{"id":38,"date":"2011-06-22T18:37:03","date_gmt":"2011-06-22T23:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.divorcedetails.ca\/?p=38"},"modified":"2012-03-02T09:29:24","modified_gmt":"2012-03-02T14:29:24","slug":"without-change-there-would-be-no-butterflies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.divorcedetails.ca\/?p=38","title":{"rendered":"Without change, there would be no butterflies&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><br \/>\nI came across an old proverb soon after my divorce process<br \/>\nwas initiated:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><strong>\u201cJust when the caterpillar thought the world was ending, <\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #888888;\"><strong>he became a butterfly.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">It was funny how it just popped out at me one day as I was<br \/>\nreading something. It hit home for me. And then I was out<br \/>\nshopping and as I was running through a store on my way to<br \/>\nsomeplace else, a magnet with the saying caught my eye.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">And I thought okay, there is a message here for you.<br \/>\nPay attention.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Imagine what it\u2019s like for the caterpillar: it\u2019s dark, it\u2019s lonely,<br \/>\nthere\u2019s strange stuff going on even while all spun up into that<br \/>\ntight cocoon. Life must be ending. And then through the miracle<br \/>\nof change, a beautiful butterfly emerges to start on its new journey.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #888888;\">It became my mantra.<\/span><\/strong> It summed up for me what I was going<br \/>\nthrough and helped me to emerge on the other side of my divorce<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\">stronger.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">It\u2019s true that your life as you currently know it is changing and coming<br \/>\nto an end, but embrace the door that is opening in your life. Know that<br \/>\nthere are different opportunities on the other side.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><strong>Without change, there are no butterflies. <\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nAnd you have an advantage over the caterpillar: you are not on your<br \/>\nown through the changes.\u00a0You have family and friends.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #888888;\"><strong>And I would be honoured to help you on your journey. <\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\"><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.divorcedetails.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/saying-logo.bmp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-39\" title=\"saying logo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.divorcedetails.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/saying-logo.bmp\" alt=\"\" width=\"705\" height=\"363\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came across an old proverb soon after my divorce process was initiated: \u201cJust when the caterpillar thought the world was ending, he became a butterfly.\u201d It was funny how it just popped out at me one day as I was reading something. It hit home for me. And then I was out shopping and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[15,7,13,16,14],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-divorce-details","category-divorce-journey","tag-butterflies","tag-divorce","tag-divorce-details-2","tag-getting-through-divorce","tag-life-is-changing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.divorcedetails.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.divorcedetails.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.divorcedetails.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.divorcedetails.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.divorcedetails.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.divorcedetails.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.divorcedetails.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.divorcedetails.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.divorcedetails.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}