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Waking the Tiger Healing Trauma
Peter A. Levine
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...
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On Being with Krista Tippett
The book is a memoir of trauma and transcendence, detailing the author's experiences after a car accident that left him paralyzed. He describes his journey of healing and learning to reconnect with his body, particularly through yoga.
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I sat with Matthew Sanford in 2006 just after he published his beautiful book, Waking, a memoir of trauma and transcendence.
— Episode: Matthew Sanford – The Body's Grace
Episode: Matthew Sanford – The Body's Grace
The book is a memoir of trauma and transcendence, detailing the author's experiences after a car accident that left him paralyzed. He describes his journey of healing and learning to reconnect with his body, particularly through yoga.
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I sat with Matthew Sanford in 2006 just after he published his beautiful book, Waking, a memoir of trauma and transcendence.
I struggle with this question because everyone does and I end up kind of giving a litany of here's what happened, blah, blah, blah.
Well, just start the story and we'll see where it takes us.
One of the big healing things for me was to recognize that my paralyzed body didn't stop talking to my mind. It changed its voice. It went to a more subtle whisper that doesn't have as much clarity. It's sweeter, it's quieter, and it doesn't as quickly react.
The silence is the aspect of our consciousness that makes us feel slightly heavy. It is the source of our feeling of loss, but also of a sense of awe.
I have never seen anyone truly become more aware of his or her body without also becoming more compassionate.
Matthew Sanford is the founder and president of Mind Body Solutions which is based in Minnesota. His book is Waking, a memoir of trauma and transcendence.
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