
BUTTERFLY AWAKENING
Transformation of Me
by Diane Rayford

About Diane
How it all began...
Me, a girl that was born in Brooklyn, New York, that was my foundation where it all started. I moved to Atlantic City in my teenage years. I was a lost girl looking for love in all the wrong places. I always knew I was different from everyone else around. I went through all kinds of situations throughout my life, even some that should have taken me out of this world. But throughout my journey, as I look back on some situations, I realize I had favor over me.
I have four beautiful children that I was determined not to allow them to grow up the way I did. I got to a point in my life where I wasn’t happy with life itself. I knew things had to change and if I wanted things to change, I had to change myself. I no longer looked outside of myself to fill the voids I had. I no longer looked for me in other people. I dug deep inside myself and started facing and healing the trauma that I have endured. I went through every emotion I needed to go through to get through it. I started loving on me; the good, the bad, and the ugly version of myself. Every day that awoke, I strived to be better than I was the previous day, taking it one day at a time all the while trusting the process.
