Helping you Heal and Create a Life of Greater Peace, Empowerment & Alignment With Your Soul

Integrating therapeutic tools and spiritual practices for deep inner transformation

The Light That Shines Through

One Woman’s Journey of Healing and Stepping Into Her Power

By Shawna Thibodeau

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Heal and shed what you are not, so you can step into greater freedom, truth, inner peace & self-expression

With a history of depression and anxiety, at 22 I decided to turn inward to find healing and relief. I began with meditation, which had a profound effect on my mood and mind, sparking a deep passion for the practice and for spiritual teachings. Over the next 13 years, alongside working as a mental health nurse, I explored additional spiritual and therapeutic modalities. After the passing of my brother in 2018, I was guided to deepen my spiritual relationship, began communicating with a higher power, and started practicing energy healing. Using my mind in this way began to radically shift both my inner and outer world in an even more powerful way than before, bringing to me greater levels of peace, opportunities, abundance, expansion & prosperity. This revealed to me again, the immense power of the mind and our connection to something greater. I now teach others how to work with their mind and spiritual connection to heal and transform their lives into greater peace, empowerment, abundance, and alignment with their soul’s highest expression.

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Diving deep into your psyche, learning to work with the mind, and addressing things from the root up is the path to healing and stepping into your highest expression. Get started with the option that resonates most with you.

Programs & Coaching

Online programs and private coaching to help you heal, find greater inner peace & empowerment, and step into your highest expression.

Book

Read my book, The Light That Shines Through, that shares my journey of healing and explores which practices helped to shift my life. 

In Person Wellness Retreats

Upcoming Retreats & Events

Explore upcoming wellness retreats to learn skills & practices that help create greater healing, inner peace, empowerment and alignment with your soul.

In Person Wellness Retreats

Upcoming Retreats & Events

Explore upcoming wellness retreats to learn skills & practices that help create greater healing, inner peace, empowerment and alignment with your soul.

A different approach to personal development

Meet Shawna Thibodeau

Shawna has been a meditation teacher and teacher of inner work for over 11 years. As a previous mental health nurse, and having transformed her own life through inner work and holistic practices, she is passionate about helping others improve their mental, emotional and spiritual health, as well as their life through a psychospiritual approach.

Shawna is the author of the memoir, The Light That Shines Through, and she offers online programs, classes, workshops and retreats to help individuals develop inner wisdom and skills that can provide greater peace, balance, empowerment and happiness within one’s life, as well as business mentorship to help create more impactful & profitable wellness businesses. She uses a unique psychospiritual approach, combining knowledge in science and mental health with spiritual principles and practices such as meditation, energy healing and breathwork. Her business mentorship combines spirituality & entrepreneurial strategy. She runs retreats and programs online and across the world including Canada, United States, Costa Rica, Portugal and Italy.

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Shawna’s Credentials & Trainings

Academic Degrees

  • Bachelor of Science in Kinesiology – McMaster University 
  • Bachelor of Science in Nursing – Trent University

Internal Family Systems (IFS) Courses & Certifications

  • 12-Week Foundations of IFS Practice Course – Wilfred Laurier University 
  • 16-Week Stepping Stones Foundational Internal Family Systems Course – IFS Counselling Association 
  • Internal Family Systems (IFS) Certification – Naturalistico & International Practitioners of Holistic Medicine (IPHM)
  • Mastering Internal Family Systems (IFS) for Trauma, Anxiety, Depression, Addiction & More: An intensive online course with Dr. Richard Schwartz & Dr. Frank Anderson

Professional Certifications

  • Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing Certification (2015-2020) – Canadian Nurses Association
  • Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) Fundamentals Program – University of Toronto, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
  • Navigating Psychedelics for Clinicians and Therapists Certificate – Psychedelics Today
  • Certificate in Motivational Interviewing – Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH)

Mindfulness & Meditation Certifications

  • Certified Meditation Facilitator – Naturality, Hamilton (in association with Yoga Alliance, Canada)
  • Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) Basics – The Centre for Mindfulness Studies, Toronto
  • Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) – Telka Smith Practice in Psychology, Peterborough
  • Meditation and Psychotherapy, Integrating Mindfulness into Clinical Practice – Dr. Tara Brach, SoundsTrue

Breathwork & Yoga Certifications

  • Certified Breathwork Facilitator (1:1 & Group) – Breathwork by Jon Paul Crimi, California
  • 200hr Yoga Teacher Training – YogaRenew
  • Yoga.Psyche.Soul – 120hr Yoga Speciality Certificate on the Psychology of Yoga – Ashley Turner (MA,LMFT)
  • Breathe to Heal Program – Max Strom

Energy Healing & EFT Certification

  • Level 1 & 2 EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) Certification – AAMET International
  • Level 1 & 2 Reiki + 35 hr Hands of Light Energy Healing Training – Omega Institute, Rhinebeck NY
  • Chakra Activation Training – Anodea Judith, SoundsTrue