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Nature's Lessons in Healing Trauma...

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 reader 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.

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"Every life contains difficulties we are not prepared for. Read, learn, and be prepared for life and healing."
—Bernard S. Siegal, M.D., Author of Love, Medicine & Miracles and Peace, Love, and Healing

"Fascinating! Amazing! A revolutionary exploration of the effects and causes of trauma."
—Mira Rothenberg, Director Emeritus of Blueberry Treatment Centers for Disturbed Children, Author of Children With Emerald Eyes

"It is a most important book. Quite possibly a work of genius."
—Ron Kurtz, Author of Body Reveals and Body-Centered Psychotherapy

"Levine effectively argues that the body is healer and that psychological scars of trauma are reversible—but only if we listen to the voices of our body."
—Stephen W. Porges, Ph.D., Professor of Human Development and Psychology, University of Maryland

"A vital contribution to the exciting emerging science of mind/body interaction in the treatment of disease."
—Robert C. Scaer, M.D., Neurology, Medical Director, Rehabilitation Services, Boulder Community Hospital

"Peter Levine’s work is visionary common sense, pure and simple."
—Laura Huxley, lifetime partner and collaborator of Aldous Huxley

“[Waking the Tiger] is an excellent resource for those who have been traumatized or know someone who suffers from trauma, like a soldier returning from war. Finally, there is help that doesn’t ask us to relive what happened and re-experience the pain. Instead, it follows the body’s wisdom in its search for renewal and healing.”
—Soaring Again

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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 to heal as well as an intellectual spirit to harness this innate 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.

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Paperback: 288 pages
Publisher: North Atlantic Books; 1 edition (July 7, 1997)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9781556432330
ISBN-13: 978-1556432330
ASIN: 155643233X
Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.8 x 9 inches
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Average Customer Review: 382 customer reviews
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Lydia Colton

Somatic Experiencing with a touch-certified therapist is the best therapy I have ever tried.

July 15, 2016

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After reading this book, I sought out a somatic experiencing therapist who is touch-certified and it has changed my life. I had previously tried talk therapy, group therapy, CBT, and very briefly - EMDR. I was not a good candidate for EMDR, due to my problems with dissociation. Somatic Experiencing has helped me more than any other type of therapy I have done in recovering from a long history of childhood verbal, emotional, and physical abuse. Even after having read this book, I still don't understand how Somatic Experiencing has worked so incredibly effectively, but I highly recommend this therapy to anyone who has a history of childhood trauma, regardless of what that childhood trauma stems from (neglect, dysfunction, emotional, verbal, physical, or sexual abuse.)

Somatic Experiencing has somehow taught my body to self-regulate emotions, without causing more dissociation after sessions. It has the added benefit of not being talk-centered, so I don't have to constantly delve into details of my past that I often would rather not repeat again and again. It has by-passed my problematic thought-processes that often hinder my recovery, by working directly on my body. Somehow, without cognitive effort, I end up feeling much better without even trying to think my way better. In fact, my thoughts and perspectives have somehow changed of their own accord, as my body begins to feel better on its own. It's like my body just started healing on its own, and then my brain catches up with it accordingly. I see the world differently now, I see myself differently now, and without even trying to implant new thoughts or perspectives into myself.

When I was doing CBT (cognitive behavioral therapy) I felt like I was constantly exerting immense effort on myself, trying to make my brain interpret my environment differently. I was repeatedly attempting to force new thoughts into my head, and this made me feel resentful at the constant argumentation I would have going on inside my brain, and angry because I felt that I was lying to myself with these new thoughts I was forcing into my head. Somatic Experiencing with a touch-certified therapist has removed this battle from my mind; and healthier thoughts and perspectives have slipped into my brain unnoticed by me at first. Despite having read this book, I still don't fully understand how it is possible that somatic experiencing is so effective.

This book explains somatic experiencing very well. Not only does Peter Levine go into the details of how trauma effects the brain and body, but he describes some somatic experiencing sessions with clients in enough detail that the reader can learn what he or she can expect in a somatic experiencing session. I highly recommend his other book "Trauma and Memory" for a detailed explanation of traumatic memory. This book "Waking the Tiger" explains how trauma effects the brain-body and how somatic experiencing functions; his book "Trauma and Memory" explains how traumatic memory works, and how it is different from non-traumatic memory, and the difference between explicit and implicit memory. For those of us who feel confused about our patchy, gap-ridden explicit memories, coupled with our highly valent emotional patterns of reaction, his "Trauma and Memory" book sheds much light on this confusion.

