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    Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma
    Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma
    Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma
    Audiobook8 hours

    Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma

    Written by Peter A. Levine and Ann Frederick

    Narrated by Chris Sorensen

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    About this audiobook

    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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateOct 4, 2016
    ISBN9781515980940
    Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma
    Author

    Peter A. Levine

    Peter A. Levine, Ph.D., is the renowned developer of Somatic Experiencing. He holds a doctorate in Medical and Biological Physics from the University of California at Berkeley and a doctorate in Psychology from International University. The recipient of four lifetime achievement awards, he is the author of several books, including Waking the Tiger, which has now been printed in 33 countries and has sold over a million copies.

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    • 5/5
      Fantastic book! Suggested by a unique healer... I want to learn more!

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Best if the best, a must read/listen for ppl interested in this topic!
    • 4/5
      The book is brilliant but I think It would be a good idea to re-record this book with the voice of a woman too, not only a man. A bit too quick at times- this kind of books require more time than others to process. So, reading it slower, and taking more time between sentences would be a good idea, in my opinion. Paradoxically, it then takes too long in the end of the sentences, i.e surgeryyyyyyyyyyyyyy......

      6 people found this helpful

    • 1/5
      The narration is awful. The book is great, though. Shame.

      3 people found this helpful

    • 1/5
      I could only take 2 minutes because of the narrator..

      2 people found this helpful

    • 1/5
      Come. On. The narration is completely unbearable. I would be happy if this whole population of unbearable male narrators ceased their unbearable narrating. It's actually triggering for me to listen to an emotionless and disconnected sounding man talking even for a few minutes... Let alone let him read me an entire 8hr book. About trauma no less.

      2 people found this helpful

    • 3/5
      I get that this narrator does this professionally as he’s narrated a LOT of books but… I’m not a fan. The way he narrates takes me OUT of the experience of the book. I first listened to The Energy Cure by William Bengston narrated by Chris Sorensen… and his style is just… not for me!
      This book is great. 5 star! Narration… 2 star.

      2 people found this helpful

    • 3/5
      A solid premise but dragged out a bit. Narration is too stale.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 1/5
      I was expecting a lot from this book, but couldn’t make it past the second chapter. The traumatic incidents narrated by the author are very triggering. I don’t understand how a book like this could be healing.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 1/5
      I want to listen but the narrator is god awful. Going to just take the time to read.

      10 people found this helpful

    • 2/5
      I mean it’s ok but there’s so much padding. For the first 5 chapters, he just talks about other people trauma and describes stuff that happened to people. Just explain what the therapy is, what’s the point in talking about trauma for ages. It’s as if he wants to justify himself for his idea. Just gives the exercise.

      8 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      My ears started bleeding after the first two minutes listening to the narrator’s voice. I ended up ordering the hard copy of the book and I loved it! Beautiful book and incredibly insightful! Highly recommend!

      6 people found this helpful

    • 2/5
      Terrible narration of a very dated book.

      5 people found this helpful

    • 3/5
      My apologies to the narrator... But my rating is for the production of this audiobook, which imho ruins the whole content. 3 stars for the content I was able to get (17 chapters but an arduous listen...ugh!), two stars penalty for the excrutiatingly harsh narration. For such content, so sensitive, this is the WRONG KIND OF VOICE!!!! 8 hours? I couldn't. Sorry. PLEASE consider hiring someone else and redeeming this book! A monotonous, harsh narration without emotion is not conducive to absorbing the content. Peter Levine - and we - deserves much much better.

      2 people found this helpful

    • 3/5
      I probably would have gotten more out of this book if I had read it more like a textbook. I thought his ideas were interesting and glad they work for some people. I felt he claimed they more have worked for more people than I felt was true. In some ways, he's idealistic, and I like that, but doubt his suggestions will be instituted.
    • 5/5
      Waking the Tiger is Peter Levine's book on healing traumas. Although I am not a psychologist or therapist, its powerful and natural method is intensely appealing. Everybody in his or her life is bound to obtain traumas. This need not be due to serious accidents or maltreatment, even supposedly harmless events suffice to shock our system. Not only people are subject to trauma, the animal world is full of it.And it is this world Levine put his attention to. He observed the ways in which an animal 'shakes off' the intense energies after the traumatising event subsided. A human on the other hand has a tendency to thwart these instinctive reaction. Our reasoning neo-cortex comes in the way. As a result the intense energies have no way to discharge and the body has to find other ways to stay in balance. Symptoms arise that can seriously and structurally impede a person's healthy and joyful experience of life. Levine's method to heal does not involve longterm therapy in which the traumatising event is relived again and again. It involves sensing your body and tracking the trauma energies. Once these are discovered you are encouraged to make the instinctive and natural body movements needed to discharge the energies. Levine's method is as simple as it is effective because it knows how to harness our instinctive and natural capacity to heal.