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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

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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LOVED this book. Absolutely good content. But left wondering how an answering machine gets work as a narrator for emotional intelligence audiobooks?

Great book. Distracting narrator.

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Great content but unfortunately the voice of the narrator I found very unpleasant. I really had to disconnect from it which detracted from the book.

Narrator is hard to listen to

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Enjoyed it greatly, it’s amazing how much you can learn if you give these amazing authors an opportunity to be your teacher

Great book

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I think this book may be very interesting, but the reading was so appalling that it was difficult to listen to and understand.

Awful to listen to

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Very interesting topic and lots of great info. Not a fan of the reading voice, but after a while the pronouncing of "body" became quite amusing

Interesting

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Loved it - lots of great info about trauma and how to integrate it. Narrator is not so great but sounded ok when played at 1.5 speed.

Great Explanation of Trauma

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Fairly easy to listen to, A lot of good information, some different ground covered compared to his other books.

Helpful book for understanding trauma

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I love the content and love the written version.. but (oh my god) the narrator's voice and tone.. I'm finding it absolutely unbearable.

Struggling to finish...

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I really love this book, and really want to share it with people, however, the narrator is traumatic to listen to itself, like nails on a chalkboard. I'd buy the book again if read by someone with a less abrasive voice. it's an important book, it's a shame

amazing book, worst voice

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Hi the content was very helpful as a counselor working with survivors of sexual assault.

The hardest part to listening to this book was the voice of the narrator. A dreadful slow difficult to listen to for 10 hours. Thankfully I listened on anyway as the content was important for me. I was able to increase the speed which helped a little.

I love audible I’ve never read so many books since I was introduced to audible.

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