The classic, life-changing guide to trauma recovery tap into your body s innate ability to heal, from the creator of Somatic Experiencing® (SE) For anyone seeking body-based tools to heal from trauma like complex PTSD, developmental trauma, nervous system dysregulation, and more For nearly three decades, Waking the Tiger has reshaped how we think about and heal from trauma. Dr. Peter A. Levine, the visionary behind Somatic Experiencing® (SE), introduced a revolutionary concept: trauma is not a flaw, but a natural process that, when properly supported, can help us self-regulate and lead to profound healing. Dr. Levine invites us back into the natural intelligence of our body, showing how we can use the model of animals in the wild to understand and rediscover our own innate ability to heal from trauma. Animals frequently experience events that threaten their lives, safety, and kin yet they don t suffer from trauma in the same ways that we do. Instead, they instinctively respond to life-or-death situations by releasing survival energy. When we don t process our own fight-flight-or-freeze hormones, we can stay stuck, locked into a trauma response that can wreak havoc on our bodies, lives, decision-making, and relationships. But it doesn t have to be that way. Dr. Levine shows: How to regulate our nervous systems and transform personal trauma Practical, embodied exercises to help trauma move through our bodies before it takes root How early life experiences can rewire our fight-or-flight responses later in life The ways that trauma lives in the body, even when we think our minds and memories are supposed to move on Indigenous approaches for processing traumatic events Trauma-informed and trauma-sensitive parenting techniques How to administer emotional first-aid after an accident When we don t have the tools or the psychological safety to complete our natural, hardwired responses to traumatic events, we can unintentionally perpetuate patterns like avoidance, hypervigilance, mood issues, substance abuse, helplessness, or dysregulation. By learning to rewire our body's own healing capabilities, we can honor ourselves as living, feeling, knowing beings and restore our holistic balance and body-mind wellness. 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 &

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