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Writing as Soul Retrieval · Remember Why You Are Here

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  Do you have trouble feeling grounded or present?
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  Do you feel disconnected from your life or from your creativity or from others?
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  All of these things are signs that there is a part of ourself that is not fully
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  integrated, that is waiting for us to come collect it and bring it back home.
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  Hello and welcome back to Remember Why You Are Here,
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  a podcast for seekers and sensitives where you can relax, receive,
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  reconnect to yourself and remember the most important thing of all:
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  why you're here. I'm Asia Suler, author, earth Intuitive,
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  teacher, and today I wanted to share a recording,
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  a video that I've never shared before.
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  It's one I recorded before I started the podcast and just never
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  got around to sharing before Remember Why You Are Here came into being.
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  What I'm covering in this video has really been up for me as I
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  start this sabbatical. So if you saw my podcast episode last week,
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  you know that I'm currently on a sabbatical.
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  Starting at the beginning of August,
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  I am in the process of working on my next book,
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  this book that I have been dreaming about creating now for six
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  years.
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  So the idea for this book came in before my first book was
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  published. It was already in the mix. It had already been submitted,
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  and was being worked over.
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  But this book has sort of been sitting now in
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  my unconscious and in this sort of Otherworld.
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  And now I've had this really incredible experience of decided to kind of clear
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  the decks and start working on this.
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  And it's been so cool to see what has come up so
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  far. The good stuff, the hard stuff, the deep stuff.
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  It's amazing to me what a process like writing
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  can bring up.
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  Like just how spiritual this process is,
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  how much spiritual reclamation can happen through just
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  deciding to sit down and start to write.
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  And it's something I've always been aware of with myself,
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  or for a long time I've been aware of,
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  that writing really is a form of channeling.
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  And one way in which I get in touch with my deepest
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  self, my guides, my ancestors, is through writing.
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  And so that's very much at the heart of this project that I'm working on right
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  now as I just begin the sabbatical that is going to last until the end of the
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  year.
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  And so I thought it was the perfect time to share this video that I
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  made that is all about writing as soul retrieval.
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  So in this recording I'm going to talk about what soul retrieval is,
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  if you're with the term,
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  why writing is such a potent tool for engaging in self-led soul
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  retrieval. And then there's going to be a prompt, a question,
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  that will really help you unlock and call home to yourself
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  these pieces of yourself that are ready to come back into the fold.
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  So if you're ready to reconnect to yourself on a deep level,
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  to step back into wholeness,
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  to experience new levels of integration, creativity,
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  and possibility in your life,
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  then sit back and take a listen to this recording called Writing
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  As Soul Retrieval. Parts of us have a tendency to get
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  lost throughout our lives. Whether it's through trauma,
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  hardship, loss, depression,
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  it's normal to feel like we've lost a part of ourselves,
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  like here's a part of ourselves we are not connected to anymore.
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  And yet there's a process called "soul retrieval" that can help us reclaim these
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  parts of ourselves, can help them to come back home.
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  And there's one simple practice that we can use no matter where we are,
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  no matter what we're doing, to help these parts come home.
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  In a shamanic understanding,
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  soul loss is when a part of our essential self steps
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  away. Now, it doesn't mean that a part of us is lost forever.
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  It's like a child hiding in the coat closet.
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  There's a part of us in that moment that departs because it's too
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  scary, it's too overwhelming, it's too much, it's too hard,
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  and it's actually really smart that our soul does this,
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  or that our psyche does this,
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  because normally a part of ourself leaves in that moment because it's just too
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  much for it. We all have sensitive, vulnerable,
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  tender parts of ourselves that if they were exposed to whatever that hardship
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  was, might've been really hurt by that.
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  So this ability to separate, to hide,
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  to be like a child in the coat closet's actually an important part of protecting
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  ourself and protecting our psyche.
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  How do you know if you have some soul loss stuff going on? Well,
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  here's a few things to look for.
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  Do you have trouble feeling grounded or present?
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  Do you feel disconnected from your life or from your creativity or from
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  others? Do you deal with depression, anxiety, or addiction?
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  All of these things are signs that there is a part of ourself that is not fully
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  integrated, that is waiting for us to come collect it and bring it back home.
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  In psychology, this is often called parts work,
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  bringing home these parts of ourselves and reintegrating them.
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  So of course you can work with a psychologist or someone who's a shamanic
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  practitioner to call these parts of the soul back home.
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  But we can also do some powerful work ourselves to ask for these parts to come
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  back home. These parts left because it wasn't safe for them.
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  So for example,
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  maybe you had a teacher when you were young who told you that your artwork
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  wasn't any good, that you were never going to be a true artist. Well,
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  the artist part of yourself might've hid from that, might've ran away.
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  It was just too painful to be around.
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  So your goal as an adult is to invite that artist self back in,
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  invite your creativity back in,
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  to feel like a whole person again because that creativity is intact.
