A Journey through Soul Retrieval Therapy
This is part 2 of my Soul Retrieval series. In the first part of this series, you learned about what soul retrieval therapy is, and the signs to recognize when your energy may not be whole. Now we will go deep into this exploration which will reveal a journey into the realms in between this reality and the spirit world - to return scattered parts and put puzzle pieces back together.
How is Soul Retrieval performed?
In a Soul Retrieval session, we go on a journey together, through hypnosis, where I support and guide my client to retrieve missing aspects of themselves. Together we find where the splintered energies are located, connect with them, and integrate them back in the client’s energetic system, whole and fully healed.
The client might come to me because, either they remember traumatic events that they want to heal or because they can feel that parts of them are ‘missing’. They may also have dreams or glimpses of memories, physical pain in certain areas of their body, or they might be drawn to certain people or places where they know that something just feels incomplete.
A Soul Retrieval session with me can be done in-person or as remote healing via Zoom call, once we have established a history of working together and have built trust within a therapist-client relationship.
The Anatomy of a Soul Retrieval Session
A session begins by inducing a state of trance, through hypnotherapy, where information that has been hidden and stored in the subconscious is allowed to come to the forefront. Even when people have doubts that they will be able to picture anything, the subconscious memories that are meant to be brought out are usually revealed.
With my guidance through different realms of consciousness, an opening takes place where information is received through a sense of ‘knowing’, impressions, visions, and/or emotions. While my client and I communicate together on the journey, I help guide them towards the information where the splintered parts reveal themselves.
There is an open dialogue throughout the entire process, the client is not passive nor asleep. It is a continuous interaction between the two of us. It’s like walking together through an experience that unfolds as we explore the Soul Retrieval journey. Many times modalities blend together, like Past life Regression, or Life Between Lives Hypnotherapy where Soul Retrieval is a natural part of the session, as you will see in Karen’s amazing story.
Karen’s Return to Wholeness
For this Blog Post, Karen and I connected via Zoom call to reflect on our journey together, and especially her experience of Soul Retrieval which took place several years ago in one of our Past Life Regression Hypnotherapy sessions.
Talking to her, and listening to her share her story gave me goosebumps all over again, because of the profoundness of these moments, which have an everlasting impact through space and time. I’m grateful for Karen allowing me to share this with the idea that if this helps just one person feel validated and who they are, and the feelings and experiences that they have, it is so worth it. So, with this, here is the beautiful story of my client, student, and friend, Karen Felker Williams.
Karen has always been the type of person to be in a position of guiding others. As an Associate Director of Admissions at a local college, she would find herself in situations where others sought her advice and found solace in her guidance beyond what her job title included.
When we did her past Life Regression and the resulting Soul Retrieval, it became clear why her energy has that kind of dynamic that others sense.
“When I first came to Silke several years ago, I was in a state in my life where I had a lot of self-destructive behaviors and was experiencing a lot of pain that I had held in. This was not just from the loss of my daughter, but from even farther back. I was a ‘train wreck’ by the time I got to Silke for healing and hypnotherapy sessions. Through her work with me, not just on physical ailments, but more so on emotional ailments that needed healing, Silke was able to facilitate incredible shifts.
The first session we did together opened up a lot for me, especially in my heart, so that I could recognize and start allowing myself to start healing. That was the true beginning of my healing process, particularly the emotional aspects. Through that first healing session, it was like enough was healed during that session that I was then able to begin to look at my pain so that I could approach it and actually start dealing with it productively.
And each time I would come back for more sessions, there would be other specific areas we would work on.
When we did the past-life regression session, which included soul retrieval, it was amazing. In this, I experienced a past life where I was a spiritual leader of a group of women similar to priestesses. I remember going into the session I was in a way skeptical, As I was wondering if I could let’s go enough for it to work, Could I really go there?
But I remember I was laying there and all of a sudden I was in a cave, it was just so real and I believe it was showing me one of my first lives. It went kind of quick, with me as a young child where I would pick flowers, and dig up roots and it was flashes of my grandma making a paste from healing herbs, as she was a healer. I remember her teaching me and telling me that I have the gift, and as I got older I would make these pastes on my own and trusting myself. I think this brief insight was meant to just show me from the beginning, and she has always been there.
