When I do soul retrieval work on living people it involves a process of retrieving lost aspects of the person that have been fragmented from the soul or energy body due to a physical or emotional trauma.

Clinical psychologists describe a similar process called dissociation and reintegration, wherein certain aspects of a person’s memory or personality splinter from the whole. These parts can be reintegrated through talk therapy or they can be reintegrated at the spiritual level. Both are effective, but sometimes working at the spiritual level can affect change in shorter order.

For example, when I was five years old my father sat me down on the staircase in our house and told me he was moving out because he and my mother were getting a divorce. From the moment I heard that fateful news some part of my awareness remained stuck there on the staircase even though the rest of me moved on. That moment changed my life, and it caused a host of positive and negative beliefs about myself, some of which I carry with me to this day.

Over the ensuing decades I worked through a good deal of these issues on my own, but certain ones kept reappearing over and over in my life. I finally broke that pattern when I worked with my friend Deb to do a partnered soul retrieval.

Initially we were simply looking at a problematic issue concerning a series of jobs I’d held over the years. We both entered an altered state of consciousness and considered the situation. Deb quickly realized that the pattern stemmed from long held beliefs about myself that started when I was four or five years old.

This led us to the incident on the stairs when I learned the fateful news about my parents. We journeyed across time and space to that point and began a sequence of events that helped my splintered self to release its trauma and return to the whole for reintegration. (You can read more about this specific retrieval in Soul Retrieval – Splintered Self Reintegration.)

Through this process of retrieval and integration I achieved a level of immediate healing that had eluded me for more than 30 years. To be sure it could have happened in traditional psychotherapy, but instead a single retrieval session helped me release old issues and establish a new more positive pattern of thinking.