episode number 367.

Welcome to Thinner Peace 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 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. Well, hello, all my dear friends, all over the

world. How are you today? I'll tell you what, I got a lot going on and I'm very, very excited to tell you

about the things that are coming up that may help you a lot that I've been working on behind

the scenes with my son, BJ. So I got a lot to talk about today. And I also want to talk a little bit about menopause. Now,

I love the word menopause, especially when you sounded out with three syllables, men, oh, pause.

My favorite word in that word is pause.

And when I think of that transition of menopause,

I think of how important it is at this time in our lives to pause and reflect

and take a moment. Regardless if you're having an urge to eat something or do something that will

not benefit you, it's good to take the pause. One of my favorite Buddhist teachers,

Pema Children, whom you hear me talk about a lot, and she's got a new book out, and I'm going

to be reflecting on that in the podcast to come, because she has such a way of teaching the philosophy of Buddhism.

And it's so easy to apply to ourselves as human beings with the way that she teaches it.

Because some of the readings and the teachings that she's talking about,

if you ever went and looked at them yourself, you wouldn't know what to do.

I don't know what to do it. It's hard for me to understand. But the way that she breaks it up, out of all of the teachers that I've listened to, she seems to do the best job of making it something that my brain can understand. And I think if my brain can understand it, then I can teach it to your

brain. And our brains are very, very important if you haven't noticed. So when we talk about

menopause and we talk about all the symptoms that go along with it, perimenopause, menopause,

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