Butterfly Soup: a guide to changing your life

Butterfly Soup: a guide to changing your life

Change is a natural part of life, but sometimes it can be really hard to navigate. When we're lost in a fog of too many options, or when we'recrippled from the emotional hardship of life's challenges, often we feel mired and unable to move forward. There's no better metaphor for the change process than the caterpillar's transformation into a butterfly, when inside its chrysalis it dissolves into a "soup." It's no longer a caterpillar, anddefinitely hasn't become a butterfly...it's somewhere in the middle.Where most of us get stuck when we try to make big changes in our lives. This book outlines the five basic stages of transformation, andincludes tips and techniques to help move you through the process so you can achieve your heart's desire. Like any good manual, there's also aTroubleshooting section that covers the most common difficulties peoplerun into. If you're tired of feeling hopeless, helpless, stymied, or blocked,let Butterfly Soup teach you how to tap into your own power,dissolve resistance you've encountered, and finally become theperson you've always longed to be. ""Butterfly Soup" opens with a fast paced history of contemporary culture and human behavior and introduces the idea that we can think the "biggest ideas" and accomplish them. "The Soup" guides us through the "mobius loop" of transformation with warm, authentic personal case studies and stories that challenge "small" thinking. "Butterfly Soup" is like a Rosetta Stone for the heart. You can do this! Here's how." Gail Jorden, artist and entrepreneur "I think therapy is the most effective way to create positive change. But if therapy is not your thing, you'll want to check out "Butterfly Soup" for a map for change that you can read on your own couch. I really like how Aurora takes you through the entire change process and includes many of the important techniques that I use in my work including resistance analysis and focusing on the innate wisdom of your body. She really understands change and you can too if you spend some time with this book." Dave Kaplowitz, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Certified Group Psychotherapist " Butterfly Soup gives so much permission for people to give themselves permission to explore their evolution, no matter how it looks. Zero judgment and so much validation reverberates through every section. There's space held for accountability with none of the make-wrong other self-help books use." M Shirey, caterer I'd always had a burning curiosity to understand the how's and why's of the world, which led to a self-guided education in psychology,anthropology, political science, economics, literature, and metaphysics. I regularly considered going back to school for an advanced degree, but it seems to me that in this modern age of advanced technology and declining academic standards, a formal education is less effective and less meaningful than it has been in generations past. Instead, I focused my attention on understanding how all of the elements I was learning about intersected and informed one another, and developed a holographic framework to better make sense of our cultural trajectory and my place in it. One day I realized I'd had all the jobs that I wanted, in all of the industries that fueled my passion. I'd produced television, designed video games, consulted for startups, had a brief stint in publishing, even slung cocktails behind a bar. I'd also seen what worked, and what didn't, as people moved through their lives and careers. I'd paid attention to who was able to achieve success and who seemed to flounder, and I'd seen a series of patterns emerging. So I decided to turn my attention to helping others experience the same joy and success that I had attained, and put those observations to better use. The result is Butterfly Soup; I hope you enjoy it.