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Nature's Lessons in Healing Trauma...

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 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.

Waking The Tiger

Contents
Introduction
Prologue
Giving the Body Its Due
Finding a Method Body and Mind The Body As Healer How To Use This
Book
Section I: The Body As Healer
1. Shadows from a Forgotten Past
Nature s Plan Why Look to the Wild? Trauma is Physiological It s About Energy
2. The Mystery of Trauma
What is Trauma? Chowchilla, California Waking the Tiger: A First Glimmering
3. Wounds That Can Heal
Trauma Is Not a Disease But a Dis-Ease
4. A Strange New Land
Trauma is Not a Life Sentence The Strange New Land Trauma! What We Don t Know Can Hurt Us A Traumatized Person s Reality Get On with Your Life Who Is Traumatized? Causes of Trauma
5. Healing and Community
Shamanic Approaches to Healing Somatic Experiencing® Acknowledging the Need to Heal Let Us Begin Calling the Spirit Back to the Body
6. In Trauma s Reflection
Medusa The Felt Sense Let the Body Speak Its Mind Using The Felt Sense to Listen to the Organism How the Organism Communicates Sensation and the Felt Sense Rhythm: All God s Children Got It
7. The Animal Experience
The Animals Do It Too When the Reptilian Brain Speaks, Listen! One with Nature Attunement The Orienting Response Flee, Fight...or Freeze The Return to Normal Activity Animals as Teachers
8. How Biology Becomes Pathology: Freezing
The Stage is Set Blame It on the Neo-cortex Fear and Immobility As They Go In, So They Come Out Like Death Itself It s a Cumulative Effect How Biology Becomes Pathology
9. How Pathology Becomes Biology: Thawing
Nancy Re-examined: A First Step It s All Energy Marius: A Next Step Renegotiation Somatic Experiencing Gradated Renegotiation Elements of Renegotiation
Section II: Symptoms of Trauma
10. The Core of the Traumatic Reaction
Arousal What Goes Up Must Come Down Trauma is Trauma, No Matter What Caused It/ Exercises The Core of the Traumatic Reaction Hyperarousal Constriction Dissociation/ Exercises Helplessness And Then There Was Trauma
11. Symptoms of Trauma
Symptoms of Trauma And Around and Around We Go Out of the Loop
12. A Traumatized Person s Reality
The Threat That Can t Be Found Mrs. Thayer Can t Synthesize New Information/Can t Learn Chronic Helplessness Traumatic Coupling Traumatic Anxiety Psychosomatic Symptoms Denial Gladys What Trauma Survivors Expect The Last Turn
Section III: Transformation and Renegotiation
13. Blueprint for Repetition
Re-enactment July 5th, 6:30 in the Morning The Vital Role of Awareness Jack Patterns of Shock Without Awareness We Have No Choice Re-enactment Versus Renegotiation In the Theater of the body Post Script: How Far in Time and Space?
14. Transformation
Two Faces of Trauma Heaven, Hell and Healing: A Middle Ground Let it Flow Renegotiation Margaret What Really Happened? Renegotiation and Re-enactment What is Memory? Brain and Memory But It Seems So Real! But I m Proud to Be a Survivor The Courage to Feel Desire and Healing With a Little Help from Our Friends
15. The Eleventh Hour: Transforming Societal Trauma
The Animal Approach to Aggression &