India, Sept. 23 -- A forty-eight-year-old client who recently got diagnosed with a life-threatening condition tells me, "I feel like I have been sleepwalking through my entire life. To my family, the illness feels all-consuming and while there is a treatment plan with good prognosis, they are all scared for me. On the other hand, this is the first time I feel alive in years, and I don't know how I can explain this to anyone, but you."

In moments of grief, loss and or a difficult diagnosis, we get a sudden clarity about our lives and can often be prompted to take the reins of our lives in our hands. This realization that one is leading a robotic existence can come in strange, unexpected ways. There could be a movie, a song, a work of art ...