Jon Paul Crimi shares his journey from addiction to sobriety, breathwork, spiritual experiences, synchronicity, grief and a mysterious connection with the dead.

What happens when you reach rock bottom and realize you simply cannot keep living the way you have been?

For Jon Paul Crimi, that moment became the beginning of an extraordinary journey from addiction and alcoholism to sobriety, healing, breathwork, and helping other people transform their lives.

In this deeply personal and unexpectedly mystical conversation, Jon Paul opens up about his own recovery, his work as a sober coach and companion, and the powerful breathwork practice he has developed over more than 15 years. But this conversation goes far beyond addiction recovery. It explores spiritual experiences, synchronicity, trauma healing, grief, intuition, and the mysterious ways our lives sometimes seem to connect.

Can Breathwork Create a Spiritual Experience?

One of the most fascinating parts of this conversation is Jon's description of what can happen during breathwork.

He has personally experienced what he describes as one of the deepest and most profound spiritual experiences of his life through breathwork. And he's witnessed similarly powerful experiences in others.

But Jon emphasizes that there is no single breathwork experience.

For some people, difficult emotions or trauma may surface. For others, the experience can involve overwhelming gratitude, love, connection, or something they interpret as a spiritual encounter.

One participant even approached John after a session and described feeling the presence of God.

Other people have reported feeling connected to deceased relatives.

And others simply walk away thinking, "What just happened?"

A Mysterious Story About Grief, Death and Connection

But perhaps the most powerful story Jon shares is also the most difficult.

As a sober companion, Jon once worked with a man struggling severely with alcohol addiction. He helped him through detox and also guided him through a profound breathwork experience.

Tragically, the man died less than a year later.

Jon was deeply affected by his death.

Then, months later, Jon happened to be teaching a breathwork class in Eugene, Oregon.

During the class, he noticed a woman who was experiencing profound grief. Her daughter was crying as well. Jon recognized the particular quality of grief he was witnessing because, after years of working with people through difficult experiences, he had learned to recognize different kinds of emotional pain.

After the class, the woman contacted him and told him that her brother had died.

It was the same man Jon had helped through detox. And you really must stay tuned to hear the rest of the story, because it is simply astonishing!

In This Episode, We Explore:

If you're interested in addiction recovery, sobriety, breathwork, spiritual awakening, synchronicity, trauma healing, grief, miracles, or unexplained spiritual experiences, this is a conversation you won't want to miss.

Listen to the full episode with Jon Paul Crimi and discover what can happen when we stop trying to control every answer—and start paying attention to the mysterious connections unfolding around us.

And if you'd like to hear more stories of connection and synchronicity, click on the episodes below!

Portia Booker shares an astonishing tale of her mother's passing and her final message to her...and all that happened afterwards. It's a story about love and loss and connection even beyond death. Listen to "When The Veil Gets Thin: Her Mother's Final Message And The Miracles That Followed, on Apple HERE and Spotify HERE.

Michael shares a crazy story about something that happened after his father's passing, and let's just say, it's the craziest paranormal encounter I've heard of! Listen to "The Wake-Up Slap: A Doctor’s Paranormal Encounter, Energy Healing and a Message From Beyond, on Apple HERE and Spotify HERE.

And, Hannah Forest tells of a paranormal encounter with someone she knew. It's a fun story that should remind us that sometimes, the dead, hang around for reasons we can only guess at! Listen to "Fairies, The Fae, Paranormal Encounters & Magic! (Whew!)" on Apple HERE and Spotify HERE.

And here's a bit more about my guest: Jon Paul has been many things but especially is attempting to help us know ourselves deeply, as well as to heal those parts of us that are needing to come into the light. To read up about Jon Paul and his breathwork work, here is his website! To check out his no-nonsense Insta, click here! And to dive into his YouTube, click here!

And what about me you may ask? Whelp, here is my website: BYTE SIZED BLESSINGS and then my Insta @edisonsucks1, and finally my YouTube, which is woefully behind!

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Your bit of beauty is this: a bit of 411 (does anyone say that anymore?) on what the Dark Night of the Soul is! Here is a link to an article by Kosmos Journal, to read up a bit about it. The author says, "A dark night of the soul is a kind of initiation, taking you from one phase of life into another." But also, it's a period of fecundity and rest, everyone, and should be revered for the time that it is: a time to reset, to dream big dreams, and heal what needs tending to.