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Waking the Tiger

Healing Trauma

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Waking the Tiger

By: Peter A. Levine, Ann Frederick
Narrated by: Chris Sorensen
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Waking the Tiger offers a new and hopeful vision of trauma. It views the human animal as a unique being, endowed with an instinctual capacity. It asks and answers an intriguing question: Why are animals in the wild, though threatened routinely, rarely traumatized? By understanding the dynamics that make wild animals virtually immune to traumatic symptoms, the mystery of human trauma is revealed. Waking the Tiger normalizes the symptoms of trauma and the steps needed to heal them. People are often traumatized by seemingly ordinary experiences. The listener is taken on a guided tour of the subtle, yet powerful impulses that govern our responses to overwhelming life events. To do this, it employs a series of exercises that help us focus on bodily sensations. Through heightened awareness of these sensations trauma can be healed.

©1997 Peter A. Levine (P)2016 Tantor Alternative & Complementary Medicine Personal Development Psychology Psychology & Mental Health Stress Management Health Mental Health Psychology Trauma

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Critic reviews

"Fascinating! Amazing! A revolutionary exploration of the effects and causes of trauma." (Mira Rothenberg, author of Children with Emerald Eyes)
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Great discussion about the normality of the traumatic response with lots of excellent observations about how well meaning clinicians might inadvertently calcify the traumatic response. Key observations about the importance of not making victimisation part of ones identity; how focus on recall might interfere with the necessary processing; how human capacity to override bodily reactions might leave people stuck with trauma symptoms; guidance on how to enable renegotiation of traumatic response; lots of exercises to use oneself or with others to increase interoception and process trauma. Very accessible. Excellent

Excellent introduction to somatic experiencing

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Primordial. Quite short, but leaves you wanting to read and practice more. A good start.

A primer in somatic healing

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My chronic pain condition makes concentration difficult so I found the pace of the narration helped to make large amounts of information far more easily digestible.,

I liked the narration

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Great content, learnt alot about myself and identified was to help myself through some of the strategies detailed

Great content but the voice was boring to listen to

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What an essential listen,
This book should be mandatory for all students at high school. Society would be far better served, by engaging in this I’m certain many of the world’s woes would be solved.
Thank you 🙏

Awful Narration yet a revelatory book tolerate the voice, it’s worth it.

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This book is a must in the understanding of the role of the body in resolving trauma and a helpful lead in learning to integrate the 3 brains in out mind.
It’s excellently written and hugely important for anyone and everyone to have insight in to.

I must say that I found the narrator s voice very monotonous , cold and impersonal .
It was even hard to distinguish
between
End of a chapter and the beginning of the next.
The quality of the book content though kept me going to the end.

Am amazing book , struggled with the narration

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The material was interesting and thought provoking. If it hadn’t been I would have given up within the first 10 minutes due to the diabolically bad narrator, who managed to sound patronising, creepy and sinister. There are probably books for that voice, but this isn’t one of them.

Horrific narration

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I wouldn't bother with this copy and go and get a paper version the narration is so immensely irritable I had to stop before the end of chapter one. horrendous accent!

terrible narration

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This book is a treasure trove of insight, information and wisdom. A must read for anyone working in the healing arts or with children.

Get past the robotic voice

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I loved book but voice made it sound so boring i recommend listening higher speed.

Good book

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