Mike Murphy - LIVING IN COLOR A Story Of Love In Sickness And In Health

https://mikemurphyunfiltered.com/book/living-in-color/ Author Mike Murphy returns with his spiritual love story of meeting, marrying and losing the love of his life, Margot, to cancer. LIVING IN COLOR: A Story of Love in Sickness and Health releases this October and discusses his spiritual journey staying by his wife’s side as they team-up as a couple and then to fight cancer. The book is an odyssey of understanding how two souls meet and how that meeting changed their path and eventually, even supporting other women courageously fighting breast cancer with a Foundation and retreat center. LIVING IN COLOR: A Story of Love in Sickness and Health By Michael Murphy Great love stories inspire us to seek passion in our own lives, to get in touch with our deepest core emotions, and make the world a little bit better -- what author and philanthropist Michael Murphy describes in the bittersweet memoir of his wife’s battle with metastatic breast cancer in LIVING IN COLOR: A Story of Love in Sickness and Health (October 12, 2021). This is a love story like no other – and one in which the love keeps coming long after his wife’s passing, through a special foundation set up to provide low-income women with advanced cancer the resources they need for their healing and recovery. Murphy was only six months into his unexpected love affair with his second wife, Margot, when he discovered a lump in her breast. For the next nine years she fought her cancer, armed with a fierce love for life. With Murphy by her side through the good, the bad, and the worst, Margot showed her husband how to truly live. “I left behind all my doubts, fears, and guilt because I knew that what I wanted most was to live in color,” Margot told Murphy. Married to other people at the time, the Murphys’ relationship was sparked by a soul-deep sense of recognition when they first met, as if they knew one another before and were waiting to reconnect throughout lifetimes. This powerful sense of knowing buoyed them as they faced the challenges required for them to be together and uplifted them as Margot faced one medical crisis after another. Murphy tells the story of their relationship and Margot’s fight for her life with engaging warmth, honesty and unflinching detail – taking himself to task for his past transgressions. By doing so, he shows how a relationship can grow past the obstacles in its path thanks to love and the willingness to work toward emotional maturity. “I’m different because Margot, in life and in death, taught me the true meaning of love, which is compassion and forgiveness. I am a much better man,” he says. Helping others is the focus of Murphy’s life now. A visit with a single mom who also had stage 4 metastatic breast cancer inspired him to start the Love from Margot Foundation, which provides low-income women with advanced cancer the resources they need for their healing and recovery. To date, more than 200 women in California have been directly helped, with many more receiving assistance nationally. “I think about all the women I’m helping in her name, all the families that gain a few extra months, years, or even decades with their loved ones because we are able to provide support, and I look up to the heavens and smile,” Murphy says.