Reclaiming Your Power: What Is Soul Retrieval & Why It’s Essential for Healing Trauma.

There are moments in life that are so painful and overwhelming, that a part of us breaks off and splits. It could be a traumatic childhood experience, a heartbreak, abuse, or a loss — events that change us for ever. The intensity of the moment may cause a part of your soul to fragment and get left behind. This is called a soul loss — and it’s more common than you think.

In my healing dance it was important for me to address the physical, emotional mental and spiritual parts of myself. A soul retrieval helps the soul to come back into wholeness and has been an incredible healing modality for me

What Is Soul Retrieval?

Soul retrieval is an ancient shamanic practice rooted in the belief that during trauma, parts of our soul — or life force energy — can fragment and disconnect to protect us from the pain.This isn’t just metaphorical. Many people describe feeling “not all here,” “like something’s missing,” or “disconnected from myself” after a traumatic experience. That’s soul loss.

During a soul retrieval, a trained practitioner enters an altered state of consciousness — often through drumming or guided journeying — to locate and retrieve these lost parts and reintegrate them into your energetic body. What I love about this practice is that it is not about reliving the trauma. It’s about becoming whole again. If you’ve done therapy, bodywork, or even psychedelics but still feel like something is missing… This may be what your soul has been asking for. And like with any type of healing modality make sure to work with a practitioner that you resonate with, and you feel safe with. 

How Does Soul Loss Happen?

Soul loss can happen from any event that was too much in a short period of time:

  • Sexual assault or abuse

  • Accidents, surgeries, or near-death experiences

  • Grief and heartbreak

  • Rejection, shame, or betrayal

  • Toxic relationships or prolonged stress

  • Childhood neglect or abandonment

In these moments, your subconscious may choose to “check out” as a form of survival. While this defense mechanism serves a purpose at the time, it can leave you feeling disconnected from your emotions, intuition, or creativity later in life.

Why Is Soul Retrieval Helpful for Healing Trauma?

A trauma is an event that is too much in a short period of time. I believe that all trauma have some element of a soul loss. For more extreme trauma, where you have been living the trauma over and over again for years, the soul loss is extreme. You are leaking your energy and power to this event in the past. Soul retrieval gently invites those frozen or exiled parts of you back into your body and energy field, where they can be welcomed, witnessed, and loved.

It is deeply empowering — because  no one is fixing” you — you are calling yourself home. I believe that a soul retrieval is an act of radical self-love.It’s saying: I am worthy of my full energy. I am ready to be whole again. I am not broken — I am coming back to myself. 

You are calling back your attention, your energy and a part of yourself back from the trauma into the present moment. When you call back all these different parts of you, you will find you have more energy, more power because you are once again becoming whole.

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