I have now been working with survivors of trauma for the last 18 years of my life, and it still amazes me the variety and diversity of the processing and impact that trauma can have on a human being. I think no one prepares us for what is to come after a traumatic event, and although our personality, life experiences, and resilience might have an effect on how we process and digest the traumatic event, there are so many other factors that can have an impact or contribute to the way we will shape and make sense of the event.

In my recent work as a transpersonal practitioner, I felt as if a new piece of the puzzle had been revealed when I looked at the impact the traumatic event will have on the way people will move forward after the event. Within the soul retrieval space, we will explore the lost part of the soul that has had to compromise in splitting from the Self in order to be able to take a new contract or limiting belief that will allow the person to be in congruence with the life experience. It is fascinating how, once and once again, when working with survivors, the event led to the decision to give up on something, to split or compromise with something that at that time felt appropriate or sensible due to the current events. However, the problem is when that contract is running our lives even after the situation has passed, when we feel limited by those beliefs even if they are not applicable to us any longer. Then, we feel incomplete, split, resentful and at times even depressed; in a way, we yearn for those parts of our soul that were left behind, that are hidden in the shadows, also longing to return to the wholeness of who we are, to take their rightful place in the chemistry of your Self, in the potentiality of who you could have become.

Now, my endeavour, as everyone else, is to rescue all those parts through my own shadow work, recovering all that I was before the challenges of this lifetime, and the events that had crept in the way of my existence. Only like this, I feel I can accompany another fellow human in their journey into the underworld of the subconscious to recover what belongs to them so that they can go back to wholeness.

Hari om tat sat!