And then there was a flash and the next thing I knew I was stepping down into the woods. I could feel that whoever my grandmother was then, that she was with me in several lives in some aspect as she felt like she was now my mother, and she was still protecting me. I remember her hiding her gifts and she taught me how to hide mine.”
Karen found herself in the middle of a deep forest, surrounded by the women and children she was leading, keeping them safe from harm. She knew how to prepare poultices and herbal remedies for healing purposes. Remembering a strength inside of her, that was unbound and very powerful, she knew that she was guided to take care of her tribe. But, at some point, the safety was interrupted by outside sources and, in order to not reveal her power, she shut down those parts of her.
“It was the 14th century in Ireland and we were living in the forest in order to keep safe while sending out energy healing to the surrounding area, as there was a plague.
We were holding energy from within and sending it outward in waves. We had to keep moving, as people were dying. It was okay that they didn’t understand, as it was important to bring the gift forward from my mom and protect the legacy, as she had told me that I can do it without their help. I knew I was supposed to replace the dark with the light. Through the gift, my light pushed the dark out, and all things were possible within that. I was meant to hold space, be careful, stay focused, in order to help everyone in the universe.
I remember seeing where my mother and family lived and I saw the moment I had to leave in order not to be detected as a healer because that was the purpose of my lifetime. I had to get away from my family in order to protect them because it wasn’t accepted.
We got to a point where it was obvious from the outside that we were doing energy healing by the emanation of the energy field coming from that area, and the people we were hiding from were getting too close to finding us. I knew I had to protect the women in my tribe and at some point, I shrunk my gift and hid it away for protection and safe-keeping.
At some point during the session, Silke found a physical spot on my body, where this hidden element of my gift was located, but I knew that it was not time yet to open it fully.
What we did return to the present was that empowered, self-confident part of me that knew of my healing powers, as well as my ability to lead others.”
It took several hundreds of years and a Past Life Hypnotherapy session for this memory to return from deep within her subconscious, ready to be retrieved, healed, and energized.
This also meant bringing forward the amazing gifts that she had gathered for herself in this and other lifetimes as a healer, as a herbalist, as well as a powerful leader to her community. Ready to be opened fully when she is ready.
“Towards the end of that session, I felt like my guides and angels were bringing me back and speaking to me, and showing me how everything is connected, even time, and our purpose of growth with each life we have.
I felt this overwhelming sense of how connected I am with the universe, I could feel these energy threats coming out and connecting to everything. It was like I felt one with the vastness of the universe itself.
When I opened my eyes, Silke noticed the change in the color and brightness of my eyes and had me look in the mirror to notice the distinct shift of empowerment that I had just brought forward with me. My eyes are hazel with specks of gold in them and when I came out from the session the gold in my eyes was so predominant and I remember Silke telling me: “Your eyes are her eyes from that time.”
I think after losing my daughter Stephanie, there was a long time after where I didn’t fear death but probably not in the best way. After that session, something clicked into place for me where I don’t fear death, but in a different, good way.
I now want to live this life fully and live my purpose as I am supposed to without being in a big hurry, not worry so much, and live in the moment. That mindset obviously affects every aspect from my personal to work, talking to strangers, and then a lot of the day-to-day things I do. I just have so much more peace about myself, my life, there is a calmness now.
Everything you taught me and I learned through your classes with Reiki, the sessions, all of it has played a part in my process for my self-care and healing, and that session was definitely a major component of it all.
It validated many of the different feelings and dreams that I’ve had over the years, that they weren’t just random dreams and there was a purpose and that I was not just completely nuts.
I always questioned is this normal for people to have these kinds of dreams and thoughts? it was reassuring for me and connected everything together. I remember after that I felt so much more empowered and self-confident within myself. It’s like it filled in some questionable blanks for me that I had had growing up and as a young adult.
Every now and then I look at the notes from our session and it is just so amazing to revisit those feelings. I would full-heartedly encourage anyone to do this kind of session, it was a huge life-changing point and definitely a big part of my self-healing.”
I want to thank Karen for allowing me to share this, and plan to do more posts in this series in the upcoming weeks. There will be a small break in between, stay tuned for more.