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A Butterfly’s Journey
A Butterfly’s Journey (a 501c3 non-profit)
We help those struggling with grief to find resilience after loss.
Barbara is founder, President & Exec Director, Certified Grief Specialist. ABJ offers GRM group or 1-on-1 classes, an online Resource Ctr & "Faces of Resilience" photo shoots for expressing feelings. (was ‘Portraits of Loss’)
abutterflysjourney.com / 617-410-6309
Hopkinson, a former IBM executive, after the loss of 3 children and her husband, turned her grief of into a powerful memoir "A Butterfly's Journey… Healing Grief After the Loss of a Child", that inspires others to find love and happiness again after enduring the most shocking loss of all—the death of a child. She also was part of an inspirational collaborative book "FAITH – Finding Answers In The Heart, Volume II”, and writes for “Grief Diaries.”
Her insights were gained from her own spiritual journey, and more than 15 years of leading a support group for other bereaved families through The Compassionate Friends of Greater Newburyport, part of an international nonprofit organization. Site; http://abutterflysjourney.org
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At 40, Franz Kafka (1883-1924), who never married and had no children, walked through the park in Berlin when he met a girl who was crying because she had lost her favourite doll. She and Kafka searched for the doll unsuccessfully.
Kafka told her to meet him there the next day and they would come back to look for her.
The next day, when they had not yet found the doll, Kafka gave the girl a letter “written” by the doll saying “please don’t cry. I took a trip to see the world. I will write to you about my adventures.”|
Thus began a story which continued until the end of Kafka’s life.
During their meetings, Kafka read the letters of the doll carefully written with adventures and conversations that the girl found adorable.
Finally, Kafka brought back the doll (he bought one) that had returned to Berlin.
“It doesn’t look like my doll at all,” said the girl.
Kafka handed her another letter in which the doll wrote: “my travels have changed me.” the little girl hugged the new doll and brought the doll with her to her happy home.
A year later Kafka died.
Many years later, the now-adult girl found a letter inside the doll. In the tiny letter signed by Kafka it was written:
“Everything you love will probably be lost, but in the end, love will return in another way.”
Embrace the change. It’s inevitable for growth. Together we can shift pain into wonder and love, but it is up to us to consciously and intentionally create that connection
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2/23/2021