Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma

Peter A. Levine · Ann Frederick

Oct 2016 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by Chris Sorensen

4.3

18 reviews

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8 hr 51 min

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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.

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4.3

18 reviews

Danielle Benoit

March 10, 2018

This book is amazing. I have the hard copy and wanted to read it again while on the road so got the audio book. The book is a 6 out of 5 stars but the guy who is reading it is a 2 out of 5. He has no emotion in his voice and it is hard for me to listen to because he puts inflection on the wrong words it seems. It sounds like a robot is reading it and I really don't like it. The book itself amazing. The guy who is reading it, not amazing at all.

Carolyn Clarke

November 1, 2018

This book is AMAZING and is so helpful book gets 5 stars. The narrator gets a 1 star out of 5 he has zero emotion and I would rather listen to a robot - if I saw the narrators name on a book I would not buy it - that is how bad he was. .

Sonja Klattenberg

September 2, 2020

I have just started listening to the book. The reader is so distracting and off putting, it ruins the book for me. Not sure that I can continue listening....

About the author

Peter A. Levine holds doctorates in medical biophysics and psychology. The developer of Somatic Experiencing®, a body-awareness approach to healing trauma, Peter was a stress consultant for NASA on the development of the space shuttle project. His bestselling Waking the Tiger has been translated into twenty-two languages.

Chris Sorensen is a veteran audiobook narrator with over 160 titles to his name. He has received three AudioFile Earphones Awards, and his recording of Sent by Margaret Peterson Haddix was selected as one of the Best Audiobooks of 2010 by AudioFile magazine. He is a member of SAG-AFTRA and the APA.

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