Your Trauma Has A Whakapapa
YOUR TRAUMA HAS A WHAKAPAPA - JASE WILLIAMS
“Jase lights the path with honesty, wisdom, and unwavering heart.”
- Dr. Lori Desautels
Foreword written by Dr. Lori Desautels / Matt & Sarah Brown
What if the pain you carry didn’t start with you?
What if healing doesn’t begin with fixing others, but by coming home to yourself?
In Your Trauma Has a Whakapapa, TEDx speaker, storyteller, former school principal, and relational neuroscience and trauma-informed educator Jase Williams weaves together raw personal narrative, powerful pūrākau, and relational neuroscience to explore the deep roots of trauma and the transformative hope of healing.
From the echoes of his nana’s kitchen table growing up, to the classrooms of Aotearoa, and the hearts of whānau across generations, Jase invites us into a conversation that’s both deeply personal and urgently collective. With aroha, honesty, and fierce clarity, he shows how trauma lives in the body, hides in silence, and repeats in relationships, until someone chooses to break the cycle.
This is not a book of quick fixes. It’s a book of remembering, reparenting, and reclaiming. It’s about showing up with presence, not perfection. And it’s about transforming not just our own lives, but the generations to come.
Your trauma has a whakapapa.
But so does your healing.