Life Passages
Counseling Mentoring Ecotherapy
in person by phone by internet
Counseling Mentoring Ecotherapy
in person by phone by internet
The Greatest Task of Living
Are you now making a great life transition? Is this a major rite of passage? A move into a new phase of life. A major change in an important relationship. A serious illness. Or the big one: your own final crossing, or the dying of someone you love.
Any of these can be a cause for great overwhelm . . . or a call to greater awareness.
Turning this kind of overwhelm into conscious awareness is, I believe, the greatest task of living.
The great passion of my own life work – most all of it, actually – has been to offer counseling and support to people making these kinds of life transitions. This is not just work I do for others. In my own life, I show up as consciously as I can whenever I’m making these kinds of transitions. When I'm called to help others also wanting to make a transition consciously, I bring great passion, deep listening, and a lifetime of insights.
I offer consultations, counseling, and mentoring.
You do not have to make this journey alone.
You do not have to make this journey alone.
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Underworld Journey of
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The Youth Passage,
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The Final Crossing
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My Background
I am an end-of-life physician, an educator and an author. I worked for nearly 20 years as an AIDS specialist and more than 30 years as a hospice physician. During this traditional part of my career, I sat with hundreds of people who were either struggling with a serious illness or who were making their own final crossing.
In 2001, I also started working as a wilderness guide. Two years later, in 2003, I joined the guiding staff at School of Lost Borders. I've guided an array of wilderness programs, with two special interests. The first is exploring how the three phases of a wilderness rites of passage -- death, in between worlds, rebirth -- are informed by my many years of sitting with people who were physically dying. This the topic of my first book, The Final Crossing: Learning to Die in Order to Live. My second interest, drawn from being a longtime student of Buddhism, is seeing how a person can cultivate an open, spacious heart-mind, both by being alone in a wide-open desert and by sitting quietly on a meditation cushion. Both of these interest make up a major part of my newest book The Soul's Red Thread: Emerging, Transforming, Dissolving, which I hope to have completed by the end of 2023.
I am an end-of-life physician, an educator and an author. I worked for nearly 20 years as an AIDS specialist and more than 30 years as a hospice physician. During this traditional part of my career, I sat with hundreds of people who were either struggling with a serious illness or who were making their own final crossing.
In 2001, I also started working as a wilderness guide. Two years later, in 2003, I joined the guiding staff at School of Lost Borders. I've guided an array of wilderness programs, with two special interests. The first is exploring how the three phases of a wilderness rites of passage -- death, in between worlds, rebirth -- are informed by my many years of sitting with people who were physically dying. This the topic of my first book, The Final Crossing: Learning to Die in Order to Live. My second interest, drawn from being a longtime student of Buddhism, is seeing how a person can cultivate an open, spacious heart-mind, both by being alone in a wide-open desert and by sitting quietly on a meditation cushion. Both of these interest make up a major part of my newest book The Soul's Red Thread: Emerging, Transforming, Dissolving, which I hope to have completed by the end of 2023.
Petaluma, California
seberle@sbcglobal.net
707-772-5404
seberle@sbcglobal.net
707-772-5404
