You feel lonely, empty, disconnected, and numb.

No one would suspect it on the surface. But these feelings of aimlessness, purposelessness, and worthlessness eat away at you every single day.

The truth is that on a core level, you feel lost. You feel cut off from your authentic self. You’re a lone wolf who’s isolated even when around other people.

This sense of heaviness and restlessness within your heart doesn’t go away, and you don’t know how to feel whole again.

To make matters worse, the state of society and the world overwhelms you with feelings of anxiety, dread, and hopelessness, and your sensitivity feels more like a curse than a gift.

Can you relate to these feelings?

If you can, please know that you’ve finally found two people who understand you.

We’ve both felt the depths of isolation, powerlessness, and frustration that come with not knowing one’s path or purpose, and feeling like an outsider in this world.

What you’re experiencing isn’t a sign that there’s something wrong with you. Instead, what you’re feeling is a normal reaction to an abnormal world.

In the words of philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti, “It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”

Through the years, we’ve discovered that these feelings of being lost, alone, disconnected, and without a purpose aren’t a personal defect, but a deep crisis that many are going through.

This shared crisis is known as Soul Loss – and it’s an invitation to come home to the deeper truth of your nature.

What is Soul Loss? Why is it Responsible For Suffering?

Soul loss can be observed today as a psychological phenomenon in the everyday lives of human beings around us. Loss of soul appears in the form of a sudden onset of apathy and listlessness; the joy has gone out of life, initiative is crippled, one feels empty, everything seems pointless. – Marie Von Franz

Soul Loss happens when you lose connection to the wise, wild, and vital core essence of your being – your Soul.

This core wound of separation happens due to the traumas we experience throughout life and societal conditioning that teaches us to live in a state of robotic autopilot.

These traumas and layers of conditioning (that result in the creation of our ‘dark’ Shadow Self) are like thick clouds that obscure the sunlight of our Souls. Our Soul is still there, but we struggle to feel or access its warmth and wisdom. This is why many people describe Soul Loss as the feeling of going through a Dark Night of the Soul.

Soul Loss, the Planet, and Why You Feel Lost

Soul Loss isn’t just responsible for our sense of emptiness, loneliness, and numbness, but also for the destruction of our planet.

When we lose touch with our Souls, we lose touch with the Soul of the world (the Anima Mundi) of which we are inextricably linked. Having this sacred connection severed means that we use, abuse, and destroy nature and each other.

Ancient shamanic, religious, and spiritual traditions have spoken about the phenomenon of Soul Loss since the beginning of time.

Take the words of Jesus, for example, who once said,

For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?

When we experience Soul Loss, no matter how much we achieve or do externally, it never truly makes us feel happy, fulfilled, or at peace.

A tree that is cut off from its roots withers, and the same symbolic idea applies to our relationship with our Souls. Your Soul is your taproot and connection to the Divine. Without that felt sense of connection, life loses its meaning, vitality, and color.

The Path Home – Soul Work and Ensoulment

Soul is unborn, eternal, ever-existing and primeval. – Bhagavad Gita

Despite the pain and suffering that accompany Soul Loss, you can never totally lose touch with your Soul. It’s just buried and obscured under the thick fog of false beliefs, core wounds, and layers of your Shadow Self.

The path back home to your Soul is one of deep introspective inner work – one of Soul Work. Any practice that helps you to remove the blockages that obscure the Light of your Soul is a form of Soul Work – most commonly, this includes paths such as self-love, inner child work, shadow work, and more.

Gradually, Soul Work helps us to experience a more ensouled life, which is the goal of all our Soul Work: to find a sense of home in ourselves and the world, a place and purpose in existence.

If Soul Loss is the venom, Soul Work is the medicine that helps us to experience the healing power of Ensoulment.

Ensoulment means living in alignment with your Soul. It is the process by which you undertake the work of becoming a truly soulful being, where you invite your Soul back into every corner of your life.

Ensoulment means feeling whole, guided, and alive again. It’s about finding the unique gifts and potential of your Soul and actualizing it in this world to make a positive difference, no matter how big or small.

When we’re living an ensouled life, we’re living a whole and integrated life, a life of meaning, purpose, and fulfillment.