**\#️⃣ Tags:** #Book #Trauma #Somatic #NervousSystem  >[!info]- Details > **Title**:: Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma > **Subtitle**:: The Innate Capacity to Transform Overwhelming Experiences >**Authors**:: [[Peter Levine]] >**Publisher**:: North Atlantic Books >**Date_published**:: 1997-07-07 >**Pages**:: 292 >**ISBN**:: 155643233X 9781556432330 >**Bibliography**:: Peter A. Levine, Ph.D.. *Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma*. North Atlantic Books, 1997-07-07. > [!example] Explore --- 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 traumatised? By understanding the dynamics that make wild animals virtually immune to traumatic symptoms, the mystery of human trauma is revealed. Waking the Tiger normalises the symptoms of trauma and the steps needed to heal them. People are often traumatised 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. ---