Our soul wants to be of service to others

Soul Reasons for Life Challenges

Without the meaning that flows from a higher view, we remain stuck in our human experience, believing (understandably) that these things should never happen. For trauma survivors on a healing journey, we need to consider a broader vision to find purpose in our suffering, and step into our soul warrior authority.

Reason 3: Service

Our soul wants to be of service to others

A third reason for life challenges is the soul’s desire to serve and give to others. In our conversation, Robert Schwartz stated, “This is something that I’ve seen in literally every single pre-birth plan I’ve ever looked at.” He explained service as “a natural reflection of oneness consciousness, our natural state when we’re home on the other side.” In soul state, we experience ourselves as one–”I am literally you”—making the desire to serve innate to the soul.

Author and spiritual regressionist Linda Backman explained it to me in this way: the soul “agreed to come into body to do what she could, to serve in a teaching role, to serve in a facilitative role with mom, with dad, with grandparents. We reach the point as we’re moving forward in our soul’s evolution that we’re not working on karma, we come in more to teach than to learn.” As we climb the ladder of soul growth, the emphasis shifts from learning to teaching– from our own growth to supporting the growth of others.

Every soul chooses an element of service in their life plan: we want to be helpful to others, and feel great satisfaction in doing so. With maturity, the form and level of service rises. The stronger soul is able to put their own needs and comfort aside, in order to provide others with the support they need for their evolution.

One way souls can serve is to provide traumatic experiences for others. An excellent–and slightly confronting–example of this comes from one of my original Life Between Lives trainers, Bryn Blankenship. She shares in her book, The Limitless Soul, details from one of her sessions. Her client Allen, once taken into a deep spiritual regression, shares memories of a past life as a banker in Cleveland, Ohio in 1927, his marriage and job under stress. When the Great Depression hit in 1929, he lost his job and struggled to support his wife and two children with trade work. “Eventually, the stress, worry, and fighting got out of hand, and his wife left him to go live with her parents.” He took to drinking, became increasingly depressed and unwell, and eventually took his own life.

Once guided back into the light of the spirit realm, he was reassured that he wouldn’t go to Hell. Instead, “his guide gently reminds him that prior to incarnating, he chose to experience suicide. And although he understandably felt guilty about leaving his wife in that way, she was learning too from her side of things. The kids also had their experiences of what it was like to grow up without a father. It was all planned.” His guide reminded him that everyone was given what they needed for their soul’s growth. The spiritual reasons of learning and service were both at play in this situation.

This is an excerpt from my upcoming book, Trauma Survivor to Soul Warrior: Reconnect With Your True Self (due to be published in September 2025 by Manuscripts Press LLC).

I am looking forward to sharing it with you.