Who Brought You Here?: Why Early Attachment Predicts Future Trauma and How the B

What if instead of numbing, shaming and suppressing the body, we learnt to listen to it? After a lifetime of anxiety and cyclical burnouts amounted to a diagnosis of c-PTSD characterised by debilitating panic attacks, this was the question presented to Jason W. Field by his somatic Teacher.

Instinctively, that seemed a lot more logical, but importantly, it also felt a lot more compassionate than years of talk therapy and prescriptions, which had proven ineffective.

This marked the beginning of a journey to recognise the sacred nature of healing, born from the proneness of our human condition to be temporarily disorganised, though only recently stifled by our amnesia towards body-led approaches that our ancestors found relief with since time immemorial.

Under the stewardship of his mentor, he would rest in the conclusion that perhaps anyone subject to similar circumstances would arrive at where we are today, and that this predictability not only provides insight into how the body holds trauma, how the body passes on trauma, but importantly, how the body releases trauma.

Uniquely, it also replaces that common question of ‘What brings you here?’ with ‘Who brought you here? Radically recognising the fragile elevation our human-ness is truly characterised by, and igniting a call to action to repair the cultural poverty that currently meets our non-negotiable human making endeavours.

Field’s unique contribution offers the reader a relatable companion, a reflection of his own journey through addiction, depression and diagnosis of ADHD and ASD.

This magnum opus is divided into four parts:

• What if the Body Was Trying to Save You? somatic healing at home (including a case study on autism)
• The Mother Gap: on the sacred role of emotional regulation
• The Father Gap: on the sacred role of confident separation
• The Final Abandonment: on people pleasing, addiction and burnout

We subsequently arrive at the choice to take this rite of passage and finally commit to freeing ourselves from seeing the world through the dark glass of our memories, and as a welcome by-product, carry out one of the greatest acts of love we are capable of: resetting the stepping-off point for future generations.

If you are a practitioner looking to expand your somatic skillset, an individual interested in self-directed healing or more broadly, would like to understand the conditioning that contributes to how each of us subconsciously meets our day, this book will be in service to you.