Product Description
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.

CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 55 reviews)

A book you need to read

5 Stars
June 06, 2009
Very few people know what happens to our bodies in the "fight or flight response". Understanding the survival response may change your life. Dr. Peter Levine is a brilliant thinker and researcher. Everyone needs to read this book! We all experience stressors that can affect our life. With all the chronic disorders people may experience, this is hope to heal.

I could hardly put it down! by A. Smith (SLC, UT)

5 Stars
May 15, 2009
This is a fantastic resource for anyone dealing with real trauma, or helping others who are dealing with trauma. It's well written and down to earth.

Walking the Tiger: Healing Trauma by seeker

4 Stars
December 21, 2008
Profound and moving description of effects of trauma. Clear explanation of guided somatic experiencing.

review by Dogen (Maine,U. S..A.)

3 Stars
December 06, 2008
If you have, or want to understand P.T.S.D., this book is right-on. The animal world understands better than we do how to deal with the aftermath of extreme stress; this book gives insights you'll appreciate.

A must read for trauma victims by Onyx

5 Stars
July 01, 2008
This is a very informative and important book that explains the very core of what trauma is, how it affects us, and what we can do to overcome our suffering.

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