We Were Not Supposed to Make It. But Here We Are

People sometimes hear bits of our story and say — "Deepak, if even half of this had happened to us, we would have ended it all. We would not have survived."

I don't take that lightly when someone says it. Because I know they mean it.

And every time I hear it, I think — this is exactly why Shrabani and I are doing what we're doing.

Souls Journey is our way of helping humankind - knowing that we are all suffering - The richest of the rich and the poorest of the poor. Most of it is hidden from the public eye. Everyone needs love and compassion. And if possible - show them the correct path, the correct response - to the life challenges. No one can give anything else, because "its their own journey. They have to travel it".

I started my working life in 1994 with Rs 4,500 in my pocket. That's it. No backup. No safety net. Just a stubborn belief that somehow, things would work out.

Today, I have retired from the grueling 9 to 5 job, have my own consultancy in manufacturing and business automations and Souls Journey - Which is into Energy Healing. We have sufficient financial backup to cover our old age. Most importantly, we are happy. We dont have any regrets. Inspite of all the challenges, the losses that we have seen and still seeing.

Shrabani and I have faced the kind of losses that quietly destroy people.

We had two miscarriages. If you have been through even one, you know what that does to a couple — the grief, the guilt, the silence between two people who are both hurting and don't know how to help each other.

Shrabani suffers from an auto-immune disease which has no cure. She was admitted to hospital so many times over the years that at some point, it stopped feeling like a crisis and started feeling like just... our life. There were three separate occasions in a single year when the doctors lost hope.

She made it. Every time.

We adopted a daughter. She came to us at six months old — small, fragile, and completely ours. We lost her too.

There is no sentence I can write that covers what that means. So I won't try.

For four consecutive years, we couldn't celebrate Durga Puja. For a Bengali family, that's not just missing a festival. That is four years of grief piled on top of grief, the absence of joy becoming its own kind of wound.

Deaths kept coming. In the family, one after another, for years. Just when we thought we could breathe, something else would arrive.

And through all of it — we kept going.

Not because we were exceptionally strong. Not because we had some secret that others don't. But because somewhere along the way, we began to understand something that changed how we saw everything.

Karma is not punishment. Energy blockages are not character flaws. The patterns that keep repeating in your life — the relationships that keep breaking the same way, the opportunities that keep slipping, the heaviness you carry that has no clear name — these things have roots. Often roots you cannot see in this lifetime alone.

When I trained in Past Life Regression Therapy and Akashic Reading, I wasn't learning a technique. I was finding language for things I had lived but couldn't explain.

Over the years, people started coming to us. Not because we advertised. But because word travels when something actually works.

We have sat with families on the edge of complete breakdown — and watched them find their way back to each other. We have worked with people in the grip of depression so heavy they could barely speak — and seen them, slowly, come back to themselves. We have helped people understand why they keep making the same choices, why certain relationships drain them completely, why success feels empty even when they achieve it.

The work is not magic. It is honest, deep, sometimes uncomfortable — and it works because we don't come to it as textbook practitioners.

We come to it as people who have been there.

Shrabani has a gift that I have never been able to fully explain, only witness. She sees beneath the surface of a person's life in a way that goes beyond training. Years of quietly helping women who had been told they were too broken to rebuild — single mothers, survivors, women reclaiming their dignity — that work shaped her into something rare. A presence that heals just by being honest with you.

I bring something different. Thirty years in corporate India taught me how the outside world works. Buddhism since 1999 taught me how the inside world works. And everything we have been through together taught me that neither success nor suffering is ever the full story.

Souls Journey was not born from a business plan.

It was born from the question Shrabani and I kept asking each other after every storm we survived — if we could get through this, and we understand now why it happened, shouldn't we help others do the same?

So here we are.

This blog is going to be honest. Some posts will be about healing. Some about Buddhism and energy and karma — in plain language, not jargon. Some will be about the hard things — grief, depression, the kind of financial pressure that makes you question everything, the loneliness of keeping faith when nothing around you supports it.

We are not gurus. We are not here to tell you we have it all figured out. We still have our own challenges — financial, personal, ongoing. We are still on this road.

But we know the road. And we know you don't have to walk it alone.

If this reaches you — it was probably meant to.

Deepak & Shrabani Chakraborty Souls Journey