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  And how we do that is by creating a safe space for these parts to come back,
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  to know that they're safe, that they're welcome,
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  and that you are a safe person for them to come back and be engaged with.
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  So what is one way that we can do this? Through writing:
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  writing or journaling is a really powerful yet simple way to
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  create spaces for these parts to come back.
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  Oftentimes we know exactly what parts of ourselves we're missing or we
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  want to integrate more fully,
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  and yet we don't make space or time to communicate with them.
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  So writing is one way that we can really invite these parts back in.
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  You can try writing a letter to this part, or maybe even writing as this part.
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  What does this part of you have to say right now? What are they dealing with?
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  What are they asking of you?
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  What do they need from you in order to feel safe enough to come back?
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  Writing can really help if any of the parts of ourselves that we left behind
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  were also tied to our creativity, our expression,
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  our academic ability.
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  Oftentimes writing gets really wrapped up in our mind with accomplishment,
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  with talent.
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  And so we might have shut down the parts of ourselves that are writers,
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  the parts of ourselves that love to write or love to journal or love to express
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  themselves.
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  If any of these parts of yourselves feel shut down or feel like they're not in
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  their fullest expression, writing, having a practice of journaling,
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  can really help bring those parts back in.
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  I know that poetry was one of my first loves as a child and as a
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  young adult. It was my primary mode of communication and expression and
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  creativity. But at some point in my early twenties,
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  I shut this gateway down.
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  Through a mixture of going through a traditional school setting that seemed to
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  dampen down my creativity,
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  and also coming into greater levels of self-judgment and worry over
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  what my peers would think, I eventually shut this channel down.
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  And it wasn't until I started writing poetry again that I really felt like I
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  became my whole self once more, that I got in touch with these parts of myself.
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  I had shunted away because I thought they weren't good enough.
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  So here's an exercise you can try if you're ready to reconnect with any lost
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  parts of yourself.
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  Get a piece of paper and a pen and set a timer for
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  five to 10 minutes, and then answer this question:
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  who is it you're not allowed to be?
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  And just let yourself write stream of consciousness. See what comes out.
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  I guarantee you,
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  whoever this is that you think you're not allowed to be is a lost part of
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  yourself that your own soul and your own psyche is ready to welcome back
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  home. And the cool thing about welcoming these parts back,
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  is that when we welcome them back, we access their gifts again. Once again,
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  they're able to bring their innate talents, their perspectives,
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  and we can benefit from that. We can then access those talents, skills,
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  and gifts ourselves. And at the end of the day, we become whole people.
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  So if you are loving this idea of writing as a creative practice to
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  bring you deeper in connection with yourself and your gifts,
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  I'd love to see you in my class Writing the Earth's Voice.
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  This is a nature writing workshop that's all online that will help you
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  communicate with the living world and through speaking with the trees,
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  the rivers, the stones, these denizens in nature,
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  you can start to see and understand the nature of yourself,
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  what your wholeness is,
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  and the gifts that you were meant to bring to this world.
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  There's been so much amazing writing that has come out of this workshop.
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  I'm so excited to share it with you.
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  Is there an archetype or persona or person you were in the past that you are
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  ready to invite back in now?
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  Because you deserve the full spectrum of your experience and you
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  deserve to be able to give the full spectrum of your gifts to this world.
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  Even though I recorded this video before I knew I'd be starting this podcast
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  when I did, I really feel like I wrote it for right now in my life.
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  It's exactly what I need to hear. It's exactly what I need to remember.
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  And it really just,
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  it frames this creative project that I'm in so beautifully.
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  And I'm hoping that it's framing the moment of time that you're in
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  beautifully as well. Because these times,
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  these moments when we're ready to bring back pieces of our soul,
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  it's indicative of the fact that we have done so much work,
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  we have gotten to the point now where actually we're ready to welcome back this
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  wholeness. It's a celebration of sorts. So I hope after listening to this,
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  you take some time to celebrate yourself as well as taking some time to try that
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  writing prompt and see what comes up.
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  Even though I'm currently on my sabbatical, my voice notes are still open.
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  So if you would like to leave me a voice note letting me know about your
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  experience, head on over to asiasuler.com/remember.
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  And if you like this episode,
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  I would love it if you gave it a rating, a review,
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  if you just gave it a sprinkling of stars.
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  It really just means so much to me and it's so supportive as I
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  step into this really radical thing that I've never done before,
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  this thing of taking this sabbatical, of taking that leap,
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  taking that risk of stepping away in the ways that I am from all of
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  my ongoing teaching and the running of my programs to just focus on this next
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  book, to be in writing as soul retrieval.
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  So thank you for supporting me in that way.
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  It really just means so much.
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  So may you just continue to come home as you walk through the rest of this week,
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  this month, or even the rest of this year ahead,
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  may the pieces of you that are ready to come home,
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  come all the way back, be welcomed, be reintegrated once more,
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  and as they arrive, may they help you remember the most important thing of all,
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  why you're here.