Has anyone read this book by chance? I am just starting to work my way through it, realizing I still have a whole new layer of integration work to dodeep inside my body and my bones related to past long ago trauma. I know it because some of my fears that I thought had disappeared over the years, particularly around meeting new people/being in new situations, seem to be really strong again in recent months. I'm feeling pretty discouraged today because well, I am sad that the work I have already done, and it's a lot, clearly wasn't enough. I know that our work as human beings is never ever done. I just wish certain aspects of it didn't take so long or take such a curvy road. I somehow want to be able to cross off "work totally through trauma" off my "to do checklist" but it doesn't work that way I know and stuff comes up when it comes up and all we can do is look it straight in the eye as soon as we can. So on that note, my cousin recommended Waking the Tiger to me and it makes a whole lot of beautiful sense. Has anyone else here read it and/or know of groups who might be using this?
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Re: Waking the Tiger : Healing Trauma : The Innate Capacity to Transform Overwhelming Experiences
Thu, March 27, 2008 - 7:55 PMOh man I could sure use this book right now!
Here's what I know: when the old patterns/traumas come up, it doesn't mean we didn't do enough. It simply means we are now at a different level of awareness, and can now move into a deeper healing. Experience tells me that working like the dickens to make something go away only serves to bring it back to me. Walking towards the pain, acknowledging, loving and facing it each time it appears, helps it to lessen.
Congratulate yourself for the work you have already done! It is a different, higher point on the spiral - though it may feel like a step back, my guess is it's a huge leap forward.
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Re: Waking the Tiger : Healing Trauma : The Innate Capacity to Transform Overwhelming Experiences
Fri, March 28, 2008 - 5:35 AMHi Laura,
Thank you so much for that. Waking the Tiger is by Peter A Levine. I suspect you are right but it doesn't feel that way at the moment. I'm pretty taken aback by it all but I know I'll be alright!
You can find the book on www.powells.com or Amazon for sure. Wishing you a blessed day- -
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Re: Waking the Tiger : Healing Trauma : The Innate Capacity to Transform Overwhelming Experiences
Fri, March 28, 2008 - 12:32 PMI can probably use this book too right now...
the primary feeling nowadays is fear...of what? well i can't pinpoint it...i have fear, anxiety and sadness...most of days are filled with these emotions and i find myself constantly trying to talk my way out of it....however, i do believe that i need to live it, feel it, give it the time and let myself heal on my own time not what is thought to be appropriate by the hypothetical book of life....others don't and never will know our deepest feelings and struggles...only I can heal myself...
in time, it will come and there will be a day when i look back and smile because this part of my journey will bring my more joy someday i'm sure...
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Re: Waking the Tiger : Healing Trauma : The Innate Capacity to Transform Overwhelming Experiences
Wed, June 18, 2008 - 11:26 AMThank you for the reminder that old patterns don't negate the work we've done. I want recovery to be linear rather than the spiral it really is.
Lately, I've been retraumatized and that seems to resurrect old patterns with a vengeance as well as create a few new ones.
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Re: Waking the Tiger : Healing Trauma : The Innate Capacity to Transform Overwhelming Experiences
Mon, June 23, 2008 - 6:39 PMbest therapy i know of to heal trauma is EMDR.
www.emdria.org/displaycommon.cfm
blessings to you on your journeys of healing.
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Re: Waking the Tiger : Healing Trauma : The Innate Capacity to Transform Overwhelming Experiences
Tue, June 24, 2008 - 3:22 AMi too wld love to read this book ...
sht on money tho to buy ...
will try!
neeeeed it now ... i need to be a tigress to deal with my """"famillia daemonia"""" ... and find a new living situatn ...
plans and letter sent and in motion, but still .....
wish us all luck!
namaste,
Lxox
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