Butterfly Affect: 77 Adventures into Life, Love, and Recovery

By Butterfly

My hope is to inspire each soul who reads these poems to feel the spark of their own divinity and grace. This book is a small part of my spirit that wants to share with yours. My writing comes from my own struggle with life, love, and recovery from alcoholism one day at a time. Here I give a voice to my disease, and through this process, I have fallen in love with me, with you, and with a flower. If you struggle with your life, your loves, and any issues you cant stop, please take a moment and open these pages. They were written for you.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Balboa Press
• Release date: Sep 19, 2016
• ISBN: 9781504365871

Butterfly

Butterfly was born and raised in Las Vegas, Nevada. By the time she was twelve, Butterfly was drinking, and this went on until February 14, 2012. This is the day the caterpillar became a butterfly. Join her on this journey from addiction to sobriety, from despair to delight. If Butterfly can change from fear to love, so can you.

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ISBN: 978-1-5043-6586-4 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-5043-6587-1 (e)

Balboa Press rev. date: 09/12/2016

Dedicated to LM & Jenny LUBF

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Sacred contracts between two souls for the purpose of intense and often painful spiritual growth has been on the spectrum of learning for lifetimes. I’ve come to believe it is unnecessary to only learn through pain. Pure joy can break open your soul to a level of raw vulnerability and leave you breathless.

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My magical mirror of all that is broken and all that is light in me. She stands directly across from me, eye to eye, hands swirled inside my hands, heart to heart. She breaks