Welcome to Thinner Piece and Menopause and Beyond.

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

Today is episode number 74, can hardly believe it.

And I'm going to be talking all about my new class that's coming up and what I want to talk to

even more than that about the numero one thing. You must do for yourself if you want to learn

self-compassion, self-kindness to yourself. So stay tuned.

Hi, everybody. How are you today? It's a beautiful day in Belize. I've been talking to a lot of new people

lately. I was on a podcast as a guest on Bold New Mom with Jody Moore. And I think a lot of you,

I have a lot of new listeners, so welcome. A lot of you heard me from that

podcast. And one of the things that I really want to share with all of you, I've done a lot of

many sessions with many of you and giving you new tools and new ways to look at your life,

which is what many sessions are all about. They're not just so that you can hire me.

They're so that you can get a takeaway and find out how fantastic coaching can be for you.

Many sessions, you know, they're really great. And a lot of you that are listening have had a

mini session with me. But I want to tell you what I learned from talking to you.

And it makes me really, really sad because I'm talking to women in their 20s all the way to women in their 70s.

And it is so sad to me to realize how epidemic the work that I'm doing and trying to teach how important it is

and how rapid our thoughts are about ourselves and how destructible they are. And what many

of you told me, well, let's put it this way, all of you from 20 to 70 is how afraid you are of food, how afraid you are

that you cannot trust your own self to stop eating a food when your body is full because your mind

says so many crazy things to you about how good it is, how you're never going to

have it again, you don't want to waste it, all these crazy things that run around up there that

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