Welcome to Thinner Peace and Menopause and Beyond.

This is Dr. Depp Butler, Master Life and Weight Coach and your coach.

Today's episode 37.

And today, for the holiday season, I would like to give you a gift of faith and joy. Stay tuned.

Hi, everyone. This is episode 37. And 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

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