More common than what most people are led to believe is the issue of soul loss. Parts of who you are literally run away during times of trauma or stress in order to feel safe again. The issue is that the lost part of ourselves doesn’t come back, leaving us feeling incomplete. This trauma may be some time in this lifetime, before we were born, or even during a past life, regardless, all aspects of our being reorganizes around this new pattern of soul loss. These are the stories that live within us and prevent us from ever feeling whole. During the soul retrieval process, the shaman finds that original “wounding” and can bring back the healed soul part as well as other gifts so that the client may feel whole again. The shaman acts as a “map maker” where they find coordinates in which the client can explore new territory within those coordinates on their way to their path of wholeness.