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Summary: Brilliant!
Review: If you have trauma and/or PTSD you simply must but this book. I know you have probably been searching for a long time and dealing with feelings of isolation and invalidation like myself. This book will give you serious validation and tools to further and complete your healing. The tapes by Levine are great too, they give you even more concrete steps. I can honestly say that in all the years of searching for someone or something to help and validate me this book and the tapes have been the only thing. You will see the truth about trauma and what I believe you probably knew already on some level especially if you have been trying like hell to understand your symptoms and what is wrong with you. Guess what? There is nothing wrong with you. Trauma is a natural human reaction that makes you feel alot of shame, pain and anguish but you can heal.
I could go on about the book but I don't want to ruin it. Buy it. I know I will and can heal, I have made much sucess and you will too!!P.S. To all of you therapists that charge so much money for attempting to heal people from trauma I'd like to say that statisticly most people with ptsd don't have alot of money or are on assistance so you might want to re-think why you are a therapist or of ways to provide help to all. Is it to make money or to help people If you really want to help people then why don't you organize a group and all come together and make it possible instead of refusing but another potential client and well potential healer for that matter. I mean people if the majority of trauma survivors cannot afford your costs what the hell are you doing! With all due respect of course. $$$ Trauma Survivors: buy the book we need you!
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Summary: Waking The Tiger
Review: It is a gentle, beautifully written and compassionate book. To be read with care, slowly. As the concept of post traumatic stress takes hold in the general world, this book reminds us and guides us in how to listen to our own body/mind wisdom rather than to apply some theoretical formulaic solution. It is also a hopeful, joyful book that, without being heavy handed, leads towards a recognition of our own power to heal.
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Summary: Levine effectively argues that the body is healer...
Review: Levine effectively argues that the body is healer and that psychological scars of trauma are reversible--but only if we listen to the voices of our body.
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Summary: Personal Experience
Review: Much new information. Now am not concerned with people who asked me why didn't you scream, slap him or make a scene at the time - grabbed and restrained at dad's memorial service at an old folks home by the opening prayer giving 86 year old usher - preacher's right hand man. (I had hugged this old praying usher plenty of Sundays without incident before my dad died.)
I have given copies and encouraged others to purchase this book. God bless and give understanding and healing to every survivor who reads this book!!
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Summary: Simply Genius
Review: My favorite definition of genius is taking something complex and communicating it in a simple manner so that many people are able to understand the complex subject. I believe that Peter has done this with the subject of trauma and healing of trauma. Very insightful, creative, and inspiring.
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Summary: An excellent book about dealing with trauma
Review: Peter Levine in "Waking the Tiger," postulates that trauma exists not in the event or in the story of the event, but is stored within the nervous system. Many common physical ailments are actually residues of thwarted trauma reactions incurred during such events as surgical procedures, falls, pre or perinatal stress and/or childhood accidents and traumas. The body has a natural, innate, and miraculous capacity to heal once these reactions are understood and guided. Levine reinforces the holistic nature of the human being. Our bodies and brains connect instinct, emotion and rationality to our experience. Trauma may create damaging and often enduring symptoms. Human beings have a harder time than do animals in releasing trauma and may carry it throughout our lives. We often become frozen in trauma, unlike animals that can cope with the unpredictability of nature. This may provide a major interference with our health, peace of mind and the ability to live joyfully and creatively. When human trauma remains unhealed, the energy of the trauma and accompanying emotions remain locked within the brain and held within the body's musculature, tissues and organs, awaiting discharge. The author writes about an oft-forgotten aspect of trauma, freezing or immobilization during a traumatic experience. Modern medicine/psychiatry emphasize the "flight or fight" response while often neglecting the freeze response. The concept of the freeze response in the face of overwhelming threat provides a missing link to symptoms such as dissociation that our old ideas of "fight or flight" fail to explain. Immobilization in the face of threat is an automatic biological response that is not voluntarily chosen by the victim. This provides redeeming message to trauma survivors. Levine points out that our memories are not literal recordings of events, but rather, a complex of images that are influenced by arousal, emotional context, and prior experience. Memories may even transform over time as new experiences add layers of meaning to the images. While remembering the past can be an important aspect of therapy, appreciating the subjective quality of memories is crucial to integrating them appropriately into the healing process. Those with deep psychological scars may have dissociated the memory from their minds and are living in a numbed, tensed body awaiting its release so the body can return to wholeness and optimum mental and physical health. The author asserts that psychological wounds are reversible and that healing comes when the physical and mental letting go occurs, similar to the way the tiger experiences the coming and going of threat, tensing in response to danger, and as the threat passes, the tiger's muscles shake, twitch and let go right then and there the fear related energy which now is forever out of mind and body. Trauma is stored energy that must be released.
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Summary: This book is a sourc of HOPE for trauma victims.
Review: Sometimes a trauma victim can conclude that life will always be anxious at best and torturous at worst. Levine provides not only words of HOPE but real active ways to move toward freedom, healing, hope and a reasonably happy life. When I found the book my first thought was, "when the student is ready the teacher will come." I have learned more that I expected and have started on a journey toward healing. Thank you, Dr. Levine!
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Summary: Intriguing
Review: The author elaborates the often forgotten aspect of trauma, that is, freezing or immobilization. All too often modern medicine/psychiatry emphasize the "flight or fight" response while neglecting the freezing response. In doing so, Levine corrects an important imbalance in our current theories and practices on treating trauma. I found this book well worth reading, but I wish the author had provided more clinical examples of how he works with clients who have been traumatized. Had he given more "how-to" clinical information, I would have rated the book 5 stars.
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Summary: Eastern methods for a Western World don't work in this book
Review: The author keeps referring to two groups of PTSD sufferers (soldiers and child abuse victims) as being different from other trauma. I agree with this, but the author doesn't address how those two groups can heal. I found the book to be worthless and I have read quite a few on PTSD to come to grips with my own childhood abuse. The author uses eastern methods such as meditation and physical consciousness. For many trauma victims this is a very scary and at times inaccessible means of healing trauma. Levine writes that remembering the traumas is not important, while most of medicine believes it is. The crux of the author's theory is this: trauma is stored energy that must be released. No memory can be released without remembering something about it. For sufferers of PTSD this book fails and is a disappointment.
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Summary: A good book ..., but bit too sure she is "right" for me.
Review: This book has some marvelous ideas and if taken with a grain offers some real insights into healing. I have a bit of trouble with some of her certainty about her theories. I often have trouble with people who are sure their theories are "right"; that is a bit of a personal issue. I would recomend this book for people who are struggling with their own healing of trauma AND those who want to help in the healing of trauma. Really. this book has some very good ideas. She doesn't bombard us with lots of words to get her meaning across. It is well written and easy to read. Just remember to keep your own reasoning and thinking cap on while you read it.
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