Ep. 507: The Holiday Gift That Keeps on Giving – Faith, Joy, and the Strawberry
Thinner Peace in Menopause
Dr. Deb Butler
4.7 • 833 Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2025
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
I'm sharing my favorite Pema Chodron parable and the truth about why faith and worry are the same thing—but only one gets you what you want.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Dr. Deb Butler and you are listening to Thinner Piece and Menopause and Beyond. |
| 0:05.3 | This is episode number 507. |
| 0:12.5 | Welcome to Thinner Peace and Menopause and Beyond. This is Dr. Deb Butler, Master Life and |
| 0:19.1 | Weight Coach, and as always, your coach. |
| 0:22.5 | If you're a woman and you're smart and you're successful and you've been struggling with |
| 0:27.8 | weight your whole life and now menopause is making it harder than ever and you are ready |
| 0:34.4 | to make this the last time you ever have to go on a diet again, |
| 0:39.0 | then this podcast is for you. |
| 0:41.8 | Stay tuned. |
| 0:46.4 | Hello, all my dear friends, all over the world. |
| 0:50.1 | It's the holiday season. |
| 0:52.1 | And what I want to do today is I want to make it a tradition that every year I play this special |
| 1:01.0 | podcast that I did a couple of years ago. |
| 1:05.5 | And I find it so inspiring whenever I listen to it during the holiday season that I want to play it for you |
| 1:13.4 | again and let you know that every year it will be a tradition that I play this as a reminder |
| 1:21.3 | not just to you but to myself too about how hope and faith and joy are so important. Enjoy. |
| 1:37.7 | 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 |
| 1:48.0 | faith and a little more joy through the holiday seasons and beyond. And I think the best way |
| 1:55.5 | to do that is first, I'd like to share one of my very favorite teacher and authors, Pema Children. |
| 2:02.5 | I'd like to share an excerpt from her book called Awakening Loving Kindness. |
| 2:08.6 | It's a small little red book that you can get on Amazon, and it is filled with nuggets. |
| 2:15.5 | And so I'm going to read that to you first. After I read that, I'm then going to share |
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