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Waking the Tiger

By: Peter A. Levine,Ann Frederick
Narrated by: Chris Sorensen
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Summary

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

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"Fascinating! Amazing! A revolutionary exploration of the effects and causes of trauma." (Mira Rothenberg, author of Children with Emerald Eyes)

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narration issues

The reader's voice caused me more trauma than the book healed.
Couldn't get through the book because the way the guy read it was unlistenable for me. Will buy a paper copy.

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Shame about the narrator

Love Peter A Levine's work and was looking forward to this, unfortunately it's a great book ruined by truly awful narration.

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Awful narration

The narrator is dreadful, his voice is monotone and dull he ruins the fascinating content of this book with his appalling lack of intonation. I cannot listen to the end of the book because Chris Sorensen's voice is so utterly uninspiring and irritating.

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Interesting content ruined by dire narration

What did you like most about Waking the Tiger?

As a counsellor I'm really interested in learning about trauma and how it impacts on an individual, therefore the content of this audible book is potentially interesting and informative.

BUT I found it near next to impossible to listen to because of the narrators whinging, US drawl, together with terrible and at times totally bored/disinterested intonation....

I would advise you to listen to the sample before you buy - but saying that I did that and I thought I could cope with it, but in reality I'm finding the accent/tone/intonation totally distracting which is a total shame.

I might have to resort to a Kindle version in order to focus better on the content.

How could the performance have been better?

Totally different narrator.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

No that wouldn't be possible more so because of the appalling narration. But it's not really an 'all in one sitting' kind of book anyway.

Any additional comments?

A pdf accompaniment would have been helpful

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The narrators voice makes the book unlistenable

A fantastic read, but not to listen to on audible, the narrators voice is not nice to listen too.

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Narrators voice...

I love this book so thought I would get the audible version to listen to.
OMG the narrators voice makes it a painful experience. I actually can’t bear to hear it any further. It’s definitely a lesson to listen to the sample prior to purchase.

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Testing

I found this audio quite intellectually and conceptually testing at times... I know that to understand the deeper workings of the brain in relation to trauma this would be warranted however I feel this audio may suit the practitioner for education rather than ordinary laymen... The voice of the narrator is the worst on audio I've heard and thought at the start the tone and pronunciation he used a joke... However this was not the case... On the upside some very useful insights also

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Amazing book Don’t let the Voice comments put you off

Great book Don’t let the Voice comments put you off, if you are interested in learning about traumas this is the real deal

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Fascinating

A great book that discusses trauma from a different perspective than that of main stream psychology. In doing so, we get to understand trauma from a more systems perspective in as much as trauma being a 'somatic' or body 'experience', rather than something broken into scientific perspectives alone (biology, psychology, neurology, endocrinology etc). In doing so we understand the need for treating individual experience as opposed to a statutory application of therapy or drugs.

An essential read for anyone wanting to know more about this fascinating subject.

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Excellent introduction to somatic experiencing

Great discussion about the normality of the traumatic response with lots of excellent observations about how well meaning clinicians might inadvertently calcify the traumatic response. Key observations about the importance of not making victimisation part of ones identity; how focus on recall might interfere with the necessary processing; how human capacity to override bodily reactions might leave people stuck with trauma symptoms; guidance on how to enable renegotiation of traumatic response; lots of exercises to use oneself or with others to increase interoception and process trauma. Very accessible. Excellent

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