The basic premise is whenever we experience trauma, a part of our “vital essence” separates from us in order to survive the experience by escaping the full impact of the pain. Symptoms such as depression, fatigue, memory gaps, feeling numb, chronic depression, memory gaps when you were young or have blacked them out, struggling with addiction, find yourself looking to external things to fill up an internal void or emptiness or general dis-ease can receive profound healing through soul retrieval.