Soul loss can manifest in many ways. How do you know if you need soul retrieval?
Maybe you are struggling to get over a relationship breakup or know someone who is struggling with this? Or the problem is bereavement? Loss of a home or a job? Are you still affected by the wounds and effects of a difficult childhood or another traumatic experience, such as bullying at school or at work? Do you feel like you haven’t been the same after a serious illness or accident? Hold feelings that do not obviously stem from a particular event; apathy maybe; a lack of focus and enthusiasm; depression; addictive behaviours; low self-esteem?
In that case, a skilled shamanic practitioner can journey to find the missing parts and persuade them to come back, a process known as soul-retrieval. More on that later. Let’s first look at the sympthoms of soul loss.
Shamans understand that parts of our soul can leave our bodies. If, however, those parts do not return, the result is a sense of emptiness and a feeling that something is missing.

SIGNS YOU ARE SUFFERING FROM SOUL LOSS
They are many and can include a sense or feeling of:
- somehow being incomplete; that something is ‘missing’
- numbness or flatness; of just going through the motions
- hopelessness, apathy and indifference; like a spark is missing
- being disconnected from life or what is around you; as if you are living in a dream
- depression, ranging from mild, to moderate, through to severe
- feeling lost, indecisive and aimless
- procrastination; time-wasting; or finding it hard to sustain focus or effort
- a lack of confidence and self-belief
- having a strong inner critic who puts you down and is always on your back
- phobias and anxieties; fearfulness
- missing memories (where have the memories gone, and why did they go?)
- addictions or other compulsive behaviours and/or thought patterns
- never having really recovered from a past event
- repeatedly returning to a person, location or behaviour that is unhealthy for you
- inability to move on from an issue or event, despite efforts to do so
- finding it hard to (re)invest in the future with enthusiasm and optimism
- grief, fear, anger or rage that you cannot seem to shake off