excerpted from Kaiulani Facciani’s book, Whatever Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Strong. Grace is the breath of God – an invisible essence beyond intellect that moves swiftly amongst us. Grace is immediately accessible to you and everyone around you – through humility, devotion, and the courage to follow divine guidance. — Caroline Myss November, 2012. […]
excerpted from Kaiulani Facciani’s book, Whatever Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Strong. February, 2008. Houston, TX – I was still in a daze after Dr. Cheng’s proclamation of doom. After a bus ride of staring out the window at the rain and crying uncontrollably, I pulled myself together for my afternoon appointment. The waiting rooms […]
excerpted from Kaiulani Facciani’s book, What I Did and Do and Why. When I was diagnosed in 2013 with leptomeningeal brain metastases, I was told the average survivability was 2.8 months after diagnosis. I had just lost a friend to the same rare diagnosis a month after hers. Western medicine did not have much […]
excerpted from Kaiulani Facciani’s book, Whatever Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Strong. There is no death, only a change of worlds. – Chief Seattle The other night I was sleeping on my side and I awoke to someone gently shaking my shoulder. “It’s time to go”, she whispered. It resembled the vague excitement of […]
excerpted from Kaiulani Facciani’s book, Whatever Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Strong. Practice love until you remember that you are love. — Swami Sai Premananda I love everyone. Yes, you. Even you, whom I have never met. That’s what cancer has given me… it’s made me soft in the head. : ) No, seriously. […]
Divine energy takes many forms and so has many names. Those who are lucky enough to have experienced it can be forgiven for wanting to share it. But those who try to impose their own experience as the only way for others to access it are misguided. They are completely missing the essence of divine […]
excerpted from Kaiulani Facciani’s book, Whatever Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Strong. October, 2012 — 2 MRIs, 2 cat scans, 2 ultrasounds, 2 biopsies and 2 days later, all I’d been told was that I was full of Stage IV metastatic cancer. Impatient, I asked the nurse for my reports and had just finished reading them […]
Having hope is not “being in denial”. As Henry Ford said, “Whether you think you can or you think you can’t… you’re right.” If you think you’re gonna die, you’re gonna die. If you think you’re gonna prevail, you have a fighting chance and, trust me, no one’s gonna laugh at you for hoping when […]
I stand alone, surrounded by shadowy figures. Like clay soldiers from an ancient Chinese army, they are silent symbols of fallen warriors.
excerpted from Kaiulani Facciani’s book, Whatever Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Strong. When you think everything is someone else’s fault, you will suffer a lot. When you realize that everything springs only from yourself, you will learn both peace and joy. – Dalai Lama Something that I don’t accept about many of the religions I’ve studied […]
When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person that walked in. That’s what the storm is all about — Haruki Murakami
excerpted from Kaiulani Facciani’s book, Whatever Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Strong. You don’t “beat” stage IV breast cancer. The most you can do is grab the snarling wolf by the throat and hold it at arm’s length, trying not to be intimidated by the fangs and the spittle and the intensity of its […]
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