Hey there, welcome to episode 426 of the Find Your Food Voice podcast.

Today, we have a special letter episode with guest, Deb Benfield.

Let's get to it.

Hey there, welcome, my friend.

My name is Julie Duffy Dillon, registered dietitian, and your host of the Find Your Food Voice podcast.

What have you been told? What are the stories

that you've been told about aging and body changes? This is a really important part of life, right?

And all of us who have a body and are lucky enough to live until old age, well, we're going to

experience some changes. And I don't know about you,

but the stories I've been told is that I don't want to be a burden when I get old. I also need

to stay looking a certain way. I need to not have wrinkles. I need to have bouncy, shiny hair, And I also need to make sure I don't get the

menopause belly, right? And I mean, listener, if you have been catching all the little, like,

I don't know, like sidebar conversations that I have where I'm mentioning some things that

I'm experiencing in real time, you know, I'm perimenopausal and it's been a rough ride.

I mean, it's part of the reason why I don't do weekly episodes anymore is perimenopause

has been basically chronic pain for me with migraine.

But another part of the experience, just like everybody else,

going through changes in how my body is shaped and many other things. So I am so lucky to have

people in my life that have been able to continue to bring the discussion and also just

people who are living their life trying to bring about as much body liberation to everybody

as possible. And having people in my life has helped me to make paribinopause, not quite as crappy.

And one of the most important people for me has been Deb Benfield. Deb has supervised me,

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