01/08/2026
This is a story of a beautiful friend of mine, Shawn. I have been fortunate to connect with Shawn over the years in circle, in healing session and sound journey. I felt inspired to share this here as his story, authenticity and wisdom offer hope, light, guidance and positivity. If you've ever considered working or connecting with Shawn, I highly encourage you to do so. He's thoughtful, kind, real, and a very safe space, amongst many other incredible qualities. Safety is an extremely important quality for me in doing this work and I can recommend him wholeheartedly. ❤️
The picture on the left is me homeless, addicted to he**in, on the brink of death. I had overdosed more times than I want to admit that year, and to this day I don’t know how I made it through those really dark years. I had nothing left to my name. I lost everything. My possessions, my family, my children, my friends, my self-respect, and all confidence in who I was as a man. These were some really dark times in my life, and at the time I didn’t think I would make it through them. I was only 35, and I had already given up on life, thinking there was no way to overcome this monster of a he**in addiction that had consumed my life for years.
The picture on the right is me living out my soul’s dharma. Who I came to be in this lifetime, and who those really dark times in my life were shaping me to become.
One of the biggest lessons I learned in my darkest hours, looking back on it now, is you can only take people to the depths that you have been within yourself. I now see the soul’s plan behind it all, as this dark time in my life was my greatest initiation and almost took my life. I am so grateful I made it through these years, as so many of others I was living this lifestyle with didn’t make it out. I spent about 10 days wandering the streets of Kelowna homeless, with nothing but a crippling he**in addiction before I started my recovery journey. In that time I received the greatest gift I have received to date: compassion for all beings. It made me see that there are really good people, with good hearts under those layers of wounds, traumas, and addictions, something I had to directly experience to truly know.
Through God’s grace and divine intervention, I am here to share my story now. My guides have been nudging me for a while to share more of my story again, so here I am. My life has been one incredible rollercoaster, and I know my calling is to show people that ANYTHING is possible when you follow the flow of the wisdom of your soul. Beyond the mind, beyond the body, beyond the wounds… The Eternal part of yourself that always has been and always will be and planned this rollercoaster of a life.
The craziest part about this is it’s almost 6 years to the date since I hit my rock bottom. Feb.2020 was when the picture on the left was taken. I know I made it through this to share that true transformation is possible for each and everyone one of us. No matter what the wound, circumstance, trauma, addiction we have a light inside of us that can overcome anything. Not only overcome but thrive using the wisdom of our soul & what we have gained from life experience.
We are in the final stages of what my guides have been calling the Great Purge, and I just want to say to everyone that feels hopeless, stuck, like they have had enough and are ready to throw in the towel… keep going. One foot in front of the other, and know there is a divine intelligence working behind all things. Trust in the wisdom of the soul and your own unique life’s plan. Learn to tune into the wisdom of your soul, something we can all access. It will be your biggest ally. After all it’s who you truly are.
It’s often in our darkest hours that we are going through our greatest initiations. So many times, souls with the biggest missions have the hardest paths. February 2026, my guides have been saying all year, the energy is shifting. We are being called to rise, and all the heaviness that has been coming up in 2025 has been making the way for what’s to come. It’s my belief that each and every one of us came to experience something truly incredible this lifetime. We didn’t come to play small. After all, as my guides have shared many times, we are living through the most transformational time in recorded human history. Why else would we incarnate if not to transform?
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A message of hope & inspiration,
Shawn Durocher
New Earth Healing Center
