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

This is episode number 455.

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Hello, all my dear friends, all over the world.

It's the holiday season.

And what I want to do today is I want to make it a tradition

that every year I play this special podcast that I did a couple of years ago. And I find it so

inspiring whenever I listen to it during the holiday season that I want to play it

for you again and let you know that every year it will be a tradition that I play this as a

reminder not just to you but to myself too about how hope and faith and joy are so important. Enjoy.

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.

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