How Your Past Is Still Showing Up | The Field Guide Pt. 2

What happened to you is in the past. But what did it leave behind?

In Part 2 of The Field Guide series, Jamie and Blake explore “the 3% that’s in you now”—the ways past wounds and experiences continue to shape how you show up today.

They look at four places where that 3% can live: your body, your beliefs, your relationships, and your behavior.

Why can it be easier to explain what you think than notice what you’re actually feeling? Why do old protective strategies keep showing up in relationships that are different from the ones where those strategies were formed? And how can talking about your pain sometimes become another way of staying disconnected from it?

Jamie and Blake discuss self-abandonment, resentment, intellectualizing, shame, nervous-system responses, compassion, and the difference between asking “What’s wrong with me?” and becoming curious about “What’s going on within me?”

But this isn’t only an inventory of what needs to change. They also turn toward the other 97%—the strengths, gifts, beauty, and goodness already present that deserve to be noticed and celebrated.

This is Part 2 of The Field Guide, a series exploring the framework behind the book Jamie and Blake are currently writing.

Keep showing up. You’re worth it.

00:52 The Field Guide: Part 2

02:00 The 3% That's in You Now

06:23 Four Ways Your Past Shows Up Today

08:15 Why We Disconnect From Our Bodies