soul-searching

1. N-UNCOUNT Soul-searching is a long and careful examination of your thoughts and feelings, especially when you are trying to make a difficult moral decision or thinking about something that has gone wrong. (深刻的)反省

My year was really spent doing a lot of soul-searching and trying to find out what had gone wrong in my life. 我把这一年都花在了深刻的反省上，试图找出我生活受挫的原因。