CBT is woefully under-equipped to handle childhood attachment trauma; it only made me fight inside my head more, and feel resentful at the constant effort of forcing myself to think differently. EMDR did not work for me, as it attempted to cram more trauma into my brain while leaving my body behind in the process, which mainly led to further dissociation. Talk therapy has been helpful for my own understanding of what happened to me, but it, too, left my body out of the picture, and did not help me with the daily emotional dysregulation which caused me so much constant grief. Somatic Experiencing, on the other hand, has put the healing emphasis onto my body, and caused it to heal itself, resulting in my body feeling better and my brain responding to my improved feelings in my body. My brain just keeps catching up to my healing body without much exerted effort on my part.

I highly recommend this book, and somatic experiencing with a touch-certified therapist, to anyone who has experienced childhood attachment trauma.

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C.C. Hoffman

Heal the brain and nervous system first, before attempting talk therapy

August 6, 2017

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Peter Levine is definitely on to something here. I was having panic attacks and other problems associated with high levels of unrelenting stress, and desperately looking for helpful information (vs the standard medical impulse to feed me Zoloft). Dr. Levine has worked out a theory based on the body responses to stress, and believes that talk therapy is not the best first approach, one must work with the brain and nerves and muscles of the body to re-adjust the coping mechanism. His work is fascinating, much too long to go into here. He has a web page too, for more information.

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A must read for trauma survivors

January 16, 2018

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Amazing book for trauma survivors, like me. Helped me understand what I was going through and the fact that I wasn't just going crazy. Written with tons of love & compassion. Felt very safe and comforting to read. So glad I found this book.

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John White

I'm glad I did

July 27, 2016

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I wanted to read this prior to reading In an Unspoken Voice, even though it was an earlier work. I'm glad I did. I particularly found the chapter on healing from trauma and trauma-based memory very helpful.

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Mark Michaels

Lot of material on explaining his theory of blocked energy, but much less on what to do to heal from the trauma

June 27, 2018

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Not much in terms of defined approaches or exercises that heal you from the trauma.
This text doesn't seem to get a lot of references from academic work (such as J. Briere, C. Scott).

Mostly a discussion on how trauma effects are a result of blocked energy; blocked due to not completing the
(discharge) cycle at the original time of trauma. Discussion about how emotional therapy can reinforce the trauma,
where a more physiological approach may be needed to release blocked energy from the brain/nervous system. Seems
similar in nature to CBT where slight exposure to the physical feeling followed by backing off, then re-approaching, backing off,
re-approaching, will dissolve or release the blocked energy, reducing or minimizing the trigger.

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Jennifer Hooper

So far so good......

April 30, 2017

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I'm only up to the 3rd chapter but so far I find this quite amazing. Everyone has some kind of trauma in their lives that causes one to react to things without even knowing why. Along with a practitioner I feel this technique/approach could be quite healing.

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ZeldaBarbie99

Loving this!

January 22, 2016

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Very intriguing read so far. I like the idea behind the need to release built up energy instead of just throwing prescriptions at people. I've don't the rx route for a while now and though it helps for a little bit (if I'm lucky), the side effects are always there and eventually back to panic attacks, social anxiety, social irritability, restlessness.

This explains why a good hard run when I feel all "pent up" works much better than a relaxation method. Yoga helps but not during a PTSD flashback, that just makes me flip out more!!

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SJS

Great book, until there’s no practical advice for long term trauma.

September 11, 2018

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Throughout the entire book Levine talks about the joy of transformation from trauma to healing, but then never explains how a sufferer of long-term trauma can make this transformation. At the end of the book there are a couple of pages about first aid right after an accident. That’s it. 230-something pages spent building an expectation of receiving a guided exercise on how to release long-held trauma… and then there is none. There’s not much help here besides understanding what’s wrong with you, with no method for healing. You’ll have to find your transformation elsewhere. Beyond disappointing.

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