CATCHING BUTTERFLIES
MARY ANNE LIM
CATCHING BUTTERFLIES
MARY ANNE LIM
Notes from a life still in progress
I’m not writing from the other side of any of it.
I’m Anne . I’ve been writing here since 2008 – through typhoon, a relationship that ended, years of raising my children mostly on my own, and a long stretch where I wasn’t okay and didn’t say so.
I’m writing from inside it, which is the only place I’ve ever been able to write from honestly. If you’re carrying something you haven’t named yet, you’re in the right place.
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Day 5: Calling In for My Kind of Man
This post was originally published in my other blog A Day in the Life of Anne on August 25, 2013. Deepak Chopra said in one of his videos,” ..to manifest your soulmate, you have to know what qualities you want for your soul mate. Become those qualities and the...
Day 4: Laying Out the Details of My Dreamboard
Update: This is a post I wrote on August 24, 2013 in my old blog called A Day in the Life of Anne.Some of these have already manifested and I would write an update and a photo of it. In my other blog, I wrote about the importance of making a dream board which...
Day 4: Laying Out the Details of My Dreamboard
Update: This is a post I wrote on August 24, 2013 in my old blog called A Day in the Life of Anne.Some of these have already manifested and I would write an update and a photo of it. In my other blog, I wrote about the importance of making a dream board which...
Day 3: In Tune With My Feminine Self
Many relationship coaches and self-help tips talks about how women can really be more attractive to men is to be more feminine. This is one thing that we, single mothers and even some very successful women sometimes tend to forget. Being feminine. I tried...
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The archive · 2008–2025
216 posts across seventeen years. 2013 and 2014 were the loud ones. Two years are empty and I’ve left them that way.
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BOOKS
The Quiet Powers
The Quiet Powers is a reflective memoir for women rebuilding after separation — especially mothers rediscovering who they are beyond the roles they once held.
In seasons marked by uncertainty, emotional exhaustion, and quiet grief, strength does not always arrive loudly. Sometimes it steadies. Sometimes it softens. Sometimes it simply helps you breathe again.
Through deeply personal reflection, Mary Anne T. Lim explores the inner shifts that carried her through life’s hardest chapters — stillness, acceptance, surrender, forgiveness, gratitude, love, and authenticity. This is not a dramatic story of triumph. It is a calm and honest journey toward peace within.
If you are rebuilding your life quietly — choosing steadiness over chaos and peace over performance — this book is a companion for your becoming.
— Anne
I also write for women rebuilding on their own, at She Thrives Solo.
I also write for people wanting to get out of a toxic relationship, at Keep the Narc Away.
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