My blog, The Morning Butterfly, is my personal healing Journey. Through my experience, I share what I call the cha cha of life, and hope that it inspires others to dig deep and heal their wounds, allowing them to soar!
My heart hurts again. Watching the news accounts and again having that feeling of how unsafe the world is fills me with sadness, fear and anger. To know that a group of innocent people lost their lives because of who they choose to love is deplorable to me. I am almost at a loss for…
Read MoreDo we limit ourselves by what is right in front of us? Do we limit ourselves by our perspective? Do we limit ourselves by what we perceive as our limitation? All questions that were asked by a speaker I was inspired by this week. Next week I am heading to my second travel writing retreat.…
Read MoreIt’s actually not absence but presence –really being there with someone— that makes the heart grow fonder. ~Doe Zantamata We have always heard, “absence makes the heart grow fonder.” And I think I have always believed that to a point. Whenever I was in a relationship and one of us was away, I always…
Read More2015 was a year filled with purging. I cleaned up a lot of eating habits and lost weight. I eat far less proessed foods today and continue to work at cleaner eating, although I fall back into old habits often, can you say chips or chocolate?? I also purged clothes. I was creating a new…
Read More“When we can accept someone where they are, We can experience grace in all relationships.” ~Gabby Bernstein I have been struggling with some feelings lately, focused on relationships that I am missing. Relationships that feel as if they changed a bit. Perhaps some unspoken words or expressions of feelings. Feelings of frustration that I…
Read MoreI was recently speaking with a good friend who I adore and who, like me has fluctuated with weight. The difference is at her heaviest she is thinner than my thin. But at her thinnest, she is small. I don’t generally notice the weight she says she’s gained, I think she looks healthy not frail.…
Read MoreI like and can relate to much of Adele’s music. She captures many of the conflicted feelings that stir and at times choke me. Her most recent hit, “Hello”, resonates a lot with me at this point in my life and evolution. I spent a long time blaming my ex-husband for what caused the marriage…
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