The In-Between: Unforgettable Encounters During Life's Final Moments

by Hadley Vlahos

“You’re going to have to give up your ideal life in order to live the life planned for you.

I wish I would have spent more time with my loved ones. I wish I’d just eaten the damn cake.”

My therapist had made me more comfortable with what we had come to refer to as the In-Between. “It doesn’t have to be one way or the other,” she had said. I could accept that bad things happened in this world, while also embracing the spiritual moments I experienced in my work and life, and know that they were both equally real.