What is Soul Fragmentation?

Soul Retrieval work refers to a healing practice, primarily rooted in shamanism, where a practitioner helps an individual retrieve and reintegrate parts of their soul that are believed to have been lost or fragmented from the aspect of one's own embodied soul. These lost or fragmented parts are typically due to traumatic experiences and can lead to feelings of incompleteness or disconnection. Essentially, soul retrieval is the process of "calling back" these lost soul fragment(s) or parts of our soul to restore wholeness and vitality to the individual through reuniting them with this formerly departed aspect of the essence of their own soul.

The basic premise is whenever we experience trauma, a part of our vital essence separates from us in order to survive the experience by escaping the full impact of the pain. This quiet occurrence, known as soul fragmentation or loss, takes the form of a perpetual feeling and experience of incompleteness and disconnection.

The Concept of Soul Fragmentation

When someone experiences intense trauma, physical, emotional or otherwise, a part of their soul is thought to detach as a protective mechanism, leaving them feeling incomplete. This detached part of the soul is known as a soul fragment or "soul fragments" (as more than one aspect of the soul can fragment off) due to the intense, shocking and/or traumatic experiences it has encountered throughout this lifetime or other lifetimes the soul has experienced. In these circumstances it is common for the missing soul aspect(s) or fragment(s) to remain at the energetic timeline of where the traumatic event that caused it to splinter from the soul took place, it can also wander off to another dimensional space where it feels safe.

Within situations of physical and emotional abuse, negation, and trauma, many experiences in life can be too difficult to bear. Soul fragmenting/loss is an understandable response to spiritual woundedness and deep fragmentation of one’s soul essence that would lead to an internal dissociation from natural balance.

Anytime someone says, ‘I have never been the same’ since a certain traumatic event, and they don’t mean this in a good way, soul loss has probably occurred.”

The Practice and Integration Process

Soul Retrieval is typically performed by an experienced Practitioner, traditionally a shaman who enters a heightened state of consciousness to journey to locate where the soul fragment(s) are and retrieve them and negotiate their return. This must be done with the utmost integrity and care to avoid re-traumatizing the soul fragment and/or the individual whose embodied soul from which it has separated. This is crucial for the sense of safety, reassurance and trust needed for the soul aspect to return and remain once retrieved and reunited with the soul from which it has separated.

While in most cases the soul fragment does want to return and become whole, there are cases when there is either reluctance of the soul fragment(s) to return, or the soul may not even know a separation has occurred.

Once retrieved, these soul aspect(s) or fragment(s) are then carefully guided back to the individual and integrated into their being, allowing for healing and restoration. It is important to note, however, that when the soul fragment returns, it comes back with all the pain it experienced when leaving, thus the importance of continued healing work.

Possible Signs of Soul Fragmentation or Loss:

• You have a difficult time staying “present” in your body

• You feel numb, apathetic, or deadened

• You suffer from chronic depression

• You have problems with your immune system and have trouble resisting illness

• You were chronically ill as a child

• Memory gaps of your life after age five where you sense that you may have blocked out significant traumatic experiences

• Struggle with addictions, for example, to alcohol, drugs, food, sex or gambling

• Find yourself looking to external things to fill up an internal void or emptiness

• Have difficulty moving on with your life after a divorce or the death of a loved one

• You suffer from multiple personality syndrome

What is Important to Know

Soul retrieval is not a quick fix. If the individual has done a lot of personal work, the soul retrieval might be the end of the work. If not, the soul retrieval would be the beginning of the work.

No matter where you may find yourself, at the beginning or near the end of working through an issue, the most important factor in all healing work, is you.

You have to be willing to do the work that is necessary to participate in your personal transformation. You have to be willing to look at yourself with new eyes, from a new perspective, and as an embodiment of completion and wholeness while knowing that willingness is the impetus for great change; it always begins with the heart.

IMPORTANT CONSIDERATIONS BEFORE BOOKING A SESSION

Out of ethical integrity for you, the individual potentially receiving the soul retrieval (if not you) and myself as a Practitioner, it is required to first book a Discovery Call to see if a soul retrieval is both necessary and possible. The fragmented soul aspect has to be ready and want to return and the individual receiving the soul retrieval has to be in a healthy, stable state physically, psychologically, emotionally, energetically and spiritually to be ready to receive a soul retrieval and to be able to effectively navigate the integration process. 

It is necessary for the person potentially receiving a soul retrieval to be present to assess what needs to be done and be able to self determine what their choice will be based on the assessment done at the time of the discovery call. I do not do soul retrieval for children under the age of 12. If the individual is a minor between the ages of 12 and 13, the child does not need to attend the discovery call and the needed action can be assessed with the parent(s) or legal guardian(s) directly. Any child 14 or older needs to be present to engage with mutual awareness and consent alongside the parent(s) or legal guardian(s) about what, if anything, needs to be done.

Due to the nature of the work being done and time involved in a Soul Retrieval, a 120-minute (2 hour) session is required.