getting your power back: a shamanic approach to soul loss
The Ancient Understanding of Soul Loss
Across many indigenous and shamanic traditions, there is a shared understanding that certain experiences in life can fragment our vital essence and cause our soul energy to fracture. These experiences might be moments of grief, abuse, betrayal, or even traumatic accidents.
In these moments, the psyche does what it must to protect us. A part of our life force steps away, holding the pain so that the rest of us can keep going. It’s an act of wisdom and survival but over time, this fragmentation can leave us feeling hollow, anxious, disconnected, and unable to fully inhabit our joy. In the world, it can often look like burnout, numbness, chronic fatigue, repeating unhealthy patterns, or the sense that we’re living someone else’s life.
What Is Power Retrieval?
Power retrieval is a foundational aspect of shamanic healing and is generally one of the first steps towards the path to wholeness and the life you dream of. Where soul loss is the dispersion of life force energy, power retrieval is the sacred act of calling it home. It restores the relationship between the self, spirit, and the natural world, the infinite source of personal power. In this journey you meet your guides that have been waiting to support you with their own unique medicine and gifts. As we reintegrate these parts, vitality, joy, and our authentic self returns. We remember who we are, what we love, and why we are here. Often, this reclamation comes with a sense of newfound confidence, synchronicity, and clear inner guidance.
How Shamanic Healing Supports the Process
Through shamanic practice, guided journeying, or energetic healing, we can invite these lost aspects of self to return, not by force, but through invitation, compassion, and readiness. It honors the unseen dimensions of being — the soul, the dreamworld, the ancestors, the natural elements — as living allies in our wholeness.
In a session, I work within a sacred energetic field to locate and gently retrieve these missing soul aspects or power allies on your behalf. Together, we then help your system integrate this energy through breath, visualization, and grounded embodiment practices.
It’s less about the drama and the story of what was lost, and more about welcoming yourself home.
Signs You May Benefit from Soul or power Retrieval
You might feel called to this work if you:
Experience recurring patterns of depletion or self-sabotage
Have difficulty feeling present in your body
Carry chronic sadness or emptiness
Feel “stuck” in old cycles despite doing other inner work
Have poor boundaries
Sense that something is missing
Walking the Path of Wholeness
When these fragments return, they bring with them the gifts of your true self: creativity, play, courage, sensuality, innocence, trust, and wisdom. Power retrieval is ultimately a homecoming. It reminds you that your essence was never truly lost, only waiting for the right conditions of love and safety to be remembered. Each act of awareness, forgiveness, and self-love calls back another thread of your light. This is the work of re-membering; bringing the scattered pieces of your being into coherence, so your life once again reflects your true frequency.
