Welcome to Thinner Piece and Menopause and Beyond.

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

Today is episode number 58, and you know what it's going to be about?

It's going to be about what your favorite pet and your

body have in common. This is off of one of my coaching sessions with one of my very, very favorite

clients. And it was such an amazing coaching session and such a metaphor for her dog that I

decided to do a whole podcast on it.

Stay tuned.

Hello, everybody. How are you today? Well, I'm back in Belize and I'm looking outside my window,

looking at the beautiful Caribbean Sea, and the palm trees are waving, and it's a breezy, balmy day.

And I'm in my new apartment. Did I say that? And I am loving it. And I'm also, as always, very

inspired to talk to you, especially because so many of you are writing me such inspirational

letters and also a lot about your pain and your suffering and questions about a lot of the

things that I'm talking about. But today what I want to really address is one of my coaching

sessions that I just had with one of my very beloved clients. We've been together for a long, long time. And she and I both

had an epiphany. And anytime I have an epiphany, you know I want to share it with you. And

since I'm really not going to use her name, only her story, she's more than fine for me to share

it with you. So this is what I want to talk about.

You probably have a dog or a cat. And if you don't, I'm sure you know somebody who does.

And that's what I want you to think about and relate to today is I tell you this story about my

client. So we were having this conversation and I wrote a blog about her, actually, about a year ago

regarding her pet, her dog. And I want to read it to you first because this session that we had

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