Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma

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.

• In an Unspoken Voice: How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness
• Healing Trauma: A Pioneering Program for Restoring the Wisdom of Your Body
• The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
• Trauma and Memory: Brain and Body in a Search for the Living Past: A Practical Guide for Understanding and Working with Traumatic Memory
• Trauma Through a Child's Eyes: Awakening the Ordinary Miracle of Healing
• Trauma-Proofing Your Kids: A Parents' Guide for Instilling Confidence, Joy and Resilience
• The Polyvagal Theory in Therapy: Engaging the Rhythm of Regulation (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology)
• Freedom from Pain: Discover Your Body's Power to Overcome Physical Pain
• The Portable Jung (Portable Library)
• Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence--From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror