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Stabilize, Navigate, and Integrate Your Transformational Crisis
Receive the support you've needed, learn how to care for yourself, harvest the gifts hidden in the fire
When awakening feels overwhelming or unclear, you'll find steady guidance in private sessions
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Are You Struggling with Awakening or Crisis?
Sometimes it feels like falling apart… before it feels like coming home.
Do you feel unable to function—like even basic tasks feel overwhelming or impossible?
Confused or scared by what’s happening to your body, mind, or sense of self?
Shaken by strange sensations, intrusive thoughts, or non-ordinary states of consciousness?
Alone because professionals and teachers don’t seem to understand what you’re going through?
Exhausted from trying every tool you know—yet nothing really helps?
You're not doing it wrong. And you don't have to do it alone.
Simple guidance is available.
A Truth About Transformational Crisis
Many who've experienced life-changing realization go through a period of disorientation.
It could immediately follow an awakening... or come years later.
When it does, you might feel like your old identity is dissolving… but what’s emerging hasn’t fully taken shape. You may be flooded with energy or emotions you can’t control, or find yourself unable to function the way you once did.
Even if you know this is part of awakening, it can feel like you’re unraveling—alone, confused, and without a map.
But you’re not broken. And you’re not alone.
Many sincere seekers have walked through this fire—and come out the other side more clear, whole, and deeply aligned with truth.
When you’re met by someone who truly understands the terrain, crisis becomes less of something to survive—and more of a doorway to walk through, with care.
You don’t have to figure this out on your own. Support is here.
Let's Discover What's Possible for You
Receive the Support You've Needed
This isn’t about being fixed.
It’s about being truly met.
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Speak with someone who understands what you’re going through—because they’ve lived it.
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Discover how to “return” to clairty, even when your system feels completely overwhelmed.
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Receive useful practical guidance that integrates your spiritual reality
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Know you’re not crazy, broken, or doing it wrong—just deeply in a sacred transition.
Learn How to Care for Yourself
Because even now, there is a way to be with what’s here.
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Slow down enough to feel what’s actually needed, right now.
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Learn practical ways to soothe your nervous system and reconnect with your body.
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Be reminded that your pain is not a problem to solve—but a doorway to tend.
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Rebuild your capacity to sleep, eat, rest, and feel safe being alive again.
Harvest the Gifts Hidden in the Fire
When the longing for answers goes quiet…space opens to walk toward what’s real.
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Begin to trust that something meaningful is happening—even if you can’t see it yet.
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Learn to honor and use your mind— without getting lost in it.
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Recognize the unshakable truth of awareness that never leaves you— even in the midst of chaos
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Abide more intimately in the quiet center where Grace and Presence meet
From Spiritual and Health Crisis to
Deeper Freedom, Fulfillment, and Service
An offering of insight, language, and hope for those navigating spiritual crisis or intense awakening.
You're Not Broken. You're in Transition.
If your spiritual path has brought more confusion than clarity—or if you feel like awakening has opened something you’re not sure how to live with—you’re not the only one.
Many sincere people, especially those with deep sensitivity, find themselves in what looks and feels like a breakdown. That’s because it is a breakdown—a sacred falling away of identities, beliefs, and unconscious ways of living that no longer align with the deeper truth emerging as your life. You don't need to be fixed. You need to be met by an experienced guide who carries respect for what you're going through and your own innate knowing.
What follows isn’t just a personal story—it’s an invitation to reflect on your own. You may find language here that helps you name your experience, recognize hidden patterns in your spiritual crisis, and glimpse the possibility of meeting it with clarity, effective support, and care.
When Awakening Brings Crisis
Two years after Robear's life-changing awakening, he began experiencing what would become a five-year, all-consuming spiritual and health crisis that lasted from 2009 - 2014. This included:
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Re-experiencing previous trauma
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Anxiety, rage, depression and suicidal thoughts
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Nightly and daily challenges with body energy (aka. kundalini process) such as unexplainable sensations, shaking, intense jerking, and involuntary spasms
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An inability to fall or stay sleep for more than 2 hours at a time
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Chronic fatigue and pain
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Digestive difficulties and severe weight loss
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Frustration with health care professionals—both traditional and alternative—and spiritual teachers who didn't understand and couldn't help
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Loss of primary relationship, business, income, and the accumulation of debt as a result of all the above
Naming the Patterns:
Three Forms of Spiritual Crisis
These intense experiences are not random. Across cultures and lineages, many people have gone through what’s often described as:
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Dark Night of the Soul: A lengthy period of intense spiritual crisis, existential despair, and profound inner darkness that precedes significant spiritual awakening or transformation.
