After a divorce, the question "what now?" often arrives before the ending is really over. The mind stands at the edge of a new life, and the energy is still inside the old one. Maya Mandala has taught for over 30 years that an ending has its own work: it is the point of death of one cycle — and the point of birth of the next.

Purpose after divorce is rebuilt in the practice by completing the old cycle first: what the relationship was, what it gave, what needs forgiveness and letting go. Only then does the corridor close — and the new meaning begins, from the point of birth. She names the two points of every transition: the point of death, and the point of birth.