soul-search

verb

An act or instance of soul-searching.
“Thus she willingly journeys with me in my soul-search.”
“Do not do a large soul-search if it is the first time that you have attempted something like this, but find one or two simple things that will be easy to put right once identified.”
The process of deep and critical self-examination.
“Moreover, just as the adherents of the new protest ideologies have been involved in a soul-search of their own identities and thus involved in struggles to make and to declare choices, so likewise the national society is engaged in soul-search and choice.”
“On my cheek I can still feel the child's kiss—a kiss that has triggered some soul-search inside me.”

To engage in deep and critical self-examination.
“These are the times when you should take a deep breath and deeply soul-search your own actions to see whether you could have done anything at all that would have increased your tip.”
“Sociologists, anthropologists, psychologists, and experts in a great many fields are noting that what we are losing in the information age is the ability to soul-search.”