Depression and Soul Loss

I have lately been experiencing what I think is post-partum depression, so I decided to listen to another podcast by Christina Pratt, who has been doing soul retrievals with people for over 20 years.

Here is part of what she said:

“The signs and symptoms of major depression are very similar to the signs and symptoms of soul loss.”

“Part of our depression is our frustration with not knowing what’s wrong with us.”

“We have generations upon generations of people in a state of soul loss.”

“Eventually, you have a broken system because all the decisions are being made by broken people (because the soul loss has been going on for generations upon generations).”

“The clearing of a person’s depression is often a side effect of soul retrieval.”

I put that in bold because it’s important.

Let me write it down for you again.

“The clearing of a person’s depression is often a side effect of soul retrieval.”

She says the average American needs “two years” of soul retrieval work to come back to life.

What if we are experiencing generational soul loss, and making decisions from a wounded state, a state of soul loss?  And, if we receive soul retrievals, we can change the way our lives are lived in America, and elsewhere.  Lives can be saved, systems can be shifted, children’s souls can be tended, teenagers can be initiated into adulthood, and maybe we can stop the trainwrecks of social injustice that have been happening more and more frequently.  This stuff matters! It could change the whole ballgame!

Christina continues by saying that there are many things coming together to create depression, so what is needed is to ask – as a practitioner – how to heal the person, not the depression itself.  The person needs the healing, the depression itself does not need the healing.  We’re working to bring the person closer to wholeness, not just to ‘cure’ the symptom of depression.

I appreciate Christina’s perspective because she’s a scientist, as well.  She has studied chemistry, and so brings a balanced perspective to her work.

She emphasizes that the core of wellbeing for all of us, as human beings, is to do what we have come here to do – to live into our life’s purpose.  All of us come into the world with specific gifts to bring to the table.  When we experience soul loss, we lose the ability to live into our life’s purpose because we lose the gifts we have to bring to the world.  Let me stress this: everybody has a gift to bring to the world.  Everybody.  We just are socialized to believe that we don’t.

Christina also has personally experienced depression, and I appreciate that she has this perspective from direct experience. She says in the podcast that soul loss makes us energetically drained, sort of like the effect of a bucket of water with holes in it.  Receiving soul retrievals works to plug those holes, so that we no longer leak our energy.

I like how she stresses the importance of receiving soul retrievals.  She seems very impassioned about the importance of having a whole, complete soul, because that is what allows us all to do the work we came here to do.  I was surprised when I heard her say that when people say they don’t have enough money to do this work for themselves, they’re full of shit. She says, “That’s bullshit.  It costs under $1500 over the course of a year, a year and a half for sessions.  People spend that much in months.”

That part made me laugh.  She was basically saying, you guys, it’s not that tough and it’s not that expensive to get your shit together.  Just get back your soul parts.  You have no excuse. No excuse! Just do it.

Christina also talks about generational depression.  Depression that runs in a family can be worked with through ancestral healing, and any member of the family can set that healing in motion.  Our ancestors have been living and dying in a state of soul loss, because we lack ritual and ceremony in our lives now.  We don’t initiate people into adulthood, so we then release “spiritual children” into adulthood.  This, in turn, adds to the depression in the next generation.  The soul needs ritual, needs initiation, and when it doesn’t receive that, it can cause depression and soul loss in the kids who don’t receive initiation into adulthood.  Thus, you have “spiritual children” who raise more “spiritual children” and the cycle continues.

We lack tending of our souls, and our current culture reflects that lack of structure.

Oh my god.  So much good information!

You all need to listen to this podcast, like, now.  Go do it.  Drop whatever the hell you’re doing and go listen to this thing.

Now.  🙂  You will be grateful you did.

Now, I’m gonna figure out how to get my soul retrieval so I don’t flip out on my kids anymore.

Peace out, y’all.  Go get your soul retrievals!