Spiritual Emergency/Spiritual Emergence: When rapid spiritual transformation becomes so intense it disrupts everyday functioning, presenting both a crisis to navigate and an opportunity for profound growth.
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Shamanic Illness/Shamanic Initiation: A profound spiritual crisis that often marks the beginning of a healing calling. This ancient pattern of breakdown-to-breakthrough is characterized by experiences such as:
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Sudden, mysterious symptoms doctors can't explain
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Disorientation or feeling "split"
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Energy surges that overwhelm the nervous system
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Extreme sensitivity to sound, light, emotion or other people's energy
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A simultaneous sense of being called and cursed
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Feeling like you're dying and being born at the same time
“Working with Robear has helped calm my system while furthering the opening [of spiritual realization] I wanted more of—that was previously kicking my butt—in a more sustainable way.
~ B. M. (Lawyer and mother)
Harvesting the Gifts:
Approaching Crisis Through an Awakened Lens
After experiencing this crisis for five years through an awakened lens—and engaging in many hours of inquiry with a deeply attuned guide over three months—Robear gradually emerged with a deeper understanding of pain and suffering, greater compassion, refined skills for self-care, and a more embodied realization of true nature.
He also came to see how overwhelming challenges could become doorways to profound transformation. Rather than just waiting for external conditions to improve, he learned to embody peace, freedom, and fulfillment as qualities that exist independently of circumstance.​
Pathways to Deeper Freedom
The journey of crisis is often not a once in a lifetime event. In 2020, a car accident and head injury revealed to Robear just how deeply the nervous system can be impacted—even years into awakening.​​​
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One of the greatest discoveries through all of this is that deep awakening doesn’t make you immune to the pain of life. What it does reveal is that the presence of pain and challenge do not negate the presence of what matters most.
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With the right support, deep self-care, and the willingness to listen for what’s being asked of you, the very moments that seem to unravel you can become pathways to deeper freedom. Not by willing it—but by walking with it, and staying curious enough to harvest the gifts within.​
3 Simple Steps to Stabilize Your Awakening
1. Schedule a Free Consult or Session
Take a gentle first step. Talk to someone who understands—and who’s been through it. We'll get a feel for each other and see if we want to have a first session.
2. Receive Your First Session at a Reduced Rate
If it feels right to move forward, you’ll be invited into a first session—where you’ll be deeply listened to and guided through practical steps to help calm your system and return to the clarity of Presence.
3. Begin with a Plan that Meets You Where You Are
If it still feels like we’re a good match, we'll begin with a clear plan based on your needs—so you can move forward with clarity, relief, and the support you've been needing.
What Becomes Possible—In Their Own Words
To honor client privacy, some photographs are representative and do not depict the individuals quoted. Those images have been thoughtfully chosen to reflect each person’s characteristics and spirit.
"Thank you from the bottom of my heart for laughing at the dark with me."
“I so appreciate how you listen from a place of deep self-knowledge and open-heartedness. Your skill at weaving insights from your own experience with powerful reflections of my journey has brought a new clarity and sense of possibility to some of my most challenging issues. I’m so grateful for your support in the profound work of learning to truly care for myself.”
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Tanya A.
"His simple word ‘stop’ pierced me with his loving heart, and my mind stopped."
“The gift Robear gave me was his ability to see through my ego, which was acting out terror and fear like a frantic dog chasing his own tail. His simple word ‘stop’ pierced me with his loving heart, and my mind stopped. His own life experiences of the dark night of the soul make him a perfect facilitator and guide in knowing exactly how you feel with your struggle of recognizing and living the truth of who you are.”
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Ray Viggiano
Massage therapist, actor and Rolf Institute coordinator
"Robear was just what the universe ordered."
“I was in crisis mode in my awakening experience, and Robear was just what the universe ordered. He gave me foundational tools that were immensely helpful that I use to this day. The greatest value that I received from Robear was his huge heart. I could feel his love and desire to help me at all cost—like it was more than just a job for him, but a passion.”
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Cajardo L.
Lawyer, actor and family man