Alright – so today we’ve got the honor of introducing you to Dr Dain Heer. We think you’ll enjoy our conversation, we’ve shared it below.

Dr Dain, appreciate you joining us today. What’s been the most meaningful project you’ve worked on?

It’s an ongoing adventure! But I guess the path I am on now really started in my 30s. On paper, I had a great life. I was a chiropractor in California, engaged, successful enough by all the normal metrics. But underneath all of that, on the inside, I was quietly drowning.
I had spent my whole life trying to be what I thought I “should” be — the good guy, the nice guy, the one who held it all together. And I was exhausted from trying to fix myself. Exhausted from trying to fit into a world that never felt like home. Eventually, it got so bad that I gave the universe six months to change my life – or I was out.
And funny enough, the universe took me seriously. I stumbled across a tiny ad in a newspaper, just one sentence long: “All of life comes to me with ease and joy and glory. Call Shannon.”
After some resistance, something in me let go and went, “Alright, let’s try this. What do I have to lose?” That led me to the modality called Access Bars, and with one single session, the despair I’d been living with was gone. I felt light again. Alive. And I giggled for the first time in years.
That moment cracked my world open. I realised there was nothing wrong with me. I’d just never been given the invitation or tools to actually be me. From there, everything changed — my work, my joy, my sense of what’s possible. And now I spend my life helping people find that same spark of freedom inside themselves.

Great, appreciate you sharing that with us. Before we ask you to share more of your insights, can you take a moment to introduce yourself and how you got to where you are today to our readers.

At the simplest level, I help people access what they already know but have forgotten how to tap into. It is about empowering people to know that they know!
Through my work with Access Consciousness, my books, and the classes I facilitate around the world, I invite people to drop the image, the armour, the “I’m fine” act—and start enjoying discovering and being who they truly are and can create themselves to be.
I use a combination of energetic work, body awareness, neuroscience-backed tools, and a whole lot of questions and curiosity. None of it is about fixing people. I’m not interested in fixing anyone. You’re not broken. What I am interested in is waking up the brilliance that’s been hiding under all your self-judgment, expectations, and conditioning.
I also founded International Being You Day — a global celebration of the weird, wonderful fact that each of us has something unmistakably unique to contribute. It’s a reminder that being yourself isn’t just allowed… It’s required if we want to create a world worth living in!

Is there something you think non-creatives will struggle to understand about your journey as a creative?

My biggest challenge was the same thing so many people face: judgment. Not from other people — that part is easy to spot. I’m talking about the constant, quiet soundtrack of self-judgment we all run in our heads. That voice that says, “You’re not good enough, smart enough, perfect enough. Try harder. Be better. Don’t mess it up. Don’t be too much. And don’t be too little.”
For the longest time, I let that voice run my life. It nearly destroyed me. The turning point was realizing that judgment doesn’t create change. Awareness does. Curiosity does. Choice does.
Life got easier — not because the obstacles disappeared, but because I stopped treating myself like the obstacle. I learned to ask different questions. Instead of “What’s wrong with me?” I started asking, “What’s right about me I’m not getting?” That one question alone has saved my life many times over.
So no, it hasn’t been smooth. And smooth isn’t really what it is about. I am lucky enough to be on a journey that always gets greater, come what may!
Every so-called new “challenge” opens a door I didn’t even know existed before. And I can’t wait for what comes next!

Can you share a story from your journey that illustrates your resilience?

My point of view is this: happiness is always available as a choice, no matter what’s going on. It’s not a reward for getting life “right.” It’s a different way of functioning in the world.
For most of my life, I thought I’d finally be happy when I fit in, when I was normal, when I stopped being “too much” or “too sensitive.” Spoiler alert: that never worked. The moment things really started to change was when I stopped fighting to be normal and started getting curious about what actually worked and was fun for me.
I read somewhere that true happiness is simply less censorship of ourselves, removing the filters and blocks that keep our innate happiness at bay. Joy is basically unfiltered aliveness that judgment locks away.

Over the years, I’ve found two main keys to happiness: One is gratitude for yourself. The second big thing is giving up judgment, and especially of yourself. And there are many layers to those – I am still working my way in!
So what makes me happy? Well, that is something that I keep exploring. And probably will for the rest of my life!
One thing that always makes me happy is watching people come alive. When someone stops judging themselves, even for a moment… when their face lights up with that spark of possibility they thought they lost… that’s the kind of thing that fuels the joy in me.
Oh, and riding my horses. They’re some of the greatest teachers of presence and kindness and aliveness I’ve ever had.
There are places that make me happy just being there. Like El Lugar (https://ellugar.com), our eco-retreat in Costa Rica. It’s 1,200 acres of rainforest that we built by listening to the land, not dominating it. Every time I’m there, my whole body exhales.
My ranch in Houston, Lazy Double D Ranch (https://lazydoubledranch.com), is another happy spot. There’s a very special magic in waking up on the endless plains, surrounded by animals, in that timeless space of cowboy land. Medicine for the soul.
And honestly, those quiet moments when I notice I’m just so grateful to be alive. That sense of being happy, for no good reason, makes me happy! :-)
If your life wasn’t about making the right choices or avoiding the wrong ones, how much more fun would you have? And how much easier would it be to choose happiness — not someday, but today?

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