My name is Dave Shelton — and I’m writing to you because I believe we all have a story worth hearing. I’m a transformational life coach, motivational speaker, and healing facilitator — and my deepest calling is to help people rise, rebuild, and return to the truth of who they really are.

 

My mission is simple: to help people heal forward. Because healing isn’t about returning to who you once were — it’s about becoming who you were always meant to be. I don’t believe anyone is broken. I believe we are becoming.

 

I know what it feels like to live under someone else’s label. From grades 7 through 12, I was in Special Education. I didn’t understand what that meant then — only that I was already marked, judged, and limited before I even had a chance to discover myself. I’ll never forget the day I overheard a teacher say, “He’s a dummy.” She didn’t know I was listening. Her words landed like a sentence I didn’t ask for — and didn’t deserve.

 

Maybe you’ve felt that too — that one moment when someone’s words tried to shrink your potential before you even had a chance to grow into it.

 

That comment stayed with me. Not because it was truth, but because I didn’t yet know how to replace someone else’s narrative with my own. I carried that wound — that doubt, that silence — until life forced me to see the lie for what it was. The lie was never about me… it was about someone else’s belief.

 

Today, I help others break free from those words — from those lies — and step into the story they were always meant to live.

 

I’m a father of five and a grandfather of seven. I spent over a decade raising my children on my own — after trauma, loss, and deep personal rebuilding. Life tested me. But faith transformed me. And that transformation became my foundation.

 

Originally from Ohio, I found a new home and spiritual grounding in Alaska’s Northwest Arctic. Living among the Inupiaq people and their traditions of community, connection, and collective healing reshaped how I understand resilience and belonging. Their way of life taught me that healing doesn’t happen in isolation — it happens in community, with support, with honesty, and with purpose.

 

What began as survival has become a calling. I now dedicate my life to helping others turn pain into power, fear into focus, and identity into purpose.

 

If you’ve ever felt lost, mislabeled, or like someone else wrote your story for you — I’m here to tell you: your soul is waiting to be heard. And freedom begins the moment you choose to be true to yourself.

 

If you’re ready to walk toward healing, rediscover your truth, and step into your purpose — reach out. I’d be honored to walk that journey with you.

 

With hope and purpose,

Dave
Coach, Tru2MySoul

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