“How would your life be different if…You stopped allowing other people to dilute or poison your day with their words or opinions? Let today be the day…You stand strong in the truth of your beauty and journey through your day without attachment to the validation of others”― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

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Making space for sadness is a very important part of the Heart Chakrah healing and throat chakra expression. It is in Zone 5, the Joy of life awakening. You see the mistake many people make is thinking that the emotion of sadness has no space in the area of transformation. Not true...sadness needs recognition, validation and a space to be held.

The Five Stages of GriefCoping With a Loved One's Terminal Illness


Terminal illness and the prolonged grieving processKey Points

• Lingering terminal illnesses are becoming more common than sudden deaths. This process has many stages.
• The grieving process is borne by families, not just individuals.

Today, having a loved one live with a terminal diagnosis for an extended period of time is fast replacing sudden and unexpected death as the norm. Consider, for example, that two thirds of those who are diagnosed with cancer currently have a five-year survival rate.

The result of all of this is that death has become less and less a sudden and unexpected event. In its place has come a process that begins with a life-threatening diagnosis, proceeds through a period of treatment (or treatments), and ends eventually in death. This process means that both the terminally ill individual and the family are increasingly confronted with the need to “live with death” for a prolonged period of time.