Soul Retrieval: Mending the Fragmented Self

I thoroughly enjoyed this book and I’m so grateful that my friend recommended this to me. This is a beautiful, simple, yet thorough explanation of what happens to us during trauma and why we never seem to be the same afterwards. Having gone through trauma myself, I found many of these words resonating deeply with me. The good news is there are ways to heal us and this book explains how.I especially loved the accounts of her soul retrieval journeys and experiences with her power animal, other worlds, and her client's power animals. This led me to research my own power animal (which is different than spirit animals), to see if I am able to connect with mine. I’ve always found solace in nature, water, and animals, and this explains why my connection to the earth goes much deeper than simply feeling at peace.I personally am on the journey now to reclaim the parts of my soul that I’ve lost throughout the abuses and trauma of my childhood, and Ive found it to be a very powerful experience. I hope this book gives others the courage to begin their own journey towards looking in words at their soul, start reclaiming their soul loss and live life with more vibrant, vitality, and love than ever before.

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A lot of people don’t know themselves enough to put in the lifelong work to bettering themselves, this book is an answered prayer for many who may have lost a vital part of their souls due to life’s experiences and traumas. If you are trying to love yourself, and want something untraditional like conventional modern day psychology, this may be the answer for you.

This is a beautifully, sensitively written book. I found it to be a real page-turner because it just resonated as true to me, and something badly needed in today's world when so many feel empty, lost, unfulfilled, as though something was missing. Sandra Ingerman makes the shamanic practice of soul retrieval accessible to the modern reader. Her simple explanation of why psychological "talk" therapy may not be enough to resolve a fragmented sense of self makes so much sense: you, or your therapist, can't work with someone who's not fully "at home." The two can work hand in hand, as a shaman retrieves the lost soul parts that restore the person to wholeness and enable further healing and integration to take place. In my own experiences of psychotherapy, it felt like I was spinning my wheels because something was missing; the "me" I had to work with felt incomplete. This book explains, in straightforward but gentle language, why that is and what to do about it.

This book was recommended to me before I went to a Shamanic workshop on soul retrieval and I have found it to be very useful. Of all the so called new age concepts (shamanism is actually on of the oldest healing modalities there is)shamanism is the one that I have found the most valuable. It is about empowering oneself and understanding emotion and thought processes that we often take for granted. The attitude for so many illness and troubles is to take a pill or buy some new gadget that will only cover up the difficulty. Shamanism is comes from a time when medicating oneself into oblivion was not an option.This book does a really good job of explaining what soul retrieval is and how it works along with several really good example of how it has effected peoples lives. This book is useful for someone who is familiar with the concept as well as someone who has just heard about it. Shamanic Soul Retrieval is a concept that has been helping people for thousands of years and is still just as useful today.

This is an excellent book for anyone interested in learning about healing from an ancient perspective which has served humanity for countless generations of health. Scattering confusion, this book gently but swiftly delves into the heart of serious matters with grace, allowance, and humility. Irrespective of any requirements or restrictions, this text offers a pleasantly modernized and easily digestible perspective on healing, consciousness, and best of all, how it applies to our lives. With hardly any messages that would be imposing, it's an incredibly safe and worthwhile read for anyone open to forms of healing that may fall outside the realms of conventional paradigms. I highly recommend this book to anyone who is seeking to live a more full, vibrant, and loving life. It certainly changed me forever in beautiful ways. I'm on my way to my first soul retrieval right now. Peace, love, and unity to all. Namasté.

This book has answer so many questions I’ve had over the years. I noticed that I wasn’t the same and a lot of the qualities I loved about myself was gone. I have spent being sad about it and trying to relearn those qualities and it has never worked. The information in this book has opened my eyes to when and how I could have lost parts of my soul. I am so excited about this new journey and I can not wait to reunite and love on all of my missing soul parts. If you feel like something isn’t quite right with your life or feel out of place within yourself please get this book and read with an open mind!

What I find important about this book is its focus on helping people to give to others while at the same time learning how to retain their energies for purposes outside of work whether it's in an office, a school, a hospital or clinic, or driving school or mass transit - just about any place where we find our work and life has us closely interacting with other people. I appreciated many of the concepts and thought the author did an excellent job of presenting the materials as suggestions and ideas - the reader - me in this case - can take what makes sense and apply it to become even more effective at work or in family and friendship relationship building and maintenance. I recommend this book and from my personal and non-expert perspective, found many useful ideas and suggestions/perspectives in this text.