A Year to Live
September 2026 - 2027
How would you live and love if you only had one year left?
Join a year-long journey into mortality that’s surprisingly full of life. Based on Stephen Levine’s A Year to Live, we’ll practice waking up from autopilot, mending old wounds, letting go of the small stuff that feels oh-so-big, and embracing each day with increased clarity and intention.
Let this be the year you finally make amends in the comfort of your own heart, let go of that pesky grudge, and even forgive yourself.
“Happiness is easier to find when we realize we don’t have forever to find it.”
-Andrea Gibson
So many of us are sleepwalking through our days, carrying a quiet exhaustion and wondering why it’s so hard to stay present. This isn't a personal failure, nor simply anxiety or unhealed trauma. We are navigating rapidly-evolving, lightning-speed systems that demand relentless productivity and ignore our human need to pause, reflect, and just be.
Because our world keeps us rushing, we naturally adapt. We postpone our deepest desires, put off tender conversations, and assume we’ll always have "tomorrow" to finally drop the armor and live the way we want to.
This program offers a radical experiment to counter this conditioning: What if you chose to step out of the rush and live each day as if it were your last?
What we will explore together
Over the course of our year together, we will use guided meditations, deep reflection, and intentional journaling to bring Levine's teachings out of the conceptual and into daily life. We will work on:
Life Review & Legacy: Taking an honest, gentle look back at your story. We will honor the experiences that shaped you, acknowledge the parts of you that have carried heavy burdens, and decide what you are finally ready to set down as you reflect on how you wish to be remembered.
Conscious Living, Conscious Dying: We will strengthen our meditation practices, both individually and together. We will turn toward our mortality with the intent to transform fear of the unknown into a catalyst for clarity.
Reclaiming Everyday Joy: By continuously remembering the impermanence of our time here, we invite in opportunities to connect with our true nature. We acknowledge the brevity of life as a way to see clearly how we do not have time to deny our own joy, laughter, and inner peace.
Altaring our Lives: We will dust off, spruce up, or build from scratch the altars of our lives. These dedicated spaces support us in practicing gratitude, forgiveness, and honoring the full spectrum of life and love.
Intentional Connection: Stepping out of the rush offers the quiet space required to look outward. We will explore volunteer opportunities and intentional efforts to deepen our relationships with loved ones and extend care to those in need.
Meet your Facilitators
Stephanie Miller
Stephanie is a mindfulness-based psychotherapist and meditation teacher for Selah Mind.
With a deep commitment for empowering clients to heal themselves, Stephanie honors grief as her greatest teacher. After experiencing a severe injury that left her unable to walk for months and then supporting her father’s transition from life to death, she traveled across Europe where she lived in her tent in the mountains. This experience was transformative and guided her to support others on their own personal journeys.
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Angie Frank
I am a licensed therapist with 15 years of experience, specializing in mindfulness-based and existential psychotherapy.
This group will be my fourth iteration of this program and I continue to fall more deeply in love with this work because it simply makes my life better. My personal connection to this work deepened after the birth of my daughter, when my husband and I were drawn to complete our first A Year to Live program together. Our experience expanded my relationship with grief and created the space to heal from personal losses, including miscarriages. It was an intense and clarifying journey that fundamentally changed how I relate to the world and experience the present moment.
I am honored to parter with Stephanie in co-facilitating these groups and I am continuously moved by the depth of connection that unfolds in our circles. My daily death awareness practice remains a powerful anchor for living a more full and intentional life.
LPC, LLPProgram Logistics
This year-long immersion requires a gentle but firm commitment to yourself and to the group. Here is how our journey will unfold:
Dates: Beginning September 11, 2026, and concluding September 10, 2027.
Meeting Times: We will gather via Zoom on the second Friday of each month from 9:00 am – 11:00 am MT. In addition to our 13 monthly sessions, we will hold two special 3-hour remote retreat days on Sunday, [Date] and Sunday, [Date], from 11:00 am – 2:00 pm MT to dive even deeper into our practices.
Community: You will have access to a dedicated community space to share reflections, stay connected, and support one another in the ongoing practice of genuine presence.
What You Will Need: A copy of Stephen Levine’s A Year to Live.
Investment: Tuition is offered on a sliding scale from $800 – $1,200. To reserve your spot, please register here and submit your $200 deposit via Venmo or check. Full payment is due by August 20, 2026, but please reach out if you would like to discuss a payment plan as we want this work to be accessible.
Refund Policy: A full refund is available until September 4, 2026. A 50% refund is available until September 30, 2026, after which the course is no longer refundable.
Retreats: Stephanie and Angie offer in person Sacred Burial retreats that are not required or included in the Year to Live Program. We do recommend you consider attending one as a way to deepen your experience over the year. Learn more here.
This program is supportive if you are:
Seeking existential peace: Whether you are facing a medical prognosis or simply wish to access the clarity that comes from embracing our shared impermanence.
Navigating family transitions: You are beginning to reflect on your impact and legacy as you raise children or tend to aging loved ones. You are seeking a place to relate to others and learn how to care for yourself as you carry these responsibilities.
Seeking a richer life: You hold curiosity about how acknowledging that our time is limited may be the key to reclaiming everyday joy. You are interested in learning to more fully embrace the present moment and live in deeper alignment with your true nature.
Ready to drop the armor: You want a safe space to work towards mending old wounds. This space is designed to help you loosen and rewire old patterns, allowing the ways you are truly ready to heal and open your heart to gently rise to the surface.
