WAKE THE TIGER: Healing Trauma – Peter A. Levine

Awaken the Tiger offers a new and hopeful vision of trauma. It sees the human animal as a unique being, endowed with both an instinctive capacity for self-healing and an intellectual spirit capable of harnessing this inner potential. It asks the intriguing question: why do animals living in nature, in the wild, despite constantly experiencing various threats, not suffer the effects of trauma? And it answers it. Understanding the dynamics that keep wild animals virtually impervious to trauma leads to the unveiling of the mystery of why humans are subject to it.
 
 
 Awaken the Tiger explains the symptoms of trauma and the steps necessary to heal them. After trauma, people often suffer from anxiety symptoms due to seemingly ordinary events. The reader is offered a guided tour of the subtle yet powerful impulses that govern our reactions to overwhelming life situations. To do this, a series of exercises is required to help us focus on our body sensations. Trauma can be healed through increased awareness of these sensations.
 
 
 Life brings difficulties for each of us that we are unprepared for. Read, learn, and prepare for a better life, for healing.
 
 
 Bernard S. Siegal – author of Love, Medicine and Miracles, Bydgoszcz 2008
 
 
 Fascinating! Astonishing! A revolutionary exploration of the effects and causes of trauma…
 
 
 Mira Rottenberg – former director of Blueberry Treatment Center for Disturbed Children, author of Children With Emerald Eyes
 
 
 This is a much-needed book. A work of genius.
 
 
 Ron Kurtz – author of The Body Reveals and Body-Centered Psychotherapy
 
 
 Levine effectively argues that our body is a healer, and that the psychological scars of trauma can be healed – but only if we listen to the voices of our bodies.
 
 
 Dr. Stephen W. Porges – Professor of Psychology, University of Maryland
 
 
 …a fundamental contribution to the emerging science of mind-body interaction and its application in treatment.
 
 
 Dr. Robert C. Scaer – neurologist, director of Rehabilitation Services at Boulder Community Hospital in Boulder, Colorado
 
 
 
 
 Author Peter A. Levine
 
 
 Black Sheep Publishing House
 
 
 272 pages
 
 
 May 2012 Edition
 
 
 Softcover
 
 
 ISBN 978-83-7554-306-3