Books
What if the Body Was Trying to Save You? Somatic Healing at Home (Released June 2025)
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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 appeared a lot more logical, but importantly, it also felt a lot more compassionate than years of talk therapy and prescriptions, which proved 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 corrupted, 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 anybody else 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.
Field’s unique contribution, as repair turned into a calling, offers the reader; a relatable companion who has seen the limits of our nervous system, long-held remedies grounded in today’s language of science, and the placement of due significance upon the modern contextual burden we are tasked to withstand (including a case study investigating the rise of autism).
By taking this rite of passage, we commit to freeing ourselves from seeing the world through the dark glass of our memories, and consequently carry out an act of love by 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 human making that contributes to how each of us subconsciously meets our day, this book will be in service to you.
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The Father Gap: On the Sacred Role of Confident Separation (Released April 2025)
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A father’s role after the moment of conception was not just unclear, but up until 500,000 years ago, was unnecessary. Since then, he has radically contributed towards what we would describe as the highest expression of our humanness. However, the benefits of this attainment have not been genetically locked in, but rather are incentives for his continual presence. There is no fate, only a fragile elevation maintained by the hard work of every next father.
Jason W. Field, in his role as a Somatic (body-led) healer specialising in the early social origins of disorganised states, explores with the reader what happens when this sacred role is not met, how it is exported to the body of the child and what that body predictably does to try to save us.
We see anxiety, depression and PTSD as a rational response from the nervous system to irrational beginnings, and if this is our story, it comes upon us and the teachers we surround ourselves with, to investigate:
What are the non-negotiable ingredients to our development?
What ingredients are the responsibility of Dad?
What responses did we take to paper over these gaps?
What consequences arose out of our underdevelopment and coping?
How can we close the gap for us and future generations?
By taking on this challenge, we not only compassionately see how the body can be taken to dysregulated states that propagate disempowering social relations, but also actively seek to repair the cultural poverty that advances immature states across 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 human making that contributes to how each of us subconsciously meets our day, this book will be in service to you.
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