Please read Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 for context. Thank you. In the process, I realized that I needed to address why I reacted to my present. I needed to examine what led to the conflicts -- in my past -- to have peace in my present. Through my process I began to realize that I definitely needed to address the original or underlying reasons that created or led to the … [Read more...]
Traumatic Brain Injury — Relationships, Conflict and Peace Part 2
By Second Chance to Live
Please read Part 1 , Part 3, Part 4, Part 5 for context. Thank you. With my awareness I began to realize what I was doing to myself. Through my recovery process I began to realize that I was not responisble for matters that were out of my control. I began to realize that I needed to change the patterns in my behavior that reinforced and kept me stuck in a cycle of shame and a … [Read more...]
Freedom, Courage and the Flight of the Butterfly — Revisited Part 5
By Second Chance to Live
Please read Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4 for context. Thank you. In the process you are gaining new finding strength to mount up as with wings like an eagle. You are being prepared to walk in your destiny. Be strong and of good courage my friend, for what is being formed in you is majestic and divine. What is being formed in you is beyond your wildest imagination. Be … [Read more...]
Traumatic Brain Injury — Freedom, Courage and the Flight of the Butterfly — Revisited Part 4
By Second Chance to Live
Please read Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 5 for context. Thank you. And so the flight of the butterfly provides wonderful insight. Life presents challenges that often come disguised as change in the form of struggle. Change provides the motivation to strengthen the wings of our flight to our destiny. Change through struggle prepares you and I to move beyond the … [Read more...]
Freedom, Courage and the Flight of the Butterfly — Revisited Part 2
By Second Chance to Live
Please read Part 1 , Part 3, Part 4 , and Part 5 for context. Thank you. During elementary school I remember learning about the stages in the butterflies' development. First the egg is laid, that later becomes a larva, which then develops into a caterpillar. As a pupa, the caterpillar attaches itself to a leaf and proceeds to spin a cocoon around it's body. From within that … [Read more...]