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

This is episode number 375.

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 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.

It's a beautiful day in this neighborhood, and I have a special podcast that I want to play for you

today that I did last year. And it's one of my most downloaded podcasts. And today, it's a perfect

time for you to hear one of these podcasts because it's all about creating joy. I love teachers who can

teach it. And as I learn it, I love to teach it to you. So whatever you're doing right now,

sit back, take a bath, take a walk, take a drive, and listen to this podcast on Awakening Joy.

So my favorite, one of my very favorite topics to talk about, if you didn't know, is Joy.

And maybe you know this about me, maybe you don't know this about me, but I am a student of Buddhism. I'm not a Buddhist,

but I do follow a lot of Buddhist teachers and do a lot of silent retreats with them.

And I've done this for many, many years. It's a way for me to become more mindful. It's a way

for me to make friends with myself. It's a way for me to love myself.. It's a way for me to make friends with myself. It's a way for me to love

myself. And it's a way for me to be able to become a teacher to you. And the reason that I'm

telling you this today is because one of those teachers is doing a course right now. And I am in that course, and I want to talk to you about it a little

bit today, and I want to talk a little bit about him today, too. So his name is James

Baraz, and he wrote a book called Awakening Joy. And I did an in-person retreat when we used to do those maybe two or three years ago.

And seriously, it was really one of my favorite retreats because what he did, he is a teacher of

Buddhism, but he found a way to use the Buddhist principles to teach about the feeling of joy.

So needless to say, this really was one of my favorite online retreats.

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